“…De Lange and colleagues (De Lange, Taris, Kompier, Houtman, & Bongers, ) have argued that specifically for investigating effects of change in social support, shorter time lags of approximately 6 months are more suitable. Indeed, among a sample of immigrant and native employees in Germany, there were effects of change in supervisor support on change in job satisfaction and work‐related affective well‐being over a 6‐month period (Winkler, Busch, Clasen, & Vowinkel, ). When approaching time lags of 1 year, change in supervisor support no longer affected change in performance‐related outcomes (Li, Fay, Frese, Harms, & Gao, ).…”