Citation

Aquino K, Douglas S, Martinko MJ. J. Occup. Health Psychol. 2004; 9(2): 152-164.

Affiliation

Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, US. aquinok@be.udel.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/1076-8998.9.2.152

PMID

15053714

Abstract

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.

Language: en