When Digital Hindrance Stressors Lead to Cyberloafing: Insights from Self-regulation Theory
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Digital Hindrance Stressors, Cyberloafing, Self-regulation Impairment, Self-regulation TraitAbstract
With the continuous advancement of digital transformation, digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence have greatly reshaped corporate office practices. While these technologies significantly improve organizational work efficiency, they also produce digital hindrance stressors, which bring negative effects on employees’ mental states and work behaviors. In digital office settings, employees are faced with growing digital‑related work pressure, and cyberloafing as a type of work‑deviant behavior occurs more frequently. Drawing on self‑regulation theory, this study selects self‑regulation impairment as the mediating variable and self‑regulation trait as the moderating variable. It systematically analyzes the underlying influence path through which digital hindrance stressors act on employees’ cyberloafing behavior via self‑regulation impairment, under the moderating effect of self‑regulation trait.
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