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Psychological Contagion within the Supervisor-Subordinate Dyad: An Experience Sampling Investigation of Mood and Job Attitude Contagion at Work

Sestak, Nathan J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207946471

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Psychology-Industrial/Organizational.
An experience sampling methodology (ESM) was utilized to demonstrate that emotional contagion is an important determinant of affect and attitude similarity within the supervisor-subordinate dyad. On a Friday afternoon, 41 manufacturing employees completed a series of trait-based measures (e.g., affect, job attitudes, emotional contagion susceptibility, emotional expressiveness, etc.), which served as control and moderator variables in the analyses. Beginning the following Monday, state-based measures were completed six times a day for two workweeks using personal digital assistants. Using Multilevel Random Coefficient Modeling, the current study demonstrates that all six state-based dependent variables (i.e., positive and negative affect (PA/NA), affective and cognitive job satisfaction, and affective and cognitive organizational commitment) exhibited significant within- and between-subjects variability. Second, state-based PA and NA predicted the state-based attitudes over and above trait-based versions of both affect and attitudes. There was also some indication that time-lagged state PA (i.e., collected during the previous measurement period) also significantly predicted the attitudes. More importantly, the current study offers evidence that emotional contagion continually operates, with moment-by-moment levels of supervisor affect and attitudes being passed down, which influence his or her subordinate's concomitant affect and attitude levels. Furthermore, a number of trait/dispositional characteristics of the subordinate, supervisor and dyad moderated the strength of this relationship.
Rosalie Hall, PhD (Advisor)
Paul Levy, PhD (Committee Member)
Aaron Schmidt, PhD (Committee Member)
James Diefendorff, PhD (Committee Member)
Steven Ash, PhD (Committee Member)
385 p.
Behaviorial Sciences; Management; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Psychology; Statistics
emotional contagion; experience sampling methodology; ESM; dyad; supervisor; subordinate; affect; mood; positive affect; negative affect; PA; NA; job satisfaction; organizational commitment; attitudes; LMX; power; work self-concept; multi-level modeling

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  • Sestak, N. J. (2008). Psychological Contagion within the Supervisor-Subordinate Dyad: An Experience Sampling Investigation of Mood and Job Attitude Contagion at Work [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207946471

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sestak, Nathan. Psychological Contagion within the Supervisor-Subordinate Dyad: An Experience Sampling Investigation of Mood and Job Attitude Contagion at Work. 2008. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207946471.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sestak, Nathan. "Psychological Contagion within the Supervisor-Subordinate Dyad: An Experience Sampling Investigation of Mood and Job Attitude Contagion at Work." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207946471

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