Our results support the spillover effect, suggesting that experienced incivility is linked to employee insomnia symptoms through rumination. However, the crossover effect was only found among work-linked couples.
Charlotte Fritz, Young Ah Park, & Brittnie R. Shepherd
Employees who experienced workplace incivility ruminated about it after work, which was linked to insomnia. If the employee’s spouse worked at the same place or in the same occupation, there was some spill-over effect.
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