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Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement
INTRODUCTION: This study is dedicated to exploring the influence of perceived overall injustice on employee anger and deviant behavior. Based on fairness heuristic theory and cognitive appraisal theory of emotion, a model was developed to investigate the relationship between perceived overall injust...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544441 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1023724 |
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author | Qin, Ge Zhang, Lihua |
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description | INTRODUCTION: This study is dedicated to exploring the influence of perceived overall injustice on employee anger and deviant behavior. Based on fairness heuristic theory and cognitive appraisal theory of emotion, a model was developed to investigate the relationship between perceived overall injustice, anger and organizational deviance. Based on social cognitive theory, the moderating role of moral disengagement was proposed. METHODS: The data were collected from three Chinese manufacturing corporations with a total effective sample size of 264. SPSS 26 and Mplus 8.3 were adopted to analyze data. Confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive statistics analysis and correlation results were illustrated. Hierarchical regression was used to test the model. RESULTS: Statistical results showed that there is a significant positive relationship among perceived overall injustice, anger and organizational deviance. The moderating effect of moral disengagement on the relationship between perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance is significant, while that on the relationship between anger and organizational deviance is insignificant. DISCUSSION: This study built a model to discuss the emotional and behavioral influences of perceived overall injustice. The findings suggest that individuals feel more anger as the level of perceived overall injustice increases, which thus lead to higher level of organizational deviance. Morally disengaged employees are more likely to engage in organizational deviance after being treated unfairly. However, the moderating effect of moral disengagement on the relationship of anger and organizational deviance was insignificant. The reason might be because anger is an aggressive emotion and individual experiencing anger may lead to impulsive behavior regardless of moral rules. Implications and limitations have been discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-97607342022-12-20 Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement Qin, Ge Zhang, Lihua Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: This study is dedicated to exploring the influence of perceived overall injustice on employee anger and deviant behavior. Based on fairness heuristic theory and cognitive appraisal theory of emotion, a model was developed to investigate the relationship between perceived overall injustice, anger and organizational deviance. Based on social cognitive theory, the moderating role of moral disengagement was proposed. METHODS: The data were collected from three Chinese manufacturing corporations with a total effective sample size of 264. SPSS 26 and Mplus 8.3 were adopted to analyze data. Confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive statistics analysis and correlation results were illustrated. Hierarchical regression was used to test the model. RESULTS: Statistical results showed that there is a significant positive relationship among perceived overall injustice, anger and organizational deviance. The moderating effect of moral disengagement on the relationship between perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance is significant, while that on the relationship between anger and organizational deviance is insignificant. DISCUSSION: This study built a model to discuss the emotional and behavioral influences of perceived overall injustice. The findings suggest that individuals feel more anger as the level of perceived overall injustice increases, which thus lead to higher level of organizational deviance. Morally disengaged employees are more likely to engage in organizational deviance after being treated unfairly. However, the moderating effect of moral disengagement on the relationship of anger and organizational deviance was insignificant. The reason might be because anger is an aggressive emotion and individual experiencing anger may lead to impulsive behavior regardless of moral rules. Implications and limitations have been discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9760734/ /pubmed/36544441 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1023724 Text en Copyright © 2022 Qin and Zhang. 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 Qin, Ge Zhang, Lihua Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
title | Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
title_full | Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
title_fullStr | Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
title_short | Perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—Mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
title_sort | perceived overall injustice and organizational deviance—mediating effect of anger and moderating effect of moral disengagement |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544441 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1023724 |
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