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Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management
Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) stresses that future time perspective (FTP) affects one’s goals and behaviors. In the work context, older workers’ occupational future time perspective (OFTP) also impacts their work-related behaviors. Two studies investigate whether the two components of OFTP...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33224065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571874 |
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author | Yeung, Dannii Y. Ho, Alvin K.-K. |
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description | Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) stresses that future time perspective (FTP) affects one’s goals and behaviors. In the work context, older workers’ occupational future time perspective (OFTP) also impacts their work-related behaviors. Two studies investigate whether the two components of OFTP, namely, focus on opportunities and on limitations, could account for the age differences in the use of conflict strategies at work. Study 1 comprises 416 Hong Kong Chinese workers aged between 20 and 68 years who completed an online questionnaire measuring their OFTP and habitual use of five conflict management strategies (integrating, compromising, obliging, avoiding, and dominating). In Study 2, 268 managerial employees and professionals were asked to recall a real-life workplace conflict that happened in the past six months and their use of the five conflict strategies in this incident. The results of Study 1 showed a negative indirect effect of age on all five conflict strategies through focus on opportunities, whereas a positive indirect effect of age was observed on obliging, avoiding and dominating strategies through focus on limitations. These age-related patterns are largely replicated in Study 2. These findings suggest that aging workers’ increased perception of limitations make them utilize less constructive strategies when facing conflict at work. |
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spelling | pubmed-76742872020-11-19 Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management Yeung, Dannii Y. Ho, Alvin K.-K. Front Psychol Psychology Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) stresses that future time perspective (FTP) affects one’s goals and behaviors. In the work context, older workers’ occupational future time perspective (OFTP) also impacts their work-related behaviors. Two studies investigate whether the two components of OFTP, namely, focus on opportunities and on limitations, could account for the age differences in the use of conflict strategies at work. Study 1 comprises 416 Hong Kong Chinese workers aged between 20 and 68 years who completed an online questionnaire measuring their OFTP and habitual use of five conflict management strategies (integrating, compromising, obliging, avoiding, and dominating). In Study 2, 268 managerial employees and professionals were asked to recall a real-life workplace conflict that happened in the past six months and their use of the five conflict strategies in this incident. The results of Study 1 showed a negative indirect effect of age on all five conflict strategies through focus on opportunities, whereas a positive indirect effect of age was observed on obliging, avoiding and dominating strategies through focus on limitations. These age-related patterns are largely replicated in Study 2. These findings suggest that aging workers’ increased perception of limitations make them utilize less constructive strategies when facing conflict at work. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7674287/ /pubmed/33224065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571874 Text en Copyright © 2020 Yeung and Ho. 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(s) 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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Yeung, Dannii Y. Ho, Alvin K.-K. Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management |
title | Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management |
title_full | Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management |
title_fullStr | Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management |
title_full_unstemmed | Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management |
title_short | Focus on Opportunities or Limitations? Their Effects on Older Workers’ Conflict Management |
title_sort | focus on opportunities or limitations? their effects on older workers’ conflict management |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33224065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571874 |
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