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Ethical considerations for sleep intervention in organizational psychology research
Author(s) -
Barber Larissa K.
Publication year - 2017
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.2745
Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , psychological intervention , psychology , intervention (counseling) , industrial and organizational psychology , applied psychology , organizational behavior , organization development , organizational studies , social psychology , organizational commitment , psychiatry , public relations , political science , computer science , operating system
Abstract Over the past several years, interest into the role of sleep in the workplace has grown. The theoretical shift from research questions examining sleep as an outcome to placing sleep as the independent variable has increased experimental approaches to manipulating sleep in organizational studies. This is an exciting trend that is likely to continue in the organizational sciences. However, sleep experimentation can also pose special challenges for organizational researchers unaccustomed to sleep science. In this commentary, I discuss five ethical considerations of conducting negative sleep interventions in organizational psychology research. I also provide recommendations for organizational researchers—or even other researchers in disciplines outside of sleep science—who wish to implement sleep interventions in their studies.