Working, scrolling, and worrying: Doomscrolling at work and its implications for work engagement

Hughes, Ian M.; Keith, Melissa G.; Lee, Juseob; Gray, Cheryl E.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2023.108130

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“…Common examples of resources include financial resources such as money, cognitive resources such as energy, psychological resources such as psychological capital, and personal resources such as hope and optimism (e.g., Halbesleben et al, 2014). When faced with the stress engendered by not replenishing, threats to, or the loss of resources, people will often begin to report negative outcomes such as heightened negative affect (e.g., Zeidner & Ben-Zur, 2014) and worsened occupational well-being (e.g., Hughes et al, 2024). Also noteworthy, COR suggests that resources are gained or lost in a spiraling nature, wherein the loss of one kind of resource (e.g., personal resources) can contribute to the loss of other resources (e.g., job resources).…”

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Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement.

Hughes,

Gray,

Bazzoli

et al. 2024

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement.

Hughes,

Gray,

Bazzoli

et al. 2024

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Pet your cat, walk your dog: The spillover effects of morning quality time with pets on outcomes during and after the workday

Hughes,

Guild,

Lamb

et al. 2024

Stress and Health

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For decades, psychologists have explored dynamics within the realm of human‐animal interaction. Organizational psychologists are no different; research has found that exchanges with pets and other animals have the potential to influence important work outcomes, such as performance, well‐being, and satisfaction. Relatively little is understood, however, regarding the potential spillover effects of human‐animal interaction from the non‐work to work context. To address this gap in the literature, the present research—synthesising Broaden and Build Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory—explores the daily spillover effects of morning quality time with pets on affective, behavioural, and cognitive outcomes for employees, both during and after the workday. It is also suggested that openness to experience may act as a cross‐level moderator for these daily relationships. An occupationally heterogenous daily diary sample of employed pet owners from the United Kingdom (NLevel 1 = 405, NLevel 2 = 81) was used to test these relationships. Using a mixed effects modelling approach, it was revealed that morning quality time with pets was associated with reduced Negative Affect (NA) during the workday, and reduced incivility and withdrawal upon returning home from work. Moreover, higher levels of trait openness to experience strengthened the negative relationships between daily morning quality time with pets and daily workday NA and afterwork incivility. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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Social Media Ills and Evolutionary Mismatches: A Conceptual Framework

Lim,

Tan

2024

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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From the erosion of mental well-being through incessant comparison, unrealistic portrayals, and addiction, the negative effects of social media are well-documented. However, it is necessary to move beyond the simplistic characterizations of social media as inherently either beneficial or detrimental and, instead, underscore the nuanced mechanisms that underlie its adverse outcomes. To this end, this paper delineates a conceptual framework grounded in evolutionary psychology, designed to explain the prevalent negative repercussions often linked to the utilization of social media. Specifically, we argue that these “social media ills” are manifestations of evolutionary mismatches between social media features and our evolved mechanism designed for social living. We start by reviewing how our psychological mechanisms—sociometer, social monitoring system, and social comparison—facilitate living within complex social situations and fulfill our fundamental need to belong. We then identify features of social media that may hijack these processes to produce the consequences we observe today. We have also recommended several evolutionarily informed directions policymakers and social media companies can undertake to treat social media ills at their root cause. This article concludes by discussing the theoretical implications and interventions the evolutionary mismatch hypothesis provides.

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Working, scrolling, and worrying: Doomscrolling at work and its implications for work engagement

Cited by 4 publications

References 63 publications

Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement.

Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement.

Pet your cat, walk your dog: The spillover effects of morning quality time with pets on outcomes during and after the workday

Social Media Ills and Evolutionary Mismatches: A Conceptual Framework

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