ABSTRACT

Achievements at work play important roles with regard to employees’ well-being and health. Based on conservation of resources theory, the success-resource model and self-determination theory, this paper investigates how subjective occupational achievement experiences (task-related and prosocial) relate to employees’ psychological well-being (i.e., depressivity). We hypothesize differential mediating effects via the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Over a course of four consecutive weeks, 260 employees provided weekly diary data (942 observations) that were analysed using multilevel structural equation modelling. At the within-persons level, results showed that relatedness need satisfaction mediated the negative relationship between prosocial achievement experiences and depressivity, while competence need satisfaction mediated the negative relationship between task-related achievement experiences and depressivity. This study contributes to the research proposing achievement experiences as a beneficial resource in the health promotion process and reinforces the call to differentiate between the satisfaction of the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

摘要

工作成就对员工的福祉和健康起着重要作用。基于资源守恒理论、成功资源模型和自我决定理论，本文研究了主观职业成就体验（任务相关和亲社会）与员工心理幸福感（即抑郁）之间的关系。我们通过满足对自主性、能力和相关性的基本心理需求来假设不同的中介效应。在连续四个星期的过程中，260 名员工提供了使用多级结构方程模型进行分析的每周日记数据（942 次观察）。在个人层面，结果表明，相关性需求满足在亲社会成就体验和抑郁之间的负相关关系中起中介作用，而能力需要满足介导了任务相关成就体验与抑郁之间的负相关关系。本研究有助于将成就经验作为健康促进过程中的有益资源的研究，并加强区分自主、能力和相关性这三种基本心理需求的满足的呼吁。