Longitudinal Relation between Comprehensive Job Resources and Three Basic Psychological Needs at Work

Łukasz Baka; Michał Szulawski; Monika Prusik; Łukasz Kapica; Andrzej Najmiec

doi:10.3390/ijerph19106302

Longitudinal Relation between Comprehensive Job Resources and Three Basic Psychological Needs at Work

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 22;19(10):6302. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19106302.

Authors

Łukasz Baka¹, Michał Szulawski², Monika Prusik³, Łukasz Kapica¹, Andrzej Najmiec¹

Affiliations

¹ Social Psychology Laboratory, Central Institute for Labour Protection-National Research Institute, 00-701 Warsaw, Poland.
² Social Psychology Unit, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, 02-353 Warszawa, Poland.
³ Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland.

Abstract

This study aims to understand the long-term relation between comprehensive job resources and the three basic psychological needs at work (autonomy, relatedness and competence). The study was conducted in a progressive design on a sample of 1025 Polish human service professionals. Based on a typology of job resources, the three aggregated job resources index related to the task, leadership and interpersonal relations were created and the effects of each of them on the satisfaction and frustration of the three basic psychological needs, measured after 8 months, were tested. The analysis conducted by using of structural equation modelling showed that task resources are associated with the three basic psychological needs more strongly than two other kinds of resources and that that both leadership and interpersonal resources were related to the satisfaction and frustration of all the needs to the same extent. The results are discussed in the paradigm of the Conservative of Resources and the Self Determination theories.

Keywords: basic psychological needs; interpersonal relations; job resources; leadership; longitudinal study; task resources.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Frustration
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Leadership
Personal Autonomy*
Personal Satisfaction*

Grants and funding

This paper is based on the results of a research task carried out within the scope of the five stage of the National Programme “Improvement of safety and working conditions” partly supported in 2020–2022 within the scope of research and development—by National Centre for Research and Development. Project number: IV.PB.03.