Liu-Qin Yang Associate Professor, Portland State University

时间： 2015-11-27 12:30 - 14:30

地点： Room 1113, Wang Kezhen Building

Dr. Liu-Qin Yang’s talk will focus on the phenomenon of affective shift or change in the workplace; for example, employees’ positive affect shifts from low to high, while negative affect shifts from high to low, over a certain period of time (e.g., day, week, month). As informed by the personality systems interaction theory (Kuhl, 2000) and regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997), her studies aim to further the understandings of the motivational processes underlying affective shift. Employing a twice-daily diary study design over three weeks, in a completed study Dr. Yang and her colleagues delineated the motivational and behavioral implications of four different forms of affective shift, and examined the differential implications of two forms of affective shift for organizational citizenship behavior and task performance. If time allows, Dr. Yang will also share one of her ongoing studies where a weekly diary study design is employed to investigate how environmental and personal factors (e.g., challenge stressors and motivational traits) may trigger particular forms of affective shift (e.g., upshifts in positive and negative affect) in subsequent weeks.

2015-11-27

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2015-11-27