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

By Douglas J. Brown, D. L. Ferris, D. Heller, Lisa M. Keeping. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Research Note - Why Following Friends Can Hurt You: An Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Envy on Social Networking Sites among College-Age Users (2015, background): “” In its basic form, this motivation can be interpreted as the natural desire to reduce uncertainty (Gibbons and Buunk 1999) and establish one’s standing (Brown et al. 2007).”
Perceptions of Group Versus Individual Service Failures and Their Effects on Customer Outcomes (2017, background): “Being the only person in the situation affected by the failure, while everybody else was served well might create an upward social comparison (Brown et al. 2007).”
12 Structural Equation Modeling in Management Research: A Guide for Improved Analysis (2009, methodology): “Parcels have also been used to study job search behaviors (Brown, Ferris, Heller, & Keeping ( 2007 ), performance appraisal (Elicker, Levy, & Hall, 2006 ), and team empowerment (Mathieu, Gilson, & Ruddy, 2006 ).”
Better him than me: social comparison theory and service recovery (2008, background): “affective job commitment, and engage less in job search activities (Brown et al. 2006).”
Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Ethical Leadership and Workplace Jealousy (2014, background): “Because employees can be ranked less favorably than their coworkers in the social comparisons, the negative cognition about oneself and the negative affect resulting from such unfavorable comparisons (Brown et al. 2007; Buunk et al. 1990) could negatively affect their OCB.”
The wellbeing of language teachers in the private sector: An ecological perspective (2020, background): “The positive effect of such social comparisons in the workplace was found, for example, by Brown et al. (2007) who showed that downward social comparisons were positively related to job satisfaction and affective commitment.”
Core Self-Evaluations (2012, background): “As some studies present a chain of multiple mediators to explain CSE’s relation with an outcome (e.g., Brown et al., 2007) or examine multiple outcomes (e.g., Judge & Hurst, 2008), any one study may have multiple entries associated with it.”