The effect of objectification on aggression

Poon, Kai Tak; Chen, Zhansheng; Teng, Fei; Wong, Wing-Yan

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103940

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“…That the failure manipulation increased negative affect, independently of the increased positive attitudes towards guns, is consistent with the idea that this is a motivational phenomenon, not an affective phenomenon per se(Leander & Chartrand, 2017;Poon, Chen, Teng, & Wong, 2020). This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.…”

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Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence.

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Agostini²,

Stroebe³

et al. 2020

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence.

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Stroebe³

et al. 2020

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…A sense of control is the belief in an individual’s ability to shape his or her own life, which is an important factor in helping an individual adapt to changes in his or her environment (Lachman & Weaver, 1998 ; Reich & Infurna, 2017 ). Many studies had found that when individuals’ sense of control decreased, they tend to intimidate others through aggressive behaviors in order to restore their perceived lack of control (Poon et al, 2020 ; Schat & Kelloway, 2000 ; Sherrod et al, 1979 ; Warburton et al, 2016 ). Tong’s ( 2004 ) study on stress responses of the SARS pandemic and Parmet and Sinha’s ( 2017 ) study on the panic reactions of Ebola pandemic both showed that the perceived threat brought by infectious diseases could leads to a significant decrease in people’s sense of control.…”

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How perceived threat of COVID-19 related to aggressive tendencies during the pandemic in Hubei Province and other regions of China: Mediators and moderators

Deng

Feng

2021

Curr Psychol

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During the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, domestic violence, interpersonal conflicts, and cyberbullying have risen sharply in China. We speculate that the perceived threat of COVID-19 is related to a general, non-target-specific aggressive tendency during the pandemic. We surveyed 1556 Chinese people in April 2020 (757 people in Hubei Province, the pandemic epicenter in China, and 799 in other regions of China where the pandemic is relatively not severe). A multiple-group structural equation modeling analysis found significant total effects between perceived threat of COVID-19 and aggressive tendencies during the pandemic in both regional groups, and the effect between them was mainly achieved through the mediating roles of sense of control and powerlessness during the pandemic. For all participants, negative coping strategies significantly aggravated the association between perceived threat of COVID-19 and aggressive tendencies during the pandemic, but the buffers were different across regions of outbreak severity. For participants in other regions where the pandemic is relatively not severe, positive coping strategies could mitigate the association between perceived threat of COVID-19 and aggressions. However, for participants in Hubei Province, the epicenter of China's pandemic, higher life satisfaction was more effective in buffering. These findings extend the possible consequences of the perceived COVID-19 threat and suggest that improving the life satisfaction of residents in areas with severe outbreaks is more effective in mitigating the adverse effects of COVID-19.Keywords COVID-19 . Perceived threat . Aggression . Mediator . ModeratorThe novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that has swept the world since December 2019 is the most serious public health crisis since World War II (Guterres, 2020). This study paid particular attention to a prominent phenomenon during the pandemic in China: the rising aggressive tendencies among Chinese people. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people in China seemed to become restless. Domestic violence, interpersonal conflicts, and cyberbullying have risen sharply in the pandemic period (Global Times, 2020;Li et al., 2020;Ye et al., 2020). These aggressions may instigate social tensions and increase the level of social conflicts in the post-pandemic period (Censolo & Morelli, 2020). Therefore,

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“…Self-objectification is an approach to appraising one's own goal-related behaviors and objectives (Gruenfeld et al, 2008). This approach involves an internalization of objectification, by which people treat themselves as instrumental objects or tools to achieve a performance goal (Gruenfeld et al, 2008;Jones and Griffiths, 2015;Poon et al, 2020). Performance pressure is focused on enhancing results, and employees can view this challenge as an opportunity to grow and achieve personal goals in career development (Mitchell et al, 2019).…”

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“…Based on an approach/avoidance model, we argue that performance pressure as a unique source of work stress may activate both an approach and avoidance motivation (i.e., selfobjectification and workplace anxiety) toward the desired in-role behaviors. On the one hand, self-objectification, defined as the internalization of objectifying experiences (Frederickson and Roberts, 1997;Gruenfeld et al, 2008;Jones and Griffiths, 2015), is an approach to appraising one's own goal-related behaviors and objectives in performance-related settings (Gruenfeld et al, 2008;Poon et al, 2020). Exposure to performance pressure, individuals practice self-objectification when they treat themselves as objects or tools for achieving instrumental goals, such as attaining performance goals (Jones and Griffiths, 2015;Poon et al, 2020).…”

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“…On the one hand, self-objectification, defined as the internalization of objectifying experiences (Frederickson and Roberts, 1997;Gruenfeld et al, 2008;Jones and Griffiths, 2015), is an approach to appraising one's own goal-related behaviors and objectives in performance-related settings (Gruenfeld et al, 2008;Poon et al, 2020). Exposure to performance pressure, individuals practice self-objectification when they treat themselves as objects or tools for achieving instrumental goals, such as attaining performance goals (Jones and Griffiths, 2015;Poon et al, 2020). On the other hand, workplace anxiety called performance-based anxiety, defined as a feeling of nervousness, unease, or tension about job-related performance (McCarthy et al, 2016;Cheng and Mccarthy, 2018), is a prototypical motive for avoidance behavior (Lerner and Keltner, 2001;Ferris et al, 2016).…”

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Paradoxical Effects of Performance Pressure on Employees’ In-Role Behaviors: An Approach/Avoidance Model

Xiao-feng

Wang

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for employees. Based on an approach/avoidance framework, we theorize that performance pressure produces both positive and negative effects on employees’ in-role behaviors via approach motivation (i.e., self-objectification) and avoidance motivation (i.e., workplace anxiety), and work meaningfulness moderates employees’ reactions to performance pressure. We examine our hypotheses using data from a sample of 345 employees in various organizations. The results show that self-objectification provides an approach motive that mediates the positive indirect effect of performance pressure on employees’ in-role behaviors. However, workplace anxiety provides an avoidance motive that mediates the negative indirect effect of performance pressure on employees’ in-role behaviors. Work meaningfulness strengthens both the approach and avoidance tendencies that employees experience under performance pressure. Our findings have significant theoretical and managerial implications.

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The effect of objectification on aggression

Cited by 36 publications

References 99 publications

Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence.

Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence.

How perceived threat of COVID-19 related to aggressive tendencies during the pandemic in Hubei Province and other regions of China: Mediators and moderators

Paradoxical Effects of Performance Pressure on Employees’ In-Role Behaviors: An Approach/Avoidance Model

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