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The role of psychological flexibility in the demands–exhaustion–performance relationship

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Onwezen, M. C., van Veldhoven, M. J.P.M., Biron, M.·2014·European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

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Employees in the service sector deal with a variety of emotional job demands due to interactions with clients. Emotional job demands often result in heightened levels of emotional exhaustion and decreased levels of performance. The current study aims to explore whether the adaptive behavioural pattern of psychological flexibility diminishes the negative impacts of emotional job demands on emotional exhaustion and subsequent performance. Data were collected from 116 nonprofit service workers, using self-report questionnaires (i.e., baseline) and diaries (i.e., follow-up). The results suggest that psychological flexibility is negatively associated with emotional exhaustion and positively associated with performance. In addition, psychological flexibility is found to attenuate the negative effects of emotional job demands on emotional exhaustion and performance. Finally, the results reveal that the attenuating role of psychological flexibility diminishes if employees are already exhausted. The results support the importance of personal resources, like psychological flexibility, in buffering the negative effects of emotional job demands on emotional exhaustion and performance. However, employees no longer benefit from high levels of psychological flexibility when facing high levels of exhaustion due to excessive emotional job demands.

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Authors
Onwezen, M. C., van Veldhoven, M. J. P. M., & Biron, M.
Affiliations
  • Wageningen University & Research (NL)
  • Tilburg University
  • Tilburg University (NL)
Corresponding author
Onwezen, M. C.
Venue
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Published
2012-11-22
Volume
23
Issue
2
Pages
163-176
ISSN
  • 1359-432X (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-0643
OpenAlex
W1981305734
Cited by
49
References
68
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
Keywords
psychological flexibility, emotional demands, emotional exhaustion, employee performance, service employees, personal resources, buffering effect, emotional labor, nonprofit workers, client interaction

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