Gault, Mackenzie (2025) The Role of Work Prospection on the link between Unfinished Tasks and Sleep Impairment. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Unfinished tasks are tasks that an employee intended to complete, but were left incomplete at the time the employee stopped working. Unfinished tasks are prevalent and may encroach upon off-job time. Recent research has linked unfinished tasks to sleep impairment. However, the contingencies underlying this link are underexplored. Drawing on previous research, we expect that unfinished tasks are positively linked to (1) affective rumination and (2) sleep impairment. We will examine whether positive affective work prospection, which involves positively anticipating future work, buffers these links. We investigated this using a cross-sectional study with data from 99 to 104 employees. The relationships between unfinished tasks, affective rumination, sleep impairment, and positive affective work prospection were investigated by performing regression analyses. Our results show an interaction effect between unfinished tasks and positive affective work prospection that approached significance. Contrary to our expectations, unfinished tasks interacted with positive affective work prospection to worsen sleep impairment. Additionally, our results showed no significant link between unfinished tasks and sleep impairment. Our findings indicate that unfinished tasks might moderate the link between positive affective work prospection and sleep impairment, which showed a strong positive link. We found no interaction effects for positive affective work prospection moderating the links between (1) unfinished tasks and affective rumination and (2) affective rumination on sleep impairment. Significant positive correlations were found between unfinished tasks and affective rumination as well as affective rumination and sleep impairment. Findings suggest that we should help employees tackle the root cause of unfinished tasks. Keywords: unfinished tasks, affective rumination, sleep impairment, positive affective work prospection
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Weigelt, O. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2025 07:19 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2025 07:19 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5412 |
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