Oops. You Caught Me Eating My Feelings: Testing the Moderated Mediation Model of Abusive Supervision and Overeating Behavior

Abstract

It is a very much known fact that leaders play a very critical and significant role in shaping and building of employees’ behavior in an organization. However, besides the positive role of leadership, it has also a dark side (abusive supervision) which can have a high deleterious impacts on the life of an employees within the organization and also beyond the boundaries of an organization. Abusive supervision has negative impact on multiple factors like organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, employees’ engagement and many more like these factors. In this study, an impact of perceived abusive supervision in relation to employees overeating behavior has been studied with the mediating role of employees’ negative mood and moderating role of work recovery experiences. The data for this study was collected from the local private commercial banks of Pakistan by adopting an experience sampling study method. The study adopted a multi wave momentary approach and a survey technique in the collection of data. In this study, SPSS V.21 was used for the analysis of the data and PROCESS macro was used for carrying out moderated mediated analysis. This study has adopted a convenience sampling method with a sample size of 1150. The results of the current study have supported all the proposed hypothesis of the study. The current study adds to the existing literature of abusive supervision that it has a positive relation with negative mood and employees overeating behavior and also recovery experiences play a significant role in the regulation of employees’ negative mood.