Workers' Motivation, Role Blurring, and Well-Being Profiles: A Person-Centered Approach

The goal of this study was to explore workers' profiles according to the fluidity of their boundary between work and nonwork roles, their motivation at work, and their well-being. A sample of 200 workers completed measures of work-nonwork role blurring, motivation at work, and psychological well-being. Results of latent profile analysis revealed five profiles of workers presenting various combinations of autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, amotivation, work-nonwork role blurring, and well-being. The profiles showed that diverse levels of role blurring can coexist with diverse levels of well-being. None of the profiles associated high role blurring with low well-being. Across profiles, autonomous motivation appeared to be most consistently proportional to well-being, whereas high amotivation or low overall motivation tended to present in conjunction with low well-being. The results are discussed in light of self-determination, border, and boundary theories.