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The Moderating Role of Work-Related Rumination in Nurses’ Sleep Quality Trajectory During Morning Shift Work

Anja BaethgeVerena C. Haun

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSleep quality05 social sciencesWork relatedDevelopmental psychologyShift work03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine0502 economics and businessRuminationTrajectorymedicineSleep (system call)medicine.symptomAdaptation (computer science)Psychology050203 business & management030217 neurology & neurosurgeryApplied PsychologyMorning

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Abstract. This diary study investigated nurses’ recovery after transitioning to morning shift work (i.e., their short-term adaptation to shift work) by examining the change trajectory of sleep quality over the course of five consecutive morning shifts. Results of latent growth analyses ( N = 132) showed that nurses’ sleep quality started at low levels and increased rapidly in the beginning until it stabilized toward the end of the shift work period. Moreover, work-related rumination moderated the sleep quality trajectory. When rumination was low, nurses’ sleep quality showed a quadratic trajectory, whereas when rumination was high, sleep quality showed a flatter and linear trajectory, suggesting that rumination impedes recovery after the transition and adaptation to morning shift work.

https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000247