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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1433215
This article is part of the Research Topic How Workplace Behaviors Impact Mental Health: Does Diversity Matter? View all 26 articles

The Impact of Perceived Environmental Competitiveness on Employee Mental Health: A Moderated Mediation Model of Job Crafting and Work-family Conflict

Provisionally accepted
Sheng Cheng Sheng Cheng Yumei Wang Yumei Wang *
  • Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China

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    Drawing from the conservation of resources theory, this study proposes that individuals who perceive environmental competitiveness may improve their mental health through their job crafting behaviors at work. Data were collected from 450 full-time Chinese employees using a three-wave time-lagged approach. The results showed that perceived environmental competitiveness is positively correlated with job crafting, and job crafting has a positive relationship with mental health. Moreover, the results indicated that job crafting mediates the relationship between perceived environmental competitiveness and mental health. Additionally, the present study found that work-family conflict plays a moderating role in the relationships among environmental competitiveness, job crafting and mental health. A moderated mediation model was proposed in this study. Finally, theoretical and practical implications of this study are also discussed.

    Keywords: perceived environmental competitiveness, Job crafting, Mental Health, work-family conflict, moderated mediation model

    Received: 15 May 2024; Accepted: 07 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Cheng and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yumei Wang, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China

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