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The role of psychological detachment in burnout and depression: A longitudinal study of Malaysian workers
Author(s) -
Muhamad Nasharudin Nurfazreen Aina,
Idris Mohd Awang,
Loh May Young,
Tuckey Michelle
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/sjop.12622
Subject(s) - psychology , burnout , depression (economics) , longitudinal study , clinical psychology , medicine , economics , macroeconomics , pathology
The current study aimed to examine the role of psychological detachment in the relationship between working conditions and burnout and depression. First, the study proposed that job demands would increase burnout after four months but not depression. Second, it proposed that psychological detachment would moderate the impact of job demands and job resources on burnout and depression. Third, it was proposed that the interaction between job demands, job resources and psychological detachment would predict burnout and depression. The longitudinal study design involved 345 workers (at both Time 1 and Time 2). The hierarchical regression analysis showed that increasing psychological detachment reduced the negative relationship between physical demands and depression four months later. In contrast, high psychological detachment increased the negative association between emotional resources and burnout, but not between emotional resources and depression. Overall, this study, in its discovery of the impact of working conditions on psychological health, has made a new contribution to psychological detachment studies by using different sub‐constructs of job demands and job resources (i.e., emotional and physical) with four‐month gaps, as previous studies did not address the impact within this time frame.