Abstract
<p>Daily Work-related Perseverative Cognition (WPC) increases employees’ need for recovery by maintaining physical activation of work-related stressors, thus depleting employees’ resources further. The aim of this study was to highlight factors that influence the WPC/need for recovery relationship on a daily basis. It is hypothesized that daily satisfaction with emotional support from family would have both a direct and a moderating effect on the relationship between employees’ daily WPC and need for recovery. Since individuals higher in neuroticism tend to report more distress symptoms and perseverative cognition, it was expected that neuroticism would: (1) have a direct effect on WPC and need for recovery, (2) accentuate the WPC/need for recovery relationship and (3) reduce the buffering effect of emotional support from family on need for recovery. A sample of 31 employees completed diaries for five consecutive days before sleep (122 data points). Results from hierarchical linear modeling analyses revealed that daily family support had no direct effect on daily need for recovery. However, daily family support buffered the WPC/need for recovery relationship but only among individuals low in neuroticism. For those high in neuroticism, daily family support was not associated with a reduction of daily need for recovery from work after resources had been depleted due to WPC. These findings suggest that individual characteristics (neuroticism) should be considered in order to interpret the effect of key resources (family support) on recovery. The discussion highlights how organizations can foster family support and offer alternative strategies for those higher in neuroticism.</p>
Highlights
When fatigue builds up after effort expenditure to meet work-related demands, employees usually feel a sense of urgency to take a break from work
This study presented emotional support from family as a home-related contextual resource that helps to reduce the deleterious effect of work-related perseverative cognition (WPC) on need for recovery, supporting the work-home resources model
Findings from this study have considerable implications for intervention. These results suggest that organizations would benefit from establishing conditions that promote the replenishment of their employees’ personal resources, since the replenishment of energy during periods of respite has been found to be related to performance at work (Sonnentag, 2003)
Summary
When fatigue builds up after effort expenditure to meet work-related demands, employees usually feel a sense of urgency to take a break from work. This emotional state is defined as daily need for recovery (Sonnentag & Zijlstra, 2006). Among factors that impede recovery from work demands, research has increasingly focused on work-related perseverative cognition (WPC; i.e., worry and rumination about work-related issues) during non-work periods (Cropley & Millward, 2009; Flaxman, Ménard, Kinman, & Bond, 2012; Radstaak, Geurts, Beckers, Brosschot, & Kompier, 2014; Sonnentag, Kuttler, & Fritz, 2010). The present study aims to expand the understanding of employees’ need for recovery during respite periods by ijps.ccsenet.org
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