title: How are changes in exposure to job demands and job resources related to burnout and engagement? A longitudinal study among Chinese nurses and police officers.
abstract: This study used a person-centered approach to examine the across-time relationships between job demands and job resources on the one hand and employee well-being (burnout and work engagement) on the other. On the basis of the job demands-resources model and conservation of resources (COR) theory, increases in demands and decreases in resources across time were expected to result in unfavorable changes in well-being across time. The results of a 2-wave study among 172 nurses and 273 police officers showed several common patterns across both samples: (a) participants who experienced an increase of demands showed a significant increase in burnout, whereas participants who reported having low resources at both measurement times also showed a significant increase in burnout; (b) participants who experienced decreasing resources reported a significant increase in burnout and a significant decrease in engagement; (c) participants who were exposed to chronic low job resources in a highly demanding environment showed a significant increase in burnout; and (d) participants who were exposed to decreased job resources in a highly demanding environment showed a significant increase in burnout.
authors.affiliation: Global Institute for Zhejiang Merchant's Development, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Qiao
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1447-5237
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Department of Social, Health, and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.|Department of Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Wilmar B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Schaufeli
authors.affiliation: Department of Social, Health, and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Toon W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Taris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D016495:Police / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: JD-R model; burnout; longitudinal research; person-centered approach; work engagement