Book Reviews : The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology and Human Rights by Robert Elias. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 372 pages, paperback

Ellis, Desmond

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“…First, as with any field survey study, we cannot make causal inferences based on the results of our research. For example, the literature of victim precipitation ( Olweus, 1978 ; Elias, 1986 ) suggests that low self-efficacy might potentially result in more supervisory abuse ( Tepper et al, 2011 ). Our research attempted to address this issue by collecting data from multiple time points and multiple sources ( Podsakoff et al, 2012 ).…”

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The Buffering Effect of Mindfulness on Abusive Supervision and Creative Performance: A Social Cognitive Framework

Zheng

Liu

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Our research draws upon social cognitive theory and incorporates a regulatory approach to investigate why and when abusive supervision influences employee creative performance. The analyses of data from multiple time points and multiple sources reveal that abusive supervision hampers employee self-efficacy at work, which in turn impairs employee creative performance. Further, employee mindfulness buffers the negative effects of abusive supervision on employee self-efficacy at work as well as the indirect effects of abusive supervision on employee creative performance. Our findings have implications for both theory and practice. Limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.

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The Buffering Effect of Mindfulness on Abusive Supervision and Creative Performance: A Social Cognitive Framework

Zheng

Liu

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…Sociologists decried it for fueling regressive victim-blaming attitudes and ineffective crime prevention programs: “The ‘ideology of victim precipitation’—by blaming the individual crime victim—only serves to divert attention and resources away from the structural causes of crime and the structural changes required by a less criminogenic society” (Timmer & Norman, 1984, p. 63). Political scientist Robert Elias (1986) echoed similar sentiments, observing how victim precipitation “. .…”

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“…In the late 20th century, victim precipitation research came under heavy fire on multiple fronts (e.g., Berger & Searles, 1985; Eigenberg & Garland, 2003; Elias, 1986; Franklin & Franklin, 1976; LeGrand, 1973; Ressler, Burgess, Douglas, Hartman, & D'Agostino, 1986; Timmer & Norman, 1984; Weis & Borges, 1973). Criminologists lambasted it for logical inadequacies, questionable evidence, unfounded assumptions, untestable hypotheses, and unwarranted generalizations.…”

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Beyond Blaming the Victim: Toward a More Progressive Understanding of Workplace Mistreatment

Cortina

Rabelo

Holland

2017

Ind. Organ. Psychol.

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Theories of human aggression can inform research, policy, and practice in organizations. One such theory, victim precipitation, originated in the field of criminology. According to this perspective, some victims invite abuse through their personalities, styles of speech or dress, actions, and even their inactions. That is, they are partly at fault for the wrongdoing of others. This notion is gaining purchase in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology as an explanation for workplace mistreatment. The first half of our article provides an overview and critique of the victim precipitation hypothesis. After tracing its history, we review the flaws of victim precipitation as catalogued by scientists and practitioners over several decades. We also consider real-world implications of victim precipitation thinking, such as the exoneration of violent criminals. Confident that I-O can do better, the second half of this article highlights alternative frameworks for researching and redressing hostile work behavior. In addition, we discuss a broad analytic paradigm—perpetrator predation—as a way to understand workplace abuse without blaming the abused. We take the position that these alternative perspectives offer stronger, more practical, and more progressive explanations for workplace mistreatment. Victim precipitation, we conclude, is an archaic ideology. Criminologists have long since abandoned it, and so should we.

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“…Empirically, these factors has been shown the be the best documented individual risk factors for exposure to workplace bullying, according to a recent meta-analysis (Nielsen et al, 2017). These factors also follows theoretically from the victim-precipitation theory, stating that individual factors that may make you vulnerable and weak or provoking and aggressive may elicit aggression in others turning the focal person into a target (Elias, 1986).…”

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Dispositional Affect as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Role Conflict and Exposure to Bullying Behaviors

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Stressors in the work environment and individual dispositions among targets have been established separately as antecedents and risk factors of workplace bullying. However, few studies have examined these stressors in conjunction in order to determine personal dispositions among targets as possible moderators in the work stressor–bullying relationship. The aim of the present study was to examine multiple types of dispositional affect among targets as potential moderators in the relationship between role conflict and exposure to bullying behaviors, employing two independent cross-sectional samples. The first sample comprised 462 employees from a Norwegian sea transport organization, where trait anger and trait anxiety were included moderators. The second sample was a nationwide probability sample of the Norwegian working population and comprised 1,608 employees randomly drawn from The Norwegian Central Employee Register, where positive and negative affect were included moderators. The results showed that trait anger, trait anxiety, and negative affect strengthened the positive relationship between role conflict and reports of bullying behaviors. Positive affect did not moderate this relationship. We conclude that the association between role conflict and bullying is particularly strong for those scoring high on trait anger, trait anxiety, and negative affect.

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Book Reviews : The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology and Human Rights by Robert Elias. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 372 pages, paperback

Cited by 33 publications

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The Buffering Effect of Mindfulness on Abusive Supervision and Creative Performance: A Social Cognitive Framework

The Buffering Effect of Mindfulness on Abusive Supervision and Creative Performance: A Social Cognitive Framework

Beyond Blaming the Victim: Toward a More Progressive Understanding of Workplace Mistreatment

Dispositional Affect as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Role Conflict and Exposure to Bullying Behaviors

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