Gender, emotional support and innovative behavior: psychological capital as a mediator

IF 4.1 3区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Management Decision Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1108/md-02-2023-0266

Aboalhasan Hosseini, Seyedeh Fatemeh Ghasempour Ganji, Léo-Paul Dana

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper explores the direct and indirect effects of family emotional, social and organizational support on Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) through psychological capital (Psy.Cap).

Design/methodology/approach

Selected by conducting stratified random sampling techniques, 397 employees completed a questionnaire. We used structural equation modeling and multi-group testing by Smart-PLS3 to analyze the data.

Findings

Findings reveal that all sources of social-emotional support, including family, supervisor and co-worker support, positively affect Psy.Cap. Moreover, Psy.Cap mediates the effect of family, co-workers and supervisors' emotional support on IWB. The multi-group analysis indicates that all relationships in the model are significant for both groups of males and females; however, there are no significant differences in the link between organizational support and psychological capital, as well as family and co-worker support and innovative work behavior between males and females. The study's results demonstrate the significantly higher impact of family emotional support – Psy.Cap and supervisor support on IWB amongst females compared to their male counterparts.

Originality/value

The implications of this research highlight the importance of considering affective factors on employees’ IWB, as well as the differences between genders in this regard.

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性别、情感支持与创新行为：心理资本是中介

目的本文通过心理资本（Psy.Cap）探讨了家庭情感支持、社会支持和组织支持对创新工作行为（IWB）的直接和间接影响。我们采用结构方程模型和 Smart-PLS3 的多组检验对数据进行了分析。研究结果研究结果表明，包括家庭、上司和同事支持在内的所有社会情感支持来源都会对心理资本（Psy.Cap）产生积极影响。此外，Psy.Cap 在家庭、同事和主管的情感支持对 IWB 的影响中起着中介作用。多组分析表明，模型中的所有关系对于男性和女性组都是显著的；但是，组织支持与心理资本之间的联系，以及家庭和同事支持与创新工作行为之间的联系，在男性和女性之间没有显著差异。研究结果表明，与男性相比，家庭情感支持（Psy.Cap）和上司支持对女性创新工作行为的影响更大。

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Management Decision Multiple-

CiteScore

8.20

自引率

8.70%

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126

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