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    "title": "TAP reading note: A meta-analysis of the influence of work connectivity behavior after-hours on employees: The mediating role of work autonomy and psychological detachment",
    "description": "After-hours work connectivity may be associated with both greater autonomy and less detachment. The correlation-based model estimated indirect paths through autonomy of about .05 for both work–family balance and task performance; paths through detachment were −.18 and −.03 respectively. These are statistical pathways pointing in different directions.",
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      "id": "li-2025-work-connectivity",
      "title": "A meta-analysis of the influence of work connectivity behavior after-hours on employees: The mediating role of work autonomy and psychological detachment",
      "authors": "Hu Li · Jianguo Li · Lei Zeng · Lingjie Su",
      "journal": "Advances in Psychological Science",
      "year": "2025",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1042.2025.0411",
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        "id": "li-2025-work-connectivity",
        "title": "A meta-analysis of the influence of work connectivity behavior after-hours on employees: The mediating role of work autonomy and psychological detachment",
        "authors": "Hu Li · Jianguo Li · Lei Zeng · Lingjie Su",
        "journal": "Advances in Psychological Science",
        "year": "2025",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1042.2025.0411",
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          "After-hours work connectivity may be associated with both greater autonomy and less detachment. The correlation-based model estimated indirect paths through autonomy of about .05 for both work–family balance and task performance; paths through detachment were −.18 and −.03 respectively. These are statistical pathways pointing in different directions."
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          "71 sources and 283 effects: 68 original-study reports plus three previous meta-analyses, not 71 independent primary studies. Samples differed by outcome.",
          "Correlation-based mediation cannot establish temporal order or causality. Main-model RMSEA=.14 indicates limited fit; mixed designs, report overlap and possible nonlinearity also matter. Findings do not establish that after-hours connectivity is invariably beneficial or harmful."
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          "71 sources and 283 effects: 68 original-study reports plus three previous meta-analyses, not 71 independent primary studies. Samples differed by outcome."
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          "Reliability-corrected correlations and meta-analytic structural-equation models of connectivity, autonomy and detachment."
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        "paragraphs": [
          "Work–family balance, task performance and two indirect pathways; not randomized intervention effects."
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          "National Natural Science Foundation of China 72072086."
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          "The competing-interest statement has not been verified."
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        "title": "Reading scope",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Chinese full-text search, coding, structural modelling, Tables 4–7 and limitations. Model matrices, report overlap and the peer-review attachment require further examination."
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