Being tired or having much left undone: the relationship between fatigue and unfinished tasks with affective rumination and vitality in beginning teachers

  • The present diary study was conducted for the purpose of bridging and integrating empirical research on the antecedents and consequences of work-related ruminative processes in the evening. Based on the control theory, unfinished tasks and fatigue in the afternoon were considered as antecedents of affective rumination, while vitality was investigated as the outcome observed in the next morning to test for cyclical processes. During a 5-day diary study (including 3 weekdays and the weekend), 74 beginning teachers completed three diary entries per day. A total of 795 diary entries were obtained. Using multilevel structural equation modeling, the study supported that both fatigue and unfinished tasks explained unique shares of variance of affective rumination in the evening at the between- and within-person levels. Furthermore, affective rumination mediated the relationship between unfinished tasks and vitality as well as fatigue and vitality. However, this only held true at the between- and not the within-person level, as neither affective rumination nor fatigue and unfinished tasks predicted the following morning’s vitality at this level. The results offer insights into the antecedents of affective rumination and add to extant research on the negative consequences of affective rumination considering vitality as an outcome.

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Author:Gerald WeiherORCiDGND, Yasemin Z. VarolORCiD, Holger HorzORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-721946
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935775
ISSN:1664-1078
Parent Title (English):Frontiers in psychology
Publisher:Frontiers Research Foundation
Place of publication:Lausanne
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/07/04
Date of first Publication:2022/07/04
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2023/02/28
Tag:affective rumination; cyclical processes; fatigue; unfinished tasks; vitality
Volume:13
Issue:art. 935775
Article Number:935775
Page Number:13
First Page:1
Last Page:13
HeBIS-PPN:507913582
Institutes:Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International