| Abstract [eng] |
After the COVID – 19 pandemic, remote work has become a common work practice, therefore it is important to investigate the relations between work demands and employees' well-being. This study aims to investigate the relationships between different job demands and dimensions of burnout and the role of psychological detachment and self-leadership in the context of telework. The study was conducted in 2023, examining 357 teleworkers, of whom 84 were men and 258 were women, with a total average age of 32.7 years. Non-probability convenience sampling was used to select the study participants. The instruments used in the study were the Psychological Detachment Scale from the Recovery Experience Questionnaire (REQ), the Job Demand Scale from the Job Demands and Resources Questionnaire (JD-R), the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ), and the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT). It was found that work pressure and emotional demands are positively related to exhaustion, emotional impairment, psychological distress, and psychosomatic complaints. Emotional demands are also positively related to psychological detachment, while cognitive demands are positively related only to exhaustion. Furthermore, job demands were found to be related to burnout dimensions partially or fully through psychological detachment. The study shows that in case employee encounters high job demands, psychological detachment from work, self-leadership skills and more frequent visits to the office during the week can help to reduce the occurrence of various burnout dimensions. |
