The Long Arm of the Job: A Study of Work and Leisure

Meißner, Martin

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.1971.tb00023.x

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“…The limited-resources model of self-regulation offers an explanation for the process by which the "long arm of the job" (Meissner, 1971) may operate within individuals' daily lives. Moreover, our study adds to previous research on the consequences of job stressors.…”

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Job stressors and the pursuit of sport activities: A day-level perspective.

Sonnentag

Jelden

2009

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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This article addresses the relation between day-specific experiences of job stressors and the pursuit of off-job activities. Following the limited-resources model of self-regulation, the authors proposed that job stressors and long working hours are negatively related to pursuit of sport activities after work because, after stressful days, employees have no resources left for initiating and persisting in effortful behaviors such as sport. Routines for off-job activities were hypothesized to be positively related to the pursuit of sport activities after work. Seventy-eight police employees completed a daily survey over 5 working days and indicated that they perceive sport to be highly useful for recovery. Random coefficient modeling showed that job stressors (particularly situational constraints) encountered on a specific day were negatively related to self-regulatory resources and to the amount of time spent on sport activities after work, whereas the relation with low-effort activities was positive. Thus, after a stressful day when an effective recovery activity such as sport is highly needed, persons tend to engage less in such an activity.

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Job stressors and the pursuit of sport activities: A day-level perspective.

Sonnentag

Jelden

2009

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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“…Perceiving and experiencing job control will make it more likely that an individual will also try to exert control during off-job time (Meissner, 1971). This means that perceptions of control may "spill over" into the nonwork domain and that experiencing job control will be associated with high levels of experienced control during off-job time.…”

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The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work.

Sonnentag¹,

Fritz²

2007

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Drawing on the mood regulation and job-stress recovery literature, four self-report measures for assessing how individuals unwind and recuperate from work during leisure time were developed (Study 1). Confirmatory factor analyses with a calibration and a cross-validation sample (total N ϭ 930) showed that four recovery experiences can be differentiated: psychological detachment from work, relaxation, mastery, and control (Study 2). Examination of the nomological net in a subsample of Study 2 (N ϭ 271) revealed moderate relations of the recovery experiences with measures of job stressors and psychological well-being; relations with coping and personality variables were generally low (Study 3). Potential applications for the future use of these short 4-item measures in longitudinal and diary research are discussed.

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“…The present study looks at the possible ways in which work and life away from work are related among university faculty members -a subsample in which spillover would be most likely. One previous study found support for the spillover hypothesis by focusing on a unique sample: blue collar workers in a small isolated Canadian town [26]. Such research has not focused on academics or other professionals.…”

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Relations between Work and Life Away from Work among University Faculty

Sorcinelli¹,

Near²

1989

The Journal of Higher Education

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. [17,19]. They tie vacations to their work by scheduling them to coincide with leaves or conferences [17], voraciously read within and outside their discipline [48], and tend to socialize with other academics [5,16]. Ohio State University PressAlthough this overlap is rewarding, it is also potentially stressful. The seamlessness between home and job may allow the job to become obtrusive and all-consuming. Recent research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [7] indicated that the extent to which work intruded into personal life was a primary factor in influencing overall dissatisfaction as well as satisfaction among faculty members. A study of faculty career development at a large researchoriented university found a continuous tension between the demands Portions of this study were reported in presentations to the American Educational Research Association (1986) and the Academy of Management Association (1986). We would like to thank the Dean of Faculties Office and the School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, for providing research funding. We also thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier draft.Mary Deane Sorcinelli is director offaculty development and Janet P. Near is professor of management at Indiana University, Bloomington. There is a need for research that explores the relation between academic work and personal life. It is especially important given the high, and increasingly absorbing level of commitment required of an entrant into the academic career, the increase in dual career and commuter couples, the growing proportion of women academics who marry and bear children, and male academics who find themselves expected to take on family commitments [16,44].Despite this need, little such research has been conducted. Part of the problem is that few academics have a clear focus on the issues. Researchers and commentators on higher education imply that problems of faculty discontent are produced by the all-consuming nature of academic work, the difficulty in balancing multiple and complex roles, and the decline of supportive institutional environments [2, 10, 9, 14, and 25]. But this view ignores the larger difficulty, immeasurably more complicated, of balancing careerist pressures, professional tasks, and institutional demands which are every bit as complicated as these authors suggest with the equally complex demands of private, family, and civic life.This study explores the possible ways in which work and life away from work are related among university faculty members. It identifies differences by gender and rank, and suggests policy implications for institutions of higher education.

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The Long Arm of the Job: A Study of Work and Leisure

Cited by 179 publications

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Job stressors and the pursuit of sport activities: A day-level perspective.

Job stressors and the pursuit of sport activities: A day-level perspective.

The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work.

Relations between Work and Life Away from Work among University Faculty

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