Fang Zhiyi, Zhang Qilin
School of Political Science & Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 May 29;15(6):747. doi: 10.3390/bs15060747.
With the advancement of behavioral public administration, the methodological innovation it introduces offers robust support for investigating the relationship between accountability and individuals' behavior in the public sector. This paper investigates the link between individuals' felt accountability and job burnout within China's industrial production context. We develop and validate a novel theoretical model grounded in cognitive stress theory using survey data collected from public sector safety supervision regulators. The results indicate that the regulators' felt accountability significantly impacts their job burnout, while threat appraisal played a mediating role in this relationship. Public service motivation negatively moderates the effect, with a more substantial effect observed at higher levels of motivation. This paper contributes to the development of felt accountability theory and promotes interdisciplinary dialogue.
随着行为公共行政的发展，其引入的方法创新为研究公共部门问责制与个人行为之间的关系提供了有力支持。本文在中国工业生产背景下，研究了个人感知到的问责制与职业倦怠之间的联系。我们利用从公共部门安全监管人员收集的调查数据，开发并验证了一个基于认知应激理论的新颖理论模型。结果表明，监管人员感知到的问责制对其职业倦怠有显著影响，而威胁评估在这种关系中起中介作用。公共服务动机对这种影响起负向调节作用，在较高动机水平下观察到的影响更为显著。本文为感知到的问责制理论的发展做出了贡献，并促进了跨学科对话。
