ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Overtime work, job autonomy, and employees' subjective well-being: Evidence from China.
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- The impact of perceived algorithmic management on employees' physical and mental health: a chain mediation analysis of frustrated work autonomy and workplace AI replacement anxiety.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Profiles of job satisfaction among industrial workers and its association with mental health under the background of Industry 5.0 transformation: a latent profile analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The Short-Term Impacts of Japan's 2024 Physician Working-Hour Limits on Labor Conditions, Self-Directed Professional Development, and Happiness Among Obstetrician-Gynecologists.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2025Article
- Work from home and employee well-being: a double-edged sword.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Factors affecting seafarers' fatigue: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Can working in agriculture have a favorable effect on depressive symptoms? Life satisfaction as a mediator.PloS one · 2025Article
- Beyond hours: how conformity-driven overtime influences work withdrawal behavior via dual psychological mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effects of psychological capital, work engagement and job autonomy on job performance in platform flexible employees.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Residency Program Directors' Perspectives on Overtime Duty Hours and Professional Development Time in Japan.Advances in medical education and practice · 2024Article
- Measuring the decent work of knowledge workers: Constructing and validating a new scale.Heliyon · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Chinese workers suffer more from overtime than in many countries. Excessive working hours can crowd out personal time and cause work-family imbalance, affecting workers' subjective well-being. Meanwhile, self-determination theory suggests that higher job autonomy may improve the subjective well-being of employees. Methods: Data came from the 2018 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS 2018). The analysis sample consisted of 4,007 respondents. Their mean age was 40.71 (SD = 11.68), and 52.8% were males. This study adopted four measures of subjective well-being: happiness, life satisfaction, health status, and depression. Confirmation factor analysis was employed to extract the job autonomy factor. Multiple linear regression methods were applied to examine the relationship between overtime, job autonomy, and subjective well-being. Results: Overtime hours showed weak association with lower happiness ( Conclusion: While overtime had a minimal negative effect on individual subjective well-being, involuntary overtime significantly enlarged it. Improving individual's job autonomy is beneficial for individual subjective well-being.
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