The purpose of this research is to deepen the understanding of how employees react to others' help in a day-to-day context, with a focus on the role of narcissism in employees' prosocial motivation and behaviors. We hypothesize that received help generally enhances employees' prosocial motivation at the daily level, in turn increasing their own behaviors to help other coworkers and decreasing their interpersonal deviance. In addition, these effects hold only among employees who are low in narcissism. In other words, employees who are more narcissistic tend not to “pay it forward” when they receive help from their peers at work because received help fails to increase their prosocial motivation. Data from a two-week daily experience sampling study of 129 employees' 1047 daily reports confirmed the hypothesized model. Further, the results demonstrated that the effect was driven by the rivalry, but not the admiration, dimension of narcissism. Implications for the research of received help are presented.

本研究的目的是加深对员工在日常环境中对他人帮助的反应的理解，重点是自恋在员工亲社会动机和行为中的作用。我们假设接受帮助通常会增强员工在日常层面的亲社会动机，进而增加他们自己帮助其他同事的行为并减少他们的人际偏差。此外，这些影响只存在于自恋程度较低的员工中。换句话说，当他们在工作中从同事那里得到帮助时，更自恋的员工往往不会“付出代价”，因为接受的帮助无法增加他们的亲社会动机。对 129 名员工的 1047 份每日报告进行的为期两周的每日经验抽样研究的数据证实了假设的模型。更远，结果表明，这种影响是由竞争驱动的，而不是由自恋的钦佩维度驱动的。提出了对接受帮助研究的启示。