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On the Role of Social Comparison Processes in Gamified Work Situations
2019
Social comparison on facebook and its effect on an individual's well-being
2021
Social comparison is the process through which people compare their opinions, abilities, behaviours and emotions with those of others for selfevaluation and to obtain an external guide for themselves. There is wide evidence that social comparison is a pervasive behaviour, particularly among adults, both in their social life and in online relationships established through Social Network Sites. A growing number of studies show unmistakably that online social comparison through social media can influence people's everyday life. Features such as Facebook's News Feed or Instagram's Daily Stories provide a stream of information about friends' lives, achievements, abilities and personality, creati…
Sociālās salīdzināšanas ietekme uz attieksmi pret palīdzēšanu
2019
Pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot, kāda ir sociālās salīdzināšanas, kas veikta ar lejupejošiem standartiem, ietekme uz attieksmi pret palīdzēšanu. Pētījumā piedalījās 60 respondenti (30 kontroles grupa un 30 eksperimentālā grupa), vecumā no 18 līdz 57 gadiem. Dalībnieki tika atlasīti pēc pieejamības principa, tā rezultātā pētījumā piedalījās tikai sievietes. Grupas tika pielīdzinātas pēc altruistiskas uzvedības rādītājiem. Pētījumā tika izmantotas 2 metodes: Altruisma Pašaptaujas Skala un Palīdzošās Attieksmes Skala;stimuls teksta formatā, kurā raksturoti cilvēki ,kas dzīvo nepieņemamos apstākļos un 5 kontroles jautājumi, lai pārliecinātos, vai tika veikta sociālā salīdziāšana pēc stimula izl…
Inside “Pandora’s Box” of Solidarity: Conflicts Between Paid Staff and Volunteers in the Non-profit Sector
2020
Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are quite complex in terms of organizational structure, diversity at the workplace, as well as motivational mechanisms and value rationality. Nevertheless, from the perspective of organizational psychology, the systematic analysis of this context is scarce in the literature, particularly regarding conflicts. This qualitative study analyzes types, prevalence, and consequences of conflicts in a large NPO considering as theoretical framework several consolidated organizational psychology theories: conflict theory, social comparison theory, and equity theory. Conflicts were analyzed taking into account volunteers' perspective, who have been the consistent protago…
ONLINE SOCIAL COMPARISON ITS ROLE IN PREDICTING INDIVIDUALS’ WELL-BEING
2023
Social comparison is the practice through which people compare their own opinions, abilities, behaviours, and emotions with those of others as an external guide and a source for self-evaluation. Social comparison has been put forward as a core feature of interpersonal relationships both in the offline context and in virtual interactions through social media. A growing number of studies has highlighted that online social comparison through social media can influence individuals’ everyday life. In this thesis, I will examine the role of online social comparison in influencing individuals’ well-being in three research designs with different outcomes. In the first empirical study, a cross-lagge…
Social comparisons at work as related to a cooperative social climate and to individual differences in social comparison orientation
2005
This study examined the frequency of social comparisons in a work setting, and the feelings that these comparisons evoked. These processes were related to individual differences in social comparison orientation, and to the perception of a cooperative social climate at work. The participants were 216 physicians from various health centers in the Community of Valencia in Spain. In general, upward comparisons occurred more often, and elicited more positive and less negative affect than downward comparisons. Those high in social comparison orientation reported relatively more upward as well as downward comparisons, more positive affect after downward comparisons, and more negative affect after …
THE EFFECTS OF PEOPLES’ HEIGHT AND RELATIVE HEIGHT ON WELL-BEING
2011
Using a rich Italian survey, we investigate the effect of height on individual happiness. From our analysis it emerges that a large part of the effect of height on well-being is driven by a positive correlation between height and economic and health conditions. However, for young males the effect of height on happiness persists even after controlling for these variables, implying that height may produce some psycho-social direct effects on well-being. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that males care not only about their own height but also about the height of people in their reference group. Well-being is greater for individuals who are taller than other subjects in their reference …
Sociālās salīdzināšanas un iejūtības pret sevi saistības
2015
Pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot kādas saistības pastāv starp iejūtību pret sevi un tendenci salīdzināties, kā arī starp iejūtību pret sevi un to, kā indivīds sevi novērtē salīdzinājumā ar citiem. Pētījumā piedalījās 106 respondenti – 16 vīrieši un 90 sievietes (vidējais vecums – 34,25 gadi). Tika izmantotas trīs aptaujas – Aiovas-Nīderlandes salīdzināšanas tendences skala, Sociālās salīdzināšanas skala un Iejūtības pret sevi skala. Pētījuma rezultāti atklāj, ka starp iejūtību pret sevi un tendenci salīdzināties pastāv statistiski nozīmīga negatīva sakarība, bet starp iejūtību pret sevi un sevis pozitīvāku novērtējumu salīdzinājumā ar citiem – statistiski nozīmīga pozitīva sakarība. Mazāka s…
Sociālo tīklu lietošanas paradumu saistība ar apmierinātību ar dzīvi un sociālo salīdzināšanu
2021
Pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot, kādas saistības pastāv starp Instagram lietošanas intensitāti, apmierinātību ar dzīvi un sociālo salīdzināšanu. Datu ievākšanai tika izmantotas trīs aptaujas: Apmierinātības ar dzīvi skala (Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS); Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985; aptauju adaptējusi Anda Upmane, 2010), Sociālās salīdzināšanas skala (Social Comparison Scale; Allan & Gilbert, 1995; aptauju adaptējusi Liliāna Tamsone, 2015), Instagram lietošanas intensitātes skala (Instagram Intensity Scale (IIS); Kalinina, 2019 – aptauja tika adaptēta šī bakalaura darba ietvaros). Pētījumā piedalījās 102 respondenti (93 sievietes un 9 vīrieši) vecumā no 18 līdz 77 gadiem (M…