How was your day? A within‐person analysis of how mental health may moderate the route from daily micro‐events to satisfaction after work via affect and contextual performance

• Autor(es): Junça-Silva, Ana ; Caetano, António
• Data: 2024
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/9916
• Origem: Repositório do ISPA - Instituto Universitário
• Assunto(s): Daily micro-events; Performance; Satisfaction; Mental health; Daily study
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo científico
• Idioma: Inglês
• Contribuidor(es): Repositório do ISPA

Descrição

This study builds on the affective events theory and the conservation of resources theory to propose a model that analyses an affect-to-behaviour-to-outcome route, highlighting how daily micro-events and subsequent affective reactions lead to behaviours (performance) and cognitions (satisfaction after work), and how mental health moderates this process. Results from a 5-day diary study, during the pandemic (N =250, n=1221), provided data to test the proposed affect-to-behaviour-to-outcome route. Poorer mental health buffered the positive within-person relationship between daily micro-events, affective reactions, performance and satisfaction after work, suggesting that high levels of mental health allowed individuals to maximise the benefits of positive daily micro-events in their satisfaction after work via affect and performance. This study presents original research analysing how situational factors create a route through which individuals experience affective reactions that influence their work behaviour, and in turn their levels of satisfaction after work.