Are you in the zone when working from home? How remote workers’ daily flow experiences promote daily functioning and well-being through reduced work–home interruption behaviors.

IF 3.9 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI:10.1037/ocp0000429

Isaac Alshaikh, Shane Hayden-Smyth, Wladislaw Rivkin, Jakob Stollberger, Stefan Diestel, Karin S. Moser

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Abstract

The surge in telework after the COVID-19 pandemic has raised debates between employers and employees about how teleworkers can balance flexibility and productivity while working remotely. Our study examines how flow experiences as a volatile personal resource can facilitate teleworkers' functioning and well-being at work and at home through effortless self-regulation. Drawing on the work-home resources model, we argue that daily flow experiences promote teleworkers' work domain functioning (e.g., work engagement and need for recovery) and home domain well-being (e.g., subjective vitality and regulatory resource depletion) through reducing work-home interruption behaviors. Furthermore, we propose that states of high daily morning mindfulness act as another volatile personal resource that can support teleworkers' functioning and well-being on days with lower levels of flow experiences by attenuating the daily relationship between flow experiences and work-home interruption behaviors. Results from an experience sampling study with teleworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic (N = 87 individuals across N = 607 days) support our hypotheses that reduced work-home interruption behaviors mediate the daily relationships between daily flow experiences and work engagement, need for recovery, subjective vitality, and regulatory resource depletion. Our results further highlight that these indirect relationships became weaker on days when teleworkers experience higher, as compared to lower, mindfulness in the morning. Thus, on days with lower levels of flow experiences, mindfulness can be an effective way to facilitate functioning and well-being across domains. Our findings offer theoretical insights and practical implications by revealing how teleworkers can remain both productive and healthy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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在家工作时，你是否处于状态？远程工作者的日常流动体验如何通过减少工作与家庭的中断行为来促进日常功能和幸福感。

2019冠状病毒病大流行后，远程办公的激增引发了雇主和员工之间的争论，即远程工作者如何在远程工作时平衡灵活性和生产力。我们的研究考察了心流体验作为一种不稳定的个人资源，如何通过轻松的自我调节，促进远程工作者在工作和家庭中的功能和幸福感。根据工作-家庭资源模型，我们认为日常流动体验通过减少工作-家庭中断行为，促进了远程工作者的工作领域功能（如工作投入和恢复需求）和家庭领域幸福感（如主观活力和监管资源枯竭）。此外，我们提出，高日常早晨正念状态作为另一种不稳定的个人资源，可以通过减弱日常流体验与工作-家庭中断行为之间的关系，在流体验水平较低的日子里支持远程工作者的功能和幸福感。一项针对COVID-19大流行期间远程工作者的经验抽样研究（N = 87个人，N = 607天）的结果支持了我们的假设，即减少工作-家庭中断行为可以调节日常流体验与工作投入、恢复需求、主观活力和监管资源枯竭之间的日常关系。我们的研究结果进一步强调，与较低的正念相比，这些间接关系在远程工作者早晨体验更高正念的日子里变得更弱。因此，在心流体验水平较低的日子里，正念可以是促进跨领域功能和健康的有效方法。我们的研究结果通过揭示远程工作者如何保持高效和健康，提供了理论见解和实践意义。（PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2026 APA，版权所有）。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Occupational Health Psychology offers research, theory, and public policy articles in occupational health psychology, an interdisciplinary field representing a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and specializations. Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life and to protecting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of workers. This journal focuses on the work environment, the individual, and the work-family interface.