Humanitas: Indonesian Psychological Journal
Vol 17, Number 2: August 2020

The contribution of work engagement and job satisfaction to workers' Psychological well-being

Reno Chandra Liona (Faculty of Psychology, University of Muhammadiyah Malang)
Muhammad Salis Yurniardi (Faculty of Psychology, University of Muhammadiyah Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Aug 2020

Abstract

Workers are assets to increase the productivity of the company. Workers who have a good level of psychological well-being will be able to optimize their potency and, eventually, to perform a high level of productivity. A growing body of literature suggested that work-engagement and job satisfaction may affect psychological well-being. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relative contribution made by work engagement and job satisfaction to the psychological well-being of workers. Two hundred and six-nine workers (43.9% male and 56.1% female) participated in this study, which implemented the quantitative correlational research method. Work engagement was measured using the UWES-17 (Utrecht Work Engagement Scale), job satisfaction by using The Job Satisfaction Survey, and psychological well-being using Ryff's Psychological Well-being Scales. The results from the linear regression analysis indicated that 41% of the variance could be explained by both work engagement and job satisfaction on the psychological well-being of workers. Work engagement and job satisfaction could create optimal psychological functioning and experience for workers, resulting in higher overall well-being. However, job satisfaction contributed independently to a slightly larger contribution (22.23%) than work-engagement did (18.86%). All in all, both work-engagement and job significantly satisfaction predicted the psychological well-being of workers.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

HUMANITAS

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities

Description

HUMANITAS (ISSN: 1693-7236) focuses on psychology research and cover all branch of psychology sciences. This journal is peer-review. Jurnal Humanitas berfokus pada penelitian psikologi and mencakup semua cabang ilmu psikologi. Jurnal ini merupakan jurnal ...