title: Illegitimate tasks and sleep quality: an ambulatory study.
abstract: The current study investigated the short-term effect of illegitimate tasks on sleep quality, assessed by actigraphy. Seventy-six employees of different service jobs participated in a 2-week data collection. Data were analysed by way of multilevel analyses. As predicted, illegitimate tasks were positively related to sleep fragmentation and sleep-onset latency, but not to sleep efficiency and not to sleep duration. Time pressure, social stressors at work and at home, and the value of the dependent variable from the previous day were controlled. Results confirm the predictive power of illegitimate tasks for a variable that can be considered crucial in the development of long-term outcomes of daily experiences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Norbert K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Semmer
authors.forename: Achim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elfering
mesh_terms: D056044:Actigraphy; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: actigraphy; illegitimate tasks; occupational stress; recovery; sleep; threat to self