The extant social undermining literature suggests that employees envy and, consequently, undermine coworkers when they feel that these coworkers are better off and thus pose a threat to their own ...current status. With the present research, we draw on the sociofunctional approach to emotions to propose that an anticipated future status threat can similarly incline employees to feel envy toward, and subsequently undermine, their coworkers. We argue that employees pay special attention to coworkers' past development in relation to their own, because faster-rising coworkers may pose a future status threat even if they are still performing worse in absolute terms in the present. With a set of two behavioral experiments (N = 90 and N = 168), we establish that participants react to faster-rising coworkers with social undermining behavior when the climate is competitive (vs. less competitive). We extended these results with a scenario experiment (N = 376) showing that, in these situations, participants extrapolate lower future status than said coworker and thus respond with envy and undermining behavior. A two-wave field study (N = 252) replicated the complete moderated serial mediation model. Our findings help to explain why employees sometimes undermine others who present no immediate threat to their status. As such, we extend theorizing on social undermining and social comparison.
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The dark side of romantic jealousy Chin, Kristi; Atkinson, Breanna Ellen; Raheb, Hana ...
Personality and individual differences,
09/2017, Volume:
115
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The present study investigates whether self-esteem and entitlement moderate the relation between jealousy (cognitive, emotional, behavioral) and the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, ...psychopathy). To test this question, 453 participants (311 females, 140 males, 2 unidentified) between the ages of 17 to 81years (M=33.19, SD=10.32) completed the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale, the Short-D3, the Psychological Entitlement Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The interaction of self-esteem and Machiavellianism has an effect on cognitive jealousy and emotional jealousy, and the interaction of selfesteem and narcissism has an effect on behavioral jealousy. The interaction of entitlement and narcissism has an effect on emotional jealousy and behavioral jealousy, and the interaction of entitlement and psychopathy has an effect on cognitive jealousy. These findings identify dimensions of the Dark Triad and other personality traits that influence the propensity to experience different types of jealousy.
•Two studies investigating relations between the Dark Triad and jealousy.•Study 1 reports correlations between these variables.•Study 2 replicates Study 1 and expands by looking at moderator variables.•Results of the 2 studies contribute to the literature on the Dark Triad.
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Although jealousy is one of the most frequent emotions felt by employees at workplace with far-reaching consequences, empirical research understanding this discrete emotion remains scant, especially ...in frontline services. Drawing on justice theory, this research investigates the unexplored mediating role of workplace jealousy in the relationship between perceived injustice and a key frontline employee outcome, job performance, in service-setting in Pakistan. The moderating role of employee self-efficacy is also examined in the jealousy – performance relationship. Multi-source and multi-level data collected across two studies in frontline settings demonstrate that, as an outcome of perceived injustice, jealously can be deleterious for frontline performance. The study further offers useful insights into regulating jealousy at workplace by demonstrating that self-efficacy attenuates the deleterious effect of jealousy on frontline job performance.
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Recent news in the media has suggested that younger people are using popular social media such as Facebook less and are quickly adopting newer media, such as the self-destructing app Snapchat. ...Snapchat is unique in that it erases messages several seconds after they have been sent, affording its users a higher level of privacy. Yet, little research exists on Snapchat use in general, let alone its broader psychological implications. This article offers a preliminary comparison of Snapchat and Facebook use and psychological effects on romantic jealousy. General motives for using Snapchat and Facebook are examined, as well as the nature of the content that Snapchat users most frequently share. Further, because of the differences in privacy and persistence of information, potential psychological effects in the domain of romantic jealousy are also examined, which has been widely studied on Facebook in the last few years. Findings show that the main difference in motives were that Snapchat was used more for flirting and finding new love interests, whereas Facebook was still the main social networking site used for keeping in touch with friends. Further, when presenting users with a series of potentially jealousy provoking scenarios, Snapchat elicited higher levels of jealousy than did Facebook. These findings are explained based on an affordance approach.
Recent research suggests that women react to idealized female models in advertising as they would react to real-life sexual rivals. Across four studies, we investigate the negative consequences of ...this imaginary competition on consumers' mate-guarding jealousy, indirect aggression, and drive for thinness. A meta-analysis of studies 1-3 shows that women exposed to an idealized model report more mate-guarding jealousy and show increased indirect aggression (i.e., derogation and social exclusion), but do not report a higher desire for thinness. Study 4 replicates these findings and reveals that the main driver of aggression is the sexually provocative attitude of the model (a signal of a flirting behavior and of sexual availability), rather than her thin body size. The ethical implications of these findings for advertising are discussed in light of recent concerns about female bullying, online, and in the workplace.
Drawing upon social comparison theory, we developed and tested a model to examine potential negative coworker reactions toward proactive employees. We theorized that a focal employee's proactive ...personality is positively related with his or her high relative standing in the group, which in turn exposes him or her to being the target of coworker envy. This may then reduce the focal employee's received help from coworkers and give rise to coworker undermining. We further reasoned that employee prosocial motivation moderates the serial mediated relationships. Our hypotheses were generally supported in 3 field studies involving a total of 1,069 employees from 223 groups. Proactive personality was negatively and indirectly related to received help from coworkers, via relative leader-member exchange (RLMX) and relative job performance, and then via being envied by coworkers (Study 1). Results also generally supported the positive and indirect effect of proactive personality on coworker undermining via the same set of sequential mediators (e.g., RLMX and then being envied, Study 2). The indirect effects of proactive personality on coworker helping and undermining (e.g., via relative job performance and coworker envy) were only significant when employees' prosocial motivation was low (Study 3). This research contributes to a more complete and balanced theorization of the influences of proactive personality in organizations.
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Abstract
Objective
The goal of this research is to establish the pathways through which romantic jealousy leads to intimate partner violence.
Background
Physical and/or sexual intimate partner ...violence is widespread, with one in four women reporting it globally. Romantic jealousy is a known risk factor for intimate partner violence, yet little is known about the pathways that link it to intimate partner violence, especially in Africa.
Method
We used a qualitative design, interviewing 18 adult women in Northern Tanzania to understand their experiences and reflections of intimate partner violence. To grasp the mechanisms through which jealousy can trigger intimate partner violence, our analysis utilizes the concept of hegemonic masculinity.
Results
Intimate partner violence and romantic jealousy emerged as major issues in women's lives in this study. We established six pathways linking these variables: women confronting their partners because of infidelity, partners' anger because women confronted their mistress, women refusing to have sex or talk with their partners because they were jealous, male partners failing to control or regulate their emotions and becoming violent, and men feeling that their masculinity is threatened.
Conclusion
In this study, intimate partner violence against women was largely men's reaction to their interpretation of perceived triggers of romantic jealousy and emotions as a threat to their masculinity and dominance.
Implications
Interventions aiming to prevent intimate partner violence need to address the pathways linking the violence to romantic jealousy and include this connection in their programming.
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En los últimos tiempos las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación están siendo utilizadas para ejercer violencia de diversa índole, siendo los y las adolescentes los principales ...protagonistas. Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar comportamientos de ciberagresión en las relaciones de noviazgo adolescente, en concreto, los llevados a cabo en una muestra de 206 chicos adolescentes estudiantes de educación secundaria de la ciudad de Huelva. Además, se estudia la relación entre la presencia de creencias sexistas, celos románticos y otras manifestaciones de violencia psicológica con este tipo de violencia dirigida a las chicas. Los resultados apoyan las hipótesis de este trabajo y muestran un porcentaje significativo de chicos que han ejercido ciberagresión hacia chicas parejas o ex parejas. Además, el análisis de regresión mostró que esta práctica se explicaba por las creencias sexistas de los chicos, especialmente las de tipo hostil, y por la presencia de celos románticos, así como por otras formas tradicionales de violencia psicológica. Estos resultados ponen de manifiesto que actitudes y creencias basadas en el sexismo y los celos se sitúan a la base de la violencia acontecida en relaciones de pareja a edades tempranas también a través del mundo virtual.
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