How Challenge Demands Have Offsetting Effects on Job Performance: Through the Positive and Negative Emotions

By combining the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) and the transactional theory of stress (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984), this study examines how challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have dual effects on employees’ job performance through the media...

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Autores principales: Wang, Qiong, Xia, Aijing, Zhang, Wei, Cai, Zijun, Zhang, Xiyang, Teng, Xiaofei, Zhang, Jing, Qian, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8713591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34970186
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745413
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author Wang, Qiong
Xia, Aijing
Zhang, Wei
Cai, Zijun
Zhang, Xiyang
Teng, Xiaofei
Zhang, Jing
Qian, Jing
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description By combining the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) and the transactional theory of stress (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984), this study examines how challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have dual effects on employees’ job performance through the mediating effects of positive and negative emotions. We collected data from 414 employees from three firms located in China, including two hi-tech firms and one financial firm. The results indicated that challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have an overall positive effect on employees’ job performance (i.e., task performance and contextual performance) by offsetting positive indirect effects with negative indirect effects. The theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-87135912021-12-29 How Challenge Demands Have Offsetting Effects on Job Performance: Through the Positive and Negative Emotions Wang, Qiong Xia, Aijing Zhang, Wei Cai, Zijun Zhang, Xiyang Teng, Xiaofei Zhang, Jing Qian, Jing Front Psychol Psychology By combining the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) and the transactional theory of stress (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984), this study examines how challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have dual effects on employees’ job performance through the mediating effects of positive and negative emotions. We collected data from 414 employees from three firms located in China, including two hi-tech firms and one financial firm. The results indicated that challenge demands (i.e., task complexity and time pressure) have an overall positive effect on employees’ job performance (i.e., task performance and contextual performance) by offsetting positive indirect effects with negative indirect effects. The theoretical and practical implications are also discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8713591/ /pubmed/34970186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745413 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wang, Xia, Zhang, Cai, Zhang, Teng, Zhang and Qian. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zhang, Xiyang
Teng, Xiaofei
Zhang, Jing
Qian, Jing
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8713591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34970186
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745413
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