Youngah Park

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | UIUC · The School of Labor and Employment Relations

Even if individuals are in a job or organization that is generally a good fit for them, they can still experience misfit with specific work demands. This study examines the proximal experiences of trait‐incongruent work demands among highly introverted individuals, offering a novel episodic and trait‐specific perspective on workplace misfit. Throug...

Latent state-trait research on work-family conflict confirms that occasionspecific variation in work-related demands is related to corresponding variations in perceptions of work interfering with family (WIF), but WIF also displays moderate (~35%) to substantial (~80%) trait-like stability over time. What is not clear to date is whether this cross-...

Student workers are largely understudied in organizational research, yet they represent an important part of the workforce. Their numbers are expected to rise as tuition continues to increase, and many adult workers are returning to school. The current study utilizes a person‐centric approach to investigate latent patterns of work–school conflict (...

Work–school conflict is a major stressor for many college students who have paid jobs while in college. Although work–school conflict experience is dynamic, the extant research has predominantly cast it and its consequences as between-person phenomena from a static perspective, ignoring its inherent temporal nature. As a result, little is known abo...

Recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery, and control; Sonnentag and Fritz (Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12, 204–221, 2007)) are thought to enhance both work and health outcomes, though the mechanisms are not well understood. We propose and test an integrated theoretical model in which work engagement...

The leader-member exchange (LMX) literature proposes that leaders tend to differentiate the quality of relationships among their followers, but it remains unclear how individual LMX and LMX differentiation (i.e., the degree to which followers' LMX quality with the same leader varies within a team) may jointly shape follower well-being such as work...

Customer sexual harassment (CSH) is a persistent problem that harms worker well-being in many service industries. In turn, bystander intervention in the workplace is critical for preventing and stopping customers' inappropriate behaviors as well as mitigating the detrimental effects of such harassment on workers. However, previous research has rare...

Several decades of research have addressed the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. However, segmented research streams with myriad terminologies run the risk of construct proliferation and lack an integrated theoretical justification of the contributions of ICT concepts. Therefore...

Grounded in self-regulatory resources and conservation of resources theories, the current research examines poor self-regulatory capacity as a precursor to microbreaks and their possible outcomes at work. Full-time employees completed multiple online surveys for 10 (n1 = 779 daily observations) and 5 workdays (n2 = 1,024 daily observations). In Stu...

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace has gained considerable research attention in the occupational health field due to its effects on employee stress and well-being. Consequently, new ICT-related constructs have proliferated in occupational health research, resulting in a need to take stock of both potential r...

Although e-mail incivility is becoming a growing concern in the workplace, it remains an understudied topic. Scholars have paid inadequate attention to its dimensionality (i.e., active and passive e-mail incivility) and its impact on well-being outcomes, thus precluding a more comprehensive understanding of its implications in the workplace. To add...

Information communication technologies (ICTs; e.g., smartphones) enable employees to work anywhere and anytime, blurring work and family boundaries. Building on this trend, this study draws from work‐family border/boundary theory to examine antecedents and consequences of employees’ weekly experiences of ICT demands (i.e., being accessible and cont...

Workplace incivility (i.e., rudeness and disrespect) is a pervasive problem that impacts a number of important employee workplace outcomes. This study expands past research on outcomes of experienced incivility by proposing a spillover-crossover model in which experienced incivility is associated with negative work rumination outside of work as wel...

This study examines the short‐term recovery benefits of weekend physical activity on reduced negative affective state (NA) on Monday morning, using a weekly diary method from 70 employees across four weekends (repeated pre‐ and post‐weekend measures). The first hypothesis tests the within‐person relationship between weekend physical activity and po...

As email communication becomes increasingly pervasive in the workplace, incivility can be manifested through work email. Integrating conservation of resources theory with spillover–crossover frameworks, the authors propose and test a couple‐dyadic model regarding email incivility's effects on work withdrawal for employees and their domestic partner...

Given that many employees use email for work communication on a daily basis, this study examined within-person relationships between day-level incivility via work email (cyber incivility) and employee outcomes. Using resource-based theories, the study examined two resources (i.e., job control, psychological detachment from work) that may alleviate...

Customer mistreatment is becoming an important topic for work stress researchers and practitioners given the rise of service industry. Taking stressor–emotion–control perspectives, the authors examine day-level relationships between call center workers’ customer mistreatment experiences and their impaired recovery outcomes mediated by end-of-work n...

Despite the growing research on work recovery and its well-being outcomes, surprisingly little attention has been paid to at-work recovery and its job performance outcomes. The current study extends the work recovery literature by examining day-level relationships between prototypical microbreaks and job performance as mediated by state positive af...

The number of college students employed while in school is increasing due to the rising cost of higher education. There are also working adults who are returning to school to obtain higher education or professional degrees while maintaining their paid jobs. This indicates that many working individuals have to manage work, school, and life demands,...

Recovery literature has focused predominantly on recovery processes outside the workplace during nonwork times. Considering a lack of research on momentary recovery at work, we examined four categories of micro-break activities—relaxation, nutrition-intake, social, and cognitive activities—as possible recovery mechanisms in the workplace. Using eff...

Despite growing recovery research, little is known about couple-dyadic processes of recovery from work. Given that dual-earner couples experience most of their recovery opportunities during nonwork times when they are together, partners in a couple relationship may substantially affect recovery and work engagement. In this study, we propose a coupl...

This study employed a weekly diary method among a sample of 74 Midwestern college student workers in order to examine the within-person relationships between work–school conflict, sleep quality, and fatigue over five weeks. Further, recovery self-efficacy was proposed as a cross-level moderator of the relation between sleep quality and fatigue. Res...

The current research examines micro-break activities as a recovery process and investigates the effects of employees' micro-break activities on their positive affect as well as job performance. Drawing on the conservation of resource theory and broaden-build model, it was hypothesized that four different types of micro-break activities (i.e., relax...

Research has indicated the importance of recovery from work stress for employee well-being and work engagement. However, very little is known about the specific factors that may support or hinder recovery in the context of dual-earner couples. This study proposes spousal recovery support as a potential resource that dual-earner couples can draw on...

This study extends prior college student employment research by examining health as an outcome variable. Using 2-wave data from a sample of 216 student workers, this study examined work-school conflict as a predictor of psychological and physical health among working college students. Additionally, 3 resource-providing variables-work-school facilit...

A sweeping collection of new essays gathers historical background, theoretical perspectives, and the latest research on integrating work and personal life in a multigenerational workforce. A half-century after the women's movement of the 1960s, women still have not achieved equality in the workplace, in part because the burdens of family still fall...

Although many military jobs are similar to those in the civilian world, the work environment for military personnel is often drastically different. This is due to many unique stressors associated with combat deployment, such as fellow soldiers’ injuries and death, sleep deprivation, and high levels of uncertainty. Military personnel also face many...

This study validated the recovery experience questionnaire developed by Sonnentag & Fritz (2007) using a Korean sample (N = 286). The four-factor model consisting of psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery, and control was also applied to this Korean sample, and each subscale showed a high internal consistency. Job demands, job control, techn...

Employees can have difficulty mentally distancing themselves from work during off-job time due to increasing use of communication technologies (e.g., e-mail, cell phone, etc.). However, psychological detachment from work during nonwork time is important for employee recovery and health. This study examined several antecedents of psychological detac...

Contemporary workers heavily use communication/information technologies (CIT; e.g., e-mails, mobile phones) at work and home. However, little research has investigated the effects of CIT use on work-family interference. Based on boundary theory, the present study focuses on employees' boundary creation around CIT use as a potential means to reduce...