Business School.
Institute for Management and Organization.
J Appl Psychol. 2020 Aug;105(8):889-906. doi: 10.1037/apl0000465. Epub 2019 Dec 2.
Conventionally, identity centrality has been conceived of as a stable and transsituational construct, with situational variability in identity centrality treated as being of little informational value. In contrast to past research, we develop a theoretical model arguing that a portion of within-person variability in identity centrality is systematic and meaningful. Drawing on identity control theory, we examine the within-person relationship flowing from perceived role progress to state identity centrality, which is conventionally viewed as reverse causal at the between-person level. We further explain the intermittent effect of an intense positive emotion-passion for the role-and investigate the contingent effect of in-role effort. The results from 2 repeated-measures studies showed that a significant proportion of total variance in identity centrality occurred at the within-person level and perceived role progress influenced state identity centrality by engendering passion for the role contingent on in-role effort. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings for management and organizations to inspire new intellectual debate and novel viewpoints to advance the microfoundation of identity theory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
传统上，身份核心被视为一种稳定的跨情境结构，情境中身份核心的可变性被认为没有什么信息价值。与过去的研究不同，我们提出了一个理论模型，认为身份核心的个体内变异性中有一部分是系统的和有意义的。借鉴身份控制理论，我们考察了从感知角色进展到状态身份核心的个体内关系，这在个体间水平上通常被视为反向因果关系。我们进一步解释了强烈积极情绪——对角色的激情——的间歇性影响，并研究了角色内努力的偶然影响。两项重复测量研究的结果表明，身份核心的总变异中有很大一部分发生在个体内水平上，感知角色进展通过激发对角色的激情来影响状态身份核心，而这种激情取决于角色内的努力。我们讨论了我们的发现对管理和组织的理论和实践意义，以激发新的知识辩论和新的观点，推进身份理论的微观基础。
