Upward, Downward, and Horizontal Social Comparisons: Effects on Adjustment, Emotions, and Persistence in Teachers

Rahimi, Sonia; Hall, Nathan C.; Wang, Hui; Maymon, Rebecca

doi:10.31532/interdiscipeducpsychol.1.1.010

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“…In addition, [37] indicated that students having a low social comparison orientation had more hardiness and life satisfaction than the students having a high social comparison orientation. Another study by [38] showed that downward comparisons with worse-off others positively predict satisfaction. In agreement, [23] reported that social comparisons effectively enhanced the students' ability self-concept and intrinsic values.…”

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Social comparison and overall adjustment among freshmen in one public university

Aloka

2024

Eureka: SH

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The freshmen in universities continue to face adjustment issues to new environments. Thus, transition to the university is characterized by expected independent decisions as compared to the previous secondary school teacher controlled learning environment.When the transition challenges are not well managed by the university administration, then it could lead to the emergence of psychopathology, as pre-existing mental health problems are exacerbated or new symptoms emerge in response to novel environmental stressors.The present study examined the relationship between social comparison and overall adjustment among the freshmen in one selected public university in Kenya. The study was informed by Social Comparison Theory (SCT) and Student Integration Theory.This study was anchored in the positivist research paradigm. The study was guided by the cross-sectional survey research design. The sample size comprised 213 freshmen in one public university in Western Kenya. The Social Comparison Scale and Adjustment Questionnaire were used to collect data. The validity results indicated that the Keiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was 0.753. The Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity at 95% level of confidence was significant (p-value of .000 < 0.05). The finding shows that there was a low negative (r = -.142, n =213, p<.05) relationship between social comparison and overall adjustment among the first year university students. The study concludes that the social comparison regression model was adequate to predict overall adjustment among first year university students [F (1, 211) = 4.366, p< .05)].The study recommends that the university counseling center should develop holistic counseling therapies, which would enhance coping skills, seeking support, and counseling seeking behaviours among first year students

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Social comparison and overall adjustment among freshmen in one public university

Aloka

2024

Eureka: SH

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“…The downward comparison can lead to developing a positive self-concept or uniformity; this state of an individual is occasionally known as the assimilation effect (Corcoran et al, 2011;Mussweiler, 2001). Finally, lateral or horizontal comparison is defined as an individual's attempt to compare themselves to someone having equal social status (Corcoran et al, 2011;Rahimi et al, 2017). For example, employees might compare themselves with other employees having the same organizational hierarchical position.…”

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“…The group with which individuals compare themselves is known as the reference group. Festinger's (1954) social comparison theory proposes three types of assessments: upward, downward, and lateral social comparison (Corcoran et al, 2011;Rahimi et al, 2017). The upward comparison is described as an individual's propensity to compare themselves with someone in an upward position (Corcoran et al, 2011;Rahimi et al, 2017).…”

Section: Social Comparison Theorymentioning

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“…Festinger's (1954) social comparison theory proposes three types of assessments: upward, downward, and lateral social comparison (Corcoran et al, 2011;Rahimi et al, 2017). The upward comparison is described as an individual's propensity to compare themselves with someone in an upward position (Corcoran et al, 2011;Rahimi et al, 2017). For instance, individuals might compare themselves with people having more wealth, health, or social standing.…”

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“…The downward comparison is related to individuals' propensity to compare themselves better than others due to some type of social status defined by society (Corcoran et al, 2011;Festinger, 1954;Rahimi et al, 2017). The downward comparison can lead to developing a positive self-concept or uniformity; this state of an individual is occasionally known as the assimilation effect (Corcoran et al, 2011;Mussweiler, 2001).…”

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In the extant scholarship, researchers have claimed that malicious envy has a significant relationship with workplace deviance. Nevertheless, there remains a dearth of scholarship detailing how employees can display workplace deviance in an organizational context without being caught. This study aims to examine an association between dispositional malicious envy and workplace deviance, mediated by divergent thinking through the lens of social comparison theory. Data was collected via a cross-sectional survey from employees ( N = 363) working in Pakistan’s banking and telecom sector. The study results reveal that dispositional malicious envy can lead to workplace deviance via the divergent thinking mediation effect. This study adds to the limited scholarship about how dispositional malicious envy relates to workplace deviance in the organizational setting, particularly when employees make lateral comparisons.

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Upward, Downward, and Horizontal Social Comparisons: Effects on Adjustment, Emotions, and Persistence in Teachers

Cited by 11 publications

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Exploring teachers’ social goal orientations with the job demands-resources model

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