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When Project Commitment Leads to Learning from Failure: The Roles of Perceived Shame and Personal Control

Facing a remarkably changing world, researchers have gradually shifted emphasis from successful experiences to failures. In the current study, we build a model to explore the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure, and test how emotion (i.e., perceived shame after failure)...

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Autores principales: Wang, Wenzhou, Wang, Bin, Yang, Ke, Yang, Chong, Yuan, Wenlong, Song, Shanghao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5808229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29467699
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00086
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author Wang, Wenzhou
Wang, Bin
Yang, Ke
Yang, Chong
Yuan, Wenlong
Song, Shanghao
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description Facing a remarkably changing world, researchers have gradually shifted emphasis from successful experiences to failures. In the current study, we build a model to explore the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure, and test how emotion (i.e., perceived shame after failure) and cognition (i.e., attribution for failure) affect this process. After randomly selecting 400 firms from the list of high-tech firms reported by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, we use a two-wave investigation of the employees, and the final sample consists of 140 teams from 58 companies in the technology industry in mainland China. The results provide evidence for the positive role of personal control attribution in the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure. However, in contrast to previous studies, perceived shame, as the negative emotion after failed events, could bring desirable outcomes during this process. Based on the results, we further expand a model to explain the behavioral responses after failure, and the implications of our findings for research and practice are discussed. The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. —Henry David Thoreau
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spelling pubmed-58082292018-02-21 When Project Commitment Leads to Learning from Failure: The Roles of Perceived Shame and Personal Control Wang, Wenzhou Wang, Bin Yang, Ke Yang, Chong Yuan, Wenlong Song, Shanghao Front Psychol Psychology Facing a remarkably changing world, researchers have gradually shifted emphasis from successful experiences to failures. In the current study, we build a model to explore the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure, and test how emotion (i.e., perceived shame after failure) and cognition (i.e., attribution for failure) affect this process. After randomly selecting 400 firms from the list of high-tech firms reported by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, we use a two-wave investigation of the employees, and the final sample consists of 140 teams from 58 companies in the technology industry in mainland China. The results provide evidence for the positive role of personal control attribution in the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure. However, in contrast to previous studies, perceived shame, as the negative emotion after failed events, could bring desirable outcomes during this process. Based on the results, we further expand a model to explain the behavioral responses after failure, and the implications of our findings for research and practice are discussed. The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. —Henry David Thoreau Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5808229/ /pubmed/29467699 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00086 Text en Copyright © 2018 Wang, Wang, Yang, Yang, Yuan and Song. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5808229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29467699
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00086
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