Target Meaning-Making of Workplace Incivility Based on Perceived Personality Similarity with Perpetrators

Autor:	Daniel Krenn, Dana Kabat-Farr, Benjamin Biermeier-Hanson, Lisa A. Marchiondo
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Adult Male Incivility media_common.quotation_subject Emotions 050109 social psychology Education Hostility 0502 economics and business Similarity (psychology) Meaning-making Humans Workplace incivility Personality Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Workplace General Psychology media_common Mechanism (biology) 05 social sciences Middle Aged Social Perception Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Female Attribution Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Cognitive appraisal
Zdroj:	The Journal of Psychology. 152:474-496
ISSN:	1940-1019 0022-3980
Popis:	Target meaning-making of incivility (i.e., the ways targets assess uncivil events) has received attention as an important mediating mechanism in explaining the varied outcomes of incivility. The present study draws on person-environment (PE) fit theory, as well as the similarity-attraction paradigm and repulsion hypothesis, to uncover how perceived personality (dis)similarity affects both cognitive (i.e., attribution, negative appraisal) and emotional reactions (i.e., hostility) to incivility. Specifically, we examine whether incongruence between target personality and perceived perpetrator personality worsens target meaning-making (vice versa for personality congruence). Study 1 (N = 479 employees) addressed (dis)similarity in agreeableness, while Study 2 (N = 296 working adults) addressed (dis)similarity in neuroticism. Based on polynomial regressions with response surface modeling, the results generally supported the hypotheses. Along the line of dissimilarity, targets often assessed (i.e., attributed intent to, appraised, reacted emotionally to) uncivil events more negatively when they perceived personality dissimilarity with perpetrators. However, similarity in personality did not always have the opposite effect by buffering against negative assessments; meaning-making was worse when both parties scored high on neuroticism. Implications for workplace incivility and PE fit literatures are discussed, along with practical implications that highlight information elaboration and perspective taking.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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