TY - JOUR T1 - Why and When Do Good Soldiers Behave Unethically? Introducing Conservation of Resources Theory to Explain the Curvilinear Effects of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. AU - Xu,Fangfang, AU - Xu,Shiyong, AU - Zhu,Jinqiang, AU - Zhou,Jinyi, AU - Zhang,Bainan, AU - Yang,Chunmeng, Y1 - 2021/07/28/ PY - 2020/10/20/received PY - 2021/06/28/accepted PY - 2021/8/16/entrez PY - 2021/8/17/pubmed PY - 2021/8/17/medline KW - citizenship fatigue KW - conservation of resources theory KW - counterproductive work behavior KW - organizational citizenship behavior KW - perceived organizational support SP - 619657 EP - 619657 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 12 N2 - Previous research about organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB) has produced contradictory results. Drawing from the conservation of resources (COR) theory, the present study tries to explain the contradictory findings by examining the curvilinear relationship between OCB and CWB. Using data collected at three time points from 426 employees and 110 supervisors in Chinese companies, data analysis shows that OCB has an inverted U-shaped relationship with CWB. The results also demonstrate that citizenship fatigue mediates the relationship between OCB and CWB, perceived organizational support (POS) moderates the relationship between OCB and citizenship fatigue. In addition, POS moderates the mediating effect of citizenship fatigue in the inverted U-shaped curvilinear relationship between OCB and CWB. This mediating effect is stronger under conditions of low POS than high POS. The findings present a complementary explanation of the conflicting relationships between OCB and CWB. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/34393873/Why_and_When_Do_Good_Soldiers_Behave_Unethically_Introducing_Conservation_of_Resources_Theory_to_Explain_the_Curvilinear_Effects_of_Organizational_Citizenship_Behavior_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -