@article{WeigeltSyrekSchmittetal.2019,
  author    = {Weigelt, Oliver and Syrek, Christine J. and Schmitt, Antje and Urbach, Tina},
  title     = {Finding peace of mind when there still is so much left undone},
  series = {Journal of occupational health psychology},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Journal of occupational health psychology},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  address   = {Washington, DC},
  issn      = {1076-8998},
  doi       = {10.1037/ocp0000117},
  pages     = {373 -- 386},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Unfinished work tasks have been identified as a significant job-related stressor in recent occupational stress research. Extending this research, we examine how and when not finishing one's tasks by the end of the work week affects work-related rumination at the weekend. Drawing on control theory, we examined competence need satisfaction as a mediating mechanism that links unfinished tasks at the end of the work week to work-related rumination at the weekend. Furthermore, we scrutinized whether proactive work behavior within the work week may neutralize the detrimental effects of unfinished tasks on competence need satisfaction and rumination. Using diary methodology, we collected weekly observations from 58 employees at the beginning and at the end of the work week over a period of 12 consecutive weeks, yielding 377 matched observations. Multilevel modeling analyses provided evidence for the assumed indirect effect at the intraindividual level. Higher levels of unfinished tasks were associated with lower levels of competence need satisfaction during the weekend. Competence need satisfaction, in turn, was negatively related to work-related rumination. Proactive work behavior attenuated the detrimental effects of unfinished tasks on competence need satisfaction and rumination at the weekend. These results imply that proactive work behavior facilitates switching off mentally during the weekend as it may restore competence need satisfaction in the face of unfinished tasks.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FayHuettges2016,
  author    = {Fay, Doris and H{\"u}ttges, Annett},
  title     = {Drawbacks of proactivity},
  series = {Journal of Occupational Health Psychology},
  volume    = {22},
  journal   = {Journal of Occupational Health Psychology},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {1076-8998},
  doi       = {10.1037/ocp0000042},
  pages     = {429 -- 442},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The benefit of proactive work behaviors for performance-related outcomes has been well established. However, this approach to studying proactivity has not yet acknowledged its potential implications for the actor's well-being. Drawing on the fact that resources at work are limited and that the workplace is a social system characterized by interdependencies, we proposed that daily proactivity could have a negative effect on daily well-being. We furthermore proposed that this effect should be mediated by work overload and negative affect. We conducted a daily diary study (N = 72) to test the potential negative effects of proactivity on daily well-being. Data was collected across 3 consecutive work days. During several daily measurement occasions, participants reported proactivity, work overload, negative affect, and fatigue. They also provided 4 saliva samples per day, from which cortisol was assayed. Based on the 4 samples, a measure of daily cortisol output was produced. Multilevel analyses showed that daily proactivity was positively associated with higher daily cortisol output. The positive association of daily proactivity with bedtime fatigue was marginally significant. There was no support for a mediating effect of work overload and negative affect. Implications for theory-building on the proactivity-well-being link are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)},
  language  = {en}
}