How does Positive Experience of Yesterday Affect Work Engagement of Today?——A Study of Experience Sample and Daily Methods

Abstract

Abstract:

This study is to investigate potential positive within-person relationships between positive emotions, optimism, and work engagement on a daily level. Experience sample methods and diary study are used in this study. The sample consists of 65 secondary school teachers from two middle schools. We got 65 questionnaires and 455 pieces of within-person data. Our multi-level analysis reaches the following conclusions:(1) at the level of within-person, positive emotions, optimism and work engagement do fluctuate on the daily basis; (2) positive emotions of a day has a significant positive lag effect on the work engagement of the next day; (3) positive emotions of a day has a significant positive effect on optimism of the same day; (4) optimism of the day has a significant positive lag effect on work engagement of the next day; (5) optimism of a day partially mediates the positive relationship between positive emotions of the same day and work engagement of the next day. Our findings contribute to the work engagement and Broaden-and-Build Theory literatures in three primary ways. And several limitations are pointed out in this study.

Key words: work engagement, short-term fluctuation, positive emotions, optimism, lag effects

Guo Zhongze, Xie Baoguo, Cheng Yanyuan. How does Positive Experience of Yesterday Affect Work Engagement of Today?——A Study of Experience Sample and Daily Methods[J]. , 2019, 31(1): 171-182.

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