With watching TV being one of the most popular leisure activities in Norway and elsewhere, we are asking what effect TV has on occupational well-being and organizational effectiveness.
With watching TV being one of the most popular leisure activities in Norway and elsewhere, we are asking what effect TV has on occupational well-being and organizational effectiveness.
Watching TV is ever more popular. Non-linear TV consumption via streaming media services has millions of subscribers worldwide. At the same time, linear TV (i.e., programs that can only be watched according to the broadcaster’s programming schedule) is not dead either. Many people devote a big chunk of time to watching TV, particularly in the evening. But what does this do to their occupational health and their performance at work on the next day? Does everything that happens in Lilyhammer stay in Lilyhammer? This project aims to answer these questions and consists of two daily-diary studies (i.e., an event-sampling approach) investigating TV’s daily effects on exhaustion, work engagement, and helping behavior. In the study conducted in Norway, we analyzed the daily variation of our core research variables and piloted the study design. In the second study conducted in the U.K., we worked together with the panel provider Prolific Academic and sampled 99 employees answering our questions on 740 days. At the moment, we are working on the dissemination of our results.
Principal investigator (P.I): Dana Unger
Project members/Collaborators: Hermann Magnus Oddsønn Døsvik, Anett Rago
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