Kim Hyunghoon, Jang Eunmi
College of Business, Honam University, Gwangju 62399, Republic of Korea.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Aug 10;13(8):669. doi: 10.3390/bs13080669.
Employee health is crucial to organizational success. However, workplace ostracism (WO) has significant negative effects on employee health. Numerous researchers have extensively examined how WO influences employees' negative health (job stress, burnout); however, the focus on mediating effects in the relationship between WO and health has been lacking. This study examined the cognitive evaluation response to WO by employees who perceive they have been ostracized because another employee envies them. The psychological defense mechanism is expected to be activated-thus triggering job stress and burnout. We investigated envy perceived by individuals as a mediator of WO, job stress, and burnout using data from a 2-wave longitudinal survey of 403 employees of a South Korean firm. We found that employees perceived WO. Specifically, based on the sensitivity to being the target of a threatening upward comparison theory, it was confirmed that envy was a mediator in the relationship between WO and negative health outcomes. Our results are the first to show that the perception of envy can mediate the maintenance of a positive self-image in the context of WO in South Korea. The results suggest that a greater awareness of and focus on envy, and WO is required.
员工健康对组织成功至关重要。然而，职场排斥对员工健康有显著负面影响。众多研究人员广泛研究了职场排斥如何影响员工的负面健康（工作压力、倦怠）；然而，一直缺乏对职场排斥与健康关系中中介效应的关注。本研究考察了那些认为自己因遭另一名员工嫉妒而被排斥的员工对职场排斥的认知评价反应。心理防御机制预计会被激活，从而引发工作压力和倦怠。我们使用对一家韩国公司403名员工进行的两波纵向调查数据，研究了个体感知到的嫉妒作为职场排斥、工作压力和倦怠的中介变量。我们发现员工感知到了职场排斥。具体而言，基于对成为威胁性向上比较目标的敏感性理论，证实嫉妒是职场排斥与负面健康结果之间关系的中介变量。我们的研究结果首次表明，在韩国职场排斥情境中，嫉妒感能够调节积极自我形象的维持。研究结果表明，需要提高对嫉妒和职场排斥的认识并加以关注。
