IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jobhdp/v102y2007i1p59-75.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Antecedents and consequences of the frequency of upward and downward social comparisons at work

Author

Listed:
  • Brown, Douglas J.
  • Ferris, D. Lance
  • Heller, Daniel
  • Keeping, Lisa M.

Abstract

No abstract is available for this item.

Suggested Citation

  • Brown, Douglas J. & Ferris, D. Lance & Heller, Daniel & Keeping, Lisa M., 2007. "Antecedents and consequences of the frequency of upward and downward social comparisons at work," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 102(1), pages 59-75, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:102:y:2007:i:1:p:59-75
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749-5978(06)00110-5
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kay, Aaron C. & Wheeler, S. Christian & Bargh, John A. & Ross, Lee, 2004. "Material priming: The influence of mundane physical objects on situational construal and competitive behavioral choice," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 95(1), pages 83-96, September.
    2. Jackson, Susan E. & Schuler, Randall S., 1985. "A meta-analysis and conceptual critique of research on role ambiguity and role conflict in work settings," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 16-78, August.
    3. Ledyard Tucker & Charles Lewis, 1973. "A reliability coefficient for maximum likelihood factor analysis," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 38(1), pages 1-10, March.
    4. Blau, Gary, 1994. "Testing a Two-Dimensional Measure of Job Search Behavior," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 59(2), pages 288-312, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Bindu Chhabra, 2018. "Impact Of Core-Self Evaluation And Job Satisfaction On Turnover Intentions: A Study Of Indian Retail Sector," Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, Faculty of Economics, Vilnius University, vol. 9(2).
    2. Eyring, Henry & Narayanan, V.G., 2018. "Performance effects of setting a high reference point for peer-performance comparison," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 86732, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Fombelle, Paul W. & Sirianni, Nancy J. & Goldstein, Noah J. & Cialdini, Robert B., 2015. "Let them all eat cake: Providing VIP services without the cost of exclusion for non-VIP customers," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 68(9), pages 1987-1996.
    4. Nurmohamed, Samir & Kundro, Timothy G. & Myers, Christopher G., 2021. "Against the odds: Developing underdog versus favorite narratives to offset prior experiences of discrimination," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 206-221.
    5. Bindu Chhabra, 2020. "Revisiting the Relationship Between Work Role Stress and Employee Outcomes in Indian Organizations: Moderating Role of Core Self-evaluation," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 21(1), pages 219-240, February.
    6. Trefalt, Špela & Drnovšek, Mateja & Svetina-Nabergoj, Anja & Adlešič, Renata Valentina, 2013. "Work-life experiences in rapidly changing national contexts: Structural misalignment, comparisons and choice overload as explanatory mechanisms," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 448-463.
    7. Wang, Le & Luo, Xin (Robert) & Li, Han, 2022. "Envy or conformity? An empirical investigation of peer influence on the purchase of non-functional items in mobile free-to-play games," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 308-324.
    8. Shaoqin Han & Yuanfang Zhan & Lu Zhang & Renyan Mu, 2022. "You Have Received More Help than I Did and I Envy You: A Social Comparison Perspective on Receiving Help in the Team," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-11, July.
    9. Dejun Tony Kong & Violet T. Ho & Sargam Garg, 2020. "Employee and Coworker Idiosyncratic Deals: Implications for Emotional Exhaustion and Deviant Behaviors," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 164(3), pages 593-609, July.
    10. Miaomiao Li & Xiaofeng Xu & Ho Kwong Kwan, 2023. "The antecedents and consequences of workplace envy: A meta-analytic review," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 40(1), pages 1-35, March.
    11. Tom Fangyun Tan & Serguei Netessine, 2019. "When You Work with a Superman, Will You Also Fly? An Empirical Study of the Impact of Coworkers on Performance," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 65(8), pages 3495-3517, August.
    12. Hanna Krasnova & Thomas Widjaja & Peter Buxmann & Helena Wenninger & Izak Benbasat, 2015. "Research Note—Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 26(3), pages 585-605, September.
    13. Wu, Long-Zeng & Ferris, D. Lance & Kwan, Ho Kwong & Chiang, Flora & Snape, Ed & Liang, Lindie H., 2015. "Breaking (or making) the silence: How goal interdependence and social skill predict being ostracized," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 51-66.
    14. Eko Yi Liao & Chun Hui, 2021. "A resource-based perspective on leader-member exchange: An updated meta-analysis," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 317-370, March.
    15. Yau-De Wang & Wen-Chuan Sung, 2016. "Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Ethical Leadership and Workplace Jealousy," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 135(1), pages 117-128, April.
    16. Berger, Leslie & Libby, Theresa & Webb, Alan, 2018. "The effects of tournament horizon and the percentage of winners on social comparisons and performance in multi-period competitions," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 1-16.
    17. Hale Dilek Suer & Florence Allard-Poesi, 2013. "How do judgments of justice form during periods of change: a sensemaking model," Post-Print hal-01123798, HAL.
    18. Sophie Hennekam & Sarah Richard, 2021. "Constructing a positive work-related identity as a disabled worker through social comparison: the role of stigma and disability characteristics," Post-Print hal-03232750, HAL.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mark E. Haskins & A.J. Baglioni & Cary L. Cooper, 1990. "An investigation of the sources, moderators, and psychological symptoms of stress among audit seniors," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 6(2), pages 361-385, March.
    2. Nuanphromsakul, Kajohnjak & Szczepańska-Woszczyna, Katarzyna & Kot, Sebastian & Chaveesuk, Singha & Chaiyasoonthorn, Wornchanok, 2022. "Sustainability of Rubber Farmers Cooperatives: Empirical Evaluation of Determining Factors," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 14(4), December.
    3. Mark Shevlin & David Boyda & James Houston & Jamie Murphy, 2015. "Measurement of the psychosis continuum: Modelling the frequency and distress of subclinical psychotic experiences," Psychosis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(2), pages 108-118, April.
    4. E. Huebner & Rich Gilman & James Laughlin, 1999. "A Multimethod Investigation of the Multidimensionality of Children's Well-Being Reports: Discriminant Validity of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 46(1), pages 1-22, January.
    5. Ali Safarnejad & Jose-Antonio Izazola-Licea, 2017. "Direct and indirect effects of enablers on HIV testing, initiation and retention in antiretroviral treatment and AIDS related mortality," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(2), pages 1-15, February.
    6. Lili Tian & Li Zhang & E. Scott Huebner & Xiaoting Zheng & Wang Liu, 2016. "The Longitudinal Relationship Between School Belonging and Subjective Well-Being in School Among Elementary School Students," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 11(4), pages 1269-1285, December.
    7. Ronald S. Burt, 1973. "Confirmatory Factor-Analytic Structures and the Theory Construction Process," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 2(2), pages 131-190, November.
    8. Sulaiman Olusegun Atiku & Ziska Fields & Ethel Abe, 2017. "Cultural Values and Human Resource Outcomes in the Nigerian Banking Industry," SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, University of Piraeus, vol. 67(2), pages 26-46, April-Jun.
    9. Beard, Fred, 1996. "Integrated marketing communications: New role expectations and performance issues in the client-ad agency relationship," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 207-215, November.
    10. Evangeline I. Chirayil & Claire L. Thompson & Sue Burney, 2014. "Predicting Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination and Pap Smear Screening Intentions Among Young Singaporean Women Using the Theory of Planned Behavior," SAGE Open, , vol. 4(4), pages 21582440145, October.
    11. Hal R. Arkes & John H. Kagel & Dimitry Mezhvinsky, 2017. "Effects of a Management–Labor Context and Team Play on Ultimatum Game Outcomes," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 83(4), pages 993-1011, April.
    12. Chong, Melody P.M. & Muethel, Miriam & Richards, Malika & Fu, Ping Ping & Peng, Tai-Kuang & Shang, Yu Fan & Caldas, Miguel P., 2013. "Influence behaviors and employees’ reactions: An empirical test among six societies based on a transactional–relational contract model," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 48(3), pages 373-384.
    13. Jon W. Hoelter, 1983. "The Analysis of Covariance Structures," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 11(3), pages 325-344, February.
    14. Bach Quang Ho & Yuki Inoue, 2020. "Driving Network Externalities in Education for Sustainable Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-16, October.
    15. Viator, Ralph E., 2001. "The association of formal and informal public accounting mentoring with role stress and related job outcomes," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 73-93, January.
    16. T. Poehlman & Ravi Dhar & John Bargh, 2016. "Sophisticated by Design: the Nonconscious Influence of Primed Concepts and Atmospheric Variables on Consumer Preferences," Customer Needs and Solutions, Springer;Institute for Sustainable Innovation and Growth (iSIG), vol. 3(1), pages 48-61, March.
    17. Zhenhui (Jack) Jiang & Cheng Suang Heng & Ben C. F. Choi, 2013. "Research Note —Privacy Concerns and Privacy-Protective Behavior in Synchronous Online Social Interactions," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 24(3), pages 579-595, September.
    18. Lau, Patricia Yin Yin & Tong, Jane L.Y. Terpstra & Lien, Bella Ya-Hui & Hsu, Yen-Chen & Chong, Chooi Ling, 2017. "Ethical work climate, employee commitment and proactive customer service performance: Test of the mediating effects of organizational politics," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 20-26.
    19. Zi Jia Ng & Eugene Scott Huebner & Alberto Maydeu-Olivares & Kimberly Joy Hills, 2018. "Confirmatory Factor Analytic Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) in a Longitudinal Sample of Adolescents," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 11(4), pages 1237-1247, August.
    20. Cesar Ivan Aviles Gonzalez & Maura Galletta & Paola Melis & Paolo Contu & Jean Watson & Gabriele Finco & Maria Francisca Jimenez Herrera, 2019. "Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Caring Efficacy scale in a sample of Italian nurses," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(5), pages 1-11, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:102:y:2007:i:1:p:59-75. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/obhdp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.