Challenge stressors from using social media for work and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: Effects of public service motivation and job involvement

Abstract

There is a growing attention to the phenomenon of technostress in the workplace over the last decade. However, research to date has focused predominantly on the dark side of technostress, while empirical studies on the challenge aspect of technostress have been absent. Using data collected from government ministry employees in China, this study utilized a moderated mediation model to examine how two challenge stressors resulting from the use of social media for work purposes, time pressure, and learning demand, were related to change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (CO-OCB) in the public sector. Results showed that for employees with higher public service motivation (PSM), both time pressure and learning demand were positively related to CO-OCB via the mediating role of job involvement. For low-PSM employees, however, the indirect positive relationship with CO-OCB through job involvement was only significant for learning demand but not for time pressure.