social comparisons
Keeping up with the e Joneses: Do online social networks raise social comparisons?
... of social comparisons suggested that individuals’ income aspirations are influenced by face-to-face ...actual social reference group, but also to those of their virtual reference group, defined and ...
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Social comparisons and organizational support : implications for commitment and retention
... of social exchange, where employees reciprocate organizational support with organizational commitment (Campbell et ...by social comparisons which allow for socioemotional need fulfillment, a key ...
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Too good to be true? Boundary conditions to the use of downward social comparisons in service recovery
... in social anxiety, neuroticism and depression (Gibbons and Buunk ...toward social comparisons than individualist societies (Guimond et ...in social comparison information (Butzer and Kuiper ...
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Effects of muscle dysmorphia, social comparisons and body schema priming on desire for social interaction: an experimental approach
... downward comparisons and for the importance of a positive out- come of social comparisons, in line with the notion that people who tend to compare downwards try to avoid social ...downward ...
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real effort competition
... of social comparisons and by formally modeling inequality aversion, we hypothesize that disappointment aversion is likely to be dif- ferent when competing against another person compared to competing ...
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Social comparisons on social media: The impact of Facebook on young women’s body image concerns and mood
... appearance comparisons, Facebook usage was related to a greater desire to change their face, hair, and skin-related ...appearance comparisons to others who desires to change their face, hair, and ...
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On the economic architecture of the workplace: Repercussions of social comparisons among heterogeneous workers
... with social preferences, …, firms hire only from one skill ...considering social preferences and social friction, the firm can either increase wages to compensate for unskilled workers’ disutility, ...
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Who Feels Inferior? A Test of the Status Anxiety Hypothesis of Social Inequalities in Health ESRI WP476 January 2014
... of social comparisons or sense of inferiority as the root cause of social anxiety (Wilkinson, 1996; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2006; Wilkinson & Pickett, ...these comparisons are made on the ...
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FitzsimmonsCraft_unc_0153D_14673.pdf
... appearance-related social comparisons (Leahey, Crowther, & Mickelson, 2007) and continue to do so even when they perceive themselves as “coming up short” (Strahan, Wilson, Cressman, & Buote, ...
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The socioeconomic roots of shame and perceptions of social inadequacy
... negative social comparisons and internalized inferiority might indeed contribute to the heightened risks of adverse health outcomes in people with a lower socioeconomic position (Gilbert, ...for ...
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Self-congruity in the light of the theory, research methodology and applied research: key issues and perspectives
... Article info The aim of the article is to indicate key issues and formulate requirements for a new conceptualisation and operationalisation of self- image congruity and its role in explaining consumer behaviour. A ...
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Money, Social Capital and Materialism Evidence from Happiness Data
... or social capital, play an important role in explaining the happiness-income paradox defined by Easterlin (1974, ...income comparisons are crucial for undermining the possibility of increasing the average ...
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Body Dissatisfaction, Body Projects, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem: Paths into Bodybuilding.
... Female bodybuilders defy gender conventions; they develop musculature, engage in activities, and occupy spaces usually associated with men and masculinity. While scholars have debated what women’s participation in ...
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A sociologist teaches history: some epistemological and pedagogical reflections
... locate social class in its appropriate historical context as well as dealing with it as a contemporary sociological ...their social world in terms of multiple, fine gradations of cultural, behavioural and ...
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Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between health comparisons and social exclusion: results of the German ageing survey
... For the current study, data were derived from the German Ageing Survey (“Deutscher Alterssurvey”, DEAS) under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth (BMFSFJ). It ...
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Vague comparisons
... determinate comparisons can be made, precisely because there is complete quantifiability on each dimension: for instance, in this case we can say that the first person has more hair on his scalp than the second, ...
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The relationship between psychosocial variables and treatment outcome in chronic fatigue syndrome
... including social support, a high level of stressful life-events, higher perfectionism and physical illness ...including social support, stressful life-events, perfectionism and illness attributions, at ...
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Cancer survivors’ social context in the return to work process: narrative accounts of social support and social comparison information
... However, social interactions do not always offer the emotional support that patients’ need ...of social support, not only from their workplace but from other spheres of their ...greater social ...
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Interview of Peter J Hammond
... PM: Before we are coming to a close and I thank you for a wonderful treat of ideas and recollections, I would like to put to you a loose, but per- haps important question. Your career began, and some of your achievements ...
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Approximate interpersonal comparisons of well being
... the social aggregation ...interpersonal comparisons of ...interpersonal comparisons, and introduces two other, closely related problems: the possibility of intertemporal comparisons when ...
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