Feeling the approach to challenges and the avoidance of hindrances: Stressors, affective shift, and employee behaviors
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Taylor, Morgan; Yang, Liu-Qin
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- Subject
- FOS: Psychology
hindrance stressors
regulatory focus
Psychology
challenge stressors
affective shift
Social and Behavioral Sciences
daily diary
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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This study aims to replicate findings from a three-week, twice-daily experience sampling data consisting of 78 employees from a technology company in China. Initial study results indicated that challenge stressors were positively related to “emotional uplifts”—upshift in positive affect (PA) coupled with downshift in negative affect (NA), whereas hindrance stressors were positively related to “emotional downs”—downshift in PA and upshift in NA, especially among employees with a stronger prevention focus. Results also indicated that chronic prevention focus strengthens the positive indirect relationship between hindrance stressors and interpersonal deviance at work through “emotional downs”—downshift in PA and upshift in NA.