Positive affect trajectories over the working days: Inter‐individual differences and associations with employees' work engagement and fatigue.

Previous work has examined the patterns of change in trait‐positive affect across childhood and adolescence transitions, yet relatively little is known regarding temporal patterns of change in employees' state positive affect across working days. This article addressed this gap by adopting the laten...

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Publicado en:Asian Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 1 - 12
Autores principales: Zheng, Xuan, Zhang, Ling, Hao, Leilei
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2025
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          Zheng, Xuan
          Zhang, Ling
          Hao, Leilei
        affil: School of Health, Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Shanghai, China
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          Positive Psychology Evaluation
          Work Experiences Evaluation
          Work Engagement Evaluation
          Fatigue Risk Factors
          Work Environment
          Employee Attitudes Evaluation
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adult
          China
          Coefficient alpha
          Structural Equation Modeling
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Questionnaires
          Descriptive Statistics
          Chi Square Test
          Analysis of Variance
          Mindfulness
          Support, Social
          Interpersonal Relations
          Scales
          Adult: 19-44 years
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      ab: Previous work has examined the patterns of change in trait‐positive affect across childhood and adolescence transitions, yet relatively little is known regarding temporal patterns of change in employees' state positive affect across working days. This article addressed this gap by adopting the latent class growth analysis to explore (a) whether distinct growth trajectories of daily positive affect emerged among Chinese employees and (b) how the positive affect trajectories differ from each other with regard to work engagement and fatigue at the start and end of the working week. Using an experience sampling design, 169 Chinese employees completed online questionnaires across five consecutive workdays, reporting their positive affect each morning and their work engagement and fatigue on Monday and Friday afternoons. A three‐class solution yielded the following profiles: a moderate‐stable positive affect trajectory and two trajectories with changing positive affect levels (high‐increasing and low‐decreasing positive affect trajectories). Furthermore, the trajectories exhibited class‐specific differences in work engagement and fatigue on Monday and Friday afternoons. Our findings demonstrated that the temporal patterns of short‐term change in daily positive affect across one working week matter for employees' work‐related outcomes. Theoretical and practical implications as well as directions for future research are discussed.
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