Drawing on self-determination theory, this study examines how using personal strengths at work in the morning is associated with different types of performance throughout the workday. Momentary satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, relatedness and competence are proposed as mechanisms that differentially link strengths use to four different performance outcomes: task accomplishment, goal attainment, organizational citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour. We collected data from 216 Dutch employees in a large variety of sectors twice a day for one workweek (N = 1470 observations) using a smartphone application. Results of multilevel structural equation modelling showed that momentary satisfaction of the needs for autonomy and competence at noon mediated the positive relationship between morning strengths use and afternoon task accomplishment and goal attainment. Furthermore, satisfaction of the need for relatedness mediated the positive relationship between morning strengths use and afternoon organizational citizenship behaviour, but not the negative relationship between morning strengths use and counterproductive work behaviour. These findings deepen our understanding of strengths use theory and uncover novel insight on the temporal aspects of strengths use within a working day.

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日常优势运用和工作表现：自我决定的视角

这项研究借鉴自我决定理论，研究了早上工作中发挥个人优势与整个工作日不同类型表现的关系。自主性、关联性和能力需求的暂时满足被认为是一种机制，将优势的使用与四种不同的绩效结果有区别地联系起来：任务完成、目标实现、组织公民行为和适得其反的工作行为。我们使用智能手机应用程序，在一个工作周内每天两次收集来自多个行业的 216 名荷兰员工的数据（N  = 1470 个观察值）。多级结构方程模型的结果表明，中午自主性和能力需求的暂时满足介导了上午优势利用与下午任务完成和目标实现之间的正相关关系。此外，对关联性需求的满足介导了上午优势的使用和下午组织公民行为之间的正相关关系，但不介导上午优势的使用和适得其反的工作行为之间的负相关。这些发现加深了我们对优势运用理论的理解，并揭示了对工作日内优势运用的时间方面的新颖见解。