Emotional labor in coworker interactions is a prevalent phenomenon in everyday work. Yet, it is largely unknown whether it is also a relevant phenomenon, that is, whether emotional labor toward coworkers matters for employee daily work life. Addressing this question, we investigate...

Little is known about the role of perfectionism in employees' daily work. Our study aimed to provide a fine‐grained view on perfectionism in work life by examining daily work‐related perfectionism in terms of perfectionistic strivings and concerns. Drawing on whole trait theory and the...

Taking a temporal perspective, we examined how employees' mood (i.e., wakefulness‐tiredness, calmness‐tenseness, and pleasantness‐unpleasantness) develops during the workday and tested employees' daily recovery from work as a predictor of these mood trajectories. Specifically, we analysed...

The organizational self-control literature usually applies resource perspectives that explain self-control failure at work by depletion of self-control resources. However, these perspectives neglect the role of self-control motivation. On a daily level, we examine several self-control aspects...