Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Does work passion benefit or hinder employee’s career commitment? The mediating role of work–family interface and the moderating role of autonomy support
Originally published 2022-06-03 · PLoS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0269298 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about supporting freely chosen engagement rather than compulsive overwork; the original evidence concerns 250 workers in South Korea.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Can commitment to work leave room for a life beyond it?
This reading brings harmonious versus obsessive work passion and autonomy support into the independence pathway. The two-wave employee study over five months offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
250 workers in South Korea
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess harmonious and obsessive forms of passion?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about different conflict and enrichment pathways over the two waves?
- What would need to be checked before adopting supporting freely chosen engagement rather than compulsive overwork?
Keep the limits in view
Two-wave observational reports do not establish causal processes; a South Korean worker sample does not represent every organizational culture.
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Yeseul Jung; Young Woo Sohn (2022). Does work passion benefit or hinder employee’s career commitment? The mediating role of work–family interface and the moderating role of autonomy support PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269298
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