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  • Mortality Salience Research

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  • Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is crucial for organizational functioning.
  • Understanding the psychological drivers of OCB, particularly those related to existential concerns like death, is underdeveloped.
  • Terror Management Theory and Posttraumatic Growth theory offer frameworks to explore these drivers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and test a theoretical model linking death anxiety and death reflection to OCB.
  • To examine the mediating role of prosocial motivation in these relationships.
  • To investigate organizational identification (OI) as a moderator.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study design with 241 employees over 3 months.
  • Statistical modeling to test mediation and moderation hypotheses.
  • Measurement of death anxiety, death reflection, prosocial motivation, organizational identification, and OCB (OCB-O and OCB-I).

Main Results:

  • Prosocial motivation significantly mediates the relationship between death concerns and OCB.
  • Death anxiety negatively relates to prosocial motivation, while death reflection positively relates.
  • Lower organizational identification amplified the indirect effect of death anxiety on OCB.

Conclusions:

  • Death anxiety and death reflection have distinct impacts on prosocial motivation and subsequent OCB.
  • Organizational identification plays a moderating role, particularly for death anxiety's influence.
  • Highlights the importance of considering existential factors in organizational behavior research.