Replication Data for: Exploring the Conditionality of Public Service Motivation: Evidence from a Priming Experiment

Replication Data (Stata) for: Exploring the Conditionality of Public Service Motivation: Evidence from a Priming Experiment Scholars have demonstrated that public service motivation (PSM) may be conditional and activated in certain contexts or by particular primes. However, to date researchers have focused on the impact of positive experiences or beneficial consequences of public serving activities on employee PSM. Altruism research suggests that PSM may also respond, somewhat counterintuitively, to negative experiences. We test this in an experimental study of 456 public employees in which treatment groups were asked to recall negative or positive interactions with citizens, before responding to questions from a widely used scale of PSM. Results suggest that expressed PSM is sensitive to, and in fact increases, in response to both positive and negative experiential primes. We conclude with a discussion of implications of conditionality for our broader understanding of PSM.本研究的Stata格式复刻数据：《公共服务动机的条件性研究：来自启动实验的证据》 已有学者证实，公共服务动机（Public Service Motivation, PSM）具有条件性，可在特定情境中或经由特定启动刺激被激活。然而迄今为止，研究者多聚焦于公共服务活动的正向经历或有益结果对员工公共服务动机的影响。利他主义相关研究表明，公共服务动机或许也会对负面经历做出反应，这一结果在某种程度上违背直觉。本研究针对456名公共部门雇员开展实验，要求实验组被试先回忆与民众的正向或负向互动经历，随后填写广为使用的公共服务动机量表问卷。研究结果显示，自我报告的公共服务动机对两类体验型启动刺激均敏感，且实际上会因之提升。本研究最后讨论了公共服务动机的条件性特征对我们全面理解该概念的启示意义。