Detachment from Work After Experiencing Negative Affective Work Events Among Partial Teleworkers

Brahmavira, Bhum (2022) Detachment from Work After Experiencing Negative Affective Work Events Among Partial Teleworkers. Master thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

Partial teleworking in the post-Covid era may be associated with reduced psychological detachment from work. Although work-home boundary violations impaired work recovery irrespective of whether the violation was interpreted positively or negatively, negative affective work events could nevertheless impair psychological detachment from work. This study utilizes the affective events theory and the boundary theory to examine whether increased intensity of teleworking among partial teleworkers is associated with increased use of integrative work-home boundary management tactics, and whether using integrative work-home boundary management tactics heightens the cost of negative affective work events on reduced psychological detachment from work. By surveying 145 EU/EAA-based partial teleworkers over 10 workdays, this study found increased teleworking intensity was not associated with increased use of integrative work-home boundary management tactics, nor was integrative work-home boundary management tactics correlated to reduced psychological detachment from work. However, negative affective work events were associated with reduced psychological detachment from work, and greater use of integrative work-home boundary management tactics intensified this relationship. In conclusion, the role of negative affective work events in hampering recovery from work warrants greater research, and advises workers to detach themselves from work on workdays marked by negative affective events.

Item Type:	Thesis (Master)
Supervisor name:	Scheibe, S.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Master Psychology]
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2022 07:26
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2022 07:26
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/760

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