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On feeling good at work: the role of regulatory mode and passion in psychological adjustment
Author(s) -
Bélanger Jocelyn J.,
Pierro Antonio,
Kruglanski Arie W.,
Vallerand Robert J.,
De Carlo Nicola,
Falco Alessandra
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12298
Subject(s) - passion , psychology , feeling , social psychology , burnout , work (physics) , mode (computer interface) , clinical psychology , engineering , computer science , operating system , mechanical engineering
The major postulate of this work is that regulatory modes influence the type of passion people experience with regard to an activity, which in turn influences their psychological adjustment. Integrating regulatory mode theory and the dualistic model of passion, we hypothesized that locomotion—associated with intrinsic and autonomous motivations—would positively predict harmonious passion, which in turn would enhance workers' psychological adjustment. In contrast, we hypothesized that assessment—associated with extrinsic and non‐autonomous motivations—would positively predict obsessive passion, which in turn would reduce workers' psychological adjustment. Two field studies supported these hypotheses with psychological adjustment measures of stress (Study 1) and burnout (Study 2) in different work contexts.