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(2015)Introduction Young adulthood is an important stage of life. Health development and problems during young adulthood have impact on life later on (Koskinen, Kestilä, Martelin & Aromaa, 2005). Well- and ill-being during studying and working have been studied from the perspective of burnout and engagement. Burnout is defined as a studying- or work-related prolonged stress-disorder (Maslach, Schaufeli & Leiter, 2001; Salmela-Aro, 2009), while engagement is a positive, long-term affective-cognitive state (Schaufeli, Salanova, González-Romá & Bakker, 2002). According to the demands-resources -model, in studying and work, burnout leads to ill-being while engagement leads to well-being (Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner & Schaufeli, 2001; Salmela-Aro & Upadyaya, 2014a; Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004). Apparently it has not been previously studied, whether it is possible to experience burnout and engagement in leisure-time like it is in studying and working. The main goal of this study was to identify burnout- and engagement groups using the person-centered approach (Bergman & Anderson, 2010) in studying or working young adults, who could differ in terms of background-, health- and welfare-factors. The secondary goal was to explore the structure of burnout and engagement in leisure-time of the same participants and also find out what kind of factors were involved. Methods This study is part of the Finnish Educational Transitions Studies (FinEdu) -longitudinal study, using the latest questionnaire material collected in 2013–2014. Only students and employees were included in the analyzed data (N=924, women=562, primary students=317, employees=607), their age varying from 24 to 29 years of age. Burnout and engagement groups in studying and work were identified through latent profile analysis. The structure of burnout and engagement in leisure-time was studied with explorative factor analysis. The acquired groups along with burnout and engagement in leisure-time were compared to different background-, health- and welfare-factors. Results The latent-profile-analysis identified three burnout- and engagement groups in studying and work. The engaged (56%) experienced engagement and minor burnout in their studies or work. They also had the best state of health and well-being. The burned-out (14%) experienced burnout in their studies or work and had low engagement. Their group also had the worst state of health and well-being. The disengaged (30%) reminded the burned-out, but did not have as low experience of engagement or as high burnout as the burned-out. The disengaged placed in between the engaged and the burned-out in terms of health and well-being. In leisure-time, both burnout- and engagement dimensions were distinguishable through explorative factor analysis. Burnout in leisure-time was connected to a worse state of health and lesser well-being, while engagement linked to better health and higher well-being. In addition, burnout and engagement in leisure-time was connected to the burnout- and engagement groups in studying and work. Discussion Young adults experience burnout and engagement in their studies, work and leisure time. According to this study, half of the students experience more engagement than burnout in their studies or work. Alarmingly, the other half experiences more burnout than engagement in their studies or work which is also linked to burnout and engagement experienced in leisure-time. Burnout and engagement are linked to many ill- and well-being factors, thus having a great impact on both the individual and the society. Therefore, it is important that the study of these phenomena is pursued.
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(2020)Objectives. The purpose of this study is to find out how workers, who do not have the opportunity to dine their workplace canteen organize their in-work meals. I apply a perspective of home economics science to my research in a way, that I am not primarily interested in what the men under my study eat, but rather I focus on the accounts on how they organize their working-time meals. I try to understand man as a thinking and functioning being who interacts with his environment. The goal of everyday human activities is to maintain the basic conditions of life, such as access to food, which makes eating during work an object of daily activity. Very little research has been done on the eating habits of workers. Prättälä (1998) studied the effect of working conditions for foresters and carpenters on. Viinamäki (2010) studied lunch patterns of hospital staff members, and Tuikkanen and Mikkola (2015) studied the working hours of factory workers. Workers' eating habits have long been a concern and working conditions are known to affect working hours. Changing one´s eating habits is challening and it is known that workers only start changing their diet when the health reasons weigh more than their shoulders can handle. In order to make changes, it is important to understand why workers act the way they do and what meanings their eating habits involve. Methods. This research is qualitative and the data were collected by interviewing. Altogether seven interviews were conducted, and the interviewees were aged 30-53. They lived northern Finland. The interviewees worked in different jobs at different workplaces and were united by the lack of a workplace canteen. The data were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. Results and conclusions. The results of this study show that workers arrange in-work meals regardless of the prevailing conditions. Very different solutions are made in similar working conditions, because different tactics are used to organize the working-time meals. These tactics represent, the meanings given to meals as well as the worker's relationship to work. Workers feel that eating is everyone's own business and that the decisions made by others are respected.
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