Embodied anger management: Approach-oriented postures moderate whether trait anger becomes translated into state anger and aggression.

Koole, Sander L.; Veenstra, Lotte; Domachowska, Irena; Dillon, Kelly; Schneider, Iris K.

doi:10.1037/mot0000257

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“…Previous literature has shown that trait anger is positively related to interpersonal conflict, attitudes toward revenge and hostility, and procedural injustice in the workplace [ 24 ]. In the context of supervisors, when they have higher levels of trait anger, they may capture interpersonal aggression more easily from upper managers, subordinates, or customers [ 25 , 26 ] and then vent their anger toward relatively safe targets, in this case, subordinates who have less hierarchical power [ 27 , 28 ]. Indeed, prior literature has established a positive relationship between supervisors’ trait anger and abusive supervision (e.g., [ 16 , 29 ]).…”

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How Fear of External Threats Plays Roles: An Examination of Supervisors’ Trait Anger, Abusive Supervision, Subordinate Burnout and CCB

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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In times of uncertainty, such as during COVID-19, many organizations experience profit decline, and employees develop a fear of external threats, such as organizational layoffs. However, most of the literature focuses on how people’s fear influences their well-being. Less is known about how employees’ fear of external threats influences their workplace behaviors. The current study proposes that supervisors’ fear of external threats stimulates those who are high in trait anger to behave in a more abusive way. Simultaneously, subordinates’ fear of external threats would strengthen the positive relationship between abusive supervision and their burnout and compulsory citizenship behaviors (CCB), as fear of external threats constrains their response options to abusive supervision. We tested the hypotheses with a multiwave and multisource survey study (N = 322 dyads) in China, and the results showed that supervisors’ fear of external threats strengthened the positive effect of trait anger on abusive supervision. Subordinates’ fear of external threats strengthens the positive relationships of abusive supervision with CCB and the mediating effect of abusive supervision in the relationship of supervisors’ trait anger with subordinates’ CCB. Our study enriches people’s understanding of how supervisors’ and subordinates’ fear of external threats may play roles in workplace behaviors.

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Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Fear of External Threats Plays Roles: An Examination of Supervisors’ Trait Anger, Abusive Supervision, Subordinate Burnout and CCB

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Unconscious and conscious acceptance downregulate aggressive behavior: Mediating role of anger regulation

Zhang

Mao²,

Yuan

et al. 2023

Acta Psychologica

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Testing the Effects of a Virtual Reality Game for Aggressive Impulse Management: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial among Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients

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Prior laboratory experiments among healthy samples found that training avoidance movements to angry faces may lower anger and aggression, especially people high in trait anger. To enrich this training and make it more suitable for clinical applications, the present researchers developed it into a Virtual Reality Game for Aggressive Impulse Management (VR-GAIME). The current study examined the effects of this training in a randomized controlled trial among forensic psychiatric outpatients with aggression regulation problems (N = 30). In addition to the aggression replacement training, patients played either the VR-GAIME or a control game. Aggressive behavior was measured pre-, half-way, and post-treatment via self-report and clinicians ratings. No difference was found between the VR-GAIME and the control game. However, the participants reported gaining more insight into their own behavior and that of others. Future VR intervention tools in clinical settings may capitalize more on their benefits for self-reflection within interpersonal settings.

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Embodied anger management: Approach-oriented postures moderate whether trait anger becomes translated into state anger and aggression.

Cited by 3 publications

References 71 publications

How Fear of External Threats Plays Roles: An Examination of Supervisors’ Trait Anger, Abusive Supervision, Subordinate Burnout and CCB

How Fear of External Threats Plays Roles: An Examination of Supervisors’ Trait Anger, Abusive Supervision, Subordinate Burnout and CCB

Unconscious and conscious acceptance downregulate aggressive behavior: Mediating role of anger regulation

Testing the Effects of a Virtual Reality Game for Aggressive Impulse Management: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial among Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients

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