In summary, when AS occurs, employe

In summary, when AS occurs, employees tend to refrain from citizenship behaviour
and form negative attitude against their organisation. As AS causes stress and
disappointment, the employees may use gossip (both JRG and NJG) to cope with their
negative emotions and feelings against their organisations. Thus, we propose the following
hypotheses:
H5: Abusive supervision predicts employee cynicism.
H6: Abusive supervision predicts job-related gossip and non-job-related gossip.
Furthermore, as NJG has a weaker effect on ECN (please refer to the discussion of the
Hypothesis 2), we propose the following final hypothesis:
H7: Non-job-related gossip shows a weaker mediating effect on the relationship
between AS and employee cynicism.