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The power of affect: A three‐wave panel study on reciprocal relationships between work events and affect at work

In this study, we investigate lagged reciprocal relationships between positive and negative interpersonal and task-related work events and employees’ positive and negative affect at work. We conducted a three-wave panel study with time lags of 3 months and collected data from 1,039 young employees (at Time 1). Path modelling showed that positive affect at work predicted an increase in positive interpersonal and task-related work events, and negative affect at work predicted an increase in negative interpersonal and task-related work events. Work events did not consistently predict increases in affect at work. Our results suggest that employees’ affect is not only a consequence of work events but may also shape the work events that employees experience over time.