When Positives and Negatives Collide: Evidence for a Systematic Model of Employees’ Strategies for Coping with Ambivalence

Wu, Bingqing; Schuh, Sebastian C.; Wei, Hongguo; Cai, Yahua

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“…Dechawatanapaisal [ 41 ] proposed that employees’ ambivalence has a direct impact on career commitment. Wu et al [ 42 ] revealed that employees tend to adopt compromised approaches whether actively coping or passively avoiding such ambiguous intimacies. Ambiguous intimacy imposes a huge psychological burden on employees, making them walk on thin ice in work processes [ 43 ].…”

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Safety Performance Assessment of Construction Sites under the Influence of Psychological Factors: An Analysis Based on the Extension Cloud Model

Peng

Zhang

2022

IJERPH

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Psychological hazards within organizational structures of construction sites are difficult to detect and can have significant negative impacts on safety performances when such hazards erupt. At present, most safety performance assessment models for construction sites ignore psychological factors. Therefore, in order to reveal psychological hazards within construction site organizations and to avoid damage caused by psychological hazards to safety performances, this paper evaluates the safety performances of construction sites by focusing on leader–member exchange ambivalence as the main trigger point. The evaluation system and evaluation criteria are established through three aspects: building scale, emotional orientation, and stability factors. The hierarchical analysis method, game theory, and extension cloud model are combined to make evaluation results more objective and credible. Moreover, a construction project with high technical requirements, high investment, and complex construction conditions (defined as a complex project) and an ordinary construction project with low technical difficulty and simple construction conditions (defined as a general project) were selected for analysis. The evaluation results indicate that both complex projects and general projects have safety hazards regarding psychological orientations. Finally, this paper makes some suggestions from three aspects: management system and corporate culture, building site intelligence, and social opinion to improve the safety performances of construction sites. The evaluation results are the same as actual operation results, which verify that models proposed in this paper can be used for safety performance evaluations of actual construction projects and provide help for managers to grasp overall safety levels.

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Safety Performance Assessment of Construction Sites under the Influence of Psychological Factors: An Analysis Based on the Extension Cloud Model

Peng

Zhang

2022

IJERPH

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“…About the consequences of ambivalent identification on employee health, this relationship has not been thoroughly examined in previous research within organizational psychology, despite the literature offering some general models of potential adverse effects of ambivalence ( Pratt, 2000 ; Rothman et al, 2017 ; Zhao and Zhou, 2021 ; Wu et al, 2023 ). For example, a study by Ciampa et al (2019) revealed that ambivalent identification was positively associated with ego depletion and emotional exhaustion ( Ciampa et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…Such dualities are thus a potential way to develop and spread "paradoxes of belonging" (Smith and Berg, 1987): all those situations that we can call injustices or unfair conditions can easily undermine the sense of "us" of the group, inducing ambivalent feelings, particularly in employees who do not benefit from unequal treatments. About the consequences of ambivalent identification on employee health, this relationship has not been thoroughly examined in previous research within organizational psychology, despite the literature offering some general models of potential adverse effects of ambivalence (Pratt, 2000;Rothman et al, 2017;Zhao and Zhou, 2021;Wu et al, 2023). For example, a study by Ciampa et al (2019) revealed that ambivalent identification was positively associated with ego depletion and emotional exhaustion (Ciampa et al, 2019).…”

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Ambivalent identification mediates the relationship between organizational justice and stress

Ciampa

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The present study aims to examine the relationship between organizational justice and employee stress through the lenses of social identity theory and the ambivalent identification process. The research hypotheses assume that employees working in organizational environments with low levels of justice could experience more stress, and this relationship is also mediated by ambivalent identification. In other words, the mediating mechanism of this relation posited that low levels of organizational justice were associated with high levels of ambivalent identification, which in turn increased levels of work-related stress. Across a field study in several organizations from healthcare sectors, results confirmed that employees treated with less fairness experienced high ambivalence toward their organization, which increased their perception of stress, i.e., work-related burnout, client-related burnout, physical symptoms, and interpersonal strain at work. Furthermore, results supported only a full mediation model, in which the direct relationship between organizational justice and stress was not significant. The present results make an important contribution to the research literature on justice: the inclusion of the mediator variable, namely, ambivalent identification, drops the expected direct effect of organizational justice on stress, suggesting a call for action in adopting the social identity perspective in addition to organizational justice models, and specifically introducing the study of a detrimental form of identification, such as ambivalent identification. Limitations and practical implications of the study were discussed.

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Proactivity, a Need, or a Trendy Word?

O’Neill,

Marques

2024

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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When Positives and Negatives Collide: Evidence for a Systematic Model of Employees’ Strategies for Coping with Ambivalence

Cited by 4 publications

References 63 publications

Safety Performance Assessment of Construction Sites under the Influence of Psychological Factors: An Analysis Based on the Extension Cloud Model

Safety Performance Assessment of Construction Sites under the Influence of Psychological Factors: An Analysis Based on the Extension Cloud Model

Ambivalent identification mediates the relationship between organizational justice and stress

Proactivity, a Need, or a Trendy Word?

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