Relationship between Employee Mental Health and Job Performance: Mediation Role of Innovative Behavior and Work Engagement

Xifeng Lu, Haijing Yu and Biaoan Shan
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Xifeng Lu: College of Accounting, Jilin University of Finance and Economics, Changchun 130117, China
Haijing Yu: School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Biaoan Shan: School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: The relationship between employee mental health and job performance has been one of the key concerns in workplace. However, extant studies suffer from incomplete results due to their focus on developed economies’ contexts and the unclear path of employee mental health’s impact on performance. In this paper, we investigate the mechanism of employee mental health influencing job performance. We use the data of Chinese firms to test these hypotheses. Drawing on a sample of 239 firms from China, we find that employee mental health positively impacts job performance, and such relationship is mediated by innovative behavior and work engagement. The findings not only enrich the discipline’s knowledge on mental health in an emerging economy setting but also extend the implications of mental health, innovative behavior, and work engagement to job performance.

Keywords: mental health; job performance; innovative behavior; work engagement; emerging economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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