The Role of Poor Sleep Quality in Producing Incivility at Work Among Working College Students
Advisor Information
Lisa Scherer
Location
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library
Presentation Type
Poster
Start Date
6-3-2015 2:00 PM
End Date
6-3-2015 3:30 PM
Abstract
Soaring tuition costs are leading a record number of college students to work an ever increasing number of hours while also attempting to meet the demands of a fulltime course load, which facilitates feelings of work-school conflict. Though relationships between work-school conflict and other attitudinal variables, such as job satisfaction, have been explored, a more insidious effect of work-school conflict, the creation of uncivil student-employees, remains unexamined. This study builds on prior work-school conflict research to determine its effect on sleep quality and incivility. We examined working college students to determine whether sleep quality would mediate the effect of work-school conflict on their tendency to behave uncivilly at work. Results indicated that sleep quality was negatively influenced by high work- school conflict and led to higher reports of workplace incivility. Implications for researchers, employers, and college personnel are discussed.
The Role of Poor Sleep Quality in Producing Incivility at Work Among Working College Students
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library
Soaring tuition costs are leading a record number of college students to work an ever increasing number of hours while also attempting to meet the demands of a fulltime course load, which facilitates feelings of work-school conflict. Though relationships between work-school conflict and other attitudinal variables, such as job satisfaction, have been explored, a more insidious effect of work-school conflict, the creation of uncivil student-employees, remains unexamined. This study builds on prior work-school conflict research to determine its effect on sleep quality and incivility. We examined working college students to determine whether sleep quality would mediate the effect of work-school conflict on their tendency to behave uncivilly at work. Results indicated that sleep quality was negatively influenced by high work- school conflict and led to higher reports of workplace incivility. Implications for researchers, employers, and college personnel are discussed.