The Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective as a Moderator in the Relationship between Chronological Age and Work Engagement
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.201222.047How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- chronological age, occupational future time perspective, OFTP, work engagement
- Abstract
Age-related factors, such as chronological age and subjective age, are one of the most important factors that influence work engagement. However, previous studies showed inconsistent results in revealing the relationship between chronological age and work engagement. We extend the previous research by arguing the relationship between chronological age and work engagement is moderated by subjective age in the workplace context, namely occupational future time perspective (OFTP) within the framework of conservation of resources (COR) theory. Built upon the framework, OFTP played a role as motivational and compensatory resources to be engaged. Data were collected using a paper and pencil survey from healthcare employees at six private hospitals in Jakarta and its surroundings (N = 190). Using a simple moderation test with Hayes’ (2008) PROCESS macro on SPSS software v25.0, the results showed that the moderating effect of OFTP on chronological age-work engagement was positive and significant, such that the relationship between chronological age and work engagement is positive and higher on individuals with expansive OFTP. Meanwhile, chronological age could not predict work engagement on low OFTP individuals. The results of this study are able to show the organization to highlight the OFTP variable, especially on the older workers.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hilda Elsa Putri AU - Debora Eflina Purba PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/23 TI - The Role of Occupational Future Time Perspective as a Moderator in the Relationship between Chronological Age and Work Engagement BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Management Research (ICBMR 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 326 EP - 333 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.201222.047 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.201222.047 ID - Putri2020 ER -