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Junça Silva, A., Caetano, António & Lopes, M. (2017). Are you bored at work? The moderating role of mindfulness between daily hassles and well-being in bored jobs. 18th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.

A. L. Silva et al.,  "Are you bored at work? The moderating role of mindfulness between daily hassles and well-being in bored jobs", in 18th Congr. of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Dublin, 2017

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	author = "Junça Silva, A. and Caetano, António and Lopes, M.",
	title = "Are you bored at work? The moderating role of mindfulness between daily hassles and well-being in bored jobs",
	year = "2017",
	howpublished = "Ambos (impresso e digital)"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Are you bored at work? The moderating role of mindfulness between daily hassles and well-being in bored jobs
T2  - 18th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
AU  - Junça Silva, A.
AU  - Caetano, António
AU  - Lopes, M.
PY  - 2017
CY  - Dublin
AB  - Purpose: Work-related boredom is characterized by a lack of interest and difficulty concentrating. It can be defined as a negative and deactivated emotion. Research on work-related boredom has generally shown that its causes relate to characteristics of both the individual and the work experiences. Despite is importance, empirical studies exploring which work-related daily events are more likely to induce boredom, are scarce. Thus, we aim to explore the relationship between work-related daily events and boredom at work. We propose a model suggesting that work-related daily events induce immediate feelings of boredom, and that such bored feelings leads to lesser well-being. We further posed that mindfulness can mitigate work-related boredom and its negative outcomes.
Design: A diary study with workers from jobs characterized as boredom ones. 
Results: Results support our model and suggest that diverse work-related daily events increase the likelihood to experience boredom at work. Plus, mindfulness buffers the negative effects that boredom has on employees well-being.
Limitations: The cross-sectional nature of the study, as well as, the self-reported nature of the data limits the generalization of our results. 
Practical Implications: This study extends previous findings on boredom at work and its consequences for employees well-being. Results also evidence the relevant role that mindfulness practices may have to mitigate the negative effects of boredom in the workplace.
Originality: This is the first diary study, conducted with employees in jobs characterized to be “bored”, and establishes a link between specific work-related daily events to feelings of boredom. Moreover, extends knowledge on strategies to buffer the negative effects of being bored at work on employees well-being.  

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