A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker
eBook - ePub

A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker

About this book

This edited collection brings together some of the leading researchers in the study of the daily experience of work and daily well-being. The book covers both theoretical and methodological issues involved in studying workers' well-being as it evolves on a daily basis.

Interest in the topic of daily fluctuations in worker well-being has grown rapidly over the past ten years. This is partly because of advances in research and statistical methods, but also because researchers have found that the psychological processes that influence well-being play out from moment to moment, and from day to day. Topics covered in this book include:

  • The theoretical basis of studying work as a series of daily episodes

  • Assessment of different components of daily well-being

  • Factors involved in the regulation of well-being at work

  • Qualitative and quantitative diary experience sampling and event reconstruction methods

  • Latent growth curve modelling of diary data

The final chapter of the book includes a preview of how daily methods may evolve in the future.

Intended as a guide for researchers with good knowledge of field research methods, the book will be particularly useful to researchers of work-related phenomena who seek to expand their knowledge of dynamic methods in field contexts, and those who want to start using these methods. It will also be of interest to students of work psychology and organisational behaviour, and related disciplines.

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Yes, you can access A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker by Arnold Bakker, Kevin Daniels, Arnold Bakker,Kevin Daniels,Arnold B. Bakker, Arnold B. Bakker, Kevin Daniels in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & History & Theory in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker: Introduction
  8. 2 The Episodic Structure of Life at Work
  9. 3 State Work Engagement: The Significance of Within-Person Fluctuations
  10. 4 Work-Related Flow
  11. 5 Job Characteristics and Problem-Solving
  12. 6 The Application of Diary Methods to Examine Workers’ Daily Recovery During Off-Job Time
  13. 7 Experience-Sampling and Event-Sampling Research
  14. 8 Reconstruction Methods: Using Episodic Memory Traces to Capture Experiences at Work Efficiently
  15. 9 Latent Growth Modeling Applied to Diary Data: The Trajectory of Vigor Across a Working Week as an Illustrative Example
  16. 10 Using Qualitative Diary Research to Understand Emotion at Work
  17. 11 Research Agenda
  18. Index