• J Appl Psychol. 2019 Nov 1; 104 (11): 1433.

AbstractReports an error in "Doing good, feeling good? The roles of helping motivation and citizenship pressure" by Katrina Jia Lin, Krishna Savani and Remus Ilies (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2019[Aug], Vol 104[8], 1020-1035). In the article, there are several errors in Figure 3 and Table 4. For Figure 3, results from the simple slope analyses are reversed in the figure. The corrected values are noted below: The value for lower citizenship pressure (the solid line) should be b = 0.21**, and the value for higher citizenship pressure (the dotted line) should be b = 0.40**. In Table 4 under within-variance%, the percentage signs of the first three values are missing. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2019-05153-001.) Drawing on self-determination theory, this research investigates whether the motivation behind employees' helping behaviors is associated with their positive affect and their subsequent help provision, and whether citizenship pressure moderates these relationships. A recall-based experiment and an experience-sampling study capturing helping episodes among fulltime employees found that when employees helped coworkers because of higher autonomous (controlled) motivation in a helping episode, they experienced higher (lower) positive affect, and they had stronger (weaker) helping intentions and helped coworkers more (less) subsequently. We further found that citizenship pressure enhanced the positive relationship between episodic autonomous motivation and positive affect. Overall, the results challenge the universality of the "doing good-feeling good" effect and explicate the joint roles of citizenship pressure and helpers' episodic motivation in influencing employees' positive affect and their subsequent helping behaviors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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