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Does Perceived Wellness Influence Employee Work Engagement? Examining the Effects of Wellness in the Presence of Established Individual and Workplace Predictor Variables

Priebe, Dennis R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152330257997838

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
Work engagement and employee wellness are important issues in human resource development. Guided by Conservation of Resources theory and the Job Demands-Resources Model, this study examined the effect perceived wellness had on teachers’ reported levels of work engagement. While previous studies have examined discrete domains of wellness and their relationship to work engagement, no study had examined perceived, holistic wellness and its relationship to work engagement. As workplace wellness programs offer services that reflect components of holistic wellness, it is desirable to understand the variability holistic wellness can explain in work engagement. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data from a sample of K-12 teachers. In addition to collecting data on perceived wellness and work engagement, additional data were collected for the control variables of psychological capital, supervisory support, and work autonomy. Tests for linear regression, hierarchal regression, multiple regression, and mediation were conducted to evaluate the research questions. Findings from the study suggested those higher in wellness have higher levels of work engagement, that wellness predicts unique variance in work engagement in the presence of established personal and job resource predictor variables, and that there is a partially mediated effect from wellness to work engagement through psychological capital.
Zirkle Christopher (Advisor)
Granello Paul (Committee Member)
Gallant Dorinda (Committee Member)
154 p.
Education
work engagement; wellness; psychological capital; supervisory support; autonomy

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  • Priebe, D. R. (2018). Does Perceived Wellness Influence Employee Work Engagement? Examining the Effects of Wellness in the Presence of Established Individual and Workplace Predictor Variables [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152330257997838

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Priebe, Dennis. Does Perceived Wellness Influence Employee Work Engagement? Examining the Effects of Wellness in the Presence of Established Individual and Workplace Predictor Variables. 2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152330257997838.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Priebe, Dennis. "Does Perceived Wellness Influence Employee Work Engagement? Examining the Effects of Wellness in the Presence of Established Individual and Workplace Predictor Variables." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152330257997838

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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