Abstract summary 

The study reported here investigated the causal relationships in the health impairment process of employee well-being, and the mediating role of burnout in the relationship between work overload and psychological ill-health symptoms, over time. The research is deemed important due to the need for longitudinal evidence of the health impairment process of employee well-being over three waves of data.A quantitative survey design was followed. Participants constituted a longitudinal sample of 370 participants, at three time points, after attrition.Descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling methods were implemented.Work overload at time one predicted burnout at time two, and burnout at time two predicted psychological ill-health symptoms at time three. Indirect effects were found between work overload time one and psychological ill-health symptoms time three via burnout time two, and also between burnout time one and psychological ill-health symptoms time three, via burnout time two.The results provided supportive evidence for an "indirect-only" mediation effect, for burnout's causal mediation mechanism in the health impairment process between work overload and psychological ill-health symptoms.

Authors & Co-authors:  de Beer Leon T LT Pienaar Jaco J Rothmann Sebastiaan S

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