Time matters: The role of recovery for daily mood trajectories at work
研究了员工工作日情绪（清醒-疲倦、平静-紧张、愉快-不愉快）的变化轨迹，发现晚间恢复体验（如心理脱离、放松）通过睡眠质量和上班时情绪间接影响次日情绪变化。
Abstract Taking a temporal perspective, we examined how employees' mood (i.e., wakefulness‐tiredness, calmness‐tenseness, and pleasantness‐unpleasantness) develops during the workday and tested employees' daily recovery from work as a predictor of these mood trajectories. Specifically, we analysed a serial mediation model with evening recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery experiences, and control) being indirectly related to the development of next‐day mood (i.e., linear slopes) via sleep quality and start‐of‐work mood. We collected data from 124 employees who completed up to 5 daily surveys over two workweeks. Multilevel growth curve models showed that, in general, wakefulness followed a negative quadratic, calmness a positive quadratic, and pleasantness no systematic trajectory during the workday. At the day level, path analyses showed that psychological detachment indirectly and relaxation directly predicted the three start‐of‐work mood states. Moreover, mastery experiences and control directly predicted start‐of‐work calmness. Additionally, psychological detachment and relaxation indirectly predicted the development of wakefulness and psychological detachment, relaxation, and mastery experiences indirectly predicted the development of calmness. Results suggest that some benefits of daily psychological detachment, relaxation (i.e., high start‐of‐work wakefulness and calmness), and mastery experiences (i.e., high start‐of‐work calmness) tend to subside during the workday.