Mission impossible? Identity based incompatibilities amongst academic job roles relate to wellbeing and turnover.
Journal article
Frings, D., Wood, K. and Albery, I. (2024). Mission impossible? Identity based incompatibilities amongst academic job roles relate to wellbeing and turnover. Social Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09890-7
Authors | Frings, D., Wood, K. and Albery, I. |
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Abstract | Academic staff experience high levels of work-related stress and poor mental health. As a result, many institutions face high staff turnover. These outcomes may be driven by the complexity and, at times, apparently oppositional objectives academics need to meet around research and teaching. These factors may present both practical and social identity-based incompatibilities. The current study tested the role of these incompatibilities upon mental well-being and turnover. A sample of 141 UK resident academics completed scales measuring levels of social identification with being an academic, an educator and a researcher, identity based and practical incompatibility, mental health, experience of the workplace and turnover intention. No direct links were found between practical incompatibility and outcomes. However, higher identity incompatibility was related to poorer mental health. Identity incompatibility was also related to turnover intention, mediated by both mental health and workplace experience. Contrary to predictions, these effects were not moderated by identity difference or identity strength. The current findings present evidence that role-based incompatibilities have both practical and identity-based foundations and highlight important caveats to the benefits of multiple identities on well-being observed in other domains. The findings also suggest practical steps through which complex occupational roles can be best structured to improve mental health and reduce turnover. |
Keywords | higher education, mental health, identity, stress, turn-over, roles |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | Social Psychology of Education |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 1381-2890 |
1573-1928 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09890-7 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-024-09890-7#article-info |
Publication dates | |
20 Jul 2024 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 29 Jan 2024 |
Deposited | 31 Jul 2024 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Controlled |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/963q2
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