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Munyenyembe B, Chen YY, Chou WC. The Moderating Role of Regulatory Institutional Environment in the Relationship Between Emotional Job Demands and Employee Absenteeism Likelihood of Healthcare Workers. Evidence From the Low-Income Country Context. Front Psychol. 2020;11:1052doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01052.
Munyenyembe, B., Chen, Y. Y., & Chou, W. C. (2020). The Moderating Role of Regulatory Institutional Environment in the Relationship Between Emotional Job Demands and Employee Absenteeism Likelihood of Healthcare Workers. Evidence From the Low-Income Country Context. Frontiers in psychology, 111052. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01052
Munyenyembe, Benson, et al. "The Moderating Role of Regulatory Institutional Environment in the Relationship Between Emotional Job Demands and Employee Absenteeism Likelihood of Healthcare Workers. Evidence From the Low-Income Country Context." Frontiers in psychology vol. 11 (2020): 1052. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01052
Munyenyembe B, Chen YY, Chou WC. The Moderating Role of Regulatory Institutional Environment in the Relationship Between Emotional Job Demands and Employee Absenteeism Likelihood of Healthcare Workers. Evidence From the Low-Income Country Context. Front Psychol. 2020 May 26;11:1052. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01052. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32528385; PMCID: PMC7264383.
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Front Psychol. 2020 May 26;11:1052. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01052. eCollection 2020.

The Moderating Role of Regulatory Institutional Environment in the Relationship Between Emotional Job Demands and Employee Absenteeism Likelihood of Healthcare Workers. Evidence From the Low-Income Country Context.

Frontiers in psychology

Benson Munyenyembe, Ying-Yu Chen, Wen-Chiung Chou

Affiliations

  1. Department of Business Administration, College of Management, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan.
  2. Bachelor Program of Management Science and Finance, College of Management, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan.
  3. International Honors Bachelor Program, College of Business, Kainan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

PMID: 32528385 PMCID: PMC7264383 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01052

Abstract

Previous research has not clearly studied how the effects of emotional job demands on absenteeism likelihood are moderated by the contingent absenteeism-related regulatory institutional environments of low-income countries. In this regard, we surveyed 487 healthcare workers in a low-income country in order to test for the effect of emotional job demands on healthcare workers' absenteeism likelihood. We also explored the mediating role of work engagement and the contingent role of context-specific regulatory institutional environments on the link between emotional job demands and absenteeism likelihood. The main findings of this study are as follows: (1) emotional job demands have a direct positive effect on healthcare workers' absenteeism likelihood, (2) work engagement plays a mediating role on the link between emotional job demands and healthcare workers' absenteeism likelihood, and (3) the regulatory institutional environment related to absenteeism moderates the negative link between work engagement and absenteeism likelihood. Results in this study demonstrate the crucial role that the context-specific regulatory institutional environment related to absenteeism plays in suppressing the effect of emotional job demands on absenteeism likelihood when considered through the work-engagement pathway. The study's findings clarify the mechanism through which emotional job demands affect absenteeism likelihood in a low-income country context. The study thus offers a new refined theoretical perspective on how emotional job demands, work engagement, and context-specific regulatory institutional environments interact in ways that predict absenteeism likelihood.

Copyright © 2020 Munyenyembe, Chen and Chou.

Keywords: absenteeism likelihood; emotional job demands; healthcare workers; low-income country; regulatory institutional environment; work engagement

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