Zhang Li, Xia Ying, Liu Baowei, Han Lu
School of Business, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Beijing Peony Electronic Group Co., Ltd., Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jan 24;8:2220. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02220. eCollection 2017.
This paper proposes that role stressors decrease helping behavior by undermining employees' normative commitment from a cognitive dissonance perspective and social exchange theory. We also propose two competitive assumptions of the moderating effect of perceived organizational support (POS). In this paper, we first examine these hypotheses in Study 1 and then verify the cognitive dissonance perspective in Study 2. In Study 1, we collected data from 350 employees of two enterprises in China. The results indicated that role stressors had a negative link with helping behavior via the mediating role of normative commitment. The results also showed that POS strengthened the negative relationship between role stressors and normative commitment. In Study 2, we invited 104 employees to participate in a scenario experiment. The results found that role stressors had an impact on normative commitment via dissonance. Our studies verified the combination of cognitive dissonance perspective and social exchange theory to explain the impact of role stressors on helping behavior.
本文从认知失调理论和社会交换理论的角度提出,角色压力源会通过削弱员工的规范承诺来减少帮助行为。我们还提出了关于感知组织支持(POS)调节作用的两个竞争性假设。在本文中,我们首先在研究1中检验这些假设,然后在研究2中验证认知失调理论。在研究1中,我们收集了来自中国两家企业的350名员工的数据。结果表明,角色压力源通过规范承诺的中介作用与帮助行为呈负相关。结果还表明,POS强化了角色压力源与规范承诺之间的负向关系。在研究2中,我们邀请了104名员工参与情景实验。结果发现,角色压力源通过失调对规范承诺产生影响。我们的研究验证了认知失调理论和社会交换理论相结合来解释角色压力源对帮助行为的影响。