Overt anger in response to victimization: attributional style and organizational norms as moderators.
Prior theory and research suggests a positive relation between perceived victimization and overt anger. The authors proposed and tested a theoretical extension of this link by investigating possible moderating effects of individual and contextual variables. A sample of 158 employees of a municipality was used to test hypotheses that the relationship between perceived victimization and overt anger is moderated by hostile attributional style and perceptions of organizational norms. The results showed that the relation between perceptions of direct victimization and overt anger was stronger when the employee had a more rather than less hostile attributional style and when the employee perceived the organizational norms as more rather than less oppositional.
Aquino
Karl
K
Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, US. aquinok@be.udel.edu
Douglas
Scott
S
Martinko
Mark J
MJ
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000786:Anger; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009511:New England; D016272:Occupational Health; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011594:Psychometrics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*