Presenteeism has mainly been discussed in terms of its negative effects on both individuals and organizations. By conducting two studies, we posit that presenteeism is an active, problem-focused coping strategy that health-impaired employees use to endure difficult times, and that the process is attenuated by workplace ostracism. In Study 1, we adopt a resource-based view of stress, identify the effects of two kinds of pain (i.e., physical pain and social pain) on presenteeism, and explore the positive implications of presenteeism by sampling 60 full-time employees over 10 consecutive workdays. We find that episodic physical pain is positively related to presenteeism and ultimately drives job crafting at the daily level. Furthermore, workplace ostracism significantly weakens the daily relationship among episodic physical pain, presenteeism, and job crafting. Grounded in these findings, Study 2 is designed to explore the mechanisms through which ostracism moderates the relationship between physical pain and presenteeism. A two-wave dataset from 187 employees reveals that ostracism reduces self-esteem and then weakens the positive link between physical pain and presenteeism. In summary, we provide preliminary evidence that presenteeism may play a positive role in dealing with physical pain, and that social pain (i.e., ostracism) tends to weaken this positive role by reducing employee's selfesteem.

Based on the challenge-hindrance stressor model, this study explored the mechanism of how challenge/hindrance demands affect cognitive wellbeing on a daily basis. Specifically, we examined the mediating effect of work–family enrichment on the relationship between challenge/hindrance demands and cognitive wellbeing. In addition, we tested the moderating effect of overqualification on the relationship between challenge/hindrance demands and work–family enrichment on a daily basis. Finally, we examined the moderated mediation effect of perceived overqualification in a multilevel model. To capture changes in work–family enrichment and cognitive wellbeing that individuals perceived daily, the experience sampling method was adopted to test our theoretical models. A total of 99 participants from China were involved in this investigation. The results showed that daily challenge demands had a significant positive effect on daily cognitive wellbeing, and daily hindrance demands had a significant negative effect on wellbeing. In addition, daily work–family enrichment mediated the positive relationship between daily challenge demands and daily cognitive wellbeing. Moreover, perceived overqualification moderated the relationship between daily challenge demands and daily cognitive wellbeing in the multilevel model. Finally, a significant moderated mediating effect of this overqualification on the indirect effect of daily work–family enrichment on the relationship between daily challenge demands and daily cognitive wellbeing was observed.

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