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Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.

2012; American Psychological Association; Volume: 97; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1037/a0027557

1939-1854

David T. Wagner, Christopher M. Barnes, Vivien K. G. Lim, D. Lance Ferris,

Impact of Technology on Adolescents

The Internet is a powerful tool that has changed the way people work. However, the ubiquity of the Internet has led to a new workplace threat to productivity-cyberloafing. Building on the ego depletion model of self-regulation, we examine how lost and low-quality sleep influence employee cyberloafing behaviors and how individual differences in conscientiousness moderate these effects. We also demonstrate that the shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in cyberloafing behavior at the national level. We first tested the DST-cyberloafing relation through a national quasi-experiment, then directly tested the relation between sleep and cyberloafing in a closely controlled laboratory setting. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, practice, and future research.