The Effect of Growth Needs Strength on Job Engagement and Burnout - The Mediating Effect of Negative Emotion Regulation and Intrinsic Motivation -

This paper examines the effect of growth need strength on job engagement and burnout in the context of South Korean workers. We also investigate the mediating role of negative emotion regulation and intrinsic motivation in the relationship between them. A survey was conducted with 244 employees from South Korean manufacturing companies. Contrary to our expectation, there was no direct effect of growth need strength on job engagement and burnout. Unlikely this, negative emotion regulation mediated relations between growth need strength and the two outcome variables. Intrinsic motivation mediated relations between growth need strength and job engagement. Our study contributes to organizational behavior and psychology by highlighting the significance of traits such as negative emotion regulation and intrinsic motivation on the relationship between growth need strength and job attitude such as job engagement and burnout.