Intra-sexual competition, jealousy and harming at workplace



• Intra-sexual competition, jealousy and harming at workplace

  Type	Book Section
  Editor	Fátima Lobo
  Author	Rosario Zurriaga
  Author	Pilar González-Navarro
  Author	Elisabetta Quattrocchi
  URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.17990/Axi/2016_9789726972556_181
  Rights	© 2016 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural
  Place	Braga
  Publisher	Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia
  Pages	181-194
  ISBN	978-972-697-255-6
  Date	2016
  Language	Portuguese
  Abstract	The nowadays organizations are characterized often by interdependence and competition among of people, creating new demands and affecting interpersonal relationships at work. In this context, it would be useful to study emotions at work and especially those emotions that can have important consequences for quality of work life. The focus of this paper is the negative emotion of jealousy. Jealousy can be experienced in labour relationships and involves the feeling that can lead to damage to the competitor. From an evolutionary perspective, the objective of this study is to investigate the presence of the mediation effect of jealousy in the relationship between intra-sexual competition and harming at workplace and if this is different in men and women. The sample was composed by 240 workers from different professional sectors. The results showed that jealousy partially mediated the link between ISC and harming. However, the model is different between genders. There was not mediation effect in the male group. In the female group we found a full mediation effect of jealousy in the relationship between ISC and harming. The present research is one of few studies that examine the particular emotion of jealousy at work. These results contribute to a better understanding of the role of emotions in the workplace.
  Book Title	Psicologia do Trabalho e das Organizações: Contributos
  Date Added	28/06/2016, 15:31:27
  Modified	28/06/2016, 15:52:55

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