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Brossoit RM, Crain TL, Leslie JJ, Fisher GG, Eakman AM. Engaging with nature and work: associations among the built and natural environment, experiences outside, and job engagement and creativity. Front Psychol 2024; 14:1268962. [PMID: 38274672 PMCID: PMC10808437 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1268962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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Introduction There is substantial evidence that contact with nature is related to positive health and well-being outcomes, but extensions of this research to work-related outcomes is sparse. Some organizations are redesigning workspaces to incorporate nature and adopting nature-related policies, warranting a need for empirical studies that test the influence of nature on employee outcomes. Methods The present mixed-methods study tests and extends the biophilic work design model to examine associations among the built and natural environment at work and home, experiences of time spent outside (i.e., amount of time outside, enjoyment of time outside, outdoor activities), and motivational work outcomes (i.e., job engagement and creativity). Objective geographic data were combined with quantitative and qualitative survey responses from working adults (N = 803). Results Our results broadly indicate that individuals who work and live in areas with greater natural amenities (i.e., access to water, topographic variation, temperate climates) spend more time outside and enjoy time outside to a greater degree, and these experiences are in turn associated with greater engagement and creativity at work. We did not find evidence that the surrounding built environment (i.e., urbanity) at work or home was associated with outdoor experiences or work-related outcomes. Additionally, six categories of outdoor activities were identified in the qualitative analyses - leisure activities, relaxation, physical activities, social interactions, tasks and errands, and travel. Discussion The findings from this study provide evidence that the natural environment, particularly at home, can benefit work-related outcomes via greater time and enjoyment of time outside. This study has implications for employee time use and organizational effectiveness.
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- Rebecca M. Brossoit
- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Occupational Therapy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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Brossoit RM, Stark HP, Crain TL, Bodner TE, Hammer LB, Mohr CD, Shea SA. Multidimensionality of the PROMIS sleep disturbance 8b short form in working adult populations. Sleep Health 2023; 9:925-932. [PMID: 37770251 PMCID: PMC10888491 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System sleep disturbance measures were developed using item response theory assumptions of unidimensionality and local independence. Given that sleep health is multidimensional, we evaluate the factor structure of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System sleep disturbance 8b short form to examine whether it reflects a unidimensional or multidimensional construct. METHODS Six full-time working adult samples were collected from civilian and military populations. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. Single-factor and two-factor models were performed to evaluate the dimensionality of sleep disturbance using the 8b short form. Sleep duration and subjective health were examined as correlates of the sleep disturbance dimensions. RESULTS Across six working adult samples, single-factor models consistently demonstrated poor fit, whereas the two-factor models, with insomnia symptoms (ie, trouble sleeping) and dissatisfaction with sleep (ie, subjective quality of sleep) dimensions demonstrated sufficient fit that was significantly better than the single-factor models. Across each sample, dissatisfaction with sleep was more strongly correlated with sleep duration and subjective health than insomnia symptoms, providing additional evidence for distinguishability between the two sleep disturbance factors. CONCLUSIONS In working adult populations, the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System sleep disturbance 8b short form is best modeled as two distinguishable factors capturing insomnia symptoms and dissatisfaction with sleep, rather than as a unidimensional sleep disturbance construct.
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- Rebecca M Brossoit
- Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
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- Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Portland State University, Department of Psychology, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Portland State University, Department of Psychology, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Portland State University, Department of Psychology, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Brossoit RM, Hammer LB, Crain TL, Leslie JJ, Bodner TE, Brockwood KJ. The effects of a Total Worker Health intervention on workplace safety: Mediating effects of sleep and supervisor support for sleep. J Occup Health Psychol 2023; 28:263-276. [PMID: 37578781 PMCID: PMC10544778 DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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We tested the effects of a randomized controlled trial Total Worker Health intervention on workplace safety outcomes. The intervention targeted employee sleep at both the supervisor-level (e.g., sleep-specific support training) and employee-level (e.g., sleep tracking and individualized sleep feedback). The intervention components were developed using principles of the Total Worker Health approach and the theory of triadic influence for health behaviors. We hypothesized that employees in the treatment group would report greater safety compliance, safety participation, and safety motivation, and would be less likely to experience a work-related accident or injury following the intervention through improvements in sleep quantity and quality, as well as increased perceptions of supervisors' support for sleep. It was theorized that the indirect effects of the intervention on workplace safety outcomes via sleep mediators operated through a resource pathway, whereas the supervisor support for sleep mediator operated through an exchange pathway. Results broadly revealed that employees in the treatment group, compared to those in the control group, reported greater workplace safety behaviors and safety motivation, and reduced workplace accidents and injuries 9 months post-baseline, through lower dissatisfaction with sleep, reduced sleep-related impairments, and greater supervisor support for sleep 4 months post-baseline. Intervening on sleep and supervisor support for sleep in an integrated Total Worker Health framework can have a positive impact on workplace safety. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University
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- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University
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Lucas-Thompson RG, Miller RL, Seiter NS, Prince MA, Crain TL, Shomaker LB. Within-Person variations in mindfulness mediate effects of daily stressors on psychological distress in adolescence. Psychol Health 2022; 37:1057-1075. [PMID: 34139904 PMCID: PMC10569682 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2021.1929982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/08/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We tested two competing models linking daily stress, mindfulness, and psychological distress in adolescence: 1) whether daily mindfulness moderates the impact of daily stressors on psychological distress or 2) whether mindfulness mediates the relationship between greater daily stressors and psychological distress. METHODS Every evening for a week, 138 adolescents completed ecological momentary assessments (EMAs). Daily diaries assessed negative events, work-school conflict, mindfulness, and perceived stress. Multilevel mediation and moderation were tested. RESULTS Results indicated that there were meaningful variations in adolescent mindfulness from day-to-day, and supported mediation rather than moderation; the within-person association between stressors and psychological distress was mediated by mindfulness at the daily level. CONCLUSION It may be too challenging for adolescents to remain in a mindful state during stress to effectively use mindfulness as a buffer. Instead, daily stressors may indirectly impact psychological distress through decreasing mindfulness.
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- Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson
- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University; 1570 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1570
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- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University; 1570 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1570
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- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University; 1570 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1570
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University; 1876 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University; 1876 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876
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- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University; 1570 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1570
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Hammer LB, Brady JM, Brossoit RM, Mohr CD, Bodner TE, Crain TL, Brockwood KJ. Effects of a Total Worker Health® leadership intervention on employee well-being and functional impairment. J Occup Health Psychol 2022; 26:582-598. [PMID: 34990169 DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although evidence has been mounting that supervisor support training interventions promote employee job, health, and well-being outcomes, there is little understanding of the mechanisms by which such interventions operate (e.g., Hammer et al., 2022; Inceoglu et al., 2018), nor about the integration of such organizational-level interventions with individual-level interventions (e.g., Lamontagne et al., 2007). Thus, the present study attempts to unpack the mechanisms through which supervisor support training interventions operate. In addition, the present study examines an integrated Total Worker Health® intervention that combines health protection in the form of supervisor support training (i.e., family supportive supervisor behaviors and supervisor support for sleep health) with a health promotion approach in the form of feedback to improve sleep health behaviors. Using a cluster randomized controlled trial drawing on a sample of 704 full-time employees, results demonstrate that the Total Worker Health intervention improves employee job well-being (i.e., increased job satisfaction and reduced turnover intentions), personal well-being (i.e., reduced stress before bedtime), and reduces personal and social functional impairment at 9 months postbaseline through employee reports of supervisors' support for sleep at 4 months postbaseline, but not through family supportive supervisor behaviors. Effects were not found for general stress or occupational functional impairment outcomes. Implications are discussed, including theoretical mechanisms by which leadership interventions affect employees, supervisor training, as well as the role of integrated organizational and individual-level interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Leslie B Hammer
- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University
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- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
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- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University
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Ellis AM, Crain TL, Stevens SC. Is it my job? Leaders' family-supportive role perceptions. JMP 2021. [DOI: 10.1108/jmp-09-2020-0493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PurposeDespite a burgeoning literature on family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), it is unclear whether supervisors view these behaviors as in-role or discretionary. We proposed a new cognitive motivational construct, FSSB role perceptions (FSSB-RP; that is the extent to which supervisors perceive FSSB as an expected part of their job) and evaluated it as a mediator of the relationship between supervisors' own work–family experiences and FSSB.Design/methodology/approachWe used an online survey of 245 US based supervisors.FindingsWe find that FSSB role perceptions is a unique but related construct to FSSB, and that approximately half of our sample of 245 supervisors either do not believe that FSSB is a part of their job or are unsure as to whether it is. Path analyses revealed that supervisors' own experiences of work–family conflict and enrichment are related to engaging in FSSB through role perceptions, especially when a reward system is in place that values FSSB.Practical implicationsThese results may influence the design, implementation and dissemination of leader family-supportive training programs.Originality/valueThe factors that drive supervisors to engage in FSSB are relatively unknown, yet this study suggests the novel construct of FSSB role perceptions and supervisors' own work–family experiences are important factors.
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Brossoit RM, Crain TL, Hammer LB, Lee S, Bodner TE, Buxton OM. Associations among patient care workers’ schedule control, sleep, job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Stress Health 2020; 36:442-456. [PMID: 32181575 PMCID: PMC8919502 DOI: 10.1002/smi.2941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Healthcare is the fastest growing occupational sector in America, yet patient care workers experience low job satisfaction, high turnover, and susceptibility to poor sleep compared to workers in other jobs and industries. Increasing schedule control may be one way to help mitigate these issues. Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we evaluate associations among schedule control (i.e. a contextual resource), employee sleep duration and quality (i.e. personal resources), job satisfaction, and turnover intentions. Patient care workers who reported having more schedule control at baseline reported greater sleep duration and sleep quality 6 months later, as well as higher job satisfaction and lower turnover intentions 12 months later. Workers who experienced greater sleep sufficiency (i.e. feeling well-rested) reported higher job satisfaction 6 months later, and workers who experienced fewer insomnia symptoms (i.e. trouble falling and staying asleep) reported lower turnover intentions 6 months later. The association between schedule control and job satisfaction was partially mediated by greater sleep sufficiency, though this effect was small. Providing patient care workers with greater control over their work schedules and opportunities for improved sleep may improve their job attitudes. Results were not replicated when different analytical approaches were performed, so findings should be interpreted provisionally.
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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- Oregon Institute for Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon,Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
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- School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania,Department of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Lucas-Thompson RG, Crain TL, Brossoit RM. Measuring sleep duration in adolescence: Comparing subjective and objective daily methods. Sleep Health 2020; 7:79-82. [PMID: 32758412 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVES This study provides the first investigation into the correspondence between self-reported and actigraph-measured nighttime sleep duration in adolescents that disambiguates between- versus within-person associations. Moderators were evaluated to determine if between- and within-person correspondence vary by participant characteristics. METHODS One hundred fifty adolescents (14-21 years) reported sleep time for 1 week, while wearing an actigraph, and reported on moderators, including demographics (i.e., sex, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status), depressive symptoms, and perceived stress. Mixed effects models evaluated within- and between-person associations between self-reported and actigraph-measured sleep, and examined whether these associations differed by possible moderators. RESULTS Results indicated significant between- (b = 0.77, SE = 0.08, P < .001) and within-person (b = 0.51, SE = 0.04, P < .001) associations between self-reported and actigraph-measured sleep duration, with no significant moderation effects. CONCLUSIONS Our results support the use of either self-reports or actigraphs to examine within-person nighttime sleep duration in adolescent community samples.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rachel G Lucas-Thompson
- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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Sianoja M, Crain TL, Hammer LB, Bodner T, Brockwood KJ, LoPresti M, Shea SA. The relationship between leadership support and employee sleep. J Occup Health Psychol 2020; 25:187-202. [DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Crain TL, Brossoit RM, Robles-Saenz F, Tran M. Fighting fatigue: A conceptual model of driver sleep in the gig economy. Sleep Health 2020; 6:358-365. [PMID: 32205095 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The purpose of this paper was to integrate the sleep science, occupational health, and organizational psychology literature to develop a conceptual model of driver sleep and fatigue in the gig economy. We develop an integrative framework, which proposes that aspects of the on-demand driving context influence driver sleep health and fatigue. Driver outcomes include safety incidents, injuries, health, job attitudes, interpersonal behavior, and performance. In addition, moderators, such as driver demographics and health conditions, can interact with aspects of the driver context. A number of practical implications are provided, addressing the ways in which occupational health researchers, online labor platform companies, and drivers can improve sleep health. This is the first paper to provide a broad understanding of how scientists, through both research and practice, can help improve sleep, a primary issue in the ridesharing industry.
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- Tori L Crain
- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, 1876 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876.
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, 1876 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, 1876 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876
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- Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126
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Davies RL, Prince MA, Bravo AJ, Kelley ML, Crain TL. Moral Injury, Substance Use, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Military Personnel: An Examination of Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator. J Trauma Stress 2019; 32:414-423. [PMID: 31141842 PMCID: PMC6581602 DOI: 10.1002/jts.22403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Mindfulness-based approaches have been suggested as possible methods to treat moral injury in military personnel. However, empirical research has yet to evaluate if mindfulness acts as a protective factor for the possible negative effects of moral injury, such as alcohol use, drug use, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. In this study, we investigated if five facets of mindfulness (i.e., observing, nonjudging, nonreactivity, awareness, and describing) moderated associations between moral injury and the outcomes of PTSD symptoms, alcohol misuse, and drug abuse symptoms in a sample of military personnel. Participants were 244 military personnel (the majority were former military members) who had been deployed at least once during the Iraq War, War in Afghanistan, other wars, or humanitarian missions. The study results indicated that nonjudging, β = -.22, and awareness, β = -.25, had significant attenuating effects on the association between moral injury and drug abuse symptoms. However, observing, β = .17; nonreactivity, β = .23; and describing, β = .15, had significant synergistic effects (i.e., they strengthened the association between moral injury and drug abuse symptoms). There were no significant moderation effects on the associations between moral injury and PTSD symptoms or between moral injury and alcohol misuse. Our results provide initial evidence that not all facets of mindfulness may protect against the challenges of coping with moral injury. Directions for future research and implications for practice are discussed.
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- Rachel L. Davies
- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Center of Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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Brossoit RM, Crain TL, Leslie JJ, Hammer LB, Truxillo DM, Bodner TE. The effects of sleep on workplace cognitive failure and safety. J Occup Health Psychol 2018; 24:411-422. [PMID: 30489101 DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Healthy employee sleep is important for occupational safety, but the mechanisms that explain the relationships among sleep and safety-related behaviors remain unknown. We draw from Crain, Brossoit, and Fisher's (in press) work, nonwork, and sleep (WNS) framework and Barnes' (2012) model of sleep and self-regulation in organizations to investigate the influence of construction workers' self-reported sleep quantity (i.e., duration) and quality (i.e., feeling well-rest upon awakening, ability to fall asleep and remain asleep) on workplace cognitive failures (i.e., lapses in attention, memory, and action at work) and subsequent workplace safety behaviors (i.e., safety compliance and safety participation) and reports of minor injuries. Construction workers from two public works agencies completed surveys at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. Our results suggest that workers with more insomnia symptoms on average reported engaging in fewer required and voluntary safety behaviors and were at a greater risk for workplace injuries. These effects were mediated by workplace cognitive failures. In addition, workers with greater sleep insufficiency on average reported lower safety compliance, but this effect was not mediated by workplace cognitive failures. These results have implications for future workplace interventions, suggesting that organizations striving to improve safety should prioritize interventions that will reduce workers' insomnia symptoms and improve their ability to quickly fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University
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Crain TL, Hammer LB, Bodner T, Olson R, Kossek EE, Moen P, Buxton OM. Sustaining sleep: Results from the randomized controlled work, family, and health study. J Occup Health Psychol 2018; 24:180-197. [PMID: 29809024 DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although calls for intervention designs are numerous within the organizational literature and increasing efforts are being made to conduct rigorous randomized controlled trials, existing studies have rarely evaluated the long-term sustainability of workplace health intervention outcomes, or mechanisms of this process. This is especially the case with regard to objective and subjective sleep outcomes. We hypothesized that a work-family intervention would increase both self-reported and objective actigraphic measures of sleep quantity and sleep quality at 6 and 18 months post-baseline in a sample of information technology workers from a U.S. Fortune 500 company. Significant intervention effects were found on objective actigraphic total sleep time and self-reported sleep insufficiency at the 6- and 18-month follow-up, with no significant decay occurring over time. However, no significant intervention effects were found for objective actigraphic wake after sleep onset or self-reported insomnia symptoms. A significant indirect effect was found for the effect of the intervention on objective actigraphic total sleep time through the proximal intervention target of 6-month control over work schedule and subsequent more distal 12-month family time adequacy. These results highlight the value of long-term occupational health intervention research, while also highlighting the utility of this work-family intervention with respect to some aspects of sleep. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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Affiliation(s)
- Tori L Crain
- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University
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- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
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- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University
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- Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University
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Sin NL, Almeida DM, Crain TL, Kossek EE, Berkman LF, Buxton OM. Bidirectional, Temporal Associations of Sleep with Positive Events, Affect, and Stressors in Daily Life Across a Week. Ann Behav Med 2018; 51:402-415. [PMID: 28188584 DOI: 10.1007/s12160-016-9864-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Sleep is intricately tied to emotional well-being, yet little is known about the reciprocal links between sleep and psychosocial experiences in the context of daily life. PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate daily psychosocial experiences (positive and negative affect, positive events, and stressors) as predictors of same-night sleep quality and duration, in addition to the reversed associations of nightly sleep predicting next-day experiences. METHODS Daily experiences and self-reported sleep were assessed via telephone interviews for eight consecutive evenings in two replicate samples of US employees (131 higher-income professionals and 181 lower-income hourly workers). Multilevel models evaluated within-person associations of daily experiences with sleep quality and duration. Analyses controlled for demographics, insomnia symptoms, the previous day's experiences and sleep measures, and additional day-level covariates. RESULTS Daily positive experiences were associated with improved as well as disrupted subsequent sleep. Specifically, positive events at home predicted better sleep quality in both samples, whereas greater positive affect was associated with shorter sleep duration among the higher-income professionals. Negative affect and stressors were unrelated to subsequent sleep. Results for the reversed direction revealed that better sleep quality (and, to a lesser degree, longer sleep duration) predicted emotional well-being and lower odds of encountering stressors on the following day. CONCLUSIONS Given the reciprocal relationships between sleep and daily experiences, efforts to improve well-being in daily life should reflect the importance of sleep.
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- Nancy L Sin
- Center for Healthy Aging, The Pennsylvania State University, 422 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. .,Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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- Center for Healthy Aging, The Pennsylvania State University, 422 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.,Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.,Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Ganster DC, Crain TL, Brossoit RM. Physiological Measurement in the Organizational Sciences: A Review and Recommendations for Future Use. Annu Rev Organ Psychol Organ Behav 2018. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032117-104613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel C. Ganster
- Department of Management, College of Business, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Psychology, College of Natural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Psychology, College of Natural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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Crain TL, Schonert-Reichl KA, Roeser RW. Cultivating teacher mindfulness: Effects of a randomized controlled trial on work, home, and sleep outcomes. J Occup Health Psychol 2017; 22:138-152. [DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Lee S, Crain TL, McHale SM, Almeida DM, Buxton OM. Daily antecedents and consequences of nightly sleep. J Sleep Res 2016; 26:498-509. [PMID: 28008673 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Sleep can serve as both cause and consequence of individuals' everyday experiences. We built upon prior studies of the correlates of sleep, which have relied primarily on cross-sectional data, to examine the antecedents and consequences of sleep using a daily diary design. Specifically, we assessed the temporal sequence between nightly sleep and daily psychosocial stressors. Parents employed in a US information technology company (n = 102) completed eight consecutive daily diaries at both baseline and 1 year later. In telephone interviews each evening, participants reported on the previous night's sleep hours, sleep quality and sleep latency. They also reported daily work-to-family conflict and time inadequacy (i.e. perceptions of not having enough time) for their child and for themselves to engage in exercise. Multi-level models testing lagged and non-lagged effects simultaneously revealed that sleep hours and sleep quality were associated with next-day consequences of work-to-family conflict and time inadequacy, whereas psychosocial stressors as antecedents did not predict sleep hours or quality that night. For sleep latency, the opposite temporal order emerged: on days with more work-to-family conflict or time inadequacy for child and self than usual, participants reported longer sleep latencies than usual. An exception to this otherwise consistent pattern was that time inadequacy for child also preceded shorter sleep hours and poorer sleep quality that night. The results highlight the utility of a daily diary design for capturing the temporal sequences linking sleep and psychosocial stressors.
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- Soomi Lee
- Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collons, CO, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Hammer LB, Johnson RC, Crain TL, Bodner T, Kossek EE, Davis KD, Kelly EL, Buxton OM, Karuntzos G, Chosewood LC, Berkman L. Intervention effects on safety compliance and citizenship behaviors: Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 101:190-208. [PMID: 26348479 DOI: 10.1037/apl0000047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
We tested the effects of a work-family intervention on employee reports of safety compliance and organizational citizenship behaviors in 30 health care facilities using a group-randomized trial. Based on conservation of resources theory and the work-home resources model, we hypothesized that implementing a work-family intervention aimed at increasing contextual resources via supervisor support for work and family, and employee control over work time, would lead to improved personal resources and increased employee performance on the job in the form of self-reported safety compliance and organizational citizenship behaviors. Multilevel analyses used survey data from 1,524 employees at baseline and at 6-month and 12-month postintervention follow-ups. Significant intervention effects were observed for safety compliance at the 6-month, and organizational citizenship behaviors at the 12-month, follow-ups. More specifically, results demonstrate that the intervention protected against declines in employee self-reported safety compliance and organizational citizenship behaviors compared with employees in the control facilities. The hypothesized mediators of perceptions of family-supportive supervisor behaviors, control over work time, and work-family conflict (work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict) were not significantly improved by the intervention. However, baseline perceptions of family-supportive supervisor behaviors, control over work time, and work-family climate were significant moderators of the intervention effect on the self-reported safety compliance and organizational citizenship behavior outcomes.
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
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- Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University
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- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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- Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Olson R, Crain TL, Bodner TE, King R, Hammer LB, Klein LC, Erickson L, Moen P, Berkman LF, Buxton OM. A workplace intervention improves sleep: results from the randomized controlled Work, Family, and Health Study. Sleep Health 2015; 1:55-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2014.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 11/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Crain TL, Hammer LB, Bodner T, Kossek EE, Moen P, Lilienthal R, Buxton OM. Work-family conflict, family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), and sleep outcomes. J Occup Health Psychol 2014; 19:155-67. [PMID: 24730425 PMCID: PMC4145734 DOI: 10.1037/a0036010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Although critical to health and well-being, relatively little research has been conducted in the organizational literature on linkages between the work-family interface and sleep. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we use a sample of 623 information technology workers to examine the relationships between work-family conflict, family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), and sleep quality and quantity. Validated wrist actigraphy methods were used to collect objective sleep quality and quantity data over a 1 week period of time, and survey methods were used to collect information on self-reported work-family conflict, FSSB, and sleep quality and quantity. Results demonstrated that the combination of predictors (i.e., work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict, FSSB) was significantly related to both objective and self-report measures of sleep quantity and quality. Future research should further examine the work-family interface to sleep link and make use of interventions targeting the work-family interface as a means for improving sleep health.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tori L Crain
- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University
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- Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Crain TL, Hammer LB. Work–Family Enrichment: A Systematic Review of Antecedents, Outcomes, and Mechanisms. Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology 2013. [DOI: 10.1108/s2046-410x(2013)0000001016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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