Job alienation and well-being.
This paper analyzes the relationships between alienation conceived as monotonous, repetitive work and alienation as job-worker incongruence to a variety of measures of worker as well-being among a population of workers from Victoria, British Columbia. The data show weak relationships between work perceived as monotonous and general psychological and physical well-being and between alienation as job-worker incongruence and health. While weak in variance-explained terms, the relationships show the predicted patterns are robust and are independent of a large number of control variables. Percentage differences in well-being between the alienated and nonalienated workers are fairly substantial. Some societal implications of the findings are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001955:British Columbia; D004651:Employment; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009013:Morale; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept; D012918:Social Alienation; D013315:Stress, Psychological