Workplace Helping: Interactive Effects of Personality and Momentary Positive Affect
- 3 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Human Performance
- Vol. 22 (4), 321-339
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08959280903120279
Abstract
We investigated interactions between positive affect and personality (empathy and altruism) as predictors of workplace helping. We conducted an experience sampling study with 80 participants, each of whom completed personality instruments and responded to a maximum of 5 electronic surveys per day for 5 workdays. This approach allowed us to study relationships over time between momentary positive affect and workplace helping behavior. We found that affect's relationship with later helping depended on the personality trait of altruism. We also found evidence that the relationship was reciprocal—helping others lead to increased positive affect, but again the relationship depended on altruism.Keywords
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