Daily Recovery, Sleep Quality, Resilience, Job Crafting, and Subsequent Job Performance

Abstract

Despite the increasing importance of and demand for work-life balance and employee well-being, there is a dearth of research findings on the role of recovery experiences and sleep quality in proactive behaviors and job crafting among employees. Our study is the first to examine the relationships that overnight recovery experiences and sleep quality share with next-day job crafting and the underlying mediating mechanisms. Drawing upon the self-regulatory strength model, we predict that overnight recovery experiences and sleep quality will be positively related to next-day job crafting through next-morning resilience (i.e., mediator). We also develop a sequential mediation model within which daily recovery experiences and sleep quality predict subsequent job performance through daily resilience and job crafting (i.e., mediators). Ninety-one flight attendants responded to assessments twice a day across five consecutive days, and their job performance was measured three months later. The resultant data were used to test the proposed model. As predicted, overnight recovery experiences and sleep quality were positively associated with next-day job crafting through next-morning resilience. Furthermore, daily recovery experiences and sleep quality significantly predicted subsequent job performance (i.e., three months later) through daily resilience and job crafting.