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Perceived Support Profiles in the Workplace: A Longitudinal Perspective

Gaëtane Caesens ORCID Alexandre J. S. Morin ORCID Nicolas Gillet ORCID Florence Stinglhamber
Group & Organization Management Vol. 48 No. 3 pp. 833-873 · SAGE Publications
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Abstract
This research examines how employee’s perceptions of three sources of support in the workplace (i.e., organization, supervisor, and colleagues) combine within specific profiles and the nature of the relations between these profiles and indicators of employees’ psychological health (i.e., stress, sleep problems, psychosomatic strains, and depression). Furthermore, this research examines the within-sample and within-person stability of the identified support profiles over the course of an 8-month time interval. Latent profile and latent transition analyses conducted on a sample of 729 workers indicated six identical profiles across the two measurement occasions: 1, moderately supported; 2, weakly supported; 3, isolated; 4, well-supported; 5, supervisor supported; and 6, highly supported. Profile membership was very stable over time for most profiles, with the exception of the
isolated
profile which was only moderately stable. Furthermore, the
isolated
and
supervisor-supported
profiles presented the lowest levels of psychological health, while the
well-supported
and
moderately supported
profiles presented the highest levels of psychological health. Of particular interest, results suggested that some risks might be associated with the
highly supported
profile, although this result could be a simple reflection of the women-dominant composition of this profile. This research has implications for theory and practice, which will be discussed in the article.
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Published
Sep 25, 2021
Vol/Issue
48(3)
Pages
833-873
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Authors
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Gaëtane Caesens

Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

A
Alexandre J. S. Morin

Substantive Methodological Synergy Research Laboratory, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

N
Nicolas Gillet

QualiPsy EE 1901, Université de Tours, Tours, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France

F
Florence Stinglhamber

Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Funding
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique–FNRS Award: n°T.0177.16
Cite This Article
Gaëtane Caesens, Alexandre J. S. Morin, Nicolas Gillet, et al. (2021). Perceived Support Profiles in the Workplace: A Longitudinal Perspective. Group & Organization Management, 48(3), 833-873. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011211044581
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