Abstract
This study aims to explore the relation between job demands and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). A cross-sectional sample of 439 coal miners completed a self-report questionnaire that assessed their job demands, psychological detachment, job anxiety, and CWBs in a Chinese context. The conceptual model, based on the stressor-detachment model, was examined using structural equation modeling. The results suggest that psychological detachment mediates not only the relation between job demands and job anxiety but also that between job demands and CWBs. Furthermore, the relation between job demands and CWBs is sequentially mediated by psychological detachment and job anxiety. Our findings validate the effectiveness of the stressor-detachment model. Moreover, we demonstrate that the underlying mechanism of the relation between job demands and CWBs can be explained by psychological detachment and job anxiety.
Highlights
China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal (International Energy Agency, 2000), and using coal as a main source energy will continue for the foreseeable future (Yan et al, 2011; Xue and Ren, 2012)
The results demonstrated that Model 2 (χ2/df = 7.28, goodness-of-fit index (GFI) = 0.92, normed fit index (NFI) = 0.85, comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.87, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.120)
The results demonstrated that Model 3 (χ2/df = 3.96, GFI = 0.97, NFI = 0.94, CFI = 0.95, RMSEA = 0.073) fitted the data well
Summary
China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal (International Energy Agency, 2000), and using coal as a main source energy will continue for the foreseeable future (Yan et al, 2011; Xue and Ren, 2012). Coal enterprises have encountered an unavoidable problem in their day-to-day operations: coal miners’ counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) (Peters and Clingan, 1989; Cao and Yang, 2010; Li et al, 2013). Scholars use different names to describe these behaviors, such as organizational misbehavior (Vardi and Wiener, 1996), workplace aggression (Neuman and Baron, 2005), antisocial behavior (Robinson and O’Leary-Kelly, 1998), and workplace deviance (Robinson and Bennett, 1997).
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