Staying vigorous until work is over: The role of trait vigour, day-specific work experiences and recovery

By Sabine Sonnentag, Cornelia Niessen. 2008

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Staying vigorous throughout the day is important for work-related behaviour, subjective well-being, and for effective functioning in the family domain. This study examined trait vigour (i.e. a person's general level of vigour), day-specific workload (time pressure, work hours), and recovery resulting from unwinding during leisure time as predictors of day-specific vigour as experienced at the end of the working day. Seventy-five individuals from service and public administration organizations completed one general survey and daily surveys two times per day for five working days. Trait vigour, demographic variables and control variables (e.g. job control, home workload) were assessed in the general survey. Day-specific level of vigour, day-specific workload, and day-specific recovery were measured in the daily survey. Analyses following a hierarchical linear modelling approach showed that trait vigour, day-specific workload and recovery accumulated during the preceding evenings predicted an individual's level of vigour at the end of the working day, after controlling for a range of other variables (gender, age, job control, and home workload). Trait vigour and accumulated recovery experiences interacted significantly to predict vigour at the end of the working day, indicating that individuals high on trait vigour benefit most from recovery experienced over the course of several days.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Good morning, good day: A diary study on positive emotions, hope, and work engagement (2012, result): “Although this has never been done before, except for a few studies in which only vigor was used as a separate outcome measure on a daily level (Cranford et al., 2006; Sonnentag and Niessen, 2008), this study shows that dedication and absorption, especially, fluctuate greatly within persons (see Prel”
Emotional labour in service work: Psychological flexibility and emotion regulation (2012, background): “This eliminates the role of stable differences in explaining participants’ day-level emotional demands from the analyses (see also Sonnentag and Niessen, 2008; Tims et al., 2011).”
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Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work: Conceptualizing Vigor, Its Relations with Related Constructs, and Its Antecedents and Consequences (2011, methodology): “As suggested by Sonnentag and Niessen (2008), vigor is essential for employees’ engaging in behaviors relevant to organizational effectiveness.”
Happy and Proactive? The Role of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well–Being in Business Owners’ Personal Initiative (2012, background): “Recovery processes after work were shown to be related to the experience of vigor and positive activation on the following day (Sonnentag, Binnewies, & Mojza, 2008; Sonnentag & Niessen, 2008).”
“Take a break?!” Off-job recovery, job demands, and job resources as predictors of health, active learning, and creativity (2012, background): “Researchers have increasingly shown that off-job recovery is important to protect employees' health and to optimize job performance (eg, Fritz & Sonnentag, 2005 ; Fritz, Yankelevich, Zarubin, & Barger, 2010 ; Sonnentag & Niessen, 2008 ; Westman & Eden, 1997 ).”
Do transformational leaders enhance their followers' daily work engagement? (2011, background): “This eliminates the role of stable differences in explaining participant's day-levels of perceived leadership style, personal resources and job resources (see also Sonnentag & Niessen, 2008).”