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Social Comparison Processes in Organizations
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Greenberg, Jerald; Ashton-James, Claire E.; Ashkanasy, Neal M. – Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2007
We systematically analyze the role of social comparison processes in organizations. Specifically, we describe how social comparison processes have been used to explain six key areas of organizational inquiry: (1) organizational justice, (2) performance appraisal, (3) virtual work environments, (4) affective behavior in the workplace, (5) stress,…
Descriptors: Role, Social Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Organizational Communication
Loneliness, Anxiety, Hostility, and Communication.
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Mijuskovic, Ben – Child Study Journal, 1986
Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird" is used as a case study to illustrate the universal and necessary unity which binds loneliness, hostility, anxiety, and despair over the possibility of communicating within individual isolated human consciousness. (HOD/Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Child Development, Emotional Development
Nuclear War as a Source of Adolescent Worry: Relationships with Age, Gender, Trait Emotionality, and Drug Use.
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Hamilton, Scott B.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1988
Compares the extent to which adolescents worry about nuclear war to their frequency of worry about other issues. Looks at the empirical relationships among worry and grade level, gender, trait emotionality, and drug use. Results indicate that adolescents worry more often about school performance and social interactions than about nuclear war.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Anxiety