Unconventional Functions of Deviant Behaviors in the Relationship Between Job Stress and Emotional Exhaustion: Three Study Findings

Abstract

This research was conducted in three independent studies for the purpose of examining the moderating role of deviant behaviors on the job stress and emotional exhaustion relationship. The statistical population of these three studies was the staff member of three independent organizations of Esfahan in Iran. Respectively, 275 (study 1), 351 (study 2) and 385 staff (study 3) was chosen conveniently. The first study’s findings showed that deviant behaviors moderate the relationship between job stress and emotional exhaustion. That is in low deviant behaviors there is a positive significant relationship between job stress and emotional exhaustion, but in high deviant behaviors there in not significant relationship between job stress and emotional exhaustion. The third study’s findings also showed that deviant behaviors moderate the relationship between job stress and emotional exhaustion. That is in low and high deviant behaviors there is a positive significant relationship between job stress and emotional exhaustion. Some theoretical and practical implications have been provided about these three reported studies in this research.