Dynamics Between Mental Health and Curiosity in Employee Well Being / Jessi Mariah Rivin.
This dissertation explores the relationship between anxiety, depression, and curiosity in employee well-being. The first essay reviews the existing curiosity research and adapts a measure of state curiosity. This adapted measure breaks state curiosity into two factors: a positively valenced experien...
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| Summary: | This dissertation explores the relationship between anxiety, depression, and curiosity in employee well-being. The first essay reviews the existing curiosity research and adapts a measure of state curiosity. This adapted measure breaks state curiosity into two factors: a positively valenced experience of interest and a negatively valenced feeling of deprivation. I also explore the relationship of state curiosity with trait curiosity and several workplace outcomes. The second essay uses an affective neuroscience perspective (Panksepp, 1998) to better understand the neurological basis of our emotional systems in two experience sampling methodology (ESM) studies. I focus on the FEAR (anxiety), PANIC (depression), and SEEKING (curiosity) systems as the key elements involved in the manifestation and relief of anxious and depressive symptomology. Critically, I find that eliciting state interest (curiosity) may decrease employees' experiences of state anxiety and state depression. Thus, state interest improves job satisfaction, engagement, self-efficacy, and work-goal progress through its effect on mental health. The final essay introduces a theory of "Affectively Infused Mental Time Travel," which connects employees' affect to their episodic memory by drawing on the affect infusion model. I argue that these emotional states influence mental time travel by coloring the content and direction of both voluntary and involuntary mental time travel. This negative cycle of depressive rumination or anxious worrying is tied to employee state affect and withdrawal behaviors. Ultimately, I propose a solution for organizations by integrating our model with theory on interaction ritual chains to underscore how organizations may break the cycle of negatively infused mental time travel. |
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| Item Description: | Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: B. Advisors: Cropanzano, Russell Committee members: Volpone, Sabrina; Heckman, David; Evans, Jon; Van Wagoner, Phoenix. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (158 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9798379532543 |
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| Language: | English |