Wong, Jennifer H.K., Turner, Nick, Kelloway, E. Kevin and Wadsworth, Emma J. ![]() ![]() |
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Abstract
We conducted 3 studies to investigate how poor quality sleep relates to work injuries. First, using a sample of employed people living in the United Kingdom (N = 4,238; Study 1), we found that poor quality sleep was related to more frequent workplace injuries via negative affect rather than cognitive failures. Second, we again compared parallel pathways using a sample of USA employees (N = 202; Study 2): poor quality sleep was related to more frequent work injuries via work-related negative affect but not work-related cognitive failures. Third, we used a 2-wave sample of employees from the United Kingdom (N = 71; Study 3) finding that poor quality sleep was related to more frequent work injuries 7 weeks later via negative affect. Comparing high arousal and low arousal negative affect as competing pathways showed that there was a significant indirect effect of the former on the poor quality sleep-work injuries relationship but not the latter. Across 3 studies, we implicated the role of self-control failure stemming from poor quality sleep in predicting more frequent work injuries and suggested initiatives targeting high arousal negative affect as a way of reducing work injuries.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Psychology |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles |
ISSN: | 0267-8373 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 19 October 2020 |
Date of Acceptance: | 24 May 2020 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2023 22:28 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135722 |
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