Claire Smith

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at University of South Florida

Grounded in and expanding upon the allostatic load model, the present study examined how repeated exposure to work and nonwork stressors (i.e., stressor pile-up) across an 8-day study period relates to daily strain-related outcomes—diurnal cortisol, physical symptoms, and sleep quantity and quality—in both parents and their adolescent children. Non...

Individuals of all ages require adequate sleep to maintain a healthy lifestyle; sleep health is especially vital in older adults, but often degraded after retirement. Poor sleep puts older adults at risk for physical and cognitive impairments, which can increase fall risk, difficulty performing daily activities, and chronic conditions like Type 2 d...

Healthy sleep is essential to employee well-being and productivity, but many modern workers do not obtain adequate sleep. Are technology-related changes to job design (i.e., computer use, sedentary work, nontraditional work schedules) related to long-term worsening of employee sleep health? The present study seeks to address this question using nat...

The social context of the workplace influences attendance decisions. Regardless of personal and job factors, employees may choose to engage in sickness presenteeism behaviour (i.e., working when unwell) because of perceived pressure from the organization. Using Social Information Processing Theory, we introduce the construct of presenteeism pressur...

Work may influence the home domain and subsequently impact employee sleep. Past work found that negative spillover mediated the relationship between perceived unfairness about work and insomnia symptoms across 20 years. As an extension of past work, this study investigated whether negative spillover and positive spillover mediate the relationship b...

Background The shift work schedule is a common work arrangement that can disrupt typical sleep-wake rhythms and lead to negative health consequences. The present study aims to examine the effect of shift work on health-related quality of life (QoL) and explore potential behaviorial mediators (i.e., sleep, eating, exercise, smoking, drinking). Meth...

Objetivo: A pesar de la popularidad de la atención plena en las investigaciones y las intervenciones, falta información sobre cómo y por qué la atención plena puede beneficiar la salud del sueño de los empleados. A partir de la teoría de la regulación de las emociones, evaluamos la rumia afectiva, el afecto negativo y el afecto positivo como mecani...

Objective To identify distinct sleep health phenotypes in adults, examine transitions in sleep health phenotypes over time and subsequently relate these to the risk of chronic conditions. Methods A national sample of adults from the Midlife in the United States study ( N = 3,683) provided longitudinal data with two timepoints (T1:2004-2006, T2:201...

Chronic conditions affect half of adults and are the leading cause of death in the United States. Healthy sleep is a modifiable risk factor, but greater information is needed about specific sleep experiences linked to chronic condition development. The present study aims to (1) identify within-person patterns of various sleep experiences (i.e., sle...

Black adults have higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to their White counterparts. Biopsychosocial frameworks suggest that this racial difference may not only be due to higher stressor exposure (e.g., discrimination) but also to stressor reactivity (i.e., heightened automatic reactions to stressors). This study examined if racial...

Negative and positive work experiences may spillover to the home domain and harm one’s sleep. This study investigated whether work-to-family spillover mediates the relationship between work characteristics and sleep health. Full-time workers (n=2,106) from the Midlife in the United States Study provided Time-1 data (T1: 2004-2006); a sub-set (n=1,4...

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic may negatively impact the careers of U.S. women faculty in computer science (CS) – a field with few women and high attrition rates among women – due to difficulties balancing increased work and family demands (author citation). Thus, it is important to understand whether supervisors may help to decrease this work-to-li...

Work is closely intertwined with employees’ sleep quantity and quality, with consequences for well-being and productivity. Yet despite the conceptualization of sleep health as a multidimensional pattern of various sleep characteristics, little is known about workers’ experiences of the diverse range of sleep health dimensions (e.g., sleep regularit...

Work demands can undermine engagement in physical exercise, posing a threat to employee health and well-being. Integrating resource theories and a novel decision-making theory called the decision triangle, we propose that this effect may emerge because work stress changes the energetic and emotional processes people engage in when making decisions...

Decisions during adulthood set the foundation for healthy aging, but descriptions of healthy and unhealthy decision processes are missing. We extracted latent profiles of daily decision resources (energy and affect) and linked them to daily leisure activity. Diary data was collected from working adults (N=83; Mage=37 years) over the ten workdays (N...

Good sleep is necessary for healthy aging, but it may be threatened by work stress. This study connected midlife job characteristics to trajectories of sleep health profiles (within-person configurations of key self-reported facets: duration, regularity, sleep onset latency or SOL, insomnia symptoms, feeling unrested, and napping) over one decade....

Leisure activities promote healthy aging, yet aging poses new challenges to engagement in active, meaningful, health-promoting leisure. This stalemate wherein people need to but struggle to engage in healthy leisure as they age calls for further research describing what healthy leisure entails, decision processes predicting it, and long-term conseq...

Sleep health during midlife sets the stage for health over the lifespan. Mindfulness, or present-moment awareness and attention, is shown to benefit sleep, yet mechanisms explaining these benefits are missing. Applying self-regulation theory, we test affective and cognitivemechanisms linking mindfulness to quantitative and qualitative sleep health....

Organizations rarely invest in contingent employees, at least relative to the human resources efforts commonly afforded to permanent workers — but should they? Traditional social exchange theory suggests that motivation and loyalty should be difficult to cultivate in short-term, fixed-term relationships like contingent employment. However, a novel...

During the COVID‐19 pandemic, teachers in the United States, an already at‐risk occupation group, experienced new work‐related stressors, safety concerns, and work‐life challenges, magnifying on‐going retention concerns. Integrating the crisis management literature with the unfolding model of turnover, we theorize that leader actions trigger initia...

Workplace incivility is generally viewed as a deleterious interpersonal stressor. Yet, alternative theories suggest that incivility may have instrumental implications for some targets. Applying signaling theory, we study client–provider relationships in a health care context to unpack linkages between incivility enacted by organizational outsiders...

Study Objectives Sleep is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular conditions. Holistic examination of within-person, multidimensional sleep patterns may offer more detailed information about the sleep-cardiovascular condition link, including who is more vulnerable to both. This study aimed to identify common sleep phenotypes in adulthood, estab...

Purpose While presenteeism is empirically linked to lower productivity, the role of a person's motives for engaging in presenteeism has been overlooked. Using a Conservation of Resources Theory framework, we examine the moderating effects of presenteeism motives (approach and avoidance motives) on the presenteeism–productivity relationship. Design...

For middle-aged adults, achieving adequate sleep is a challenge but essential for long-term health. The present study identified latent sleep profiles to clarify how multiple sleep variables (i.e., regularity, satisfaction, alertness, timing, efficiency, and duration) cooccur within middle-aged adults and the implications these holistic sleep exper...

Rationale Sleep health is best described by the co-occurrence of various dimensions (e.g., regularity, daytime alertness, satisfaction, efficiency, duration) but is rarely measured this way. Information is needed regarding common within-person patterns of sleep characteristics among adults and their relative healthiness. Objective To deepen unders...

There has been little theoretical and empirical attention to the role of time in studying levels of work–family conflict. Contrary to theoretical assumptions that work–family conflict is a highly dynamic construct, we borrow from established theories to describe a Stability and Change Model, which posits that work–family conflict levels are primari...

Many employees are drawn to work-from-home arrangements based on expectations that such arrangements will help them manage both work and home life more effectively. Yet, mixed empirical findings suggest that telework arrangements do not uniformly result in less interrole interference (i.e., work-home and home-work interference). Applying and extend...

Employees’ responses to work demands are crucially related to their occupational well‐being. The present study aimed to identify Big Five personality profiles of working adults and examine their connection to two central responses to work stress: work engagement and burnout. Four latent personality profiles emerged (i.e., overcontroller, undercontr...

In the current study, we strategically link the work–family literature to employee creativity, a construct seen as a linchpin for organizational success, through family‐supportive supervision based on the concept of reciprocity of interdependent exchanges within social exchange theory. In Study 1 (N = 188), based on data with a one‐month lag betwee...

As described in Chernyak-Hai and Rabenu's (2018) focal article, the workplace has changed tremendously over the past few decades. These changes, undoubtedly, have affected how individuals interact and build relationships in the workplace. We live in a “networked society,” where the advances in technology and subsequent spread of communication and i...