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Data were collected from 17 supervisors and 116 employees in a Chinese state-owned electric power company using a supervisor-subordinate dyadic survey procedure. Mplus 8.3 was used to test the hypothesized model. The results show that sociality-oriented fun is positively associated with affect-driven innovative behavior through high-motivated positive affect, whereas assistant-oriented fun is positively associated with judgment-driven innovative behavior through the serial mediating role of low-motivated positive affect and job satisfaction. 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