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

• Author(s): Junça-Silva, Ana ; Caetano, António
• Date: 2024
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/9916
• Origin: Repositório do ISPA - Instituto Universitário
• Subject(s): Daily micro-events; Performance; Satisfaction; Mental health; Daily study
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório do ISPA

Description

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.