Shared time pressure at work and its health-related outcomes: Job satisfaction as a mediator

Abstract

Job stressors at the occupational level have become a relevant issue in the field of stress research. Along these lines, the Healthy Work Organization model and the Job Demands–Control model have emphasized the relevance of job stressors defined as a collective construct such as time pressure. Nevertheless, empirical evidence on the potential negative outcomes associated with time pressure as a collective phenomenon and the mechanisms underlying these relationships is lacking. The Healthy Work Organization model posits work adjustment (e.g., job satisfaction) to be a potential mediating variable in the link between shared time pressure at the organizational level and poor health. This study examined the extent to which job satisfaction mediates this relationship in a sample of 367 professional drivers. Findings indicated that shared time pressure at the organizational level was negatively related to job satisfaction and self-reported health but not to sickness absence. Additionally, job satisfaction mediated the relationship between time pressure and self-reported health.

Keywords:

• Employees' health
• Job satisfaction
• Multilevel effects
• Professional drivers
• Time pressure

Acknowledgments

This research work was supported by the PSE-GLOBALOG project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the EU ERDF funds.