Employees regulate their daily behavior to attain work and personal goals, and counterproductive work behavior (CWB) is an important form of work behavior employees attempt to regulate. Here, we test Aitken et al.’s (2024) control-theory-based self-regulatory model of CWB by replicating their findings in an experience-sampling study involving 178 employees and a total of 2,368 daily observations. This replication was necessary to increase understanding of appropriate timeframes for testing the model, operationalizations of trait CWB, and the practical (vs. merely statistical) significance of the findings. We additionally extended Aitken et al.’s results by including within- and between-person covariates and separate analyses of interpersonal and organizational CWB. Except in one case, results regarding state-trait (mis)fit were identical to those obtained by Aitken et al., thereby attesting to the robustness of their findings and their self-regulation model of CWB.
