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. 2023 Apr 28:14:1137012.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1137012. eCollection 2023.

Mediating effect of job crafting dimensions on influence of burnout at self-efficacy and performance: revisiting health-impairment process of JD-R theory in public administration

Ana Martínez-Díaz  1 , Pedro Antonio Díaz-Fúnez  2 , Carmen María Salvador-Ferrer  2 , Brizeida Raquel Hernández-Sánchez  3 , José Carlos Sánchez-García  3 , Miguel Ángel Mañas-Rodríguez  2
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Mediating effect of job crafting dimensions on influence of burnout at self-efficacy and performance: revisiting health-impairment process of JD-R theory in public administration

Ana Martínez-Díaz et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Introduction: In recent years, job crafting has greatly interested Work and Organizational Psychology. Different research studies have shown its positive impact on people and organizational performance. However, it knows little about the differential effect of the two dimensions that make up this variable (prevention-focused and promotion-focused) and its role in the health-impairment spiral process of the job demand-resources theory (JD-R).

Method: This research aims to analyze the mediating effect of the different dimensions of job crafting on the influence of burnout on performance and self-efficacy in the workplace. The study used a sample of 339 administrative employees of a university.

Results: The results indicate that promotion-focused job crafting is a mediating variable in the relationship between the influence of burnout on performance and self-efficacy. Unexpectedly, prevention-focused job crafting does not have this mediating role in the same relationship.

Discussion: These findings confirm the adverse impact of burnout on personal and organizational improvement, while showing the absence of prevention/protection responses of employees when they are burned out. The theoretical and practical implications show an advance in knowledge about the process of health deterioration and about the spiral of health deterioration in the JD-R theory.

Keywords: burnout; job-crafting; performance; public administration; self-efficacy.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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JD-R theory. Adapted from Bakker and Demerouti (2013).
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Mediation model of job crafting’s dimensions in the influence of burnout on self-efficacy.
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Mediation model of job crafting’s dimensions in the influence of burnout on performance.
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Results in mediation models of the promotion of job crafting on the influence of burnout on self-efficacy.
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Figure 5
Results in mediation models of the promotion of job crafting on the influence of burnout on performance.
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