不合规任务与工作拖延行为的关系:自我损耗和主动性人格的作用  

Illegitimate Tasks and Workplace Procrastination:The Effect of Ego Depletion and Proactive Personality

作　　者：余光钰 曾杰杰[1] 康勇军 Yu Guangyu;Zeng jiejie;Kang Yongjun(School of Economics and Management,Nanjing Forestry University,Nanjing,210037;School of Entrepreneurship,Guangdong University of Finance&Economics,Guangzhou,510320)

机构地区：[1]南京林业大学经济管理学院,南京210037 [2]广东财经大学创业教育学院,广州510320

出　　处：《心理科学》2022年第1期164-170,共7页Journal of Psychological Science

摘　　要：工作拖延行为是当今职场人士面临的普遍困扰之一。基于资源保存理论,本研究从不合规任务视角探究工作拖延行为的成因。对196位员工的两时点调查数据进行层次回归分析,结果表明:不合规任务正向预测员工工作拖延行为,自我损耗在不合规任务与工作拖延行为之间起着中介作用,主动性人格负向调节不合规任务与自我损耗的正向关系以及自我损耗的中介效应。以上结果对预防或降低工作拖延行为具有启发意义。In today’s competitive workplace,employees are faced with more and more stressors and workload,which can lead to workplace procrastination.Workplace Procrastination refers to delaying the initiation or the completion of work assignment.Prior studies have shown that procrastination not only causes employees’emotional problems but also decreases their well-being.Given the negative consequences of procrastination,it is of particular importance to explore its predictors and prevention methods.To date,some studies have revealed the antecedents of workplace procrastination,however,they have mainly focused on the roles of individual and situational factors,resulting in the overlooking of the role of illegitimate tasks.Illegitimate tasks refer to tasks that violate the norms about what can reasonably be expected from a given person.The purpose of this study is to explore the negative impact of the particular stressor(i.e.,illegitimate tasks)on employees’workplace procrastination as well as its underlying mechanism and boundary condition.Drawing from conservation of resource,we develop a theoretical model explaining why and when illegitimate tasks lead to workplace procrastination.Specifically,we expect that illegitimate tasks would be indirectly related to workplace procrastination through ego depletion.Moreover,proactive personality might weaken the relationship among illegitimate tasks,ego depletion,and subsequent workplace procrastination.To test our theoretical hypotheses,we recruited 196 employees from Chinese enterprises in different industries to complete questionnaires using a twowave research design.Employees were invited to report their perceived illegitimate tasks,ego depletion and proactive personality in the first data collection.Then,those participants who completed time 1 surveys were invited again to report their workplace procrastination.We employed SPSS 24.0 and Mplus 7.0 to test our hypotheses.The results of regression analyses show that illegitimate tasks are positively related to workplace proc

关 键 词：工作拖延行为 不合规任务 自我损耗 主动性人格 

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