Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Psychol Rep. 2024 Dec;127(6):2680-2716. doi: 10.1177/00332941221122892. Epub 2022 Aug 23.
Although demographic characteristics are the most analyzed variables in the literature on workplace friendship, their effects on its formation and development remain unclear, owing to conflicting results. To draw generalizable conclusions, this study employed meta-analytical techniques to examine the relationships between employees' demographic characteristics and their workplace friendship, and investigated whether collectivism and year of data collection moderated this relationship. Seventy-seven empirical pieces of literature and 219 correlations (N = 34,856) were included in the final meta-analysis. Our findings revealed that male employees acquired more workplace friendships than female employees, and that organizational tenure, hierarchical position, and education were positively related to workplace friendships. However, employees' age and marital status had no significant effect on workplace friendships. Furthermore, the results of the moderating effects analysis suggested that, as collectivism diminished and data collection was delayed, the impact of certain demographic characteristics on workplace friendships became weaker.
尽管人口统计学特征是文献中分析最多的变量，但由于结果相互矛盾，其对职场友谊形成和发展的影响仍不清楚。为了得出可推广的结论，本研究采用元分析技术来检验员工的人口统计学特征与职场友谊之间的关系，并探讨了集体主义和数据收集年份是否调节了这种关系。最终的元分析纳入了 77 篇实证文献和 219 个相关数据（N=34856）。我们的研究结果表明，男性员工比女性员工获得更多的职场友谊，而组织任期、层级地位和教育与职场友谊呈正相关。然而，员工的年龄和婚姻状况对职场友谊没有显著影响。此外，调节效应分析的结果表明，随着集体主义的减弱和数据收集的延迟，某些人口统计学特征对职场友谊的影响变得更弱。
