Differential Links Between Facets of Work-Related Rumination and Energetic Activation

Recent research has distinguished between psychological detachment, affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, positive work-reflection, and negative work-reflection as distinct aspects of work-related rumination. At present there is little attention paid to the integrated investigation of these five aspects in experience sampling studies. Due to disintegrated research efforts, the relative roles of these facets of work-related rumination in predicting (1) initial levels of energetic activation in the morning and (2) trajectories of energetic activation over the course of the day are not clear. We study the five aspects of work-related rumination in concert to identify which aspects explain unique variance in energetic activation. Depending on the level of the different aspects of work-related rumination we will predict (1) the level of energetic activation the next morning and (2) trajectories of energetic activation over the course of the next day. We consider and compare the following aspects of work-related rumination: (1) Psychological detachment (2) Affective rumination (3) Problem-solving pondering (4) Negative work reflection (5) Positive work reflection We will explore the role of (6) basking as an additional aspect of work-related rumination.