Continuity in transition

Autor(en)
Oliver Weigelt, Katja Siestrup, Roman Prem
Abstrakt

We integrate perspectives from research on recovery from work and perspectives from day-of-week research to predict continuous as well as discontinuous changes in vitality and fatigue. We examine whether changes in recovery experiences and sleep quality predict changes in human energy over the course of the weekend. Furthermore, we consider positive anticipation of work at the start of the workweek and effort during the workweek to predict changes in energy. We collected experience sampling data from 87 employees over the course of 12 days. In total, 2,187 observations nested in 972 days were eligible for analysis. Applying discontinuous growth curve modeling, we found that human energy increases continuously during the weekend, drops on Monday, follows a passageway trajectory from Monday to Thursday, and increases on Friday again. Changes in recovery experiences did not predict changes in energy but increases in sleep quality did. Positive anticipation of work attenuated the drop in vitality on Monday. Effort did not predict changes in energy over the course of the workweek. Our results suggest that the transition between weekends and workweeks and vice versa accounts for considerable changes in human energy and that weekends are recuperative, particularly because they provide the opportunity for better sleep.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Rostock, Universität Leipzig, FernUniversität in Hagen, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Journal
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Band
42
Seiten
567-586
Anzahl der Seiten
20
ISSN
0894-3796
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2514
Publikationsdatum
06-2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501003 Arbeitspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Allgemeine Psychologie, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0af5b8c8-c2cb-4da5-a5d4-bf10fc3a2546