Mindfulness and Eudaimonic Well-being as Intrinsic Predictors of Extra-Role Behaviors

This dissertation examines mindfulness as a factor that leads to Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) during the COVID-19 pandemic; besides how eudaimonic workplace well-being mediates these relationships. We applied Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLSSEM) to develop structural and measurement models also to test hypotheses. Data were collected from 255 university academics in Northern Cyprus. The results indicate that mindfulness significantly improves academics’ eudaimonic well-being and OCB, however, it does not affect their IWB directly. The relationship between mindfulness and IWB works via eudaimonic well-being as a full mediator of this relationship. Eudaimonic well-being partially mediates the mindfulness-OCB relationship as well. Findings of this study impress the significance of mindfulness and eudaimonic wellbeing for university managers to improve their academics’ OCB and IWB, as important sources of universities’ success. Additionally, results showed the prominent role of mindfulness in guaranteeing academics’ eudaimonic workplace well-being (even under extraordinary conditions such as pandemic, economic crises, war, etc.). This study is the first empirical research that considers the mediator of the relationship of mindfulness with OCB and IWB. Eudaimonic well-being sheds light on the underlying mechanism of these relationships by playing the mediator role. The novel construct of eudaimonic well-being played a mediator role for the first time in this study.