Stay Mindful and Carry on: Mindfulness Neutralizes COVID-19 Stressors on Work Engagement via Sleep Duration

Frontiers in Psychology

Jingxian Yao¹  Michelle Xue Zheng²  Yizhen Lu³  Jayanth Narayanan³  Theodore Charles Masters-Waage⁴  Noriko Tan⁴ 

[1] Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal;Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China;NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;NUS Business School, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;

关键词: mindfulness;    COVID-19 stressors;    employee sleep;    work engagement;    organizational behavior;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.610156

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We examine whether mindfulness can neutralize the negative impact of COVID-19 stressors on employees’ sleep duration and work engagement. In Study 1, we conducted a field experiment in Wuhan, China during the lockdown between February 20, 2020, and March 2, 2020, in which we induced state mindfulness by randomly assigning participants to either a daily mindfulness practice or a daily mind-wandering practice. Results showed that the sleep duration of participants in the mindfulness condition, compared with the control condition, was less impacted by COVID-19 stressors (i.e., the increase of infections in the community). In Study 2, in a 10-day daily diary study in the United Kingdom between June 8, 2020, and June 19, 2020, we replicate our results from Study 1 using a subjective measure of COVID-19 stressors and a daily measure of state mindfulness. In addition, we find that mindfulness buffers the negative effect of COVID-19 stressors on work engagement mediated by sleep duration. As the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and the number of reported cases continues to rise globally, our findings suggest that mindfulness is an evidence-based practice that can effectively neutralize the negative effect of COVID-19 stressors on sleep and work outcomes. The findings of the present study contribute to the employee stress and well-being literature as well as the emerging organizational research on mindfulness.

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