A Grateful Workday Makes Me Switch off Better: A Daily Investigation of Gratitude and Detachment

Yirong Guo; March L. To

doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14662abstract

A Grateful Workday Makes Me Switch off Better: A Daily Investigation of Gratitude and Detachment

Yirong Guo, March L. To

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Psychological detachment from work during nonwork time has been recognized as a recovery experience that helps sustain employees’ wellbeing. While research has focused on how job stressors hinder psychological detachment, little is known about how positive work events serve as resources facilitating the detachment. Drawing on the Broaden- and-Build Theory, we investigate how positive experiences of gratitude may spread during work days and eventually foster employees to detach and recover during nonwork time. Experience sampling data (936 sets of paired data) were collected from seventy-three employees (nurses and doctors) and their spouses three times per day for four consecutive weeks (work experiences reported by employees twice per day and nonwork experiences reported by their spouses). Results support our proposed serial mediation model that receiving gratitude from others (morning) at work predicted psychological detachment at home via experienced joy (morning) and gratitude expression to others (afternoon). Such detachment benefit occurred more strongly for employees with generally higher work-to-family conflict.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Academy of Management Proceedings 2018
Editors	Sonia Taneja
Publisher	Academy of Management
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14662abstract
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2018
Event	78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018: Improving Lives - Chicago, United States Duration: 10 Aug 2018 → 14 Aug 2018 https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2018-improving-lives (Conference website) https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2018/1 (Conference proceedings)

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Name	Academy of Management Proceedings
Publisher	Academy of Management
ISSN (Print)	0065-0668
ISSN (Electronic)	2151-6561

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Conference	78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	10/08/18 → 14/08/18
Internet address	https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2018-improving-lives (Conference website) https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2018/1 (Conference proceedings)

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Guo, Y & To, ML 2018, A Grateful Workday Makes Me Switch off Better: A Daily Investigation of Gratitude and Detachment. in S Taneja (ed.), Academy of Management Proceedings 2018. Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2018, Chicago, United States, 10/08/18. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14662abstract

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