Performing emotional labor impairs mood as well as regulatory control of employees, and we compare these mechanisms to explain critical health-related behaviors: eating and exercise. Two studies examine the relationship of surface acting at work with unhealthy eating and physical activity at home as mediated by negative and positive affect. Emotion regulation (ER) self-efficacy is tested as a moderator of the indirect relationships. Also, the relative strength of the affect mechanisms and a depletion mechanism are explored. Study 1 utilized a time-lagged between-person design to explore these relationships among 287 customer service workers. Results show that surface acting has an indirect link with unhealthy eating via negative affect and an indirect link with physical activity via positive affect. ER self-efficacy moderates the path from negative affect to unhealthy eating, thereby weakening the indirect effect of surface acting on unhealthy eating via negative affect. Study 2 utilized a 5-week diary study of 469 teachers to replicate Study 1 at the within-person level. Results show that surface acting has indirect effects on unhealthy eating and physical activity via negative affect at the week level. Also, surface acting has an indirect effect on physical activity via positive affect at the week level. Again, ER self-efficacy cross-moderates (weakens) the indirect link between surface acting and unhealthy eating via negative affect. The pairwise comparisons of the indirect effects reveal no differences among the affect mediators (Studies 1 and 2); however, positive affect may account for more of the effect of surface acting on physical activity than depletion (Study 2). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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在工作中假装，在家里努力保持健康：表面行为模型及其与不健康饮食和身体活动的关系。

进行情绪劳动会损害员工的情绪和监管控制，我们比较这些机制来解释与健康相关的关键行为：饮食和锻炼。两项研究考察了工作中的表面行为与不健康的饮食和在家中的身体活动之间的关系，这种关系是由消极和积极的影响所介导的。情绪调节（ER）自我效能被测试为间接关系的调节者。此外，还探讨了影响机制和消耗机制的相对强度。研究 1 使用时滞人际设计来探索 287 名客户服务人员之间的这些关系。结果表明，表面行为通过负面影响与不健康饮食有间接联系，通过积极影响与身体活动间接联系。ER自我效能缓和了从负面情绪到不健康饮食的路径，从而削弱了表面通过负面情绪作用于不健康饮食的间接影响。研究 2 对 469 名教师进行了为期 5 周的日记研究，以在个人层面上复制研究 1。结果表明，表面行为通过周级的负面影响对不健康的饮食和身体活动产生间接影响。此外，表面行为通过周级的积极影响对身体活动产生间接影响。同样，ER 自我效能通过负面影响交叉调节（削弱）表面行为和不健康饮食之间的间接联系。间接效应的成对比较表明情感中介之间没有差异（研究 1 和 2）；然而，积极影响可能比消耗更多地解释了表面对身体活动的影响（研究 2）。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。