Zheng Michelle Xue, Masters-Waage Theodore Charles, Yao Jingxian, Lu Yizhen, Tan Noriko, Narayanan Jayanth
Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China.
NUS Business School, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 21;11:610156. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.610156. eCollection 2020.
We examine whether mindfulness can neutralize the negative impact of COVID-19 stressors on employees' sleep duration and work engagement. In Study 1, we conducted a field experiment in Wuhan, China during the lockdown between February 20, 2020, and March 2, 2020, in which we induced state mindfulness by randomly assigning participants to either a daily mindfulness practice or a daily mind-wandering practice. Results showed that the sleep duration of participants in the mindfulness condition, compared with the control condition, was less impacted by COVID-19 stressors (i.e., the increase of infections in the community). In Study 2, in a 10-day daily diary study in the United Kingdom between June 8, 2020, and June 19, 2020, we replicate our results from Study 1 using a subjective measure of COVID-19 stressors and a daily measure of state mindfulness. In addition, we find that mindfulness buffers the negative effect of COVID-19 stressors on work engagement mediated by sleep duration. As the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and the number of reported cases continues to rise globally, our findings suggest that mindfulness is an evidence-based practice that can effectively neutralize the negative effect of COVID-19 stressors on sleep and work outcomes. The findings of the present study contribute to the employee stress and well-being literature as well as the emerging organizational research on mindfulness.
我们研究正念是否能够抵消新冠疫情压力源对员工睡眠时间和工作投入的负面影响。在研究1中，我们于2020年2月20日至3月2日封锁期间在中国武汉进行了一项现场实验，通过将参与者随机分配到每日正念练习组或每日走神练习组来诱发状态正念。结果显示，与对照组相比，正念组参与者的睡眠时间受新冠疫情压力源（即社区感染增加）的影响较小。在研究2中，于2020年6月8日至19日在英国进行了一项为期10天的每日日记研究，我们使用新冠疫情压力源的主观测量方法和状态正念的每日测量方法重复了研究1的结果。此外，我们发现正念缓冲了新冠疫情压力源通过睡眠时间对工作投入产生的负面影响。由于新冠疫情仍在持续，全球报告病例数持续上升，我们的研究结果表明，正念是一种基于证据的做法，可以有效抵消新冠疫情压力源对睡眠和工作成果的负面影响。本研究结果为员工压力与幸福感文献以及新兴的正念组织研究做出了贡献。
