Positive and Negative Affect and Employee Green Behavior: A Five-Wave Study of Reciprocal Within-Person Relations
研究了员工在工作中的积极和消极情感如何与环保及破坏环境的行为相互影响，发现积极情感促进环保行为，消极情感则与破坏行为互为因果。
Despite the emotional nature of environmental issues for many individuals, the role of affect as a potential predictor and outcome of employee green behavior has been largely neglected. Drawing from dynamic theorizing on affect and work behavior, we investigate reciprocal within-person relations between positive and negative work-related affect and citizenship and counterproductive green behavior. Data were collected at five monthly measurement points among n = 2,738 employees in Germany. Results of random intercept cross-lagged panel models indicated that higher levels of positive affect predicted a subsequent increase in citizenship green behavior, and that this effect was stronger among employees with stronger (vs. weaker) biospheric values. In addition, higher levels of negative affect predicted a subsequent increase in counterproductive green behavior, and vice versa. These findings advance the understanding of the dynamic ways in which work-related affect influences, and is influenced by, the engagement in environmentally friendly and harmful work behaviors.