An Empirical Study On The Mechanism Of Affective Events

Affective Events refers to an incident that stimulates appraisal of and emotionalreaction to a transitory or ongoing job related agent, object or occurrence. There are afew empirical researches on the mechanism of affective events in our country and theresearch on this part should be the core of research on emotion in the organization.This research draw up the Chinese Enterprise Staff Affective Events InventoryQuestionnaire by studying the literature、interviewing、doing open-questionnaire andexpert reviewing. With the data analysis on400personnel, we try to find out themechanism of affective events in Chinese enterprises. The conclusions drawn by thisresearch are listed as follows:(1)The Chinese Enterprise Staff Affective Events Inventory Questionnairecontains positive events and negative events two parts with19formal items. Each partincludes work support (positive, negative), organizational support (positive, negative),peer support (positive, negative) three dimensions. The reliability and validity ofquestionnaire verifies significant, and could be applied to measure the affective eventsin workplace.(2)The affective events are the predictor of emotional state, job satisfaction, andaffective commitment. Among them, positive emotional events can predict positiveemotional states, high job satisfaction and high affective commitment. Negativeemotional events can predict negative affective state, low affective commitment, butcannot predict lower job satisfaction.(3) Positive emotional states play a partial mediating role between positiveemotional events and job satisfaction. Negative emotional state has no mediate effectbetween organizational commitment and emotional events.(4) Demographic variables in affective events are no significantly different. Onlyage variable in negative events are significantly different.