Abstract

Many employees worldwide combine a job with serious, goal-oriented ambitions in the athletic domain. However, scientific knowledge about day-to-day linkages between work and sports is lacking. We filled this gap in the literature by examining how experiences at work can enrich sports after work. Extending the work-home resources model to the work-sports interface, we posited that proactive work behaviors positively relate to work engagement – a state that may permeate into the sports domain and relate to positive sports outcomes. We conducted a diary study among 170 working recreational runners (598 measurement occasions). Within a three-week period, participants completed two surveys on days they worked and ran after work. Survey 1, completed at the end of the workday, covering proactive work behavior and work engagement, and survey 2, completed after running and covering running performance. The results of multilevel structural equation modeling indicated that on days employees showed more proactive behavior, they also reported higher work engagement. In turn, on days they reported higher work engagement, they recorded a steadier running pace. We discuss how these findings support the phenomenon of work-to-sports spillover and contribute to the current understanding of the interplay between work and sports.

摘要

世界各地的许多员工在一项运动领域中将工作与认真的，以目标为导向的野心相结合。但是，缺乏关于工作与体育之间的日常联系的科学知识。通过研究工作经验如何丰富下班后的体育活动，我们填补了文献中的空白。将工作场所资源模型扩展到工作体育界面，我们认为积极的工作行为与工作投入呈正相关-这种状态可能会渗透到运动领域并与积极的运动成果有关。我们对170位休闲娱乐跑步者进行了日记研究（598次测量）。在三周的时间内，参与者在工作日和下班后进行了两次调查。调查1在工作日结束时完成，涉及主动的工作行为和工作参与，调查2 跑步后完成并涵盖跑步性能。多层次结构方程建模的结果表明，在几天中，员工表现出更积极的行为，而且他们还报告了更高的工作投入。反过来，在他们报告较高的工作投入的日子里，他们的运行速度也保持了稳定。我们讨论了这些发现如何支持从工作到体育的外溢现象，并有助于当前对工作与体育之间相互作用的理解。