• DOI:10.1037/a0027557
• Corpus ID: 2422708

Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.

@article{Wagner2012LostSA,
  title={Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.},
  author={David Turley Wagner and Christopher M. Barnes and Vivien K. G. Lim and D. Lance Ferris},
  journal={The Journal of applied psychology},
  year={2012},
  volume={97 5},
  pages={
          1068-76
        }
}

• D. T. Wagner, Christopher M. Barnes, +1 author D. L. Ferris
• Published 2012
• Psychology
• The Journal of applied psychology

The Internet is a powerful tool that has changed the way people work. However, the ubiquity of the Internet has led to a new workplace threat to productivity-cyberloafing. Building on the ego depletion model of self-regulation, we examine how lost and low-quality sleep influence employee cyberloafing behaviors and how individual differences in conscientiousness moderate these effects. We also demonstrate that the shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in cyberloafing behavior at the national level. We first tested the DST-cyberloafing relation through a national quasi-experiment, then directly tested the relation between sleep and cyberloafing in a closely controlled laboratory setting. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, practice, and future research.