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Examining the Dynamic Nature of Worker Subjective Well-being: The Application of Idiographic Approaches

Examining and Exploring the Shifting Nature of Occupational Stress and Well-Being

ISBN: 978-1-80117-423-7, eISBN: 978-1-80117-422-0

Publication date: 6 September 2021

Abstract

Our theoretical understanding of subjective well-being in the workplace is incomplete without a dynamic understanding of antecedents and outcomes of subjective well-being. While between-person differences provide useful information about employee outcomes, these differences do not provide information about the relationships between subjective well-being and employee outcomes that evolve over time and across situations. In this paper, we discuss specific statistical methods within the nomothetic and idiographic perspectives that can support dynamic research on subjective well-being in the workplace and outline unanswered contemporary questions regarding structure, processes, and dynamics of subjective well-being that may be addressed with these methods reviewed; some of which were proposed in early research but progressed slowly due to a lack of adequate methods. This discussion highlights how idiographic methods from outside organizational psychology can be applied to the study of worker subjective well-being to strengthen this dynamic approach in a way that addresses limitations associated with reliance on between-person models.

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Saef, R.M., Beck, E. and Jackson, J.J. (2021), "Examining the Dynamic Nature of Worker Subjective Well-being: The Application of Idiographic Approaches", Harms, P.D., Perrewé, P.L. and Chang, C.-H.(D). (Ed.) Examining and Exploring the Shifting Nature of Occupational Stress and Well-Being (Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being, Vol. 19), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 179-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-355520210000019009

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