The impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time

Greitemeyer, Tobias; Sagioglou, Christina

doi:10.1080/00224545.2018.1549013

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“…Finally, we included a measure of personal relative deprivation, that is one's perception of being less well off in life than others. Greitemeyer and Sagioglou (2019) found personal relative deprivation to predict aggression over time. Hence, we decided to explore the relationship between deprivation, media use, and aggression.…”

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Violent media use and aggression: Two longitudinal network studies

Delhove

Greitemeyer

2021

The Journal of Social Psychology

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Exposure to violent media has been widely linked to increased aggression. In the present research, we examined whether violent media exposure would be associated with increased aggression, which would then spread within social networks like a contagious disease. Two groups of first year psychology students completed a questionnaire three times over the course of a year, measuring their media exposure, aggression, personality, and social relations within the group. Cross-sectional analysis provided mixed results in regards to the link between violent media and aggression. Siena analysis found no evidence of homophily (i.e., participants were not more likely to be friends with others similar to themselves) nor of social influence (i.e., participant's behavior did not predict a change in their friends' behavior). However, given the relatively small sample sizes and the weak ties between participants, more work is needed to assess the spread of violent media effects.

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Violent media use and aggression: Two longitudinal network studies

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Greitemeyer

2021

The Journal of Social Psychology

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“…Relative research also veri ed that the higher social support the college students had, the weaker the relative deprivation they would feel (Zhang & Tao, 2013). Further, individual would feel less hostility and fear to environment or others with reduction of relative deprivation, and then the social avoidance motivation and social withdrawal behavior would also decrease (Devos et al, 2003;Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, 2019;Osborne et al, 2012). Therefore, this study hypothesized that relative deprivation played a mediating role between social support and social withdrawal.…”

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“…It might cause individual behaviorally react different to environment. When faced with the threatened situation, individual might become anger because of injustice feelings, they might be hostile to others, and then attack or hurt others (Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, 2019). When faced with the insecure situation, individual might become fearful and generate social avoidance motivation to escape from this threat (Devos et al, 2003;Osborne et al, 2012).…”

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The Relationship Between Social Support And Social Withdrawal Of Left-Behind Adolescents: A Chain Mediating Model

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Chen

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Background: Nowadays, as more and more Chinese farmers in rural area went to city for work, they left their kids at home. These kids were left-behind adolescents and they developed without their parental accompany. The family function of left-behind adolescents was deficient, which may result in their social withdrawal in social situations. Therefore, in this study, in order to improve left-behind adolescents’ psychological and behavior problems, we aimed to investigate their level of social withdrawal and its impact factors. Method: There were 339 left-behind adolescents and 289 non-left-behind adolescents recruited from a Chinese junior high school. Their social withdrawal, social support, relative deprivation, and resilience were measured through questionnaires. Results: The results showed that compared with non-left-behind adolescents, left-behind adolescents had lower social support and resilience, but their social withdrawal and relative deprivation were higher; besides, left-behind adolescents’ social support negatively predicted social withdrawal, while relative deprivation and resilience played a chain mediating role between them. Conclusion: This study found that compared with none-left-behind adolescents, left-behind adolescents had difficulty in social adaptation. However, there was a “context-process-outcome” model in which social support negatively predicted social withdrawal, while relative deprivation and resilience played a chain mediating role between them. In sum, this study provided suggestions to promote the mental health and social behavioral development of left-behind adolescents.

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“…Relative deprivation refers to an individual’s subjective experience of perceiving that she/he is in a negative situation by making an upward social comparison with a reference target object and then generating negative emotions such as dissatisfaction and anger ( Greitemeyer and Sagioglou, 2019 ). According to the classic theory on relative deprivation, members of vulnerable groups in society experience feelings of relative deprivation in basic rights in the course of comparing themselves with others, and such a sense of relative deprivation generates negative influences on their psychological adjustment, thereby inducing negative emotions and problem behaviors ( Smith et al, 2012 ; Greitemeyer and Sagioglou, 2017 ; Lin and Liu, 2020 ).…”

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Relative Deprivation and Game Addiction in Left-Behind Children: A Moderated Mediation

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Previous findings show that relative deprivation has a profound influence on game addiction, but the potential mediating and moderating mechanisms are unclear, especially for left-behind children. The present study therefore examined the relationship between relative deprivation and game addiction, the mediating effect of deviant peer affiliation, and the moderating effect of beliefs about adversity in a sample of left-behind children. A total of 952 left-behind children (mean age = 13.67 years, SD = 1.34) participated in this study. The participants anonymously completed a battery of questionnaires, including the Relative Deprivation Scale, the Deviant Peer Affiliation Scale, the Beliefs about Adversity Scale, the Game Addiction Scale, and demographic variables. After controlling for gender, left-behind category, and socioeconomic status, the moderated mediation model showed that (a) relative deprivation significantly and positively predicted game addiction in left-behind children; (b) The mediation analysis showed that the positive association between relative deprivation and game addiction in left-behind children was mediated by deviant peer affiliation; (c) Beliefs about adversity moderated the association between relative deprivation and deviant peer affiliation and were weaker for left-behind children with higher levels of beliefs about adversity, consistent with the risk-buffering model, but the relationship between relative deprivation and game addiction was stronger for left-behind children with higher levels of beliefs about adversity, consistent with the reverse risk-buffering model. These findings have crucial implications for the prevention and intervention of game addiction in left-behind children.

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The impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time

Cited by 42 publications

References 44 publications

Violent media use and aggression: Two longitudinal network studies

Violent media use and aggression: Two longitudinal network studies

The Relationship Between Social Support And Social Withdrawal Of Left-Behind Adolescents: A Chain Mediating Model

Relative Deprivation and Game Addiction in Left-Behind Children: A Moderated Mediation

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