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0000-0002-6399-3359
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University of Queensland
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Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2020
DOI: 10.1037/OCP0000155
Abstract: Being able to psychologically relax after work in the evening is important to the day-to-day recovery process and should enable employees to wake up feeling energized for the next workday. Drawing on affective events theory and allostatic load theory, we expected that employees will be able to psychologically relax when they get home from work if during work (a) they experienced less work-related goal-frustration events and more work-related goal-achievement events and (b) if they were adaptively regulating physiological stress arousal (as indexed by heart rate variability). As such, this research considers that work events, as well as a physiological indicator of parasympathetic regulation, can be important antecedents to off-the-job recovery. Over the course of 5 consecutive workdays, 72 employees completed daily surveys (on waking, at work, and in the evening) and wore an ambulatory electrocardiograph to measure their heart rate variability while at work that afternoon. Multilevel mediation analyses revealed support for our hypotheses at the within-person level, except for the role of goal-attainment events. The finding that goal-frustration events and heart rate variability both contribute to evening relaxation, and then indirectly to next-morning energy, provides initial insights on how both mind and body impact off-the-job recovery. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-08-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-10-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-03-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-05-2021
Abstract: Drawing on conservation of resources theory and self-determination theory, coworker support and work motivation were investigated as resources that should buffer or mitigate the negative consequences of career insecurity for professional musicians. We surveyed 200 professional musicians. Analyses revealed that only those musicians with low career insecurity and better-quality motivation (i.e., either high autonomous or low controlled) were less prone to problem drinking. Importantly, the combination of high coworker support and high autonomous motivation was associated with less emotional exhaustion from career insecurity. These resources were not simply stress-buffers of career insecurity, but helped well-resourced musicians thrive on career insecurity. Additionally, it was found that career insecurity was associated with greater intentions to leave the profession for all musicians, except for those with high controlled motivation when they also had access to high coworker support. For these musicians, having access to supportive coworkers was important for persisting with their music career despite the insecurity.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 11-09-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-08-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2015
Abstract: As longevity increases, so does the need for care of older relatives by working family members. This research examined the interactive effect of core self-evaluations and supervisor support on turnover intentions in two s les of employees with informal caregiving responsibilities. Data were obtained from 57 employees from Australia (Study 1) and 66 employees from the United States and India (Study 2). Results of Study 1 revealed a resource compensation effect, that is, an inverse relationship between core self-evaluations and turnover intentions when supervisor care support was low. Results of Study 2 extended these findings by demonstrating resource boosting effects. Specifically, there was an inverse relationship between core self-evaluations and subsequent turnover intentions for those with high supervisor work and care support. In addition, employees' satisfaction and emotional exhaustion from their work mediated the inverse relationship between core self-evaluations and subsequent turnover intentions when supervisor work support and care support were high. Overall, these findings highlight the importance of employee- and supervisor-focused intervention strategies in organizations to support informal caregivers.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.IJPSYCHO.2014.10.009
Abstract: This experiment examined whether trait regulatory focus moderates the effects of task control on stress reactions during a demanding work simulation. Regulatory focus describes two ways in which in iduals self-regulate toward desired goals: promotion and prevention. As highly promotion-focused in iduals are oriented toward growth and challenge, it was expected that they would show better adaptation to demanding work under high task control. In contrast, as highly prevention-focused in iduals are oriented toward safety and responsibility they were expected to show better adaptation under low task control. Participants (N=110) completed a measure of trait regulatory focus and then three trials of a demanding inbox activity under either low, neutral, or high task control. Heart rate variability (HRV), affective reactions (anxiety & task dissatisfaction), and task performance were measured at each trial. As predicted, highly promotion-focused in iduals found high (compared to neutral) task control stress-buffering for performance. Moreover, highly prevention-focused in iduals found high (compared to low) task control stress-exacerbating for dissatisfaction. In addition, highly prevention-focused in iduals found low task control stress-buffering for dissatisfaction, performance, and HRV. However, these effects of low task control for highly prevention-focused in iduals depended on their promotion focus.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-01-2017
DOI: 10.1002/JOB.2178
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-04-2020
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-63846-3
Abstract: The scientific study of compassion is burgeoning, however the putative neurophysiological markers of programs which actively train distress tolerance, such as Compassionate Mind Training (CMT), are less well known. Herein we offer an integrative, multi-method approach which investigated CMT at neural, physiological, self-report, and behavioural levels. Specifically, this study first assessed participants’ neural responses when confronted with disappointments (e.g., rejection, failure) using two fundamental self-regulatory styles, self-criticism and self-reassurance. Second, participant’s heart-rate variability (HRV) – a marker of parasympathetic nervous system response – was assessed during compassion training, pre- and post- a two-week self-directed engagement period. We identified neural networks associated with threat are reduced when practicing compassion, and heightened when being self-critical. In addition, cultivating compassion was associated with increased parasympathetic response as measured by an increase in HRV, versus the resting-state. Critically, cultivating compassion was able to shift a subset of clinically-at risk participants to one of increased parasympathetic response. Further, those who began the trial with lower resting HRV also engaged more in the intervention, possibly as they derived more benefits, both self-report and physiologically, from engagement in compassion.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2011.651616
Abstract: This study investigated the effects of workload, control, and general self-efficacy on affective task reactions (i.e., demands-ability fit, active coping, and anxiety) during a work simulation. The main goals were (1) to determine the extent general self-efficacy moderates the effects of demand and control on affective task reactions and (2) to determine if this varies as a function of changes in workload. Participants (N=141) completed an inbox activity under conditions of low or high control and within low and high workload conditions. The order of trials varied so that workload increased or decreased. Results revealed in iduals with high general self-efficacy reported better demands-abilities fit and active coping as well as less anxiety. Three interactive effects were found. First, it was found that high control increased demands-abilities fit from trial 1 to trial 2, but only when workload decreased. Second, it was found that low efficacious in iduals active coping increased in trial 2, but only under high control. Third, it was found that high control helped high efficacious in iduals manage anxiety when workload decreased. However, for in iduals with low general self-efficacy, neither high nor low control alleviated anxiety (i.e., whether workload increased or decreased over time).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2019
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3712947
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1037/OCP0000270
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-03-2017
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2013
DOI: 10.1037/A0031803
Abstract: The objective of this experimental study is to capture the dynamic temporal processes that occur in changing work settings and to test how work control and in iduals' motivational predispositions interact to predict reactions to these changes. To this aim, we examine the moderating effects of global self-determined and non-self-determined motivation, at different levels of work control, on participants' adaptation and stress reactivity to changes in workload during four trials of an inbox activity. Workload was increased or decreased at Trial 3, and adaptation to this change was examined via fluctuations in anxiety, coping, motivation, and performance. In support of the hypotheses, results revealed that, for non-self-determined in iduals, low work control was stress-buffering and high work control was stress-exacerbating when predicting anxiety and intrinsic motivation. In contrast, for self-determined in iduals, high work control facilitated the adaptive use of planning coping in response to a change in workload. Overall, this pattern of results demonstrates that, while high work control was anxiety-provoking and demotivating for non-self-determined in iduals, self-determined in iduals used high work control to implement an adaptive antecedent-focused emotion regulation strategy (i.e., planning coping) to meet situational demands. Other interactive effects of global motivation emerged on anxiety, active coping, and task performance. These results and their practical implications are discussed.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2015
Abstract: We propose a conceptual model based on person–environment interaction, job performance, and motivational theories to structure a multilevel review of the employee green behavior (EGB) literature and agenda for future research. We differentiate between required EGB prescribed by the organization and voluntary EGB performed at the employees’ discretion. The review investigates institutional-, organizational-, leader-, team-, and employee-level antecedents and outcomes of EGB and factors that mediate and moderate these relationships. We offer suggestions to facilitate the development of the field, and call for future research to adopt a multilevel perspective and to investigate the outcomes of EGB.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1037/PSPI0000243
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1037/XAP0000333
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 10-2016
DOI: 10.1037/A0040022
Abstract: We investigate the extent to which in iduals' global motivation (self-determined and non-self-determined types) influences adjustment (anxiety, positive reappraisal) and engagement (intrinsic motivation, task performance) in reaction to changes to the level of work control available during a work simulation. Participants (N = 156) completed 2 trials of an inbox activity under conditions of low or high work control-with the ordering of these levels varied to create an increase, decrease, or no change in work control. In support of the hypotheses, results revealed that for more self-determined in iduals, high work control led to the increased use of positive reappraisal. Follow-up moderated mediation analyses revealed that the increases in positive reappraisal observed for self-determined in iduals in the conditions in which work control was high by Trial 2 consequently increased their intrinsic motivation toward the task. For more non-self-determined in iduals, high work control (as well as changes in work control) led to elevated anxiety. Follow-up moderated mediation analyses revealed that the increases in anxiety observed for non-self-determined in iduals in the high-to-high work control condition consequently reduced their task performance. It is concluded that adjustment to a demanding work task depends on a fit between in iduals' global motivation and the work control available, which has consequences for engagement with demanding work. (PsycINFO Database Record
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 31-08-2017
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 06-2020
Abstract: A marker of engaging in compassion meditation and related processes is an increase in heart-rate variability (HRV), typically interpreted as a marker of parasympathetic nervous system response. While insightful, open questions remain. For ex le, which timescale is best to examine the effects of meditation and related practices on HRV? Furthermore, how might advanced time-series analyses––such as stationarity––be able to examine dynamic changes in the mean and variance of the HRV signal across time? Here we apply such methods to previously published data, which measured HRV pre- and post- a two-week compassionate mind training (CMT) intervention. Inspection of these data reveals that a visualization of HRV correlations across resting and compassion meditation states, pre- and post-two-week training, is retained across numerous recording timescales. Here, the fractal-like nature of our data indicates that the accuracy of representing HRV data can exist across timescales, albeit with greater or lesser granularity. Interestingly, inspection of the HRV signal at Time 2 compassion meditation versus Time 1 revealed a more highly correlated (i.e. potentially more stable) signal. We followed up these results with tests of stationarity, which revealed Time 2 had a less stochastic (variable) signal than Time 1, and a measure of distance in the time series, which showed that Time 2 had less of an average difference between rest and meditation than at Time 1. Our results provide novel assessment of visual and statistical markers of HRV change across distinct experimental states.
Start Date: 05-2021
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $294,367.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 07-2023
End Date: 06-2026
Amount: $320,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 10-2023
End Date: 10-2028
Amount: $2,959,803.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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