How Self-compassion Affects Work Engagement: Examining the Moderating Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Stress
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This article aims to explore whether the level of employees’ self-compassion has an impact on
their own performance in the organization. And, this article explores related variables to
establish a theoretical model, use the questionnaire survey method, through the network
questionnaire, and collect 335 valid samples for analysis. The results show that selfcompassion has a negative impact on emotional exhaustion, emotional exhaustion has a
negative impact on work engagement, difficulties in emotional regulation have a negative
moderating effect between self-compassion and emotional exhaustion. Moreover, selfcompassion can alleviate the negative impact of employees when they are under pressure,
bring benefits to the employees themselves, and lead to the employees having a positive
impact on the organization.
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