Marijke Verbruggen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4412277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marijke Verbruggen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marijke |
| FAMILY NAME | Verbruggen |
| SIGNATURE | VERBRUGGEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7375-7771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Digital disconnection as a socially embedded practice
This study conceptualizes children’s digital (dis)connection as a relational and moral practice embedded in the intertwined structures of family, school, and peers. Using a 360° interview approach, this study situates children, parents, and teachers within relational clusters to examine how digital (dis)connectionis negotiated across overlapping social contexts. Drawing on Giddens’ Structuration Theory the analysis demonstrates that children’s de…
Tangled in tech
Why do so many workers continue to work after hours using information and communication technology (ICT), even though this behavior induces tensions between them and their partner? To understand this paradoxical phenomenon, we conducted in-depth interviews with both partners of 22 dual-earner couples (i.e., 44 interviews), which we analyzed from a systems psychodynamic perspective. Our analysis revealed what we defined as the “Narrative of unavoi…
How Career and Non-Work Goal Progress Affect Dual Earners’ Satisfaction
Many career self-management models assume that career goal progress promotes satisfaction, but research on the topic has yielded mixed results. Adopting a whole-life perspective, this study examines how career and non-work goal progress relate to career, non-work, and life satisfaction and explores crossover effects and gender differences between dual-earner partners. We tested our research model using Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling on a …
Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection
Digital disconnection has emerged as a concept describing the actions people take to limit their digital connectivity to enhance their well-being. To date, evidence on its effectiveness is mixed, leading to calls for greater consideration of why, how, when, and for whom digital disconnection works. This article responds to these calls, presenting a framework that differentiates four key harms that contribute to experiences of digital ill-being (t…
Development and validation of the Career Inaction Scale
Career inaction is the phenomenon in which people do not take sufficient action to realize a desired change in their career. Despite recent theoretical advancements and strong indications that career inaction is a prevalent phenomenon that brings along important risks to both individuals and organizations, there is no reliable and valid scale to accurately measure it. Therefore, we developed and validated an eight‐item scale of career inaction (C…
Crafting when teleworking
A systematic review of temporal person‐environment fit research
In this systematic review, we present a comprehensive overview of the temporal person environment (PE) fit literature. To this end, we organize and integrate extant temporal fit research and discuss research trends and developments in the temporal domain. Our analysis reveals that temporal conceptualizations of fit vary in terms of change process (transitional, developmental, transformational), level of aggregation (situational vs. baseline level…
Stuck between me
Career transitions and employability
Here, there, & everywhere
Boundary role transitions
Does working from home on a given day complicate or rather facilitate combining work and home roles that day, why and for whom? To answer these questions, we examined how a teleworking day affects daily work-to-home conflict and daily home-to-work conflict. Based on boundary theory, we expected these relationships to be mediated by daily role transitions and moderated by employees’ preferences to protect their home(/work) domain from work(/home) …
All wired, all tired? Work-related ICT-use outside work hours and work-to-home conflict
Understanding dynamic change in perceptions of person–environment fit
The longstanding assumption in person–environment (PE) fit research is that perceived fit embodies the subjectively experienced match between personal and environmental attributes and hence triggers affect and behavior (i.e., normal causation perspective). This argument is however increasingly debated, with some scholars suggesting that the causal flow may also run from affect and behavior to perceived fit (i.e., reverse causation perspective), a…
Proactive career behaviors and subjective career success
Although career proactivity has positive consequences for an individual's career success, studies mostly examine objective measures of success within single countries. This raises important questions about whether proactivity is equally beneficial for different aspects of subjective career success, and the extent to which these benefits extend across cultures. Drawing on Social Information Processing theory, we examined the relationship between p…
Looking for a Family Man? Norms for Men Are Toppling in Heterosexual Relationships
Career Sidestep, Wage Setback? The Impact of Different Types of Employment Interruptions on Wages
We examined the wage implications of different types of wage employment interruptions in a sample of 44,384 Belgian employees. The employment interruption types included are family leave, unemployment, self‐employment, educational leave and a category other interruptions (for example, travel, voluntary work). We conduct separate analyses for men and women. Results indicate that unemployment spells and family breaks are penalized by lower subseque…
Boundary role transitions
Does working from home on a given day complicate or rather facilitate combining work and home roles that day, why and for whom? To answer these questions, we examined how a teleworking day affects daily work-to-home conflict and daily home-to-work conflict. Based on boundary theory, we expected these relationships to be mediated by daily role transitions and moderated by employees’ preferences to protect their home(/work) domain from work(/home) …
Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection
Digital disconnection has emerged as a concept describing the actions people take to limit their digital connectivity to enhance their well-being. To date, evidence on its effectiveness is mixed, leading to calls for greater consideration of why, how, when, and for whom digital disconnection works. This article responds to these calls, presenting a framework that differentiates four key harms that contribute to experiences of digital ill-being (t…
Proactive career behaviors and subjective career success
Although career proactivity has positive consequences for an individual's career success, studies mostly examine objective measures of success within single countries. This raises important questions about whether proactivity is equally beneficial for different aspects of subjective career success, and the extent to which these benefits extend across cultures. Drawing on Social Information Processing theory, we examined the relationship between p…
Career Sidestep, Wage Setback? The Impact of Different Types of Employment Interruptions on Wages
We examined the wage implications of different types of wage employment interruptions in a sample of 44,384 Belgian employees. The employment interruption types included are family leave, unemployment, self‐employment, educational leave and a category other interruptions (for example, travel, voluntary work). We conduct separate analyses for men and women. Results indicate that unemployment spells and family breaks are penalized by lower subseque…
Looking for a Family Man? Norms for Men Are Toppling in Heterosexual Relationships
Understanding dynamic change in perceptions of person–environment fit
The longstanding assumption in person–environment (PE) fit research is that perceived fit embodies the subjectively experienced match between personal and environmental attributes and hence triggers affect and behavior (i.e., normal causation perspective). This argument is however increasingly debated, with some scholars suggesting that the causal flow may also run from affect and behavior to perceived fit (i.e., reverse causation perspective), a…
Career Sidestep, Wage Setback? The Impact of Different Types of Employment Interruptions on Wages
We examined the wage implications of different types of wage employment interruptions in a sample of 44,384 Belgian employees. The employment interruption types included are family leave, unemployment, self‐employment, educational leave and a category other interruptions (for example, travel, voluntary work). We conduct separate analyses for men and women. Results indicate that unemployment spells and family breaks are penalized by lower subseque…
All wired, all tired? Work-related ICT-use outside work hours and work-to-home conflict
Understanding dynamic change in perceptions of person–environment fit
The longstanding assumption in person–environment (PE) fit research is that perceived fit embodies the subjectively experienced match between personal and environmental attributes and hence triggers affect and behavior (i.e., normal causation perspective). This argument is however increasingly debated, with some scholars suggesting that the causal flow may also run from affect and behavior to perceived fit (i.e., reverse causation perspective), a…
Proactive career behaviors and subjective career success
Although career proactivity has positive consequences for an individual's career success, studies mostly examine objective measures of success within single countries. This raises important questions about whether proactivity is equally beneficial for different aspects of subjective career success, and the extent to which these benefits extend across cultures. Drawing on Social Information Processing theory, we examined the relationship between p…
Looking for a Family Man? Norms for Men Are Toppling in Heterosexual Relationships
Boundary role transitions
Does working from home on a given day complicate or rather facilitate combining work and home roles that day, why and for whom? To answer these questions, we examined how a teleworking day affects daily work-to-home conflict and daily home-to-work conflict. Based on boundary theory, we expected these relationships to be mediated by daily role transitions and moderated by employees’ preferences to protect their home(/work) domain from work(/home) …
Career transitions and employability
Here, there, & everywhere
Stuck between me
Crafting when teleworking
A systematic review of temporal person‐environment fit research
In this systematic review, we present a comprehensive overview of the temporal person environment (PE) fit literature. To this end, we organize and integrate extant temporal fit research and discuss research trends and developments in the temporal domain. Our analysis reveals that temporal conceptualizations of fit vary in terms of change process (transitional, developmental, transformational), level of aggregation (situational vs. baseline level…
How Career and Non-Work Goal Progress Affect Dual Earners’ Satisfaction
Many career self-management models assume that career goal progress promotes satisfaction, but research on the topic has yielded mixed results. Adopting a whole-life perspective, this study examines how career and non-work goal progress relate to career, non-work, and life satisfaction and explores crossover effects and gender differences between dual-earner partners. We tested our research model using Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling on a …
Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection
Digital disconnection has emerged as a concept describing the actions people take to limit their digital connectivity to enhance their well-being. To date, evidence on its effectiveness is mixed, leading to calls for greater consideration of why, how, when, and for whom digital disconnection works. This article responds to these calls, presenting a framework that differentiates four key harms that contribute to experiences of digital ill-being (t…
Development and validation of the Career Inaction Scale
Career inaction is the phenomenon in which people do not take sufficient action to realize a desired change in their career. Despite recent theoretical advancements and strong indications that career inaction is a prevalent phenomenon that brings along important risks to both individuals and organizations, there is no reliable and valid scale to accurately measure it. Therefore, we developed and validated an eight‐item scale of career inaction (C…
Tangled in tech
Why do so many workers continue to work after hours using information and communication technology (ICT), even though this behavior induces tensions between them and their partner? To understand this paradoxical phenomenon, we conducted in-depth interviews with both partners of 22 dual-earner couples (i.e., 44 interviews), which we analyzed from a systems psychodynamic perspective. Our analysis revealed what we defined as the “Narrative of unavoi…
Digital disconnection as a socially embedded practice
This study conceptualizes children’s digital (dis)connection as a relational and moral practice embedded in the intertwined structures of family, school, and peers. Using a 360° interview approach, this study situates children, parents, and teachers within relational clusters to examine how digital (dis)connectionis negotiated across overlapping social contexts. Drawing on Giddens’ Structuration Theory the analysis demonstrates that children’s de…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Work (physics (5 works) · Higher Education and Employability (4 works) · Political science (4 works)