Illegitimate Tasks and Sleep Quality: An Ambulatory Study

Pereira, Diana; Semmer, Norbert K.; Elfering, Achim (2014). Illegitimate Tasks and Sleep Quality: An Ambulatory Study. Stress and health, 30(3), pp. 209-221. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/smi.2599

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The current study investigated the short-term effect of illegitimate tasks on sleep quality, assessed by actigraphy. Seventy-six employees of different service jobs participated in a 2-week data collection. Data were analysed by way of multilevel analyses. As predicted, illegitimate tasks were positively related to sleep fragmentation and sleep-onset latency, but not to sleep efficiency and not to sleep duration. Time pressure, social stressors at work and at home, and the value of the dependent variable from the previous day were controlled. Results confirm the predictive power of illegitimate tasks for a variable that can be considered crucial in the development of long-term outcomes of daily experiences.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Elfering, Achim

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

1532-3005

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell

Language:

English

Submitter:

Diana Cristina Romano

Date Deposited:

25 Mar 2015 11:44

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:26

Publisher DOI:

10.1002/smi.2599

PubMed ID:

25100272

Uncontrolled Keywords:

actigraphy, illegitimate tasks, occupational stress, recovery, sleep, threat to self

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.65580

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/65580

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