Does Strengths Use Mean Better Focus? Well-being and Attentional Performance at the Episodic Level

Abstract Positive psychology postulates that using one’s strengths can facilitate employee well-being and performance at work. However, whether use is associated with attentional has remained unanswered in the literature. Attention plays a role job performance, previous literature suggested contrasting link between (i.e., positive affect) performance. We hypothesize that, within work episodes, strength positively eudaimonic meaningfulness personal growth) hedonic affect). Further, we test episodic process model by arguing during one episode are negatively related to subsequent In total, 115 participants registered for current study, 86 filled out daily questionnaire once per day across five working days (a total of 365 reports). Multilevel analyses showed was not directly Episodic higher level meaningfulness, growth, affect. turn, experienced growth affect did explain variance These findings suggest may be accompanied although latter detrimental Theoretical implications contributions discussed.