Identifying Forms of After-Hours Information Communication Technology Use and Their Role in Psychological Detachment: An Episodic Approach

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• Personal Author:
  Chen A ; Conroy SA ; Crain TL
• Description:
  Employees increasingly conduct work outside of traditional work hours via information communication technologies (ICTs). There is a need to understand how after-hours ICT use relates to well-being, given that such connectivity has become unavoidable. We implement an episodic, event-contingent design to evaluate the association between different ICT media (i.e., e-mail, phone call, chat app, short message service) and the within-person outcomes of psychological detachment as partially mediated by task productivity. A daily diary survey was collected over three consecutive workdays to capture after-hours ICT use. Daily surveys were completed by 498 individuals, with a total of 1494 episodes being captured of after-hours work ICT engagement. Our results indicate that while engagement with any form of ICT after hours reduces psychological detachment, email and chat apps are associated with the lowest levels of psychological detachment. Moreover, whereas the use of asynchronous ICT has positive main effects on episode-related task productivity, the use of synchronous ICT (e.g., phone) only enhances episode-related task productivity when there are high organizational expectations for employees' responsiveness after hours. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mental Health Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Detachment Information Communication Technology Information Systems Organizational Expectations Organizational Identification Productivity Psychological Effects Wellbeing Work Arrangements Work Organization Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  0090-4848
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Denver Region [OSHA] ; Oregon ; San Francisco Region [OSHA]
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069843
• Citation:
  Hum Resour Manage 2024 Nov/Dec; 63(6):919-937
• Contact Point Address:
  Samantha A. Conroy, Department of Management, College of Business, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
• Email:
  samantha.conroy@colostate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2025
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Human Resource Management
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:28ae3760a3adad965d4416fda99c545fa63d090afa84d9d71109c7116661d33ca4442dea6cbce7b4ea8760fde94a7f47a95c29d2975b29ca697c8e95202d5aa8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/208189/cdc_208189_DS1.pdf
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