From job crafting to home crafting: A daily diary study among six European countries

Demerouti, Evangelia; Hewett, Rebecca; Haun, Verena C.; Gieter, Sara De; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alma; Skakon, Janne

doi:10.1177/0018726719848809

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“…Reduce the workload of a voluntary position in a charity organization (volunteer) (Gagnon, 2008) • Time-spatial job crafting o Boundary management styles, individual needs & attitudes (Wessels et al, professionalism (Berger et al, 2017) • Leisure Crafting o Job demands (i.e., avoidance need) when job autonomy was low (Petrou & Bakker, 2016) • Home crafting Home autonomy strengthened the positive association between job crafting and home crafting (Demerouti et al 2019) Crafting Efforts → Needs satisfaction…”

Section: Relaxationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An identity-based integrative needs model of crafting: Crafting within and across life domains.

Bloom¹,

Vaziri²,

Tay³

et al. 2020

Journal of Applied Psychology

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In recent years, there has been heightened interest in the active role of employees in shaping activities and experiences in their pursuit of optimal functioning (i.e., feeling and performing well), referred to as job-, leisure-, home-, and work-life balance crafting. Various perspectives have emphasized distinct dimensions within the crafting process (i.e., motives, behaviors, life domains, and outcomes) yielding a rich but fragmented theoretical account. With psychological needs satisfaction as the underlying process, we propose an integrative model to account for past conceptualizations of crafting motives and efforts across a person´s various role identities. This integration highlights the importance of recognizing unfulfilled needs, matching needs and crafting efforts, within-and between-level temporal dynamics of the crafting process, and possibilities for spillover and compensation processes across identity domains. Accordingly, the Integrative Needs Model of Crafting explains a) why and how people craft, b) when and why crafting efforts may (not) be effective in achieving optimal functioning, c) the sequential process of crafting over time, and d) how crafting processes unfold across different identity domains.

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“…Crafting motives Crafting behaviors and cognitions Domain Outcomes investigated Home crafting (Demerouti et al, 2019) Needs discrepancy (i.e., perceived (mis)fit) Avoidance-focused (reducing demands), Approach-focused (seeking resources, seeking challenges)…”

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confidence: 99%

An identity-based integrative needs model of crafting: Crafting within and across life domains.

Bloom¹,

Vaziri²,

Tay³

et al. 2020

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…workload) and resources at work and at home (e.g. home autonomy) interact and jointly affect people's sense of meaning (Demerouti et al, 2020;Petrou et al, 2017).…”

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Always on, never done? How the mind recovers after a stressful workday?

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Syrek

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German Journal of Human Resource Management

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Many workers experience their jobs as effortful or even stressful, which can result in strain. Although recovery from work would be an adaptive strategy to prevent the adverse effects of work-related strain, many workers face problems finding enough time to rest and to mentally disconnect from work during nonwork time. What goes on in workers’ minds after a stressful workday? What is it about their jobs that makes them think about their work? This special issue aims to bridge the gap between research on recovery processes mainly examined in Occupational Health Psychology, and research on work stress and working hours, often investigated in the field of Human Resource Management. We first summarize conceptual and theoretical streams from both fields of research. In the following, we discuss the contributions of the five special issue papers and conclude with key messages and directions for further research.

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“…Studies have already shown the beneficial effects of both job crafting-where employees actively reframe their work physically, cognitively, and socially (e.g., Wrzesniewski and Dutton, 2001;Demerouti, 2014;Vogt et al, 2016;Wessels et al, 2019)-and leisure crafting (Petrou and Bakker, 2016;Vogel et al, 2016;Petrou et al, 2017). A recent study by Demerouti et al (2019) suggested that the beneficial implications of job crafting transcend life boundaries, which the authors state have also consequences in terms of experiencing meaning in life.…”

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Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

2019

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Having a purpose in life is one of the most fundamental human needs. However, for most people, finding their purpose in life is not obvious. Modern life has a way of distracting people from their true goals and many people find it hard to define their purpose in life. Especially at younger ages, people are searching for meaning in life, but this has been found to be unrelated to actually finding meaning. Oftentimes, people experience pressure to have a "perfect" life and show the world how well they are doing, instead of following up on their deep-felt values and passions. Consequently, people may need a more structured way of finding meaning, e.g., via an intervention. In this paper, we discuss evidence-based ways of finding purpose, via a process that we call "life crafting." This process fits within positive psychology and the salutogenesis framework -an approach focusing on factors that support human health and well-being, instead of factors that cause disease. This process ideally starts with an intervention that entails a combination of reflecting on one's values, passions and goals, best possible self, goal attainment plans, and other positive psychology intervention techniques. Important elements of such an intervention are: (1) discovering values and passion, (2) reflecting on current and desired competencies and habits, (3) reflecting on present and future social life, (4) reflecting on a possible future career, (5) writing about the ideal future, (6) writing down specific goal attainment and "if-then" plans, and (7) making public commitments to the goals set. Prior research has shown that personal goal setting and goal attainment plans help people gain a direction or a sense of purpose in life. Research findings from the field of positive psychology, such as salutogenesis, implementation intentions, value congruence, broadenand-build, and goal-setting literature, can help in building a comprehensive evidence-based life-crafting intervention. This intervention can aid individuals to find a purpose in life, while at the same time ensuring that they make concrete plans to work toward this purpose. The idea is that life crafting enables individuals to take control of their life in order to optimize performance and happiness.

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From job crafting to home crafting: A daily diary study among six European countries

Cited by 63 publications

References 49 publications

An identity-based integrative needs model of crafting: Crafting within and across life domains.

An identity-based integrative needs model of crafting: Crafting within and across life domains.

Always on, never done? How the mind recovers after a stressful workday?

Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

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