Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection

Wang, Xiaoying; Li, Miaomiao

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885384

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“…In this study, we focused on the victims of ostracism from mentors and empirically explored how this ostracism affects the envy and behavior of their protégés from their perspective. First, the effect of ostracism from mentors is underexplored, and ours is the first study to extend mentoring literature by applying a daily experience sampling method in researching its emotional and behavioral consequences within mentoring context, that responds the call for exploring emotional reaction to ostracism ( Wang and Li, 2022 ). We draw on the theories of social information processing and social comparison, and focus on a specific type of workplace ostracism.…”

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A within-person examination of the effect of mentors’ daily ostracism on protégés’ displaced aggression and in-role performance

Wu²,

Qin³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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PurposeDrawing on social information processing theory and social comparison theory, we test how mentors’ daily ostracism triggers protégés’ envy, thus leading to decreased in-role performance and increased displaced aggression.Design/methodology/approachUsing an experience sampling study across three work weeks, the study provided theoretical and empirical examinations of dynamic, within-person processes related to mentors’ ostracism.FindingsMentors’ daily ostracism triggers protégés’ envy, which mediates the effect of mentors’ daily ostracism on protégés’ displaced aggression and in-role performance. Our findings supported our hypothesis of the buffering effect of mentorship quality on the negative effect of mentors’ ostracism on protégés’ envy but did not show a significant moderating effect on the mediating effect of protégés’ emotions between mentors’ daily ostracism and protégés’ behaviors.Research limitations/implicationsOur study focused on the victims of mentors’ ostracism on a daily basis. We constructed an overarching theoretical model to investigate how, why, and when mentors’ daily ostracism leads to protégés’ emotional and behavioral variability.Practical implicationsThe study provided how to cope with ostracism and envy.Originality/valueWe discuss the theoretical implications of our findings for research on mentors’ ostracism, protégés’ emotions, and protégés’ behaviors.

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A within-person examination of the effect of mentors’ daily ostracism on protégés’ displaced aggression and in-role performance

Wu²,

Qin³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Coping trauma with tolerance! A dyadic approach to investigate the relationship between social rejection and work-deviant behavior

Hussain,

Imran,

Fatima

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PurposeBased on the conservation of resources and emotional regulation theories, this research seeks to examine the relationship between social rejection and work-deviant behavior with a moderated mediation effect of emotional tolerance and psychological trauma.Design/methodology/approachA three-wave multi-sourced (dyad) data were collected from the professionals and respective supervisors of state-managed services sector organizations operating in Pakistan (n1 = 252, n2 = 126) selected through snowball sampling technique.FindingsThe results reflected that socially excluded employees indulge in work-deviant behaviors and psychological trauma perform a partial transmitting link. Further, an ability to be emotionally tolerant buffers the detrimental aspects effects of social rejection on psychological trauma but might not be an effective tool while one moves to the trauma stage. Further, the conditional effect confirms that a high level of emotional tolerance weakens the moderated mediation relationship between social rejection and work-deviant behavior via psychological trauma.Practical implicationsThe present study provides guidelines to carefully identify and tackle the incidences of social rejection in the workplace and develop tolerance capabilities of employees to tackle the trauma and reduce work deviance.Originality/valueThis is a novel attempt to link the emotional regulation theory with the conservation of resources theory in order to minimize the deviance-related issues provoked by social rejection by introducing emotional tolerance as a coping mechanism which was paid less attention in the contemporary literature.

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Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection

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A within-person examination of the effect of mentors’ daily ostracism on protégés’ displaced aggression and in-role performance

A within-person examination of the effect of mentors’ daily ostracism on protégés’ displaced aggression and in-role performance

Coping trauma with tolerance! A dyadic approach to investigate the relationship between social rejection and work-deviant behavior

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