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Zeigarnik’s sleepless nights: How unfinished tasks at the end of the week impair employee sleep on the weekend through rumination
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It is almost common sense that work stress leads to sleep impairment, but the question of how work-related stressors impair employee sleep remains open. This study focuses on the role of rumination as the underlying mechanism for sleep impairment. Specifically, the authors contribute to recent research differentiating affective rumination from problem-solving pondering and examine the impact of both forms of rumination on the stressor-sleep relationship. Following theories of rumination and the Zeigarnik effect, they focus on unfinished tasks as a key onset for rumination. Unfinished tasks have received much research attention in the memory context but have been neglected as a stressor that can impact recovery. Drawing on theory, differential indirect links between unfinished tasks and sleep through affective rumination versus problem-solving pondering are examined. Further, the number of unfinished tasks extending over a 3-month period may impair employee sleep more than unfinished tasks within the acute phase. In this study, intraindividual links in a diary study supplemented by depicting between-person effects of unfinished tasks over a period of 3 months are examined. The authors matched 357 Friday and Monday observations over a 12-week interval for 59 employees. The results of the multilevel analysis suggest that the within-person relationship between unfinished tasks and sleep is mediated by affective rumination. Although problem-solving pondering was negatively related…
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“Employees are therefore likely to ruminate about work during the weekend when they have unfinished tasks [12]”
From Ovsiankina's Great Relief: How Supplemental Work during the Weekend May Contribute to Recovery in the Face of Unfinished Tasks (2017) · cites this paper as [12]
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“Researchers in the domain of occupational stress and recovery have recently revealed that unattained goals at the end of the work day [11] or unfinished tasks at the end of the work week [1,12] are associated with higher levels of perseverative thoughts about work during leisure time, in terms of either lower levels of psychological detachment and higher levels of affective rumination or problem-”
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“The feeling of relief that accompanies the perception of progress [12,13] might trigger the perception of having more control over the subsequent time off work.”
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“Throughout this manuscript, we have argued that unfinished tasks are associated with inner tension and rumination [2,12,13].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Syrek, C. J., Weigelt, O., Peifer, C., & Antoni, C. H.
- Affiliations
- Universität Trier (DE)
- FernUniversität in Hagen (DE)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- Venue
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
- Published
- 2017-04
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 225-238
- ISSN
- 1076-8998 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1307
- OpenAlex
- W2338866585
- Cited by
- 187
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 11
- FWCI
- 18.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Keywords
- unfinished tasks, Zeigarnik effect, affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, sleep disorders, occupational stress, employee recovery, weekend sleep, occupational stressors
- MeSH terms
- Work Performance, Adult, Attitude, Cognition, Female, Germany, Humans, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Male, Middle Aged, Problem Solving, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological, Work, Multilevel Analysis, Young Adult
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