Weekly work–school conflict, sleep quality, and fatigue: Recovery self‐efficacy as a cross‐level moderator

Abstract

SummaryThis study employed a weekly diary method among a sample of 74 Midwestern college student workers in order to examine the within-person relationships between work-school conflict, sleep quality, and fatigue over five weeks. Further, recovery self-efficacy was proposed as a cross-level moderator of the relation between sleep quality and fatigue. Results from multilevel analyses demonstrated that weekly work-school conflict was negatively related to weekly sleep quality and positively related to end-of-week fatigue, with sleep quality partially mediating the relation between work-school conflict and fatigue. These findings enhance understanding of the process by which work-school conflict contributes to college student workers' strain on a weekly basis. Additionally, student workers with low recovery self-efficacy demonstrated a negative relation between sleep quality and fatigue; however, this relation did not exist for student workers with high recovery self-efficacy. This finding suggests recovery self-efficacy as an important resource that may reduce the association between poor sleep quality (as a result of work-school conflict) and fatigue. The current findings provide important theoretical and practical implications for researchers, organizations, and college institutions as a whole.

How to benefit from weekend physical activities: Moderating roles of psychological recovery experiences and sleep

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“…The cumulative benefits of physical activities through both physiological and psychological mechanisms may manifest after the periods of respites. Accordingly, time‐lagged assessments may be required so that both the physiological and psychological benefits of exercise are fully experienced (e.g., Feuerhahn et al, ; Pereira, Iseli, & Elfering, ). Given the weak or nonsignificant effects of day‐level exercise on NA in the previous literature, we expect that our weekend timeframe will be a longer time window to capture a wider variability of physical activities and allow the recovery benefits to fully manifest.…”

Risk of work injury among adolescent students from single and partnered parent families

“…Studies have shown that job hours and workload have been associated with work‐school conflict in respect of the limited time to meet work and school demands [Markel and Frone, ]. In turn, work‐school conflict has been associated with poor sleep quality and fatigue [Park and Sprung, ], which may increase the risk for work injury [Kling et al, ; Arlinghaus et al, ]. Students are also protected by legislation regarding working hours and shift work.…”

Are Self‐Efficacious Individuals more Sensitive to Organizational Justice Issues? The Influence of Self‐Efficacy on the Relationship between Justice Perceptions and Turnover

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“…In most of the studies (Ladebo and Awotunde, 2007;König et al, 2010;Nauta et al, 2010;Lightsey et al, 2013;Park and Sprung, 2015;Hsieh et al, 2016) that looked at the moderating role of self-efficacy, there was an investigation of the relationship between a stressor and a strain. As Siu et al (2007) argued previously, general self-efficacy can be thought of as more of a personal resource or a vulnerability factor.…”