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Illegitimate Tasks and Sleep Quality: An Ambulatory Study
Author(s) -
Pereira Diana,
Semmer Norbert K.,
Elfering Achim
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.2599
Subject(s) - actigraphy , sleep quality , sleep (system call) , psychology , stressor , latency (audio) , circadian rhythm , clinical psychology , audiology , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , computer science , insomnia , telecommunications , neuroscience , operating system
The current study investigated the short‐term effect of illegitimate tasks on sleep quality, assessed by actigraphy. Seventy‐six employees of different service jobs participated in a 2‐week data collection. Data were analysed by way of multilevel analyses. As predicted, illegitimate tasks were positively related to sleep fragmentation and sleep‐onset latency, but not to sleep efficiency and not to sleep duration. Time pressure, social stressors at work and at home, and the value of the dependent variable from the previous day were controlled. Results confirm the predictive power of illegitimate tasks for a variable that can be considered crucial in the development of long‐term outcomes of daily experiences. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.