Pregnancy-related discrimination and expectant workers' psychological well-being and work engagement: understanding the moderating role of job resources

Pregnancy-related discrimination and expectant workers' psychological well-being and work engagement: understanding the moderating role of job resources Juliet Hassard, Weiwei Wang, Lana Delic, Ieva Grudyte, Vanessa Dale-Hewitt, Louise Thomson International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- In this paper, the authors apply the Job Demand-Resource Model to investigate the association between pregnancy-related discrimination (conceptualised as a job demand) and expectant workers' psychological well-being and work engagement, and the moderating role of workplace support (co-worker and supervisor social support and perceived organisational family support (POFS); conceptualised as job resources).The paper conducted a cross-sectional online survey of vocationally active British workers in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy using purposive sampling techniques. Participants were recruited through online forums and social media platforms. A sample of 186 was used to conduct multiple regression and moderation analysis (SPSS v28 and STATA v17).The authors observed that higher levels of pregnancy-related discrimination were associated with poorer psychological well-being and work engagement among surveyed expectant workers. Perceived co-worker social support moderated both these relationships for psychological well-being (demonstrating a buffering effect) and work engagement (an antagonist effect). POFS and supervisor suppor...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Source Type: research