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The Relationship between Opportunities for Professional Development and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Affective Well- Being and Moderating Role of Task-Contingent Conscientiousness
Zhongze Guo1, Baoguo Xie2,*, Jingru Chen3, Fuxi Wang4
1 School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, 100192, China
2 School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
3 Department of Educational Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-3101, USA
4 School of Business, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, 100029, China
* Corresponding Author: Baoguo Xie. Email:
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 2019, 21(3), 111-122. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2019.011040
Abstract
In extant literature, considerable research has focused on the
provoking effect of unfavorable work situations on counterproductive work
behaviors (CWB) (i.e., abusive supervision→trigger CWB). Adopting the
perspective of positive organizational scholarship and drawing on affective event
theory (AET), this study examined the inhibitory effect of perceptions of
favorable work situation on counterproductive work behaviors (i.e., uplifts
affective events→affective well-being→inhibit CWB). Hierarchical linear
modeling was used to test the hypotheses in a sample of 65 middle school
teachers in China who completed daily diary method surveys over 15
consecutive working days, and got within-individual observations (level 1, N =
975) were nested at the between-individual observations (level 2, N = 65).
Results suggested that, (1) Opportunities for professional development were
negatively related to CWB, (2) Affective well-being was negatively related to
CWB, and (3) Affective well-being partially mediated the relationship between
opportunities for professional development and CWB. Further, (4) Taskcontingent conscientiousness negatively moderated the negative relationship
between affective well-being and CWB. In the end, we discuss the implications
of the findings for both theory and practice.
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Guo, Z., Xie, B., Chen, J., Wang, F. (2019). The Relationship between Opportunities for Professional Development and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Affective Well- Being and Moderating Role of Task-Contingent Conscientiousness.
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 21(3), 111–122.
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