Stay mindful and carry on: Mindfulness neutralizes COVID-19 stressors on work engagement via sleep duration

• Main Authors: ZHENG, Michelle Xue, MASTERS-WAAGE, Theodore Charles, YAO, Jingxian, LU, Yichen, TAN, Noriko, NARAYANAN, Jayanth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Mindfulness; COVID-19 stressors; employee sleep; work engagement; organizational behavior; pandemics; Applied Behavior Analysis; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6727; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7726/viewcontent/fpsyg_11_610156_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examine whether mindfulness can neutralize the negative impact of COVID-19 stressors on employees' sleep duration and work engagement. In Study 1, we conducted a field experiment in Wuhan, China during the lockdown between February 20, 2020, and March 2, 2020, in which we induced state mindf...