scholarly journals The Relationship between Job Stress and Employee Deviant Behaviors: The Moderating Effects of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness

Author(s):  
Keyi Sun ◽  
Yanchen Li ◽  
Po-Chien Chang
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Chih Chen

I explored the relationships among leisure participation, job stress, and life satisfaction of Taiwanese high school teachers and college professors (N = 488) and investigated the moderating effects of taking on an extra administrative duty and type of school (college vs. high school). Results revealed that leisure participation negatively predicted job stress, and job stress negatively explained life satisfaction. Additionally, both taking on an extra administrative duty and type of school moderated the relationship between job stress and life satisfaction. Research implications are discussed.


Despite the increasing number of studies on the relationship between job satisfaction and deviant behaviors in the workplace, still there is a lack of studies where job satisfaction has been measured considering stress and job engagement and also whether all of these three variables are directly correlated with workplace deviant behaviors or not. This study aims to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and workplace deviant behaviors and other important objectives is the relationship between job satisfaction, stress, and job engagement with workplace deviant behaviors and the relationship between stress and job engagement with job satisfaction. Our study found that stress is liable for less satisfied employees which produces a high level of involvement in workplace deviant behaviors. On the other hand, job engagement creates job satisfaction which reduces workplace deviant behaviors. The quantitative approach is employed on 82 employees of private and public commercial banks. Based on PLS-SEM method conceptual frameworks were constructed, descriptive analysis and regression analysis were used. Our study concluded that there is a strong causal relationship between job stress, job engagement with job satisfaction which results in workplace deviant behavior. Therefore, workplace deviant behavior can be reduced if organizations take some recreational activities that will increase job engagement.


Author(s):  
HeeJin Kim ◽  
SungCheol Jung

This study was to investigate the relationship between job stress and flourishing, and to examine a moderated mediating effect of recovery through Emotional stability. For the purpose of the study, a total of 307 participants completed a survey including measures of job stress, flourishing, recovery and emotional stability. The results were as follows: first, the findings in a correlation analysis indicated that job stress with flourishing, recovery, and emotional stability were negatively correlated. Second, the relationship between job stress and flourishing was mediated by recovery. Third, emotional stability moderated the relationship between job stress and recovery. Fourth, mediating effect of recovery was moderated by emotional stability in the relationship between job stress and flourishing. Finally, implications for organization situation about limitations of the study and suggestions for future research were discussed.


Author(s):  
KwangMo Lim ◽  
Jinkook Tak

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of job demands on job stress and the moderating effects of job control and procedural justice. Specifically, first, the job demands were divided into quantitative demands and qualitative demands, and relative effects of the two demands on job stress were compared. Second, the moderating effects of job control and procedural justice were tested. Data were collected from 454 employees engaged in various domestic companies. The results showed that both quantitative and qualitative demands had positively significant effects on job stress and qualitative demands had a greater effect on job stress than quantitative demands did. The results of moderating effects showed that job control had a moderating effect on the relationship between quantitative demand and job stress whereas there was no moderating effect of job control on the relationship between qualitative demand and job stress. Also there was a moderating effect of procedural justice on the relationship between quantitative demand and job stress, but contrary to the hypothesis, the relationship was stronger when procedural justice was high. Finally, the academic significance and practical implications of the study, the limitations and future research were discussed.


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