Feeling Abandoned and Exiled: Trait Mindfulness as Moderator the Impact of Ostracism on the Work Meaningfulness
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https://doi.org/10.59188/eduvest.v4i10.17478Keywords:
Meaning of Work, Workplace Optimism, Trait MindfulnessAbstract
Academics have concluded that work meaningfulness is the basic need of employees that should be pursued. However, challenges arise in creating a perception of work meaningfulness caused by various factors in the workplace. Workplace ostracism or ostracism in the workplace is a potential factor that can affect the formation of work meaning, this is because the condition of being isolated or ostracized is often categorized as an interaction that causes pain and harm to the victim. Individual differences, especially trait mindfulness, are thought to have a strong role in the relationship between the two. Researchers gathered 305 employees from various industries to give statements to the survey given online. The results of data analysis using moderation analysis model 1 in PROCESS macro show that ostracism in the workplace is negatively correlated with employee work meaning (b = -0.5164). The results also showed that the benefit of trait mindfulness was as a buffer against the negative relationship between ostracism in the workplace negatively correlated with employee work meaning (b = 0.1146). It was also found that the mindfulness trait was also able to predict the meaning of employees' work at work (b = -0.2786).
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