scholarly journals Feeling Socially Connected and Focusing on Growth: Relationships With Wellbeing During a Major Holiday in the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Vaughn ◽  
Patricia G. Burkins ◽  
Rachael D. Chalachan ◽  
Janak K. Judd ◽  
Chase A. Garvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Growth Promotion ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Persuasive Messages ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Focus Theory

Numerous major holidays celebrate socially gathering in person. However, in major holidays that happened during the pandemic, desires to nurture relationships and maintain holiday traditions often conflicted with physical distancing and other measures to protect against COVID-19. The current research sought to understand wellbeing during American Thanksgiving in 2020, which happened 8months into the COVID-19 pandemic, after months of physical distancing and stay-at-home orders. American Thanksgiving is a major holiday not limited to any religion. We asked 404 American adults how they spent Thanksgiving Day and to report on their experiences of that day. Predictors of wellbeing that we drew from self-determination theory were satisfaction of the fundamental needs for social connection (relatedness), for doing what one really wants (autonomy), and feeling effective (competence). The predictors of wellbeing that we drew from regulatory focus theory were a focus on growth (promotion), and a focus on security (prevention). We found that feeling socially connected and focusing on growth related most strongly to wellbeing. Additionally, participants who saw even one other person face-to-face reported significantly higher relatedness satisfaction, promotion focus, and wellbeing than those who did not. Our research could help construct persuasive messages that encourage nurturing close relationships at major holidays while remaining safe against the virus.

scholarly journals Feeling socially connected and focusing on growth: Relationships with well-being during a major holiday in the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Vaughn ◽  
Patricia Burkins ◽  
Rachael D. Chalachan ◽  
Janak Judd ◽  
Chase A. Garvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Growth Promotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Persuasive Messages ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Focus Theory

Numerous major holidays celebrate socially gathering in person. However, in major holidays that happened during the pandemic, desires to nurture relationships and maintain holiday traditions often conflicted with physical distancing and other measures to protect against COVID-19. The current research sought to understand well-being during American Thanksgiving in 2020, which happened eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, after months of physical distancing and stay-at-home orders. American Thanksgiving is a major holiday not limited to any religion. We asked 404 American adults how they spent Thanksgiving Day and to report on their experiences of that day. Predictors of well-being that we drew from self-determination theory were satisfaction of the fundamental needs for social connection (relatedness), for doing what one really wants (autonomy), and for feeling effective (competence). The predictors of well-being that we drew from regulatory focus theory were a focus on growth (promotion), and a focus on security (prevention). We found that feeling socially connected and focusing on growth related most strongly to well-being. Additionally, participants who saw even one other person face-to-face reported significantly higher relatedness satisfaction, promotion focus, and well-being than those who did not. Our research could help construct persuasive messages that encourage nurturing close relationships at major holidays while remaining safe against the virus.

scholarly journals Distinguishing between Need Support and Regulatory Focus with LIWC

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Focus Theory ◽  
Support Model

The need-support model bridges regulatory focus theory and self-determination theory. Research on this model has shown that support of needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness (key constructs in self-determination theory) is higher in experiences of pursuing hopes versus duties (key constructs in regulatory focus theory). The current research used LIWC 2015’s standard dictionary to examine differences between descriptions of high and low support of these needs (N = 941), descriptions of pursuing hopes and duties (N = 1,047), high need support and hopes, and low need support and duties. As expected, descriptions of high need support and hopes were more emotionally positive than low need support and duties, whereas high need support and duties showed more attention to social relationships than low need support and hopes. These and additional findings of this research support the need-support model’s proposal that regulatory focus and need support do not reduce to each other.

scholarly journals Foundational tests of the need-support model: A framework for bridging regulatory focus theory and self-determination theory

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Performance Task ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Focus Theory ◽  
Support Model ◽  
A Performance

This paper introduces the need-support model, which proposes that regulatory focus can affect subjective support for the needs proposed by self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) and support of these needs can affect subjective labeling of experiences as promotion-focused and prevention-focused. Three studies tested these hypotheses (N = 2,114). Study 1 found that people recall more need support in promotion-focused experiences than in prevention-focused experiences, and need support in their day yesterday (with no particular regulatory focus) fell in between. Study 2 found that experiences of higher need support were more likely to be labeled as promotion-focused rather than prevention-focused, and that each need accounted for distinct variance in the labeling of experiences. Study 3 varied regulatory focus within a performance task and found that participants in the promotion condition engaged in need-support inflation, whereas participants in the prevention condition engaged in need-support deflation. Directions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Foundational tests of the need-support model: A framework for bridging regulatory focus theory and self-determination theory

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Performance Task ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Focus Theory ◽  
Support Model ◽  
A Performance

This paper introduces the need-support model, which proposes that regulatory focus can affect subjective support for the needs proposed by self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) and support of these needs can affect subjective labeling of experiences as promotion-focused and prevention-focused. Three studies tested these hypotheses (N = 2,114). Study 1 found that people recall more need support in promotion-focused experiences than in prevention-focused experiences, and need support in their day yesterday (with no particular regulatory focus) fell in between. Study 2 found that experiences of higher need support were more likely to be labeled as promotion-focused rather than prevention-focused, and that each need accounted for distinct variance in the labeling of experiences. Study 3 varied regulatory focus within a performance task and found that participants in the promotion condition engaged in need-support inflation, whereas participants in the prevention condition engaged in need-support deflation. Directions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Distinguishing Between Need Support and Regulatory Focus with LIWC

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Ann Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Focus Theory ◽  
Support Model

The need-support model bridges regulatory focus theory and self-determination theory. Research on this model has shown that support of needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness (key constructs in self-determination theory) is higher in experiences of pursuing hopes versus duties (key constructs in regulatory focus theory). The current research used LIWC 2015’s standard dictionary to examine differences between descriptions of high and low support of these needs (N = 941), descriptions of pursuing hopes and duties (N = 1,047), high need support and hopes, and low need support and duties. As expected, descriptions of high need support and hopes were more emotionally positive than low need support and duties, whereas high need support and duties showed more attention to social relationships than low need support and hopes. These and additional findings of this research support the need-support model’s proposal that regulatory focus and need support do not reduce to each other.

scholarly journals The impact of challenge-hindrance stressors on creativity: the mediating role of regulatory focus and the moderating role of proactive personality

2021 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 03031
Author(s):  
Yixin Yang ◽  
Mingjian Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Focus Theory

Based on the challenge-hindrance stressors framework and regulatory focus theory, this study explored the mediating role of promotion focus between challenge stressors and employee creativity, and the mediating role of prevention focus between hindrance stressors and creativity. In addition, we further explored the moderating role of proactive personality in this model. In the end, we discuss implications and limitations of our argument for theory and practices.

Creativity of Participants in Crowdsourcing Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-66
Author(s):  
Lingfei Zou ◽  
Shaobo Wei ◽  
Weiling Ke ◽  
Kwok Kee Wei
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Relationship

Organizations can tap the wisdom of the crowd through digital platforms of crowdsourcing for ideation. However, we have limited understanding of factors affecting the innovativeness of ideas and solutions submitted by individual participants. Drawing upon self-determination theory and regulatory focus theory, we investigate how participants' regulatory focus and extrinsic motivation aroused by incentivizing mechanisms affect their creativity in crowdsourcing communities. Based on the data collected from 164 participants in a crowdsourcing platform, we find that promotion focus positively influences participants' creativity, and different types of extrinsic motivation have differential effects. Although external, identified, and integrated motivation positively affect participants' creativity, introjected motivation is not significantly related to participants' creativity. In addition, external and identified motivation strengthen the relationship between promotion focus and creativity. The theoretical contributions and managerial implications of this study are discussed.

Dealing with an abusive boss in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zeng ◽  
Ying Zhou ◽  
Zhengyu Shen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Regulatory Focus Theory ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reward Expectancy ◽  
Focus Theory

Purpose This study aims to examine how reward expectancy mediates the effect of abusive supervision on organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, drawing upon regulatory focus theory, this paper proposes and tests the moderating role of promotion focus in the proposed mediating effect. Design/methodology/approach Both hierarchical regression and PROCESS macro are conducted to analyze longitudinal data collected from 142 MBA students in different industries in the People’s Republic of China. Findings Results reveal that abusive supervision was negatively related to both organization-directed citizenship behavior (OCBO) and individual-directed citizenship behavior (OCBI) through undermining individual reward expectancies. Results also show that promotion focus moderated the negative effect of abusive supervision on reward expectancy, such that the relationship was stronger when promotion focus was higher. In addition, the indirect effect of abusive supervision on OCBO and OCBI carried through reward expectancy was also stronger among individuals with higher promotion focus. Originality/value It contributes to the literature on abusive supervision by offering a new perspective regarding the mechanism of abusive supervision influence on organizational citizenship behavior. The findings thus shed insights into cognitions and motivations that are associated with organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, it is the first to link abusive supervision with regulatory focus theory to examine the decrease of organizational citizenship behavior.

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