Different impacts of hedonic and utilitarian personal Internet usage behaviour on well‐being and work engagement: A daily examination.

Past research suggests that personal Internet usage (PIU) at work can carry both costs and benefits for employees, but offers no explanation for these mixed results. In this research, we argue that the competing findings might be due to the existence of different types of PIU. We take a daily approa...

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Publicado en:Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 1011 - 1037
Autores principales: Li, Yolanda Na, Law, Kenneth S., Yu, Bingjie, Wang, Lin, Li, Dandan
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2024
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          Li, Yolanda Na
          Law, Kenneth S.
          Yu, Bingjie
          Wang, Lin
          Li, Dandan
        affil: Department of Management, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun Hong Kong,, China
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          Employees Psychosocial Factors
          Psychological Well-Being
          Work Engagement
          Internet Utilization
          Human
          Machine Learning
          Scales
          Employee Attitudes
          Work Environment
          Support, Psychosocial
          Supervisors and Supervision
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      ab: Past research suggests that personal Internet usage (PIU) at work can carry both costs and benefits for employees, but offers no explanation for these mixed results. In this research, we argue that the competing findings might be due to the existence of different types of PIU. We take a daily approach and propose that hedonic PIU (HPIU, i.e. relaxing oneself) benefits employees' end‐of‐workday well‐being and work engagement while utilitarian PIU (UPIU, i.e. solving others' problems) hinders their well‐being and work engagement. We test our theorizing using three studies. In Study 1, we summarized previous PIU studies and relied on machine learning methods to classify the 618 PIU activities identified in prior studies. We found that prior research mixed HPIU and UPIU and might reach different conclusions. In Study 2, we condensed the PIU activity list in Study 1 and developed measurement scales of HPIU and UPIU. In Study 3, we analysed 1063 multi‐wave daily inputs from 125 employees and found that on a daily basis, HPIU benefits employees' well‐being by fostering a state of recovery, while UPIU impedes well‐being and work engagement by inducing a state of depletion. Moreover, supervisor support for employees' personal behaviours strengthens the beneficial effect of HPIU.
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