The increasing use of digital technologies has made the boundaries between work and private life more permeable, facilitating the continuation of work activities beyond regular working hours. Technology-Assisted Supplemental Work (TASW) represents one manifestation of this phenomenon and may interfere with recovery processes by maintaining work involvement not only at a behavioral level, but also at a cognitive level. From this perspective, work-related perseverative cognition may represent one of the mechanisms through which TASW is associated with sleep quality. The present study examined these relationships from a within-person perspective. A sample of 116 workers was monitored through daily questionnaires and a wearable device assessing sleep-related parameters. Multilevel analyses showed no significant associations between daily fluctuations in TASW and subjective sleep quality, Total Sleep Time, Wake After Sleep Onset, or Sleep Efficiency. In contrast, TASW was positively associated with work-related perseverative cognition: on days characterized by higher-than-usual TASW, participants also reported higher levels of work-related cognition. The hypothesized indirect effect of perseverative cognition in the relationship between TASW and sleep was not supported. Overall, the findings suggest that the daily consequences of TASW may primarily concern the continued mental presence of work during non-work time, without necessarily resulting in an immediate deterioration in sleep during the following night.
La crescente diffusione delle tecnologie digitali ha reso più permeabili i confini tra vita lavorativa e vita privata, facilitando la prosecuzione delle attività professionali anche oltre l’orario di lavoro. Il Technology-Assisted Supplemental Work (TASW) rappresenta una delle manifestazioni di questo fenomeno e può interferire con i processi di recupero, mantenendo il lavoratore coinvolto non solo sul piano comportamentale, ma anche mentale. In questa prospettiva, le perseverazioni cognitive legate al lavoro potrebbero rappresentare uno dei meccanismi attraverso cui il TASW si associa alla qualità del sonno. Il presente studio ha esaminato tali relazioni adottando una prospettiva intra-individuale. Hanno partecipato 116 lavoratori, monitorati attraverso questionari giornalieri e un dispositivo wearable per la rilevazione di parametri del sonno. Le analisi multilivello non hanno evidenziato associazioni significative tra variazioni giornaliere del TASW e qualità soggettiva del sonno, Total Sleep Time, Wake After Sleep Onset o Sleep Efficiency. È emersa invece un’associazione positiva tra TASW e perseverazioni cognitive: nelle giornate caratterizzate da un coinvolgimento nel TASW superiore rispetto al livello abituale, i partecipanti riportavano anche livelli più elevati di cognizioni legate al lavoro. Non è stato osservato l’effetto indiretto ipotizzato delle perseverazioni cognitive nella relazione tra TASW e sonno. Nel complesso, i risultati suggeriscono che le conseguenze quotidiane del TASW possano riguardare soprattutto la persistenza mentale del lavoro nel tempo libero, senza tradursi necessariamente in un peggioramento immediato del sonno della notte successiva.
Il ruolo delle perseverazioni cognitive nella relazione tra Technology-Assisted Supplemental Work e qualità del sonno: uno studio ambulatoriale
SABATINI, CAMILLA
2025/2026
Abstract
The increasing use of digital technologies has made the boundaries between work and private life more permeable, facilitating the continuation of work activities beyond regular working hours. Technology-Assisted Supplemental Work (TASW) represents one manifestation of this phenomenon and may interfere with recovery processes by maintaining work involvement not only at a behavioral level, but also at a cognitive level. From this perspective, work-related perseverative cognition may represent one of the mechanisms through which TASW is associated with sleep quality. The present study examined these relationships from a within-person perspective. A sample of 116 workers was monitored through daily questionnaires and a wearable device assessing sleep-related parameters. Multilevel analyses showed no significant associations between daily fluctuations in TASW and subjective sleep quality, Total Sleep Time, Wake After Sleep Onset, or Sleep Efficiency. In contrast, TASW was positively associated with work-related perseverative cognition: on days characterized by higher-than-usual TASW, participants also reported higher levels of work-related cognition. The hypothesized indirect effect of perseverative cognition in the relationship between TASW and sleep was not supported. Overall, the findings suggest that the daily consequences of TASW may primarily concern the continued mental presence of work during non-work time, without necessarily resulting in an immediate deterioration in sleep during the following night.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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