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Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection
Social rejection is cold and hurtful, but how and why it is formed remains under-investigated. Our study offers one possible explanation from the rejector’s perspective by developing a moderated mediation model on the emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection. Specifically, envious in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9479841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118456 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885384 |
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author | Wang, Xiaoying Li, Miaomiao |
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description | Social rejection is cold and hurtful, but how and why it is formed remains under-investigated. Our study offers one possible explanation from the rejector’s perspective by developing a moderated mediation model on the emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection. Specifically, envious individuals use social rejection to complement their inferiority, further triggering their negative affect. Drawing on social comparison theory, we conducted an experience sampling methodology (ESM) investigation of 55 frontline workers through a 10-workday-survey (Level 1 n = 515). As predicted, daily envy is positively associated with daily social rejection. Daily social rejection is positively related to daily negative affect. Furthermore, daily social rejection mediates the relationship between daily envy and daily negative affect. These effects are more robust for females than males, including the impact of envy on social rejection and the impact of envy on negative affect via social rejection. We suggest the recipient and the rejector make psychological and behavioral adjustments accordingly. We also recommend that future research extend our current study methodologically and theoretically. |
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spelling | pubmed-94798412022-09-17 Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection Wang, Xiaoying Li, Miaomiao Front Psychol Psychology Social rejection is cold and hurtful, but how and why it is formed remains under-investigated. Our study offers one possible explanation from the rejector’s perspective by developing a moderated mediation model on the emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection. Specifically, envious individuals use social rejection to complement their inferiority, further triggering their negative affect. Drawing on social comparison theory, we conducted an experience sampling methodology (ESM) investigation of 55 frontline workers through a 10-workday-survey (Level 1 n = 515). As predicted, daily envy is positively associated with daily social rejection. Daily social rejection is positively related to daily negative affect. Furthermore, daily social rejection mediates the relationship between daily envy and daily negative affect. These effects are more robust for females than males, including the impact of envy on social rejection and the impact of envy on negative affect via social rejection. We suggest the recipient and the rejector make psychological and behavioral adjustments accordingly. We also recommend that future research extend our current study methodologically and theoretically. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9479841/ /pubmed/36118456 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885384 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wang and Li. https://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 Wang, Xiaoying Li, Miaomiao Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
title | Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
title_full | Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
title_fullStr | Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
title_full_unstemmed | Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
title_short | Hurting all the way: The emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
title_sort | hurting all the way: the emotional antecedent and consequence of social rejection |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9479841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118456 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885384 |
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