Mediating Effects of Self-esteem in the Relationship Between Parenting Stress and Postpartum Depression

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating effects of organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) for the relationship between workplace ostracism with helping behavior, voicing behavior, in-role behavior, and deviant behavior. The workplace has now become a social context where ostracism occurs and the study emphasizes how ostracism can affect workplace behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The study was designed using a three-wave self-reported survey. Confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping for indirect effects were conducted to test the study’s hypotheses. Findings The study found OBSE to fully mediate the relationship between workplace ostracism and helping behavior, voicing behavior, and in-role behavior, while OBSE partially mediated workplace ostracism and deviant behavior as workplace ostracism was found to have a direct effect on deviant behavior. Originality/value The study explores and empirically tests the mediating effects of OBSE with helping behavior, voicing behavior, in-role behavior, and deviant behavior. Therefore, the study extends research on workplace ostracism by investigating beyond the direct effects of workplace ostracism on workplace behaviors.

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Body Dissatisfaction and Restrained Eating: Mediating Effects of Self-Esteem

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2013.41.7.1165 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 41 (7) ◽

pp. 1165-1170 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Fanchang Kong ◽

Yan Zhang ◽

Zhiqi You ◽

Cuiying Fan ◽

Yuan Tian ◽

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Keyword(s):

Body Dissatisfaction ◽

Chinese Women ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The State ◽

Restrained Eating ◽

Mediating Effects ◽

Three Factor Eating Questionnaire ◽

The Relationship ◽

Three Factor

Mixed results have been found in studies of the relationship between body dissatisfaction and restrained eating, and self-esteem (Flament et al., 2012; Forrester-Knauss, Perren, & Alsaker, 2012; Wilksch & Wade, 2004). We investigated if body dissatisfaction significantly predicted restrained eating and if restrained eating was affected by body dissatisfaction through the mediation of self-esteem. The Negative Physical Self Scale-Fatness Scale (NPSS-F; Chen, Jackson, & Huang, 2006), the State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES; Heatherton & Polivy, 1991), and the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-Revised 18-item version (TFEQ-R18; Karlsson, Persson, Sjöström, & Sullivan, 2000) were administered to 376 Chinese women undergraduates. Results showed that body dissatisfaction, as measured with the NPSS-F, was positively related to restrained eating, and self-esteem mediated in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and restrained eating. Therefore, restrained eating was affected not only directly by body dissatisfaction, but also indirectly by body dissatisfaction through the mediation of self-esteem.

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Looking hot in selfies: Narcissistic beginnings, aggressive outcomes?

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025419865621 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 43 (6) ◽

pp. 500-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jaimee Stuart ◽

Anna Kurek

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Path Model ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Mediating Effects ◽

Cyber Aggression ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Physically Attractive ◽

The Relationship ◽

Self Presentations

An emerging literature suggests that females are more likely than males to take and post selfies and that such selfies tend to both conform to and legitimize the sexualization of femininity. It has been found that key predictors of selfie behaviors are narcissistic personality traits and that taking a higher number of selfies may, in turn, put young people at risk of engaging in negative social interactions online. No studies to date have investigated the mediating effects of selfies and, moreover, selfies that are taken with the intention of to appear physically attractive (i.e., sexualized selfies), on the relationship between narcissism and cyber behaviors. The following study examined selfie taking among a group of 262 adolescent girls (aged 13–16). Results of a path model found a serial mediation effect, indicating that exploitativeness was associated with increased selfie taking, which increased sexualized selfie taking and in turn increased cyber aggression and victimization. In contrast, contingent self-esteem was associated with taking sexualized selfies (with indirect positive effects on cyber behaviors). Results of this model also show that the effect of taking selfies on cyber behaviors is fully mediated by taking sexualized selfies. These findings are discussed in relation to the characteristics of the online environment and the risks of young women’s sexualized online self-presentations.

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