Purpose

Academia is known for its high competitiveness, with prestige and diverse responsibilities and achievements being decisive determinants of success resulting in academic incivility. This paper extends Lazarus and Folkman's theory of stress by examining the moderating role of interpersonal justice (IJ) , as supervisory support, on academics' job satisfaction and depressivity.

Design/methodology/approach

The study recruited 185 academics from a public university in Malaysia to participate in a survey. Using the partial least squares- structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis, academic incivility was negatively related to job satisfaction, whilst positively related to depressivity.

Findings

As hypothesized, it was found that the predicted detrimental effect of academic incivility on job satisfaction was buffered by perceiving high IJ from their immediate supervisors, i.e. deans or heads of department. An unanticipated finding was that there was a stronger relationship between academic incivility and depressivity for those academics who perceived high supervisory IJ.

Practical implications

Further, academic management can formulate and revise zero-incivility policies and promote awareness explaining the detrimental impacts of incivility, despite support systems in academia.

Originality/value

This study provides the first empirical evidence showing the differential impact of supervisory IJ on two conditions of incivility–well-being relationships. Work culture and various sources of incivility should be considered for future research.

中文翻译：

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对工作满意度和抑郁的学术不文明行为：监督支持可以成为解毒剂吗？

目的

学术界以其高竞争力而闻名，声望和多样化的责任和成就是成功的决定性因素，导致学术不文明。本文扩展了拉撒路和福克曼的压力理论，考察了作为监督支持的人际公平 (IJ) 对学者工作满意度和抑郁的调节作用。

设计/方法/方法

该研究从马来西亚一所公立大学招募了 185 名学者参与调查。使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型 (PLS-SEM) 分析，学术不文明与工作满意度呈负相关，而与抑郁症呈正相关。

发现

正如假设的那样，发现学术不文明对工作满意度的预期不利影响可以通过从他们的直接上司（即院长或系主任）那里感受到高 IJ 来缓冲。一个出乎意料的发现是，对于那些认为高监督 IJ 的学者来说，学术不文明和抑郁之间存在更强的关系。

实际影响

此外，尽管学术界有支持系统，但学术管理人员可以制定和修订零不文明政策，并提高人们对不文明行为不利影响的认识。

原创性/价值

这项研究提供了第一个经验证据，表明监督 IJ 对两种不文明-幸福关系的影响不同。未来的研究应考虑工作文化和各种不文明行为的来源。