Jinghao Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Lu (Lucy) Xing, Yan Shao, Yingxin Deng, Peikai Li
{"title":"Leading while playing: How leader fun pursuit affects leadership perceptions and evaluations","authors":"Jinghao Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Lu (Lucy) Xing, Yan Shao, Yingxin Deng, Peikai Li","doi":"10.1111/apps.12583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12583","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although pursuing fun seems contradictory to work, it may yield beneficial outcomes for not only employees but also leaders in the workplace. The present paper aims to bridge the gap between the workplace fun/play literature and leadership research by introducing the concept of leader fun pursuit and examining its influence on followers' evaluations. Moreover, drawing on the dual perspective model of social evaluation and expectancy violation theory, we examine the effects of leader fun pursuit on followers' perceptions of leader attributes and evaluations of leadership, and posit a gender-contingent boundary condition. We conducted three studies to develop a scale and examine our hypotheses. Study 1 (four samples, total <i>N</i> = 734) developed a four-item scale to measure leader fun pursuit and established its reliability and validity. Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 309) used a multi-wave design to examine the full model. Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 279) used a vignette-based experiment to strengthen the internal validity of our conceptual model. We found that leader fun pursuit generally enhances followers' evaluations of the leader, and this effect was especially pronounced for female leaders. Overall, we introduce a novel approach to effective leadership and examine the gender differences therein.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641658","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":"Time after time: The influence of perceived coworker overtime, affect and workaholism on daily withdrawal responses","authors":"Bin Wang, Ziqi Wang, Wei Zhang, Zitong Sheng, Liangting Zhang, Jing Qian","doi":"10.1111/apps.12580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12580","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Long working hours continue to pose a challenge for a considerable number of employees today. Departing from the predominant focus on the detrimental consequences associated with personal overtime work, this study aims to investigate the influences of perceived coworkers working overtime (PCWO) on employees. We theorised that PCWO may constitute a type of stressful event for employees and proposed that it will lead to employees' daily withdrawal responses (i.e. time banditry behaviour and turnover intention) through an increase in negative affect (NA). In addition, employees' workaholism may have a cross-level impact on the within-individual level relationships between their NA and withdrawal responses. We tested our theoretical hypotheses using the experience sampling methodology (ESM), with 111 full-time employees reporting their working experiences over 10 workdays. Results from the multilevel analysis revealed that even after controlling for one's own working hours, PCWO was positively related to employees' NA, which, in turn, led to an increase in time banditry behaviour and turnover intention. In addition, we also found that the within-individual level relationship between NA and turnover intention was stronger for employees higher (vs. lower) in workaholism, supporting the moderating role of workaholism. Theoretical and practical implications of our study are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142561684","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":"Interactive effects of employed parents' affect spin with job demands and resources on adolescent well-being","authors":"Tao Yang, Patricia C. Dahm","doi":"10.1111/apps.12581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12581","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integrating affect spin research with work–family literature, we build and test a model demonstrating the relationship between parents' affect spin and adolescent well-being (depression, delinquency, and popularity) as explained by adolescent affect spin; parents' job demands and resources are boundary conditions. Using multisource data of mother–father-adolescent triads of 127 families (total <i>N</i> = 417) in the 500 Family Study—including over 13,700 experience-sampling measures of affective states and objective job data from Occupational Information Network (O*NET), we find mothers', but not fathers', affect spin has a direct positive relationship with adolescent affect spin that, in turn, relates to adolescents' poorer well-being. Further, mothers' affect spin has a stronger indirect effect on adolescent well-being when mothers' jobs involve more irregular work schedules, whereas fathers' affect spin has a stronger effect when their jobs involve higher conflictual contact. In contrast, both mothers' and fathers' affect spin have weaker effects on adolescents when their jobs involve higher decision latitude. Our findings converge to suggest job demands exacerbate and job resources attenuate the deleterious role of parents' affect spin on adolescent well-being. Supplemental analyses demonstrate how the social learning process provides a theoretical explanation for the relationship between parents' and adolescents' affect spin.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.12581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525168","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}
Niannian Dong, Lu (Lucy) Xing, Yejun (John) Zhang, Oliver J. Sheldon, Kui Yin, Xiaoran Hu, Long Zhang
{"title":"The effect of daily leader secure-base support on employees' daily performance: An attachment theory perspective","authors":"Niannian Dong, Lu (Lucy) Xing, Yejun (John) Zhang, Oliver J. Sheldon, Kui Yin, Xiaoran Hu, Long Zhang","doi":"10.1111/apps.12576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12576","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on attachment theory, the present study develops a theoretical model to explore whether, how, and when daily leader secure-base support impacts employees' daily in-role and extra-role performance. To test this model, we employed an experience-sampling method and collected daily diary data over 3 weeks. Results of multilevel path analysis indicated that daily leader secure-base support was positively related to both employees' daily in-role and extra-role performance. Moreover, we found that daily leader secure-base support indirectly influenced employees' in-role performance via their self-esteem, whereas it indirectly influenced employees' extra-role performance via their gratitude. Finally, attachment anxiety moderated the within-person relationship between daily leader secure-base support and employees' self-esteem as well as the indirect effect of daily leader secure-base support on employees' subsequent in-role performance via their self-esteem. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings, as well as future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429057","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}
Bhuvanesh D. Wadhwani, Harry Ban Teck Lim, Bridget L. McConnell
{"title":"Immediate and sustained effects of left-hand dynamic handgrip on choking in men's basketball free-throw performance","authors":"Bhuvanesh D. Wadhwani, Harry Ban Teck Lim, Bridget L. McConnell","doi":"10.1111/apps.12579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12579","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present study investigated the immediate and sustained effects of left-hand dynamic handgrip (LDH; left-hand squeezing) on reducing choking (anxiety-induced performance decrements) in basketball free-throw performance. Previous research affirmed LDH's efficacy in mitigating choking in various sports, however, its duration of effectiveness remains elusive. This study examined whether: a) participants who conducted LDH exhibited lower performance decrements than a control group under high-pressure conditions, and b) the effects were stable over time. Twenty experienced right-handed male participants (M<sub>age</sub> = 23.10) attempted 20 free-throws in each pre-test (baseline low-pressure) and post-tests (High Pressure-1; High Pressure-2). Participants were randomly assigned to the left-hand or right-hand/control group and performed corresponding hand contractions preceding High Pressure-1. State anxiety, assessed through the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, was induced from Low-Pressure (M<sub>cognitive</sub> = 15.75; M<sub>somatic</sub> = 14.90) to High Pressure-1 (M<sub>cognitive</sub> = 20.75; M<sub>somatic</sub> = 18.75). Post hoc analyses indicated that the left-hand group maintained performance throughout all phases. However, the control group experienced performance decrements in High Pressure-1 and this remained consistent in High Pressure-2. Results supported both hypotheses, illustrating LDH's effectiveness in countering choking for a minimum duration of 15 minutes. This novel study offers insight into LDH's duration of effectiveness, facilitating wider integration into competitive sports.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429250","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":"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy: How and when supervisor bottom-line mentality hinders employee creativity","authors":"Xiumei Zhu, Mengxi Yang, Yuanmei (Elly) Qu, Yixuan Li, Mingjun Yang","doi":"10.1111/apps.12578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12578","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on the conservation of resources theory, this study investigates how and when supervisor bottom-line mentality (i.e., one-dimensional thinking that exclusively focuses on economic bottom-line goals to the neglect of competing priorities) relates to employee creativity. We propose that supervisor bottom-line mentality reduces employee psychological availability, resulting in decreased employee creativity. Additionally, psychological detachment, which allows employees to recover from job strain and to regain physical energy and psychological resources, serves as a buffer that weakens the indirect negative relationship between supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee creativity through psychological availability. Empirical analyses using time-lagged data from 540 employees of a hospital in eastern China (sample A) and 306 academic graduate students in Chinese universities (sample B) support all hypotheses. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428851","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}
Zhixu (Rick) Yang, Franki Y. H. Kung, Darryl W. Schneider
{"title":"Individual preferences in multiple goal pursuit: Reconsidering the conceptualization and dimensionality of polychronicity","authors":"Zhixu (Rick) Yang, Franki Y. H. Kung, Darryl W. Schneider","doi":"10.1111/apps.12575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12575","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With increasing demands in work and life, successful self-regulation of multiple goals becomes critical to the well-being and performance of individuals and organizations. When pursuing multiple goals, individuals may use different strategies and have divergent preferences toward these strategies. Polychronicity, or the preference for multitasking over sequential tasking, has long been considered a unidimensional construct with two opposing ends. To empirically test this assumption, we reconstructed existing polychronicity items to explore a new scale that measures preferences separately and synthesizes different operationalizations of multitasking (i.e., concurrent tasking and task switching) (study 1). We found that multitasking and sequential preferences, while related, have distinct components and can co-occur within individuals, challenging the traditional bipolar assumption (study 2). Finally, we used a behavioral task-switching paradigm to simulate a multitasking environment. We found that consistent with past research, the preferences were not associated with behavioral performance but were associated with subjective experience (study 3). Our findings suggest that assuming multitasking and sequential preferences are completely antithetical can be an oversimplification. This research opens opportunities for future research on multiple goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.12575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428852","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":"Social cognitive consequences of leader artistic literacy","authors":"Jinyun Duan, Tingxi Wang, Yue Xu, Yishuai Yin","doi":"10.1111/apps.12574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12574","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite an increasing interest in developing leaders' artistic capacities to address the complexities and uncertainties of the business environment, there is a scarcity of empirical research on the interpersonal effects of those capacities. To fill this gap, we introduce the concept of “leader artistic literacy” (a leader's proficiency and understanding of various forms of art and their ability to incorporate artistic elements into their communication and behaviors when interacting with followers) and delve into its effects for subordinates. Drawing upon the warmth and competence framework and implicit leadership theory, we investigated how leaders' artistic literacy in different industries influences leadership effectiveness through social cognition of warmth and competence. The results of two experiments (Study 1: <i>N</i> = 146; Study 2: <i>N</i> = 209) with participants from different industries demonstrated that higher artistic literacy in art-related industries leads to positive social cognition (warmth and competence perception), which in turn promotes subordinates' liking and perceived leaders' promotability. By contrast, in nonart-related industries, higher artistic literacy may be detrimental to leaders. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359920","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":"A valence and arousal circumplex examination of affect and creativity at work","authors":"Hector P. Madrid, Malcolm G. Patterson","doi":"10.1111/apps.12577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12577","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Whether and how affect is related to creativity is a central inquiry in work and organizational psychology. Research has demonstrated that, in general, both positive and negative feelings have the potential to foster the development of novel ideas in the workplace. Nevertheless, drawing on core affect theory, we argue that in addition to affective valence, arousal of feelings should also be taken in account, using a circumplex approach for a complete and finer-grained approach to this phenomenon. Therefore, we revisit this question by asking <i>Do affective experiences compounded of different blends of valence and arousal relate to creativity at work?</i> Results of a diary study showed that the function of affect relative to creativity in the workplace could be positive, negative, or null depending on one of the 12 valence and arousal compounds examined. Theory and research developed here suggest that the interplay between affect and creativity is more complex than many scholars have believed, which has implications for affect management in organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359872","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}
Tiphaine Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, Alexandre J. S. Morin, Nikos Ntoumanis, Jérémy Thomas, Nicolas Gillet
{"title":"Subordinates' perceptions of the need-supportive, need-thwarting, and need-indifferent behaviors used by their supervisors: A person-centered investigation","authors":"Tiphaine Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, Alexandre J. S. Morin, Nikos Ntoumanis, Jérémy Thomas, Nicolas Gillet","doi":"10.1111/apps.12573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12573","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adopting a recent tripartite operationalization of subordinates' perceptions of their supervisors' behaviors, anchored in self-determination theory (SDT), this person-centered study considers the co-existence of subordinates' perceptions of their supervisors' need-supportive, need-thwarting, and need-indifferent behaviors. Moreover, we also consider how these various combinations (or profiles) of perceived supervisor behaviors relate to subordinates' levels of work motivation, well-being, attitudes, behaviors, and work–home functioning. A sample of 596 French employees (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 31.22; 73.5% women) participated in this study. Our results revealed six profiles of subordinates characterized by distinct configurations of perceived need-related behaviors from supervisors (<i>globally unfavorable</i>, <i>globally favorable and supportive</i>, <i>moderate-indifferent</i>, <i>moderately favorable and involved</i>, <i>moderately unfavorable</i>, and <i>moderately favorable</i>). Consistent with our expectations, these profiles displayed well-differentiated patterns of associations with all of the outcomes considered in this study. These findings underscored the key role of subordinates' specific perceptions of need-supportive, need-thwarting, and need-indifferent behaviors, over and above their global perceptions of their supervisors' behaviors, in determining how beneficial or harmful supervisory profiles are. In particular, our results also highlighted the critical role played by need-indifferent behaviors, which prove to be a very important, and yet typically neglected, component of subordinates' perceptions of their supervisors' behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48289,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apps.12573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429850","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}