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Examining the Role of Self-leadership in an Integrated Model of Work Characteristics and Health-Related Outcomes

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Modern working environments bring about new opportunities for personal growth but also increased risks for health impairment. In this setting, self-regulatory competence becomes a key skill. Building on an integrated model of work characteristics rooted in action regulation theory, we examine the role of self-leadership in the relationship of work characteristics with health-related indicators. N = 395 employees participated in a survey study. Work characteristics (learning requirements, work overload) and health-related outcomes (intrinsic work motivation, exhaustion tendency) were assessed by well-established measures. Self-leadership was assessed by a new measure. Statistical analyses confirmed main and moderating effects of self-leadership, although observed and predicted direction of the effects differed in some cases. The partly unexpected findings highlight the importance of considering the complex interplay of self-leadership with organizational context, individual factors, and conceptual clarity, among others.

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The authors wish to thank Marco Furtner for granting permission to use the Self-Leadership Skills Inventory.

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  1. Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52f, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Christian Seubert, Severin Hornung & Jürgen Glaser

  2. Institute for Occupational Medicine, University of Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany

    Severin Hornung

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Appendix: Self-leadership Sample Items

Appendix: Self-leadership Sample Items

Table 4. Sample item wordings of self-leadership facets.
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Seubert, C., Hornung, S., Glaser, J. (2018). Examining the Role of Self-leadership in an Integrated Model of Work Characteristics and Health-Related Outcomes. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_46

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