Spillover of authenticity from work to home: The mediating role of affect Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractA growing area of research is beginning to examine the statelike nature of authenticity. The current study builds on this research by examining the (dis)continuity in state authenticity across two different social contexts: work and home. We surveyed 154 fulltime employees twice a day for five consecutive workdays. Results showed that state authenticity at work and at home shared a relatively strong positive relationship that appeared to be mediated by the spillover of affect from one context to the next. This is consistent with prior work showing that affect tends to spillover from one context to the next and work that suggests a causal impact of affect on authenticity judgments. Implications for the study of state authenticity as well as workhome interaction are discussed.

published proceedings

  • EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

altmetric score

  • 1.6

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhang, H., Chen, C., Schlegel, R., & Chen, K.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Zhang, Hong||Chen, Changkai||Schlegel, Rebecca||Chen, Kaiyuan

publication date

  • August 2020

publisher