The Furr-Recovery Method: Interacting with Furry Co-Workers during Work Time Is a Micro-Break That Recovers Workers' Regulatory Resources and Contributes to Their Performance
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| Abstract |
Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and the recovery step model our research expands on a cognitive (regulatory resources) mechanism that links human-animal interactions and employee performance. This study aimed to explore whether daily human-animal interactions during worktime would be conceived as a daily-recovery process that restores the individual's daily regulatory resources and, as a result, improves daily adaptive and task performance. To test this, a daily diary study during 10 working days, with 105 teleworkers was performed (N = 105 × 10 = 1050). Multilevel results demonstrated that daily interactions between human and their pets served to recover their daily regulatory resources that, in turn, improved daily task-and-adaptive performance. This research not only expands our theoretical understanding of regulatory resources as a cognitive mechanism that links human-animal interactions to employee effectiveness but also offers practical implications by highlighting the recovery role of interacting with pets during the working day, as a way to restore resources needed to be more effective at work. |
| Publication Title | Int J Environ Res Public Health |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 20 |
| ISBN/ISSN | 1661-7827 (Print)1660-4601 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph192013701 |
| Language | eng |
| Author Address | Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal.Superior School of Management, IPT-Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, 2300-313 Tomar, Portugal. |
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