How Does Psychological Empowerment Prevent Emotional Exhaustion? Psychological Safety and Organizational Embeddedness as Mediators

Emotional exhaustion in the workplace can cause employees psychological and physical health problems, affect work performance, and create burdens for the organization. Existing studies have demonstrated that psychological empowerment helps reduce emotional exhaustion. This study explores the interna...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 546687
Main Authors Zhou, Hao, Chen, Jingyi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 19.07.2021
Subjects
conservation of resources theory
emotional exhaustion
organizational embeddedness
psychological empowerment
psychological safety
Psychology
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Summary:Emotional exhaustion in the workplace can cause employees psychological and physical health problems, affect work performance, and create burdens for the organization. Existing studies have demonstrated that psychological empowerment helps reduce emotional exhaustion. This study explores the internal mechanism of this relationship. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we advance a dual mediation model to explain how high psychological empowerment results in low emotional exhaustion, by increasing psychological safety and organizational embeddedness. Data were collected from 226 on-the-job MBA students at a university in western China. The results demonstrate that psychological safety and organizational embeddedness play mediating roles in the negative relationship between psychological empowerment and emotional exhaustion. The study provides a systematic view of the negative effect that psychological empowerment has on emotional exhaustion. The paper also discusses theoretical contributions, practical implications, and future directions.
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This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewed by: Shengmin Liu, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China; Umair Akram, Peking University, China
Edited by: Parul Rishi, Indian Institute of Forest Management, India
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.546687