The implicit motive to aggress as a moderator of the relationship between ostracism and retaliatory aggression
Abstract
Applied research concerning antecedents and consequents of workplace aggression lacks empirical development of one subtle form of workplace aggression: ostracism. Benefiting from a social psychological approach to ostracism research, the present study builds upon this literature through using a novel method to explore how implicit aggression might interact with ostracism to predict workplace-related aggression. Results indicated that although implicit aggression did not moderate the relationship between ostracism condition and behavior, main effects for implicit aggression evidenced that implicitly aggressive individuals experience heightened needs threat during their initial reactions to ostracism. Also, degree of ostracism impacted both initial reactions to that ostracism as well as whether or not participants wanted to work with their ostracizers in the future.
Degree
M.S.
Advisors
LeBreton, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Social psychology
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