Healthy eating at different risk levels for job stress: Testing a moderated mediation.

Fodor, Daniel; Antoni, Conny H.; Wiedemann, Amelie U.; Burkert, Silke

doi:10.1037/a0036267

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“…Another potential issue is that most studies relied on willing volunteers and that a high proportion of participants were female . Self‐selected participants may be motivated to lose weight, have a greater interest in their health, and/or more time to participate than those who do not respond to requests for participants, affecting the generalizability of study's results.…”

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Factors influencing employees' eating behaviours in the office‐based workplace: A systematic review

2019

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Employees spend a large proportion of their time at work and typically consume a third of their total calories during the working day. Research suggests that the workplace environment can affect employees' eating behaviours, leading to various related health consequences. This systematic review aimed to identify and synthesize the evidence surrounding factors influencing eating behaviours within an office-based workforce. The literature search was restricted to studies published in English between January 2008 and April 2018. A total of 5,017 articles were screened and assessed for eligibility, of which 22 articles (n=23 studies) were included in the review. All included studies were subjected to quality assessment and were summarized into groups (themes) of "factors" affecting any aspect of eating behaviour at work. The findings revealed a number of factors influencing eating behaviours at work relating to the job role, workplace food environment, and social aspects of the office-based workplace. Most of the existing research implies the office-based workplace has a negative influence on eating behaviours. The findings of this review provide an evidence based, comprehensive summary of the possible determinants of eating behaviours in the workplace, which may help researchers to identify factors that are potential targets for intervention.

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Factors influencing employees' eating behaviours in the office‐based workplace: A systematic review

2019

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“…We needed to choose a time interval that allows changes in employee's motivational states (psychological empowerment and OBSE) in responding to the work stressors. We chose 2 weeks, because some previous studies of occupational stress have successfully employed a time lag of 2 weeks between measurements of similar variables in the stress domain (e.g., Fodor, Antoni, Wiedemann, & Burkert, ; Fritz & Sonnentag, ).…”

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Challenge and hindrance demands lead to employees' health and behaviours through intrinsic motivation

Kim

Beehr

2018

Stress and Health

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Based on the job demand-resource theory, this study examined the differential relationships of two types of job demands, challenge and hindrance stressors, with three outcomes: ill health, organizational citizenship behaviour, and work engagement. These relationships were mediated by two personal resources: psychological empowerment and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE). Data were collected at two separate points, 2 weeks apart. With 336 full-time U.S. employees, results from path analysis indicated that the challenge stressor, workload, was positively related to psychological empowerment and OBSE, both of which were in turn positively related to good work behaviours as well as negatively related to ill health, an indication that employees experienced physical symptoms and psychological strains. In contrast, hindrance stressors (role stressors and interpersonal conflict) showed the opposite patterns of relationships with these intermediate outcomes, resulting in less empowerment and OBSE. Overall, findings suggested that psychological empowerment and OBSE were important intrinsic motivational mechanisms through which some stressors (especially hindrance demands) can promote employees' favourable work behaviours as well as alleviate the negative health outcomes.

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“…The two moderators (i.e., perceived stress and trait self-control) were expected to jointly impact the regression of the dependent variable on the independent variable. In line with Fodor et al (2014), we hypothesize that perceived stress and trait self-control will jointly moderate the intention-behavior relationship, which should be reflected in a signif-icant three-way interaction effect, Intention ϫ Stress ϫ Trait Self-Control (Hypothesis 1). We assume that this relationship will be strongest when perceived stress is low and trait selfcontrol high, and weakest when the perceived stress level is high and trait self-control low.…”

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“…High perceived stress levels may also prevent the enactment of action and coping plans (Fodor, Antoni, Wiedemann, & Burkert, 2014). In a longitudinal study in the context of fruit and vegetable consumption, Fodor et al (2014) assumed that the enactment of action and coping plans will be challenging and impeded under conditions where high job demands meet low job resources.…”

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“…Even though their results did not support their assumption of a three-way interaction, we suppose that evidence for the interplay between intention, planning, stress, and health be-havior seems to be inconclusive, and, thus, more research is needed to fully understand the potential interplay of these variables. Besides, Fodor et al (2014) did not examine the interaction effect of job demands and resources directly on the intention-behavior gap. Furthermore, we argue that specific personal resources rather than job-related resources might play a more important role for leisure time physical activity behavior enactment.…”

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Perceived stress and trait self-control interact with the intention–behavior gap in physical activity behavior.

Pfeffer

Englert

Mueller-Alcazar

2020

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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Regular physical activity is an empirically well-documented health behavior. Despite the fact that many individuals intend to exercise, they often fail to implement this intention into behavior. Planning is an effective technique for translating physical activity intentions into actions. The present study aimed to examine relevant mediators and moderators in order to explain how and for whom intentions translate into action. In a longitudinal study, 108 participants (M age ϭ 31.17 years, 61 women) from different jobs completed measures for intention and trait self-control at baseline (T1), action planning and coping planning 4 weeks later (T2), and physical activity behavior and perceived stress another 4 weeks later (T3). A moderated mediation analysis indicated that perceived stress and trait self-control interact with physical activity intention to predict behavior. In particular, in individuals with low levels of perceived stress and medium-to-high trait self-control, intention and physical activity correlate positively. Unexpectedly, action planning facilitated behavior enactment only in individuals with low perceived stress and high trait self-control. In addition, when perceived stress and trait self-control were high, coping planning served as a significant mediator between intention and behavior. Our results highlight the moderating role of perceived stress and trait self-control in the context of intention and physical activity behavior. Under specific perceived stress levels, enactment of behavior based on intentions and planning is supported by high trait self-control. Examining potential mediators and moderators of the intention-behavior gap seems to be a fruitful approach to explain physical activity behavior.

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Healthy eating at different risk levels for job stress: Testing a moderated mediation.

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Factors influencing employees' eating behaviours in the office‐based workplace: A systematic review

Factors influencing employees' eating behaviours in the office‐based workplace: A systematic review

Challenge and hindrance demands lead to employees' health and behaviours through intrinsic motivation

Perceived stress and trait self-control interact with the intention–behavior gap in physical activity behavior.

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