The Effect of Worktime Control on Overtime Employees’ Mental Health and Work-Family Conflict: The Mediating Role of Voluntary Overtime

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Jiaoyang Yu¹  Stavroula Leka² 

[1] School of Education, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong 030619, China;School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK;

关键词: worktime control;    voluntary overtime;    mental health;    work-family conflict;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph19073767

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Overtime has become a widespread phenomenon in the current information age that creates a high speed working pace and fierce competition in the high technology global economy. Based on the time-regulation mechanism and effort-recovery model, we examined the effect of worktime control (WTC) on mental health and work-family conflict (WFC) among overtime employees, and whether voluntary overtime mediated the relationships. We also examined two separate dimensions of WTC (control over time-off and control over daily hours). The results showed that control over time-off was related to decreased depression, anxiety, stress and WFC, while control over daily hours was related to decreased stress and WFC. Generally, control over time-off was beneficial to females and employees with dependents. Furthermore, mediation results showed that voluntary overtime was a complete mediator of relationships between WTC and depression and anxiety as well as a partial mediator of the relationship between WTC and stress. However, this study did not find a mediating effect of voluntary overtime on the WTC-WFC relationship. Limitations and practical implications are discussed.

【 授权许可】

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