TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-individual relations of emotional, social, and work self-efficacy beliefs to organizational citizenship behaviors
AU - Alessandri, Guido
AU - Filosa, Lorenzo
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Caprara, Gian Vittorio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) represent a specific class of prosocial behaviors observable in the organizational environment. This study examined the longitudinal relations among regulatory emotional, social and work self-efficacy beliefs, and their relations to Organizational Citizenship Behaviors directed at specific individuals (OCBIs) at work, using a Latent State-Trait Model with Autoregressive effects (LST-A). The LST-A decomposes variance into trait, autoregressive, and occasion-related components, and allowed for testing of all hypotheses at the within-worker level. The model was tested using longitudinal data from N = 562 italian workers. Results supported the hypotheses that both social and work self-efficacy fully mediated the longitudinal relations between regulatory emotional self-efficacy in managing negative emotions at work and OCBIs. Theoretical and practical contributions of the findings are discussed.
AB - Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) represent a specific class of prosocial behaviors observable in the organizational environment. This study examined the longitudinal relations among regulatory emotional, social and work self-efficacy beliefs, and their relations to Organizational Citizenship Behaviors directed at specific individuals (OCBIs) at work, using a Latent State-Trait Model with Autoregressive effects (LST-A). The LST-A decomposes variance into trait, autoregressive, and occasion-related components, and allowed for testing of all hypotheses at the within-worker level. The model was tested using longitudinal data from N = 562 italian workers. Results supported the hypotheses that both social and work self-efficacy fully mediated the longitudinal relations between regulatory emotional self-efficacy in managing negative emotions at work and OCBIs. Theoretical and practical contributions of the findings are discussed.
KW - OCBs
KW - Prosociality at work
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Within-individual level of analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104073
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104073
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100383963
VL - 91
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
SN - 0092-6566
M1 - 104073
ER -