The Contribution of Individual Psychological Features to the Determination of the Phenomenon of Work Alienation

Leonid V Vinokurov,Anastasiia A Kozhina

doi:10.3390/bs10010034

Abstract

Using the questionnaire method on a sample of 92 Russian-speaking employees of the “person-person” professions type, the relationship of work alienation with personal characteristics was investigated. It was found that work alienation has associations with some personality traits. Also, the satisfaction of basic psychological needs at work is a significant predictor of work alienation. The study proved that work alienation is a relatively flexible construct for changes in the workplace that relate to autonomy, competence, and social relations. The results of the research can be used as an empirical justification of the model of the phenomenon as well as in the development of a differentiated approach to the prevention and intervention of work alienation, depending on the personality characteristics of employees.

Highlights

This paper is dedicated to work alienation, a phenomenon which represents “a distance or separation from work, its context or itself” [1]
We suggest that basic needs formulated in the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) [6] play an essential role in the emergence of alienation
Ground on the SDT, we suggest that frustration of basic psychological intrinsic needs in a workplace can predict work alienation: Hypothesis 1

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Introduction

This paper is dedicated to work alienation, a phenomenon which represents “a distance or separation from work, its context or itself” [1]. It represents subjectively endured state connected with destruction of interpersonal communications, which is expressed in perception by the subject of work of helplessness, senselessness, and self-alienation. Previous studies have shown a link between work alienation and organizational variables as work performance, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational identification [2]. Another observation in the context of work alienation is the increase of burn out, deviant behavior, and alcohol use [1]. This all speaks about the high importance of this problem

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