Job crafting as a factor of psychological well-being in professional activities: an invariance analysis in three national samples (Russia, Croatia, Germany)

On September 5, the seminar of the HSE Centre for Sociocultural Research "Culture Matters" was held yet again. As part of this seminar, HSE postgraduate student Miletic Maina Pavlovna, a lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of East London in the UK, spoke on the topic "Job crafting as a factor in psychological well-being in professional activity: an analysis of invariance in three national samples (Russia, Croatia, Germany)

The report described job crafting as a special type of behavior by which individuals make changes to their work and “customize” it for themselves in order to make the work more enjoyable and meaningful. A large number of studies confirm the positive impact of job crafting on both the psychological well-being of employees and the performance of organizations.

The report presented the results of testing the Russian-language version of the Job Crafting Scale. It also demonstrated the results of an analysis of the relationships between different types of job crafting and such indicators of psychological well-being as work engagement and burnout in a sample of a Russian manufacturing enterprise (N = 287). Preliminary results of an analysis of the invariance of change and the relationship models between job crafting and work engagement in samples from three countries were also considered: Russia (N = 285), Croatia (N = 192), and Germany (N = 201).