Table 3.

Results of the moderated mediation analysis between the employee’s displayed emotion and service recovery satisfaction via attitude towards the employee, moderated by service recovery quality

Path: Employee’s displayed emotion Attitude towards the employee
PredictorEffect(SE)95% BCCI
LowerUpper
Initial anger−0.13*0.05−0.231−0.031
D1−2.85***0.60−4.027−1.677
D20.860.599−0.3212.032
Quality level (W)1.21***0.1890.8331.576
Int_1 (D1 × W)0.69**0.2680.1661.221
Int 2 (D2 × W)−0.050.269−0.5840.476
Path: Attitude towards the employee → Satisfaction with recovery

Predictor

Effect
(SE)95% BCCI
LowerUpper
Initial anger0.040.067−0.0860.175
D10.640.362−0.0691.356
D2−0.500.356−1.2040.198
Attitude towards the employee (M)0.76***0.0570.6500.876
Relative conditional indirect effect of employee’s displayed emotion (X) on satisfaction with recovery (Y)

Group
Quality
level (W)

Effect (SE)
95% BCCI
LowerUpper
D1: Angry employee vs control (ref)Bad−1.65 (0.30)−2.243−1.056
Good−0.59 (0.28)−1.149−0.075
D2: Happy employee vs control (ref)Bad0.61 (0.33)−0.0311.262
Good0.53 (0.28)−0.0121.086

Index of moderated mediation

Effect (SE)
95% BCCI
LowerUpper
D1 1.06 (0.39)0.2671.809
D2 −0.08 (0.42)−0.9190.757

Notes:

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; 5,000 bootstrap samples, level of confidence 95%. 5,000 bootstrap samples for percentile bootstrap CIs

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