All job demands are exhausting, but hindrance job demands are particularly stressful since they also impede personal growth and goal attainment. In the present study, we use the dual perspective model to distinguish between agency hindrance job demands (i.e., task-related stressors that cost energy and offer few opportunities for mastery and competence) and communion hindrance job demands (i.e., social stressors that cost energy and limit the probability of experiencing close relationships). We hypothesize that daily agency hindrance job demands and daily communion hindrance job demands have unique indirect and negative associations with daily job performance (i.e., in-role and extra-role performance behaviors) through daily work engagement. In addition, we used theories about proactivity and play to hypothesize that the association of both types of hindrance job demands with work engagement will be moderated by playful work design-the process of proactively creating conditions during work activities that foster competition or fun. Employees from various occupational backgrounds filled out an online questionnaire at the end of each workday (N = 202 × 5.61 days = 1,133 observations). The results of structural equation modeling analyses supported our mediation hypotheses. In addition, as predicted, the negative association between agency hindrance job demands and work engagement was buffered on days when employees designed competition, whereas the negative relation between communion hindrance job demands and work engagement was buffered on days when employees designed fun. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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使用有趣的工作设计来应对工作障碍：定量日记研究。

所有的工作需求都在用尽，但阻碍工作的需求尤其压力重重，因为它们还会阻碍个人成长和目标达成。在本研究中，我们使用双重视角模型来区分代理障碍工作需求（即，与任务相关的压力源，它们消耗能量，而掌握和胜任的机会很少）和共融障碍工作需求（即，社会压力源，消耗能量）并限制了亲密关系的可能性）。我们假设，通过日常工作参与，日常代理阻碍工作需求和日常沟通障碍工作需求与日常工作绩效（即，角色内和角色外绩效行为）具有独特的间接和负面联系。此外，我们使用了关于主动性的理论，并进行了假设，即嬉戏的工作设计将缓和两种类型的障碍性工作需求与工作投入之间的联系，即在促进竞争或乐趣的工作活动中主动创造条件的过程。不同职业背景的员工在每个工作日结束时填写在线问卷（N = 202×5.61天= 1,133个观察值）。结构方程模型分析的结果支持了我们的调解假设。此外，正如预期的那样，代理障碍工作需求与工作参与之间的消极关联在员工设计竞争的日子被缓冲，而沟通障碍工作需求与工作参与之间的负关系在员工设计乐趣的日子被缓冲。我们讨论了这些发现的理论和实践意义。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。