Rahman Khan, Qurat-ul-ain Talpur, Ghulam Murtaza, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Muhammad Sajid
{"title":"Interrupted minds at work: How mindfulness shapes the effects of workplace interruptions","authors":"Rahman Khan, Qurat-ul-ain Talpur, Ghulam Murtaza, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Muhammad Sajid","doi":"10.1111/apps.70149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study tests the interactive model of workplace interruptions, including intrusions, distractions, discrepancy detections, and breaks in task performance. Specifically, we suggest that workplace interruptions exhibit an inverted U-shaped relationship with task performance. In addition, we explore how mindfulness moderates these relationships. Using time-lagged multisource survey data from 319 supervisor–subordinate dyads working in manufacturing, retail, and service industries, our results show significant inverted U-shaped relationships of intrusions and breaks with employee task performance. We found significant negative linear effects of distractions and discrepancy detections on task performance. Furthermore, the inverted U-shaped effects of intrusions and breaks were significantly moderated by employees' mindfulness. We confirmed that workplace interruptions may not necessarily be bad, but the frequency of interruptions, coupled with an individual's level of mindfulness, predicts employees' task performance. Based on these findings, we discuss the importance of workplace interruptions and mindfulness resources for effective performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ylva Andersson, Shane Timmons, Maria Lee, Pete D. Lunn
{"title":"Going green in stages: Psychological processes behind intention formation and action for climate mitigation","authors":"Ylva Andersson, Shane Timmons, Maria Lee, Pete D. Lunn","doi":"10.1111/apps.70147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mitigating the climate crisis requires rapid societal change in favour of sustainability. Despite widespread concern, many consumers continue with high-emission activities. To assist behaviour change, it is useful to understand where in the process of change people currently are and what motivates the next step. In a preregistered study using a representative sample of adults (<i>N =</i> 1200), we measure ‘stage of change’ for transport and diet behaviours, and test the relationship with psychological predictors of proenvironmental behaviour. For both behaviours, people who intend to change worry more about climate change and feel more morally responsible to act than people who see no need to change. By contrast, acting on intentions is associated with holding a strong environmental identity. We find little predictive value of a broad range of other variables proposed in the literature, including social norms. We also find differences between the two behavioural domains. The results show the benefit of conceptualising behaviour change as a multistage process and the necessity of considering the behavioural domain when aiming to understand predictors of change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncovering the behavioural mechanisms underlying rebound effects of sustainability-oriented interventions","authors":"Imke G. H. van der Loo, Daniela C. A. Pigosso","doi":"10.1111/apps.70140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70140","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the recognition of rebound effects (RE) in offsetting potential sustainability gains, a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains limited. This study contributes by uncovering the psychological determinants leading to RE, while adopting an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond the environmental sustainability domain. A systematic literature review of 135 publications resulted in the hierarchical consolidation of 30 unique behavioural rebound mechanisms. A critical evaluation highlighted their strengths and limitations in terms of addressed intervention types, outcome domains and effect types (i.e., behavioural, temporal, contextual and interpersonal). The results are inductively synthesised into a proposed novel conceptual model explaining behavioural RE as the result of changes in psychological determinants related to (i) environmental perceptions, (ii) non-environmental perceptions, (iii) intrinsic motivation and (iv) bounded rationality. The findings are translated into eight agenda points for behavioural rebound research, along with a discussion of practical implications and possibilities for preventing RE.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The within-person relationship of allostasis and allostatic load with job performance","authors":"Robert C. Zieringer, Dieter Zapf","doi":"10.1111/apps.70145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70145","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Physiological indicators such as heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) are frequently used in allostatic load (AL) research. However, it often remains unclear whether these indicators reflect adaptive short-term activation (allostasis), thus, represent primary mediators, or accumulated physiological burden (AL), and thus, represent secondary outcomes. We propose a classification scheme specifying when physiological indicators should be interpreted as primary mediators or secondary outcomes. We tested this scheme in two longitudinal multilevel studies using different sources of job performance ratings (self, peer/supervisor, and client ratings). In Study 1, participants (<i>N</i> = 167–331) repeatedly measured HR and HRV under resting conditions over 4 weeks and reported job performance, resulting in 509–1001 observations. Peer/supervisor ratings were additionally obtained. In Study 2, counselors (<i>N</i> = 11–15) measured HR/HRV before counseling sessions, and clients subsequently rated session quality (71–91 sessions). Results largely supported the proposed classification scheme. When HR/HRV were interpreted as secondary outcomes, lower HR, lower LFHF, and higher HRV predicted better job performance. When interpreted as primary mediators, higher LFHF predicted better client-rated performance. Thus, the same physiological indicators may show opposite relationships with performance depending on the timing and context of measurement. Our findings refine AL theory by clarifying the distinction between allostasis and AL, help explain inconsistent findings in the literature, and provide guidance for interpreting physiological indicators in organizational research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Junsang Park, Ryan D. Duffy, Anne Q. Zhou, Seungkee Lee
{"title":"Longitudinal connections between decent education and decent work in a nationally representative sample","authors":"Junsang Park, Ryan D. Duffy, Anne Q. Zhou, Seungkee Lee","doi":"10.1111/apps.70146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Guided by Psychology of Working Theory (PWT), the current study examined the longitudinal relations between parental economic resources, decent education, and decent work attainment using a nationally representative sample of 7683 participants from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Key constructs were operationalized using available indicators in the Add Health dataset, serving as close approximations of core PWT constructs. Multigroup structural equation modeling explored variations across racial and sex groups. Results indicated significant yet modest associations between economic resources, decent education, and decent work over time, with decent education serving as a partial indirect link between early economic resources and later work outcomes. Post hoc analyses indicated that individual components of decent education related to decent work primarily among non-Hispanic White participants, with inconsistent associations in the other racial groups. These findings highlight how educational experiences may contribute to work attainment and point to the potential utility of an extended PWT framework for understanding education-to-work transitions. By combining a longitudinal design with nationally representative data and multigroup modeling, this study provides an empirical foundation for future research and applied efforts to promote equitable access to decent work across diverse populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employees with mental illness: A person-centered review of their perspectives and experiences","authors":"Evan Nault, Kayla B. Follmer, Maiana D. Castro","doi":"10.1111/apps.70143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70143","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the United States, more than one in five adults will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Many of these adults are expected to continue working during active periods of their illness and effectively manage the symptoms of their diagnosis. Research on mental illness and the workplace has increased over the last 10 years, but a significant portion of the extant literature focuses on how others perceive employees with mental illness or the organizational consequences associated with employing these individuals rather than studying the employees with mental illness themselves. Our systematic literature review synthesizes 66 empirical studies on the experiences of employees with mental illness and centers their perspectives as the main point of inquiry. By examining the lived experience of working while managing a mental illness, this review uncovers both individual and contextual factors that shape employees' work realities while also identifying affective and behavioral responses to these experiences. Within categories, there was a strong focus on understanding how mental illness symptoms impacted workplaces, interventions to assist employees in transitioning into competitive workplaces, and experiences of stigma. Researchers were more likely to study broad categories of mental disorders and take atheoretical approaches, which may limit the utility of research findings. We close by offering a series of considerations for future research in this field.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grateful minds, green choices: Gratitude as a psychological driver of sustainable economic decision-making","authors":"Khanh Duy Phan, Bao Quoc Truong-Dinh","doi":"10.1111/apps.70144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research examines whether gratitude, a self-transcendent moral emotion, shapes sustainable economic decision-making. Across three preregistered studies (total <i>N</i> = 2100), we tested the hypothesis that gratitude reduces materialistic orientation and money desire while enhancing nature connectedness, thereby promoting sustainable economic choices. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 850, correlational, multisource) demonstrated that dispositional gratitude positively predicted sustainable economic preferences and green investment intentions, with reduced materialism and enhanced nature connectedness as partial mediators. Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 650, experiment) showed that a gratitude induction, compared with neutral and positive affect control conditions, increased willingness to pay for eco-labeled products and green investment allocation, mediated by reduced momentary money desire. Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 600, 2 × 2 experiment) revealed that although exposure to climate change information increased money desire, consistent with existential anxiety accounts, gratitude buffered this effect and maintained sustainable economic preferences. These findings advance understanding of the emotional antecedents of sustainable economic behavior and suggest that brief gratitude interventions may serve as accessible tools for promoting sustainability in individual, organizational, and policy contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does vigilant leadership energize or drain leaders? A resource-based dual path model","authors":"Yifan Li, Qiaozhuan Liang, Jie Li, Zhuojing Li","doi":"10.1111/apps.70142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70142","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the emerging research on vigilant leadership, little attention has been paid to the influence of vigilant leadership behaviors on the leaders themselves. Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, this study adopts an actor-centric perspective to investigate the double-edged sword effect of vigilant leadership behaviors on leader work engagement. For the resource gain pathway, we suggest that vigilant leadership behaviors can enhance leaders' perceived impact at work, which in turn increases their work engagement. For the resource loss pathway, we suggest that leaders who demonstrate vigilant leadership behaviors will experience greater ego depletion, leading to decreased work engagement. Furthermore, we argue that followers' proactive personality moderates these indirect effects: it reinforces the resource gain pathway and weakens the resource loss pathway. Results from an experience sampling study (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 176 leader-follower dyads) and a scenario-based experiment (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 142) consistently support our hypothesized model. Our findings have important implications for future research and practice of vigilant leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“This is happening without my buy-in”: De-agentic boundary management through a multi-domain work–life shock event","authors":"Dana Sumpter, Mona Zanhour","doi":"10.1111/apps.70141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70141","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When working parents face a sudden external shock, they must quickly renegotiate how they manage the boundaries between their work and family lives—yet we know little about how parents navigate events that destabilize both domains at once. This study examines how individual work–family boundary management evolved through and after a multi-domain work–life shock event that simultaneously disrupted both work and family roles. We draw from interviews and qualitative survey responses collected at two time points from 54 working mothers. Through the lens of boundary management and role theories, we develop a model of <i>de-agentic boundary management</i>, which is a state where the selection and enactment of boundary management tactics is shaped by external constraints that reduce control, rather than driven by agentic individual preference. This state renders some tactics unavoidable (used out of necessity) and others unavailable (no longer accessible even when they would have been preferred). Our findings reveal how parents experience mixed outcomes, including unexpected longer term positive benefits following the shock. We contribute to boundary management and work–family scholarship by expanding our understanding of how boundary management transpires under conditions of role disruption, in a way that foregrounds how parental agency over work–family boundaries can be constrained and transformed by shock events.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aquí se trabaja el triple: A review of Latinas at work","authors":"Lorena Solis, Patricia Guerrero, Jennifer Feitosa","doi":"10.1111/apps.70139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70139","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The presence of Latina women in the US labor force has grown steadily, yet their workplace experiences remain deeply shaped by individual, occupational, and organizational factors. Recognizing the diversity of Latinas' backgrounds and work experiences, we conducted a scoping review of workplace research on Latinas across occupations, using the third shift as an interpretive lens. The third shift highlights how Latina women's labor often extends beyond paid work and household caregiving to include community care, extended family networks, and relational and emotional responsibilities. We developed an integrative nomological network illustrating how job and structural characteristics shape work and individual outcomes through mechanisms such as work–family conflict, perceived discrimination, acculturative stress, and perceived agency. Although Latinas work across diverse occupational contexts, the literature reveals recurring structural barriers that shape their experiences. These challenges are often compounded by limited access to key job resources, including flexibility, supervisor support, and culturally responsive workplace relationships. Our review extends theoretical frameworks most commonly used to study Latinas' workplace experiences, including the Job Demands–Resources and Work–Family conflict frameworks. We conclude with directions for future research and implications for more equitable workplace policies, practices, and interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}