Management researchers have paid more attention to the role of affect in the workplace in the last two to three decades. While it is clear that positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) should be associated with positive and negative employee attitudes and behaviors, respectively, we know little about their combined effects. In this study, we provide preliminary evidence concerning the potential complexity of the interplay between PA and NA in affecting job satisfaction and counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). Results of polynomial regression analyses from a sample of 216 employees showed that congruence of PA and NA at high level leads to the higher level of job satisfaction and CWB than they are congruent at low level. For incongruence situations, PA higher than NA leads to higher level of job satisfaction and a lower level of CWB than when NA is higher than PA. Theoretical implications, limitations and future directions are discussed.

在过去的两到三十年中，管理研究人员更加关注了情感在工作场所中的作用。显而易见，积极影响（PA）和消极影响（NA）分别应与员工的积极态度和消极态度和行为相关联，但我们对它们的综合影响知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们提供了有关PA和NA之间相互作用影响工作满意度和适得其反的工作行为（CWB）的潜在复杂性的初步证据。来自216名员工的样本的多项式回归分析结果表明，高水平的PA和NA的一致性导致较低水平的工作满意度和CWB的一致性。对于不一致的情况，与NA高于PA相比，PA高于NA会导致更高的工作满意度和更低的CWB。讨论了理论意义，局限性和未来方向。