"""I'm Too Good To Be Bad"": The Moderating Role of Honesty-Humility In Aggressive and Prosocial Reactions to First and Third Party Unfairness"

In considering the deontic perspective of justice, research has called for the study of individual difference variables that explain differential reactions to unfair treatment. This is specifically due to the emerging literature on moral self-regulation as a determinant of workplace behaviors for some individuals, but not others (Rupp & Bell, 2010). In this paper, I consider how first and third-party injustice interacts with honesty-humility in predicting positive and negative behaviors. I manipulated first- (Study 1, N=552 participants) and third- (Study 2, N=606) party justice via laboratory experiments examining both counterproductive and retaliatory as well as citizenship and performance behavioral intentions. Support for the main effect of honesty-humility on revenge and reconciliation as well as the moderating role of honesty-humility on the relationship between first- and third-party unfairness and both prosocial and aggressive behaviors was found, controlling for the already established effects of gender, negative affect, conscientiousness, and agreeableness.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Jones, Kisha S.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rupp, Deborah E.

• Moral Perspective of Organizational Justice
• Honesty-Humility
• Revenge
• Reconciliation
• Counterproductive Work Behavior
• Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Kisha S. Jones

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24195

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/24195