Work event experiences: Implications of an expanded taxonomy for understanding daily well-being.
Reindl, G; Lang, JWB; Runge, JM
Date: 17 May 2021
Journal
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Publisher DOI
Abstract
This article builds on earlier research on work events and uses a recently developed
taxonomy of situation perceptions—the CAPTION taxonomy—to study daily work events. The
authors specifically test the ideas that the specific affective event dimensions A (Adversity) and
O (humOr), and cognitive and typicality dimensions—I (Importance), ...
This article builds on earlier research on work events and uses a recently developed
taxonomy of situation perceptions—the CAPTION taxonomy—to study daily work events. The
authors specifically test the ideas that the specific affective event dimensions A (Adversity) and
O (humOr), and cognitive and typicality dimensions—I (Importance), C (Complexity), and T
(Typicality)—contribute to explaining daily well-being beyond P (Positive valence) and N
(Negative valence). Study 1 included N = 242 employees who filled in a diary over five
workdays, and Study 2 included a total of 295 employees in an experience sampling design.
Results from multilevel confirmatory factor analyses with events nested in persons and days
nested in persons suggested that a 7-dimension model—in line with the CAPTION taxonomy—
improved model fit. Multilevel structural equation modeling further revealed that the additional
dimensions contributed to explaining well-being after work (Study 1) and well-being at work
(Study 2) at both the between- and the within-person level. These effects were in particular
driven by the A (Adversity) and O (humOr) dimensions. The authors discuss to what degree a
multidimensional perspective on situation perceptions can improve occupational health
researchers’ understanding of work events as drivers of well-being at work.
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