Mindful multitasking: Disentangling the effect of polychronicity on work-home conflict and life satisfaction.
Jared Weintraub, Murugan Pattusamy, Scott B Dust
The Journal of social psychology October 1, 2018 DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2018.1523783 (opens in new tab)
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Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Cross-sectional survey Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 138 |
| Population | Academics throughout India |
| Measures | polychronicity, mindfulness, life satisfaction, work-to-home conflict scale, home-to-work conflict scale |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Humans Stress, psychological Personal satisfaction Adult Employment India Female Surveys and questionnaires Conflict, psychological Life satisfaction Polychronicity Work–home conflict Home–work conflict |
| Key findings | The authors report that mindfulness moderates the relationships between polychronicity and work-home conflict, home-work conflict, and life satisfaction. Specifically, higher levels of mindfulness are said to enhance the effects of polychronicity, consistent with the proposal that polychronicity is negatively related to conflict and positively related to life satisfaction when mindfulness is high. |
Abstract
This study seeks to disentangle the effect of polychronicity on work-home conflict, home-work conflict, and life satisfaction, by evaluating mindfulness as a moderator. We propose that mindfulness moderates the relationship between polychronicity and work-home and home-work conflict such that the relationship will be negative when mindfulness is high and positive when mindfulness is low. Additionally, we propose that mindfulness moderates the relationship between polychronicity and life satisfaction such that the relationship will be positive when mindfulness is high and negative when mindfulness is low. A total of 138 academics throughout India completed measures of polychronicity, mindfulness, life satisfaction, and work-to-home and home-to-work conflict scales. The moderation findings illustrate that higher levels of mindfulness enhance the effects of polychronicity.
Comparable studies
Other cross-sectional and survey studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples Experienced meditators and nonmeditating comparison groups | 2008 | Cross-sectional study | |
| Neural Correlates of Dispositional Mindfulness During Affect Labeling Adult participants | 2007 | Observational cross-sectional | n = 27 |
| Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: Development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM). School-aged children and adolescents | 2011 | Cross-sectional validation study | n = 1,413 |
| Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and matched nonmeditators Experienced meditators and demographically matched nonmeditators | 2012 | Cross-sectional study | n = 152 |
| Mechanisms of Action in the Inverse Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress Undergraduates | 2008 | Cross-sectional, correlational |
Citations in the library
Cites 4
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- Being While Doing: An Inductive Model of Mindfulness at Work Frontiers in Psychology February 20, 2017
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