Reliability and validity measures
| Construct | Items | Factor loading |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Incivility (Source: Wong and Law, 2002) | ||
| CR = 0.906, Cronbach alpha = 0.821, AVE = 0.547, MSV = 0.397 | ||
| CI1 | My customers have yelled at me | 0.74 |
| CI2 | My customers have been angry at me even over minor matters | 0.75 |
| CI3 | My customers have cut me off mid-sentence | 0.75 |
| CI4 | My customers have used condescending language for me | 0.78 |
| Emotional Exhaustion (Source: Maslach et al., 1997) | ||
| CR = 0.906, Cronbach alpha = 0.707, AVE = 0.752, MSV = 0.409 | ||
| EE1 | I feel emotionally drained at work | 0.82 |
| EE2 | I feel used up at the end of the day | 0.74 |
| EE3 | I feel fatigued when I get up in the morning and I have to face another day on the job | 0.70 |
| EE4 | Working with people is really a strain on me | 0.67 |
| EE5 | I feel burdened out from my work | 0.80 |
| EE6 | I feel frustrated on my job | a |
| EE7 | I feel I'm working too hard on my job | 0.73 |
| EE8 | Working directly with people puts too much stress on me | a |
| EE9 | I feel exhausted from overworking myself | 0.78 |
| Emotional Intelligence (Source: Wong and Law, 2002) | ||
| CR = 0.906 Cronbach alpha = 0.717, AVE = 0 0.751, MSV = 0.407 | ||
| EI1 | I have a good sense of why I have certain feelings most of the times | a |
| EI2 | I have good understanding of my own emotions | 0.86 |
| EI3 | I really understand what I feel | 0.84 |
| EI4 | I always know whether or not I am happy | 0.85 |
| EI5 | I always know my friends' emotions from their behavior | 0.85 |
| EI6 | I am a good observer of others' emotions | 0.85 |
| EI7 | I am sensitive to the feelings and emotions of others | 0.79 |
| EI8 | I have good understanding of the emotions of people around | 0.85 |
| EI9 | I always set goals for myself and then try my best to achieve them | 0.88 |
| EI10 | I always tell myself I am a competent person | 0.86 |
| EI11 | I am a self-motivated person | 0.88 |
| EI12 | I would always encourage myself to try my best | 0.88 |
| EI13 | I am able to control my temper and handle difficulties rationally | 0.77 |
| EI14 | I am quite capable of controlling my own emotions | a |
| EI15 | I can always calm down quickly when I am very angry | a |
| EI16 | I have good control of my own emotion | 0.76 |
| Knowledge Hiding (Source: Connelly et al., 2012) | ||
| CR = 0.952, Cronbach alpha = 0.708, AVE = 0.762, MSV = 0.472 | ||
| KH1 | I agreed to help him/her but never really intended to | 0.64 |
| KH2 | I agreed to help him/her but instead gave him/her information different from what s/he wanted | 0.76 |
| KH3 | I told him/her that I would help him/her out later but stalled as much as possible | 0.77 |
| KH4 | I offered him/her some other information instead of what he/she really wanted | 0.80 |
| KH5 | I pretended that I did not know the information | 0.69 |
| KH6 | I said that I did not know, even though I did | 0.66 |
| KH7 | I pretended I did not know what s/he was talking about | a |
| KH8 | I said that I was not very knowledgeable about the topic | 0.67 |
| KH9 | I explained that I would like to tell him/her, but was not supposed to | 0.67 |
| KH10 | I explained that the information is confidential and only available to people on a particular project | 0.71 |
| KH11 | I told him/her that my boss would not let anyone share this knowledge | 0.79 |
| KH12 | I said that I would not answer his/her questions | 0.70 |
| Construct | Items | Factor loading |
|---|---|---|
| CR = 0.906, Cronbach alpha = 0.821, AVE = 0.547, MSV = 0.397 | ||
| CI1 | My customers have yelled at me | 0.74 |
| CI2 | My customers have been angry at me even over minor matters | 0.75 |
| CI3 | My customers have cut me off mid-sentence | 0.75 |
| CI4 | My customers have used condescending language for me | 0.78 |
| CR = 0.906, Cronbach alpha = 0.707, AVE = 0.752, MSV = 0.409 | ||
| EE1 | I feel emotionally drained at work | 0.82 |
| EE2 | I feel used up at the end of the day | 0.74 |
| EE3 | I feel fatigued when I get up in the morning and I have to face another day on the job | 0.70 |
| EE4 | Working with people is really a strain on me | 0.67 |
| EE5 | I feel burdened out from my work | 0.80 |
| EE6 | I feel frustrated on my job | a |
| EE7 | I feel I'm working too hard on my job | 0.73 |
| EE8 | Working directly with people puts too much stress on me | a |
| EE9 | I feel exhausted from overworking myself | 0.78 |
| CR = 0.906 Cronbach alpha = 0.717, AVE = 0 0.751, MSV = 0.407 | ||
| EI1 | I have a good sense of why I have certain feelings most of the times | a |
| EI2 | I have good understanding of my own emotions | 0.86 |
| EI3 | I really understand what I feel | 0.84 |
| EI4 | I always know whether or not I am happy | 0.85 |
| EI5 | I always know my friends' emotions from their behavior | 0.85 |
| EI6 | I am a good observer of others' emotions | 0.85 |
| EI7 | I am sensitive to the feelings and emotions of others | 0.79 |
| EI8 | I have good understanding of the emotions of people around | 0.85 |
| EI9 | I always set goals for myself and then try my best to achieve them | 0.88 |
| EI10 | I always tell myself I am a competent person | 0.86 |
| EI11 | I am a self-motivated person | 0.88 |
| EI12 | I would always encourage myself to try my best | 0.88 |
| EI13 | I am able to control my temper and handle difficulties rationally | 0.77 |
| EI14 | I am quite capable of controlling my own emotions | a |
| EI15 | I can always calm down quickly when I am very angry | a |
| EI16 | I have good control of my own emotion | 0.76 |
| CR = 0.952, Cronbach alpha = 0.708, AVE = 0.762, MSV = 0.472 | ||
| KH1 | I agreed to help him/her but never really intended to | 0.64 |
| KH2 | I agreed to help him/her but instead gave him/her information different from what s/he wanted | 0.76 |
| KH3 | I told him/her that I would help him/her out later but stalled as much as possible | 0.77 |
| KH4 | I offered him/her some other information instead of what he/she really wanted | 0.80 |
| KH5 | I pretended that I did not know the information | 0.69 |
| KH6 | I said that I did not know, even though I did | 0.66 |
| KH7 | I pretended I did not know what s/he was talking about | a |
| KH8 | I said that I was not very knowledgeable about the topic | 0.67 |
| KH9 | I explained that I would like to tell him/her, but was not supposed to | 0.67 |
| KH10 | I explained that the information is confidential and only available to people on a particular project | 0.71 |
| KH11 | I told him/her that my boss would not let anyone share this knowledge | 0.79 |
| KH12 | I said that I would not answer his/her questions | 0.70 |
Note(s): Items marked with superscript “a” were deleted from the measurement model due to factor loadings below 0.50