title: Short-term effects of social exclusion at work and worries on sleep.
abstract: The present study investigated short-term effects of daily social exclusion at work on various indicators of sleep quality and tested the mediating role of work-related worries using a time-based diary study with ambulatory assessments of sleep quality. Ninety full-time employees participated in a 2-week data collection. Multilevel analyses revealed that daily workplace social exclusion and work-related worries were positively related to sleep fragmentation in the following night. Daily social exclusion, however, was unrelated to sleep onset latency, sleep efficiency and self-reported sleep quality. Moreover, worries did not mediate the effect of social exclusion at work on sleep fragmentation. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. diana.pereira@psy.unibe.ch
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Laurenz L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: Achim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elfering
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods; D055361:Multilevel Analysis; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*