Table 3

Reliability and validity measures

ConstructItemsFactor loading
Customer Incivility (Source: Wong and Law, 2002)
CR = 0.906, Cronbach alpha = 0.821, AVE = 0.547, MSV = 0.397
CI1My customers have yelled at me0.74
CI2My customers have been angry at me even over minor matters0.75
CI3My customers have cut me off mid-sentence0.75
CI4My customers have used condescending language for me0.78
Emotional Exhaustion (Source: Maslach et al., 1997)
CR = 0.906, Cronbach alpha = 0.707, AVE = 0.752, MSV = 0.409
EE1I feel emotionally drained at work0.82
EE2I feel used up at the end of the day0.74
EE3I feel fatigued when I get up in the morning and I have to face another day on the job0.70
EE4Working with people is really a strain on me0.67
EE5I feel burdened out from my work0.80
EE6I feel frustrated on my joba
EE7I feel I'm working too hard on my job0.73
EE8Working directly with people puts too much stress on mea
EE9I feel exhausted from overworking myself0.78
Emotional Intelligence (Source: Wong and Law, 2002)
CR = 0.906 Cronbach alpha = 0.717, AVE = 0 0.751, MSV = 0.407
EI1I have a good sense of why I have certain feelings most of the timesa
EI2I have good understanding of my own emotions0.86
EI3I really understand what I feel0.84
EI4I always know whether or not I am happy0.85
EI5I always know my friends' emotions from their behavior0.85
EI6I am a good observer of others' emotions0.85
EI7I am sensitive to the feelings and emotions of others0.79
EI8I have good understanding of the emotions of people around0.85
EI9I always set goals for myself and then try my best to achieve them0.88
EI10I always tell myself I am a competent person0.86
EI11I am a self-motivated person0.88
EI12I would always encourage myself to try my best0.88
EI13I am able to control my temper and handle difficulties rationally0.77
EI14I am quite capable of controlling my own emotionsa
EI15I can always calm down quickly when I am very angrya
EI16I have good control of my own emotion0.76
Knowledge Hiding (Source: Connelly et al., 2012)
CR = 0.952, Cronbach alpha = 0.708, AVE = 0.762, MSV = 0.472
KH1I agreed to help him/her but never really intended to0.64
KH2I agreed to help him/her but instead gave him/her information different from what s/he wanted0.76
KH3I told him/her that I would help him/her out later but stalled as much as possible0.77
KH4I offered him/her some other information instead of what he/she really wanted0.80
KH5I pretended that I did not know the information0.69
KH6I said that I did not know, even though I did0.66
KH7I pretended I did not know what s/he was talking abouta
KH8I said that I was not very knowledgeable about the topic0.67
KH9I explained that I would like to tell him/her, but was not supposed to0.67
KH10I explained that the information is confidential and only available to people on a particular project0.71
KH11I told him/her that my boss would not let anyone share this knowledge0.79
KH12I said that I would not answer his/her questions0.70

Note(s): Items marked with superscript “a” were deleted from the measurement model due to factor loadings below 0.50

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