文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Gossiping the (Recipient's) Day Away: The Impact of Supervisor-Directed Gossip on Recipients' Rumination, Sleep Quality, Vitality, and Work Outcomes

作者：Hu, Dishi[1];Deng, Yufan[2];Song, Yifan[3];Lian, Huiwen[3];Daniels, Shanna R.[4];Yang, Mengxi[5,6,8];Chen, Wansi[7]

机构：[1]Univ North Carolina Greensboro, Bryan Sch Business & Econ, Dept Management, Greensboro, NC USA;[2]Southwestern Univ Finance & Econ, Res Inst Econ & Management, Dept Management, Chengdu, Peoples R China;[3]Texas A&M Univ, Mays Business Sch, Dept Management, College Stn, TX USA;[4]Florida State Univ, Coll Business, Dept Management, Tallahassee, FL USA;[5]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, Dept Business Adm, Beijing, Peoples R China;[6]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Digital Econ Forecasts & Policy Simulat, Minist Educ, Social Sci Lab, Beijing, Peoples R China;[7]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Dept Business Adm, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[8]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ andManagement, Dept Business Adm, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China

年份：2024

卷号：109

期号：8

起止页码：1311

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:001151992000001)】；

基金：Mengxi Yang's work on this research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 72102220 and 72192843) and Ministry of Education Social Science Laboratory of Digital Economic Forecastsand Policy Simulation at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. WansiChen's work on this research was supported in part by the Ministry of EducationHumanities and Social Science Project (Grant 23YJA630013).

语种：英文

外文关键词：gossip; recipients; rumination; conservation of resources theory

摘要：Despite gossip research's predominant focus on gossipers and gossip targets, existing theoretical views and the limited yet important empirical studies converge to suggest that gossip benefits its recipients. Our research builds on conservation of resources theory to shift this consensus by examining the negative effects of supervisor-directed gossip on recipients. We theorize that hearing negative supervisor-directed gossip triggers both cognition- and affect-focused rumination, which consume resources, and we develop a research question around the moderating role of hearing positive supervisor-directed gossip. Furthermore, we propose that the aforementioned effects have cascading implications for recipients' work behaviors the following day. In a 15-day experience sampling investigation of 122 workers, we found that on days when employees hear negative gossip about the supervisor, they are more likely to engage in cognition- and affect-focused rumination, and hearing positive supervisor-directed gossip strengthens these positive relationships. In addition, we found that cognition- and affect-focused rumination lead to poor sleep quality and diminished next-morning vitality, which in turn results in reduced work engagement and supervisor-directed organizational citizenship behavior. We conclude by discussing the implications and future directions of our work.