Identity work support perceptions (IWSP): Development of a construct and measure.

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Journal of Applied Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-01 DOI:10.1037/apl0001177

Esther L Jean, Nicolina Taylor, Wayne S Crawford, Alison V Hall, Hoda Vaziri, Wendy J Casper, Lars U Johnson

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Abstract

Every day, people perform internal (e.g., thoughts) and external (e.g., behaviors) activities to repair, strengthen, or revise their identities at work. Despite organizations being the main stage on which this identity work (IW) occurs and a major contextual element invoking identity work, scholars still lack an understanding of employees' beliefs about their organizations' support for identity work. In this research, we conceptualize and operationalize identity work support perceptions (IWSP)-defined as the degree to which employees perceive that their organization encourages, allows, or provides opportunities to think about, talk about, or display aspects of work and nonwork identities, or engage in activities that foster understanding and sharing of identities. We develop a scale to measure four dimensions (i.e., cognitive, discursive, behavioral, and physical) of IWSP using seven empirical samples (two samples of subject matter experts and five samples of employed adults). We provide evidence of reliability, as well as content, convergent, and discriminant validity with constructs in IWSP's nomological network and IWSP's incremental predictive ability of attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Implications of our findings for research and practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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身份工作支持感（IWSP）：构建和测量方法的开发。

每天，人们都在开展内部（如思想）和外部（如行为）活动，以修复、加强或修正他们在工作中的身份。尽管组织是身份认同工作（IW）发生的主要舞台，也是引发身份认同工作的主要环境因素，但学者们仍然缺乏对员工对组织支持身份认同工作的信念的了解。在本研究中，我们对身份工作支持感（IWSP）进行了概念化和操作化，其定义为员工认为其所在组织鼓励、允许或提供机会思考、谈论或展示工作和非工作身份的程度，或参与促进理解和分享身份的活动的程度。我们使用七个实证样本（两个主题专家样本和五个受雇成年人样本）开发了一个量表，用于测量 IWSP 的四个维度（即认知、话语、行为和物理）。我们提供了相关证据，证明了 IWSP 名义网络中的构建要素的可靠性、内容有效性、聚合有效性和判别有效性，以及 IWSP 对态度和行为结果的增量预测能力。本文讨论了我们的研究结果对研究和实践的影响。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。

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Journal of Applied Psychology Multiple-

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17.60

自引率

6.10%

发文量

175

期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Psychology® focuses on publishing original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (excluding clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are better suited for other APA journals). The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena in work and organizational settings. These phenomena can occur at individual, group, organizational, or cultural levels, and in various work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions. The journal welcomes submissions from both public and private sector organizations, for-profit or nonprofit. It publishes several types of articles, including: 1.Rigorously conducted empirical investigations that expand conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses). 2.Theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews that synthesize literature and generate new theories on psychological phenomena to stimulate novel research. 3.Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are challenging to capture with quantitative methods or require inductive theory building.