Previous research on the consequences of ethical voice has largely focused on the performance or social relational consequences of ethical voice on multiple organizational stakeholders. The present research provides an important extension to the ethical voice literature by investigating the distinct intrapersonal and interpersonal moral self-regulatory processes that shape ethical voicers' own psychological experiences and their subsequent purposeful efforts to maintain a positive sense of moral self. On one hand, we argue that ethical voice heightens voicers' sense of responsibility over ethical matters at work (i.e., moral ownership), which motivates them to refrain from violating moral norms (i.e., disengaging from unethical behaviors). On the contrary, we argue that ethical voice generates psychological pressure for voicers as they become anxious about preserving their moral social image (i.e., moral reputation maintenance concerns), which motivates them to signal their moral character to others through symbolic acts (i.e., engaging in moral symbolization behaviors). Further, we expect gender differences in the moral consequences of ethical voice. Across two studies that varied in temporal focus (a multisource, time-lagged field study and a within-person weekly experience sampling study), we found support for most of our predictions. The results suggest that while potentially psychologically uplifting (for both men and women), ethical voice also generates psychological pressure for the voicer to preserve their favorable moral social image and thus motivates them (more so in the case of women voicers at the between-person level) to explicitly symbolize their moral character in the workplace. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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履行道德义务还是优先考虑道德形象？道德声音的道德自我监管后果。


先前关于道德声音后果的研究主要集中在道德声音对多个组织利益相关者的绩效或社会关系后果。本研究通过调查不同的个人内部和人际道德自我调节过程，塑造了道德发声者自身的心理体验以及他们随后为保持积极的道德自我意识而有目的的努力，为道德发声文献提供了重要的延伸。一方面，我们认为道德声音增强了发声者对工作中道德问题的责任感（即道德所有权），这促使他们避免违反道德规范（即摆脱不道德行为）。相反，我们认为，道德声音会给发声者产生心理压力，因为他们担心维护自己的道德社会形象（即道德声誉维护问题），这促使他们通过象征性行为向他人表明自己的道德品格（即参与道德象征行为）。此外，我们预计道德声音的道德后果存在性别差异。在两项时间焦点不同的研究（一项多来源、时间滞后的实地研究和一项每周的个人经验抽样研究）中，我们发现了对我们大多数预测的支持。结果表明，虽然道德声音可能在心理上令人振奋（对于男性和女性而言），但道德声音也会对发声者产生心理压力，要求他们保持良好的道德社会形象，从而激励他们（对于人际交往中的女性发声者来说更是如此）级别）来明确象征他们在工作场所的道德品质。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。