Savouring and perceived job performance in positive psychology: Moderating role of positive affectivity

Abstract

Building on the research in positive psychology, the current study examines the impact of employee savouring on building perceived job performance and tested the extent to which an individual positive affectivity moderated the relationship of savouring and job performance. Using survey responses from 357 salespeople in six Taiwanese insurance companies, the results of hierarchical regression analyses show that savouring is positively related to perceived job performance. In addition, the relationship between savouring and perceived job performance was moderated by employees' positive affectivity. The implications of these results and the limitations of the research are discussed.

The Role of Savoring in Work-Family Conflict

“…Training programs should be aimed at creating a sense of intrinsic motivation for employees to cultivate positive affect to savor positive experiences, and providing inner resources for employees to handle WFC. Employees could learn to enjoy and become more receptive to positive experiences and, thus, become more resilient to work stressors by replacing negative thoughts with more constructive interpretations, beliefs, behaviors, and values (Lin et al, 2011). Such strengths could attenuate the impact of demands from different domains on employees' well-being.…”

“…Researchers have focused on correlates of savoring beliefs such as positive affectivity (PA), optimism, self-esteem, happiness, and life satisfaction (Bryant, 2003;Lin, Chen, & Wang, 2011). Although, to my knowledge, there has been no research in which the association between savoring and WFC has been specifically examined, the correlates of savoring have been extensively investigated.…”

Family functioning and psychological outcomes in emerging adulthood: Savoring positive experiences as a mediating mechanism

“…Higher scores indicating a greater tendency to savor. A validation of the full scale of the Chinese version of the SBI is currently unavailable, although a 12-item Chinese version and an 8-item savoring the moment subscale have been found reliable among Mandarin-speaking Chinese (Lin, Chen, & Wang, 2011) and Cantonese-speaking Chinese (Hou et al, 2017); Cronbach’s α for the two administrations are .80 and .81, respectively. As reflected in the current data, internal consistency of these measures was adequate, with Cronbach’s α for the subscales = .83, .79, and .82, respectively.…”

Savoring moderates the association between cancer‐specific physical symptoms and depressive symptoms

“…Chinese translation of the full scale of the Savoring Beliefs Inventory [18] is currently unavailable although a 12-item Chinese version has been found to be reliable and valid among Mandarin-speaking Chinese [24]. As detailed before [25], our research team adopted a combined etic-emic approach to translate the full scale.…”

“…First, the participants were small (n = 263) convenient Chinese samples from two tertiary clinics in Hong Kong. Savoring is conceptualized and has been found to be a relevant construct in many different cultures around the world, from college students to people with medical or psychiatric conditions both in the West [17,20,21] and the East [24,25]. All outcome measures that were developed in English have been validated among Chinese.…”