Department of Management

 

ORCID IDs

Amy L. Bartels http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7619-6319

Date of this Version

4-2019

Citation

Citation: Bartels AL, Peterson SJ, Reina CS (2019) Understanding well-being at work: Development and validation of the eudaimonic workplace wellbeing scale. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0215957.

https:// doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215957

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Copyright: © 2019 Bartels et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,

Abstract

Given the amount of time and effort individuals pour into work, scholars and practitioners alike have spent considerable time and resources trying to understand well-being in the workplace. Unfortunately, much of the current research and measurement focuses on workplace well-being from only one perspective (i.e. hedonic well-being rather than eudaimonic well-being) or by generalizing between workplace well-being and general well-being. In this study, we sought to integrate the workplace context into the current eudaimonic perspective to develop an 8-item measure of eudaimonic workplace well-being. Using multi-wave data, we developed and validated a reliable, two-dimensional eudaimonic workplace well-being scale (EWWS). The measure replicated over seven samples and across 1346 participants and showed strong convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. Furthermore, we combined EWWS with an existing measure of hedonic workplace well-being and the resulting model of overall workplace well-being explained a significant amount of variance in key organizational constructs over and above existing hedonic well-being measures. Overall, the present study suggests that the EWWS is a valuable and valid measure and, when taken together with hedonic workplace well-being, captures what it means to have a holistic sense of well-being at work.

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