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- The study aimed to explore how overtime work relates to mental fatigue, considering factors like work motivation and the quality of the overtime experienced.
- A survey involving 1,807 Dutch full-time workers was conducted to analyze the prevalence of overtime and its connections to job demands, variety, decision-making freedom, fatigue, and motivation.
- Results showed that 67% of participants worked overtime, typically 3.5 hours, and were generally nonfatigued and motivated, suggesting that moderate overtime is common among satisfied workers rather than a source of fatigue.
Article Abstract
Objectives: We sought to better understand the relationship between overtime and mental fatigue by taking into account work motivation and the quality of overtime work and studying theoretically derived subgroups.
Methods: We conducted a survey-study among a representative sample of the Dutch full-time workforce (n = 1807). The prevalence of overtime work and the associations between overtime and job demands, job variety, decision latitude, fatigue, and work motivation was studied through descriptive statistics. We used MANCOVA (covariates: age, gender, salary level) to compare six overtime-fatigue subgroups with respect to work motivation and job characteristics.
Results: A total of 67% of the respondents worked overtime (mean, 3.5 hours). Overtime workers appeared to be nonfatigued, motivated workers with favorable work characteristics. MANCOVA revealed no significant overtime-fatigue interaction.
Conclusions: Moderate overtime is common among Dutch workers, who seem to be happy workers with attractive jobs rather than fatigued employees.
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