Wrzesniewski and Dutton (2001) posit that employees craft their jobs to fulfill a need for human connection. Past research has argued that high-quality relationships are valuable for resilient individuals because these connections provide coping resources to manage stressful situations (Carmeli et al., 2013; Methot et al., 2016). We extend this theorizing and suggest that resilient employees craft their interactions to develop stronger, more rewarding and supportive relationships.
* On a single item measure
We used this single-item measure to capture resiliency to reduce the burden on survey respondents and increase response rate. While multiple-item measures are thought to have better psychometric properties than single-item measures, research has shown that single item measures can yield adequate validity especially when they are taken from an existing scale (Fisher et al., 2016). For a thorough discussion on the acceptability of one-item scales, see Wanous et al. (1997) and Chen et al. (2011). Moreover, Allen et al. (2022) argue that single item measures provide some advantages, including parsimony in time-restricted conditions (as in our sample), reduced test-taker frustration (shorter survey) and less ambiguity to measure the focal construct.
"Work may be a domain in people's lives that serves as a source of meaning, given it accounts for much of our adult lives and requires consistent effort" (Campbell, 2022).
> Work is considered as a domain which play a key role in antecedents of meaning, as it explains adulthood and demands concerted effort (me, paraphrasing).
Many people rate their work as both one of the least pleasurable and most rewarding activities in their daily lives (White & Dolan, 2009). Research on work ethic (i.e., beliefs placing productivity at a central role of meaning making in life) found that even when given enough money to live comfortably, participants reported they would still choose to work (Highhouse et al., 2010; Ward & King, 2017). This suggests that effortful work may imbue behaviors with meaning and purpose as opposed to simply a means to an end of comfortable living.
Despite this link between work and meaning, there is little actual research investigating the relationship between effort and meaning or research detailing the sources of meaning. Here, we try to fill this gap by examining individual differences in the extent to which people derive meaning from effort.
Campbell, A. V., Chung, J. M. H., & Inzlicht, M. (2022). Meaningfulness of effort: Deriving purpose from really trying.
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