Helping employees sleep well: Effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia on work outcomes.

Abstract

Drawing from recent research advances indicating the harmful effects of insomnia on negative affect, job satisfaction, self-control, organizational citizenship behavior, and interpersonal deviance, we hypothesized that treating insomnia with Internet based cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia would lead to improvements in these outcomes. In a field experiment with a randomized wait-list control group, we found that treatment had a beneficial direct effect on negative affect, job satisfaction, and self-control. Moreover, the effect of treatment on job satisfaction was mediated by negative affect. We were not able to detect a direct effect of treatment on organizational citizenship behavior or interpersonal deviance. However, treatment had a beneficial indirect effect on organizational citizenship behavior through the mediators of negative affect and job satisfaction, and a beneficial indirect effect on interpersonal deviance through the mediator of self-control. These results move the applied psychology literature on insomnia beyond simply pointing out problematic effects of employee insomnia to providing evidence of a partial solution to such effects. (PsycINFO Database Record

Entrepreneurial motivation: A review of the literature and an agenda for future research

“…Specifically, research on the biological or physiological factors that augment or dampen entrepreneurial motivation is largely absent. This is a noteworthy oversight as sleep (Murnieks et al, in press; Barnes, ; Barnes, Miller, & Bostock, ; Gunia, ), testosterone (Nicolaou, Patel, & Wolfe, ), and cortisol levels (Liu‐Qin, Bauer, Johnson, Groer, & Salomon, ; Sherman, Lemer, Josephs, Renshon, & Gross, ) represent factors that may explain meaningful variance in entrepreneurial motivation and draw increasing interest in the OB literature but are understudied in entrepreneurship. More theory and measurement of these individual variables could expand our understanding of the role of physiology in entrepreneurial motivation and also contribute to the OB literature.…”

The Sleep Condition Indicator: reference values derived from a sample of 200 000 adults

“…The SCI has subsequently been translated, and validated further in Italian, Romanian, Chinese and French (Bayard et al ., ; Palagini et al ., ; Voinescu and Szentagotai, ; Wong et al ., ). The SCI has demonstrated sound psychometric properties previously, including internal consistency (published range: α = 0.71–0.89), convergent validity with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ( r = 0.73) and the Insomnia Severity Index ( r = 0.79), predictive validity in relation to insomnia disorder when diagnosed by expert clinical interview (Bayard et al ., ; Palagini et al ., ; Wong et al ., ) and has proved sensitive to change in several clinical trials (Barnes et al ., ; Bostock et al ., ; Espie et al ., ; McGrath et al ., ). Secondly, we will present sex‐ and age‐referent data on a sample of 200 000 people to facilitate the use in clinical and research settings.…”

Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and passive leadership: The mediating role of daytime sleepiness

“…Relatedly, recent research has shown the effects of internet‐based cognitive behavioural treatments for insomnia (Barnes, Miller, & Bostock, ) and CPAP devices for obstructive sleep apnoea (Carleton, Barling, & Driver, ) on workplace behaviours. Future research might now investigate whether these or other treatments for sleep problems and sleep disorders (e.g., sleep hygiene and stimulant medication) might minimize the indirect effects of ADHD symptoms on passive leadership.…”

“…Thus, organizations can best affect the indirect effects of leaders' ADHD symptoms on passive leadership by helping to limit the sleep problems that result in daytime sleepiness. Although concern is often expressed that doing so would consume valuable organizational resources (e.g., Litwiller et al, ), this is not necessarily the case: Recent research endorses the indirect effects of low‐cost, internet‐based cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia on interpersonal deviance and organizational citizenship at work (Barnes et al, ) and readily accessible, validated treatments for obstructive sleep apnoea (Carleton et al, ) on work withdrawal (e.g., cognitive distraction and partial absenteeism).…”