TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schulz, Anika D.
A1  - Schöllgen, Ina
A1  - Wendsche, Johannes
A1  - Fay, Doris
A1  - Wegge, Jürgen
T1  - The dynamics of social stressors and detachment
BT  - long term mechanisms impacting well-being
JF  - International journal of stress management
N2  - This study examines the long-term dynamics of social stressors at work, psychological detachment, and their impact on employee well-being. Previous research has shown that social stressors are detrimental for employee well-being and the ability to mentally detach from work. However, longitudinal studies in this field are scarce, and typically, they only explore whether the level of stressors, or of detachment, at a given point in time has an effect on outcomes. That stressors and detachment may change over time, and that this change may have an independent effect in the process, has rarely been taken into consideration. Thus, it is unclear to what extent long-term dynamic effects also play a role in these relations. To address this question, we investigated whether change in detachment explains the long-term indirect relationship of change in perceived social stressors with change in emotional exhaustion and mental well-being. Data were taken from a longitudinal study of N = 246 registered nurses with up to 3 measurements over 1 year. Analyses were conducted with latent difference scores using a proportional change model. Results revealed that a decline in psychological detachment mediated the long-term effects of increases in social stressors at the workplace on subsequent change in emotional exhaustion and mental well-being. Thus, our study provides initial evidence for the underlying long-term dynamic nature of relationships among social stressors, detachment, and employee well-being, highlighting the incremental explanatory power of change in social stressors and in detachment, above and beyond their respective levels, in predicting change in well-being.
KW  - psychological detachment
KW  - job stress
KW  - emotional exhaustion
KW  - well-being
KW  - longitudinal study
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/str0000216
SN  - 1072-5245
SN  - 1573-3424
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
SP  - 207
EP  - 219
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fay, Doris
A1  - Hüttges, Annett
T1  - Drawbacks of proactivity
BT  - effects of daily proactivity on daily salivary cortisol and subjective well-being
JF  - Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
N2  - 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)
KW  - proactivity
KW  - well-being
KW  - cortisol
KW  - workload
KW  - diary study
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000042
SN  - 1076-8998
SN  - 1939-1307
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
SP  - 429
EP  - 442
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -