TY - JOUR
T1 - What's not fair about work keeps me up
T2 - Perceived unfairness about work impairs sleep through negative work-to-family spillover
AU - Lee, Soomi
AU - Mogle, Jacqueline A.
AU - Jackson, Chandra L.
AU - Buxton, Orfeu M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work, in part, was funded by the Intramural Program at the NIH , National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( Z1AES103325-01 ).
Funding Information:
Since 1995 the Midlife in the United States Study has been funded by the following: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network, National Institute on Aging (P01-AG020166), National institute on Aging (U19-AG051426).This work, in part, was funded by the Intramural Program at the NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Z1AES103325-01).The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest relevant to the current study. Outside of the current work, Orfeu M. Buxton received two subcontract grants to Penn State from Mobilesleeptechnologies (NSF/STTR #1622766, NIH/NIA SBIR R43AG056250).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - This study examined whether perceived unfairness about work was linked to midlife workers' insomnia symptoms over time, and if the association was mediated by negative work-to-family spillover (NWFS). We used 3 waves of longitudinal data across 20 years from the Midlife in the United States Study (N = 971, M age = 40.52). Results revealed that, wave-to-wave increases in perceived unfairness about work predicted wave-to-wave increases in NWFS over 20 years. Wave-to-wave increases in NWFS, in turn, predicted wave-to-wave increases in insomnia symptoms. Perceived unfairness about work was indirectly, but not directly associated with insomnia symptoms through NWFS. These within-person indirect mediation pathways were found after controlling for sociodemographic and family characteristics, work hours, neuroticism, physical health, and between-person associations between perceived unfairness about work, NWFS, and insomnia symptoms. These findings suggest that perceived unfairness about work may degrade workers’ sleep health over time, through the spillover of work stress to the personal domain.
AB - This study examined whether perceived unfairness about work was linked to midlife workers' insomnia symptoms over time, and if the association was mediated by negative work-to-family spillover (NWFS). We used 3 waves of longitudinal data across 20 years from the Midlife in the United States Study (N = 971, M age = 40.52). Results revealed that, wave-to-wave increases in perceived unfairness about work predicted wave-to-wave increases in NWFS over 20 years. Wave-to-wave increases in NWFS, in turn, predicted wave-to-wave increases in insomnia symptoms. Perceived unfairness about work was indirectly, but not directly associated with insomnia symptoms through NWFS. These within-person indirect mediation pathways were found after controlling for sociodemographic and family characteristics, work hours, neuroticism, physical health, and between-person associations between perceived unfairness about work, NWFS, and insomnia symptoms. These findings suggest that perceived unfairness about work may degrade workers’ sleep health over time, through the spillover of work stress to the personal domain.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.03.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 31130199
AN - SCOPUS:85062700453
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 81
SP - 23
EP - 31
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
ER -