Dealing with daily boredom at work: does self-control explain who engages in distractive behaviour or job crafting as a coping mechanism?

Figures & data

Figure 1. Graphical representation of the control-process model of coping with boredom.

Table 1. Means, standard deviations, percentage within person variance, and correlations between study variables.

	M	SD	% within person variance	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.
1. Trait self-control	3.15	0.47	n/a		−.08	−.39**	−.06	.21	−.20	−.04	.30*	−.25*
2. Work-related boredom t1	1.71	0.75	64.8	−		.80**	.46**	−.51**	.48**	.90**	−.50**	.32*
3. Distractive behaviour t1	1.86	0.68	69.5	−	.55**		.57**	−.54**	.42**	.87**	−.56**	.33*
4. Job crafting t1	1.83	0.79	57.7	−	.03	.01		−.29	.52**	.61**	−.20	.40**
5. Job satisfaction t1	7.35	1.41	68.6	−	−.49**	−.56**	.06		−.50**	−.60**	.98**	−.54**
6. Depressed mood t1	1.21	0.50	68.8	−	.20**	.21**	−.10	−.55**		.47**	−.45**	.97**
7. Work-related boredom t2	1.78	0.82	60.9	−	.45**	.37**	−.05	−.42**	.20**		−.56**	.34*
8. Job satisfaction t2	7.35	1.48	53.4	−	−.22**	−.23**	.13	.48**	−.32**	−.50**		−.50**
9. Depressed mood t2	1.22	0.50	54.5	−	−.03	−.09	−.04	−.17*	.32**	.21**	−.51**

Note. Within-person correlations below diagonal (N between 277 and 286). Between-person correlations above diagonal (N between 81 and 91).

* p < .05, **p < .01.

Figure 2. Results of multilevel path analysis (SE’s of estimates between parentheses; * p < .05, **p < .01).

Figure 3. Association between work-related boredom t1 and distractive behaviour t1 for high (M + 1 SD) and low (M − 1 SD) levels of trait self-control.

Figure 4. Association between work-related boredom t1 and job crafting t1 for high (M + 1 SD) and low (M − 1 SD) levels of trait self-control.