Fueling work engagement: The role of sleep, health, and overtime

Autor(en)

Ricarda Schleupner, Jana Kühnel

Abstrakt

With the current study, we investigate mechanisms linking sleep quality with work

engagement. Work engagement is an affective-motivational state of feeling vigorous,

absorbed, and dedicated while working. Drawing from both the effort-recovery model

and the job demands-resources framework, we hypothesize that sleep quality should

be positively related to work engagement via the replenishment of personal resources

that become apparent in mental health and physical health. Because personal resources

should gain salience especially in the face of job demands, we hypothesize that overtime

as an indicator for job demands should strengthen the positive relationship between

mental health and work engagement. We gathered data from 152 employees from

diverse industries via an online survey. Results showed that sleep quality was positively

related to work engagement (r = 0.20, p < 0.05), and that mental health mediated

this relationship (indirect effect: = 0.23, lower limit confidence interval = 0.13, upper

limit confidence interval = 0.34). However, physical health did not serve as a mediator.

Overtime turned out to be significantly and positively related to work engagement (r =

0.22, p < 0.01), replicating previous findings, but did not significantly interact with mental

health or physical health in predicting work engagement. Overall, the study highlights the

significance of sleep quality for employees’ mental health and work engagement.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie

Journal

Frontiers in Public Health

Band

Anzahl der Seiten

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.592850

Publikationsdatum

05-2021

Peer-reviewed

ÖFOS 2012

501002 Angewandte Psychologie, 501015 Organisationspsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

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