Work More And Indulge More?Exploring The Effect Of Over-time Work On The Individual Choices Of Leisure Type And Leisure Degree

In today's increasingly competitive society,many employees have to sacrifice their time off to work longer hours,long working hours consume personal resources of employees,so that employees enter the state of ego depletion and have a stressful response.It will not only cause heavy burden on their physical health,but also affect their psychological status,and may present symptoms such as anxiety and depression.At the same time,due to the long working hours and the imbalance of roles played by employees,the conflicts between family and work are generated,resulting in the decrease of people's happiness.What separates the individual from the hard work and helps the individual recover from exhaustion is proper recreation,it ensures that employees are able to consistently output,once the resource replenishment and recovery process is blocked,it may lead to poor working status of employees in the short term,and individual job burnout in the long term,as well as extremely poor physical and mental health status.Therefore,necessary rest and leisure play a vital role in the sustainable development of individuals.Previous leisure research mainly focused on leisure motivation,leisure satisfaction,leisure object and leisure type and so on.As for leisure type,it mainly concentrated in the two groups of tourists and urban residents,as for the special group of employees,it is barely involved.However,the spillover effect of long working hours may affect the individual choices and preference of leisure type,for leisure type,the research also focuses on the serious leisure that is more beneficial in the long term,while few articles focus on the casual leisure.Further,in addition to figure out how employees would choose the type of leisure and leisure degree.Therefore,this paper,under the resource control theory and self-license theory,researches the impact of overtime working on individuals' choices of leisure type and degree.In study 1,we investigated the effect of overtime working on individuals' choices of leisure type.Ego depletion and justification are two mediators in this model,and ego depletion is mediated by action control orientation,and only for state-oriented individual,ego depletion can play intermediary effect to affect the choices of leisure type;construal level affects leisure behavior through adjusting the justification.Under the circumstance of overtime working,only when people are at a low construal level,their justification start up and produce the intermediary effect.In study 2,we investigated the effect of overtime working on individuals' choices of leisure degree.The results showed that compared with non-overtime working individuals,those who worked overtime were more inclined to indulgence leisure.The two mediating effects of ego depletion and justification are significant,and ego depletion is still regulated by the individual's action control orientation.Only the state-oriented individual can exert the mediating effect and have an impact on the choices of leisure degree.The construal level still exerts a moderating effect on the justification.In the case of overtime working,only the individuals with a low level of interpretation can stimulate the self-licensing effect and justify the subsequent indulgence.There are three main innovations of this thesis: First,to supplement the previous research in the field of leisure.Previous research spot lights on leisure,leisure economy,leisure motivation,leisure constraints or leisure involvement,the effect of leisure involvement on the public's wellbeing and leisure benefits and,which all more focus on related follow-up studies of leisure,while this study focuses on a specific and unique group who work in a particular environment,and study how this unique leisure object after long working time and consuming more energy to choose the leisure type and leisure degree.Therefore,this thesis extends the research on the foreword of the leisure field and expands the dimension and breadth of the leisure field.Second,to enrich the research on overtime working and effort,and expand its application in the field of personal leisure.Being different with the study on individual material preference and choices of product or service type,this thesis mainly focus on individual choices on leisure type and leisure degree after overtime working and tend to figure out individual preference of time-consuming behavior.Third,to put forward the new division angle about leisure type and perfect the research on leisure type.leisure type is classified mostly from the perspective of leisure activities or feature,which is namely the horizontal division,however there is not some literature about the leisure type that is classified vertically,in addition to study how individual choose leisure activities or leisure type,we should also pay attention to the time people spend in leisure activities.