Psychosocial Safety Climate and Job Demands-Resources: A Multilevel Study Predicting Boredom

Abstract

The main objective of the current study was to investigate a multilevel model of Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), emotional demands, supervisor support, and boredom. Specifically, we examine the mediational relationships between PSC and boredom via emotional demands and resources (supervisor support) using the job demands-resources (JD-R) model.We argued that PSC is an important factor to prevent employees’ boredom by creating more resources and reducing demands at work. Data were collected from 404 employees from 63 work units (separate departments therein) in Malaysia and were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). Results revealed that PSC was negatively associated to emotional demands and positively to supervisor support, and PSC was also negatively related to employees’ boredom mediated by both emotional demands and supervisor support. These findings suggest that a work unit level PSC plays an important role as a predictor of work outcomes, specifically boredom.