Physical Activity as a Moderator of a Relationship between Work-Related Hazards and Professional Burnout of Polish Acade
Empirical papers on association between physical activity (PA) and professional burnout (PB) and work-related hazards (WRH) in a population of different working adults are still limited. The aim of this chapter is to characterize the level of habitual phy
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Abstract Empirical papers on association between physical activity (PA) and professional burnout (PB) and work-related hazards (WRH) in a population of different working adults are still limited. The aim of this chapter is to characterize the level of habitual physical activity of academics working at higher education institutions of Poland, with particular reference to leisure-time physical activity (LPA). Moreover, the chapter also tries to answer a question whether LPA is an important moderating variable of the relationship between work-related hazards and professional burnout. A quantitative research was carried out from September till December 2017 [N ¼ 340]. The online questionnaire consisted of three research tools: the Psychosocial Risk Scale (SRP), the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), and the International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ), the long form with demographic characteristics. In the chapter, different statistic tests (the independent-samples t-test, one way-ANOVA, the Mann–Whitney U-test, and Kruskal–Wallis test) and descriptive statistics were included. More than 60% of respondents were classified to the high level of PA according to IPAQ. LPA was declared by 41.8% of academics (vigorous—35.5%, moderate—29.7%, walking—64.5%). To analyze the significance of leisure-time physical activity as a variable moderating the hazards/professional burnout relationship, regression analysis with interaction was conducted. Only in the case of one model referring to the perceived job context-related hazards/exhaustion relationship, statistically significant moderating effect of LTA was found. Keywords Academics · Health and well-being of employees · Physical activity · Leisure-time physical activity · Professional burnout · Work-related hazards
A. Basińska-Zych (*) · A. Springer Banking and Finance Department, WSB University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 M. H. Bilgin et al. (eds.), Eurasian Business Perspectives, Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics 14/2, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52294-0_6
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1 Introduction Studies on relationships between physical activity (PA) and professional burnout (PB) and work-related hazards (WRH) in a population of different working adults are still limited. Although positive role of motor activity on both mental and physical health is commonly known, globally, society’s level of physical activity is still insufficient. It fact, the cause of more than 3.2 million deaths around the world is a sedentary lifestyle and inactivity. In the global perspective, over a third of people in the teenage age and more do not fulfill the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation regarding PA (Hallal et al. 2012). Frequency of inactivity varied remarkably in different parts of the world: 17.0% of inactive people in Southeast Asia, 27.5% in Africa, 33.7%
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