Yuxiang Luan, Zixu Zhang, Jiaxin Xue, Danyang Wang
{"title":"Exploring the reciprocal relationships between job demands, job resources, and workplace misconduct: A meta-analytic panel analysis","authors":"Yuxiang Luan, Zixu Zhang, Jiaxin Xue, Danyang Wang","doi":"10.1111/apps.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the reciprocal relationships between job demands, job resources, and workplace misconduct using a meta-analytic cross-lagged analysis (<i>k</i> = 21, <i>N</i> = 14,897 for demands; <i>k</i> = 8, <i>N</i> = 7,934 for resources). Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory and the job demands–resources (JD–R) theory, we develop hypotheses regarding the reciprocal associations of demands and resources with misconduct. Results support these expectations: job demands and misconduct are reciprocally related, as well as job resources and misconduct. Moderation analyses partially support the moderating roles of demand type (hindrance vs. challenge demands; social vs. organizational demands) and country-level job resources in the associations between job demands and misconduct. Continuous-time analyses further indicate that reciprocal associations between job demands and workplace misconduct change over time. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tipping pressure as a societal stressor: Cognitive and emotional pathways to mastery experience","authors":"Mansik Yun","doi":"10.1111/apps.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present research investigated how tipping pressure relates to employees' mastery experience through cognitive and emotional mechanisms. Additionally, we examined the moderating roles of empathy and conscientiousness in these processes. Data were collected over seven consecutive weeks from 106 participants (57 male, 47 female, and 2 unspecified), yielding 623 observations. At the within-person level, tipping pressure predicted both rumination and negative emotions. However, neither rumination nor negative emotions exhibited unconditional mediation effects on mastery experience. Instead, evidence of moderated mediation emerged in the cognitive pathway: empathy moderated the relationship between tipping pressure and rumination, and conscientiousness moderated the relationship between rumination and mastery experience. No moderated mediation was observed for the emotional pathway. These findings suggest that the relationship between tipping pressure and mastery experience is conditional upon individual differences in self-regulatory processes rather than reflecting a general indirect effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participative leadership and workgroup commitment as multilevel resources for employee well-being: A cross-level examination","authors":"Roy B. L. Sijbom, Hanneke Grutterink","doi":"10.1111/apps.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the present paper, we argue that participative leadership may operate as a multilevel resource for employee well-being within organizational workgroups. We suggest that individual and collective perceptions of participative leadership may function at different levels of analysis and have distinct associations with employee well-being (i.e., job satisfaction and burnout). Moreover, drawing on conservation of resources theory and social identification theory, we posit that workgroup commitment serves as a cross-level boundary condition for the relationship between individual perceptions of participative leadership and employee well-being. Using time-lagged designs across two samples (Study 1: 155 employees in 48 workgroups; Study 2: 206 employees in 54 workgroups), we find that both individual and collective perceptions of participative leadership are positively related to job satisfaction and negatively related to burnout. Cross-level interaction analyses further reveal that workgroup commitment attenuates the individual-level relationship between participative leadership and job satisfaction and, less consistently, burnout. These findings suggest that workgroup commitment can serve as a psychological resource at the workgroup level, reducing reliance on participative leadership and highlighting its role as a boundary condition for leadership effectiveness and employee well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jérémy J. C. Thomas, Tiphaine Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, Claude Fernet, Sophie Berjot
{"title":"Understanding remote workers' job demands and resources and their implications for well- and ill-being: Development and validation of a new measure","authors":"Jérémy J. C. Thomas, Tiphaine Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, Claude Fernet, Sophie Berjot","doi":"10.1111/apps.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on the Job Demands-Resources model, this mixed-methods research aimed to better understand the nature, measurement, and psychological implications of remote work job demands and resources. Relying on a qualitative approach and on the existing literature, Study 1 allowed the identification and conceptualization of job demands and resources frequently experienced by remote workers. Studies 2 to 4 relied on quantitative cross-sectional designs to test the structural, criterion, discriminant, and incremental validity of the French and English versions of the Remote work Job Demands and Resources-Questionnaire (RJDR-Q). Results provided support for a final 30-item version measuring 10 remote work job demands (i.e., extended availability expectations, communication problems, social isolation, technological hassles, and personal interruptions) and resources (i.e., schedule flexibility, focused work, effective virtual communication, time-saving, and functionality of the remote work environment). Furthermore, findings revealed that these remote work job demands and resources (1) had significant associations with remote workers' psychological health and work–home experiences, (2) were, overall, weakly correlated with general job demands and resources, and (3) explained remote workers' functioning over and above general job demands and resources. Altogether, this research enriches our understanding of employees' subjective experience of remote work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manon Eluère, Jean-Philippe Heuzé, Alex J. Benson, Chloé Leprince, Valérian Cécé, Simon Isserte, Luc J. Martin
{"title":"A longitudinal investigation of how intercultural competence and cultural diversity relate to teamwork in professional women's football","authors":"Manon Eluère, Jean-Philippe Heuzé, Alex J. Benson, Chloé Leprince, Valérian Cécé, Simon Isserte, Luc J. Martin","doi":"10.1111/apps.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars studying cultural diversity in groups have largely overemphasized implications for objective outcomes, overlooking relevant processes that influence those outcomes (i.e., teamwork) and team member competencies related to cultural diversity (i.e., intercultural competence). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to longitudinally investigate the relationship between two indicators of cultural diversity (i.e., national variety and language disparity), team members' intercultural competence, and perceptions of teamwork. A total of 501 professional women football players (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 22.54 years, ± 4.46) from 21 teams across the top leagues in France (D1 = 177; D2 = 324) completed questionnaires pertaining to intercultural competence and teamwork, with 342 responding at all three time-points. Measures of national cultural variety and language disparity were computed using the Blau index and Matiti index, respectively. Using multilevel latent growth curve modeling, results showed that intercultural competence tended to be positively associated with perceptions of teamwork and that these relationships became stronger in teams that were more diverse. The results also indicated that this positive effect varied as a function of the type of cultural diversity being considered and that the relationship patterns were stable across time. For example, intercultural competence only positively predicted teamwork execution in teams with high levels of national–cultural variety. Such nuanced findings are discussed in detail herein, with implications to the literature and future research directions being put forward. Further, major strengths pertaining to the elite nature and size of the sample and the focus on women's sport are emphasized.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does feeling envied lead to knowledge sharing or hiding? A social functional perspective on authentic and hubristic pride","authors":"Xiang Cheng, Fangjun Li","doi":"10.1111/apps.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beyond interpersonal concerns and anxieties, employees who are envied may also perceive self-advantages and self-affirmation, which profoundly shape how they interact with colleagues. Drawing on the social functional perspective on emotions, we propose that being envied can simultaneously promote knowledge sharing through authentic pride and induce knowledge hiding through hubristic pride. We further argue that a mastery climate that emphasizes learning and knowledge strengthens the former pathway, whereas a performance climate that highlights competition and comparison amplifies the latter. Evidence from a vignette-based experiment (Study 1) and three multi-wave, time-lagged surveys (Studies 2a, 2b, and 3)—involving 1077 full-time employees—generally supports the proposed dual-pathway model. These findings deepen our understanding of envied employees' interpersonal behaviors and offer practical insights into leveraging their human capital.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Newcomers' stress and organizational socialization: The role of self-efficacy, learning, and supervisors' information sharing","authors":"Ying Ma","doi":"10.1111/apps.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Individuals transitioning into a new organization are often placed in a high-anxiety situation, which can hinder their ability to quickly integrate into the organization. However, studies that directly apply a stress perspective to socialization-related phenomena remain scarce. Based on social cognition theory, I examined how and when newcomers' task and relationship stress affect their adjustment during organizational socialization. In Study 1, I collected paired data from 259 newcomers and their direct supervisors via an online survey company for academic research. The findings showed that task self-efficacy and task learning serially mediated the effect of newcomers' task stress on job performance and turnover intention. Relationship self-efficacy and relationship learning serially mediate the effect of newcomers' relationship stress on social integration and turnover intention. In addition, the results supported the moderating role of supervisors' information sharing, as it weakened the effect of newcomers' stress on self-efficacy. In Study 2, paired data from 437 newcomers and their direct supervisors were collected from three technology information companies. The analysis results largely supported the research hypotheses and further strengthened the conclusions. Theoretical contributions, practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147707936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denise Law, Midori Nishioka, Douglas J. Brown, James W. Beck
{"title":"Clarifying perceived task help receipt in the workplace: Construct definition and scale development","authors":"Denise Law, Midori Nishioka, Douglas J. Brown, James W. Beck","doi":"10.1111/apps.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although task-focused help behavior is commonplace in modern workplaces, organizational researchers lack a valid behaviorally specific, recipient-centered measure of this type of assistance. <i>Perceived task help receipt</i> refers to an employee's perception that another person has enacted a discrete, task-related behavior that the recipient experienced as helping them complete their work. Despite its role in shaping workplace experiences, the construct remains undertheorized and underexamined empirically. To address this oversight, we developed and validated a reliable measure of this construct using data from five studies (N = 3014). Items were generated inductively and refined through expert review to ensure content validity. Although we find that task-based help behavior is heterogeneous, encompassing perceived knowledge, materials, and labor, bifactor analysis supported a general-factor conceptualization of the construct, leading us to recommend composite scoring. The measure demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity, correlating as expected with related constructs (e.g., OCB-I received, help availability) while maintaining empirical distinctiveness. Criterion-related validity was supported through predicted associations with relevant outcomes, such as performance and need satisfaction. This measure provides a theoretically consequential, psychometrically sound tool for capturing how employees experience task-directed helping behavior, enabling more precise theory and research on this key form of workplace assistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It's not you, it's me: How follower perceptions of utility affect impressions of self-serving leader behavior","authors":"Pearlyn H. S. Ng, Kristyn A. Scott","doi":"10.1111/apps.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Much of the research on negative leader behavior focuses on overtly harmful behaviors, overlooking subtler forms of self-interest like self-serving leadership, where leaders prioritize their own interests, potentially to their followers' detriment. Our research extends the conceptualization of self-serving leader behaviors and explores how followers perceive and respond to it. Specifically, we explore how social categorization induces followers to support leaders when they engage in self-serving behavior. Building on social identity theories, we hypothesize that leader prototypicality buffers negative perceptions of self-serving leader behaviors by impacting followers' inferences of the extent to which they will benefit from their self-serving leader. The results of an experimental vignette study (<i>N</i> = 327) and a time-lagged correlational study (<i>N</i> = 314) show that self-serving leader behavior was associated with lower perceived utility, which in turn predicted lower perceived leader effectiveness. Prototypicality moderated the association between self-serving behavior and perceived utility in both studies, although the direction of this moderation differed by study design and is consistent with the view that prototypicality derives its meaning from ongoing relational and identity processes (Study 2) rather than isolated cues (Study 1).</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving to the next level: When and how team social dominance orientation affects innovation in work teams","authors":"Francesco Montani, Christian Vandenberghe","doi":"10.1111/apps.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social dominance orientation (SDO) reflects an individual's belief in and desire for hierarchical relations among social groups, including support for unequal treatment based on group status. Although widely studied at the individual level, research has rarely investigated SDO as a team-level characteristic in organizational contexts or its implications for team outcomes. This study examines team SDO as a personality composition variable and elucidates when and how it harms team innovation. Drawing on social identity theory, we argue that under high ethnic diversity, team SDO undermines collective commitment to team goals, thereby reducing team innovation. To test these propositions, we conducted a three-wave, multilevel study of 82 teams (616 employees and their supervisors) across Canadian public government departments. Consistent with our hypotheses, ethnic diversity moderated the link between team SDO and team goal commitment, as well as the indirect effect of team SDO on innovation through goal commitment. When ethnic diversity was high, team SDO reduced team goal commitment, which subsequently hindered innovation; these effects were nonsignificant when ethnic diversity was low. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for managing innovation in teams characterized by social dominance tendencies and ethnically diverse compositions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}