PurposeOnline dating facilitates both dater interactions and rejections. Given the vast offer of potential mates and daters' limited time, several rejections may occur. On online dating platforms, most of these rejections are simply the absence of a reply (ignoring). The purpose of this paper is to compare the impact of implicit rejection (ignoring) vs explicit rejection (declining) on the behavioral intentions of daters, considering self-esteem as a moderator.Design/methodology/approachExperiment 1 investigated the effect of the extent of rejection (implicit vs explicit vs control) on the behavioral intentions of online daters. Experiment 2 assessed observers' recommended actions to a male (vs female) online dater following rejection (implicit vs explicit vs control).FindingsImplicit rejections generate greater behavioral intentions than explicit rejections. Both daters (study 1) and observers of the dating scenario (study 2) indicated greater intent to revise their profiles (study 1) or recommend a profile revision (study 2) when implicitly (vs explicitly) rejected by interaction partners. Self-esteem moderated the effect of the extent of rejection. Higher levels of self-esteem eliminate and lower levels of self-esteem intensify the effect of the extent of rejection on behavioral intentions. Additionally, observers' recommendations based on the extent of rejection depend on the rejected dater's gender.Originality/valueIgnoring is a frequent practice among dating platform users, and this paper provides an original contribution to better understand the differences stemming from implicit or explicit rejection of online daters.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-06-2020-0207
RESUMO O presente trabalho busca desenvolver e validar uma escala que mensure os efeitos da identificação clubística em torcedores de futebol. Esses efeitos são explorados a partir de duas avenidas: atitudinal (comprometimento clubístico) e comportamental (lealdade e consumo clubístico). Foi aplicada uma survey em duas amostras, sendo uma online e não-probabilística para análise fatorial exploratória (477 respondentes) e outra presencial e probabilística para análise fatorial confirmatória (363 respondentes). Considerando que o futebol é um dos principais veículos de expressão dos brasileiros, a escala fornece uma abordagem útil à mensuração de elementos importantes inerentes ao consumo do esporte. O artigo contribui com a área de marketing, ampliando a capacidade científica para capturar a complexidade dos efeitos da identificação do torcedor de futebol com seu clube. A utilização prática do instrumento permite que os clubes possam ter diagnósticos mais consistentes e confiáveis das atitudes e comportamentos dos seus torcedores.
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