The Mediating Role of Work Ruminations in the Relationship Between Daily Work Demand Appraisals and Basic Psychological Need Fulfillment
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Li, Yuhua
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Wiese, Christopher
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Fulfillment of the three basic psychological needs (BPN) has consistently shown positive effects in the workplace. Existing studies that examined job demands as antecedents to BPN fulfillment typically paid little attention to the cognitive coping mechanisms that could carry on the effects of job demands and continue influencing work-related BPN when at home. Further, although job demands have impacted BPN fulfillment, the full-fledged model containing challenge, hindrance and threat job demands and BPN satisfaction and frustration facets have not yet been explored. The present study addresses these two gaps by leveraging the challenge-hindrance-threat stressor framework, the work ruminations research (i.e., problem-solving pondering and intrusive negative rumination), and the BPN fulfillment research. I propose that differential daily job demand experiences will impose distinct effects on work ruminations, which will further extend the impact of job demands on work-related BPN fulfillment. A 10-day daily ESM study (N = 110, n = 1830) found support for daily threatening job demands to trigger at-home intrusive negative rumination, which in turn negatively affects BPN fulfillment. All three facets of job demands and the two types of rumination showed distinct effects on BPN fulfillment. These findings provide valuable theoretical and practical implications.
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2024-07-23
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