Year: 2021
Type: dissertation
Abstract: A person's sense of meaning can be violated in vivid ways, like dealing with a cancer diagnosis, or in small ways, like being treated contrary to how they feel they should be treated.Interpersonal interactions provide a lot of opportunities for these small meaning violations.This dissertation focuses on interpersonal meaning violations in two research phases: first, a scale development, and second, an application of the interpersonal meaning violation construct to workplace conflict.In the scale development phase I draw on nine separate data collections, involving 1,490 people, in which I develop and validate the scale items, test their psychometric properties, demonstrate the convergent and discriminant validity, and establish a nascent nomological net.In the workplace conflict phase I use two experiments and a 10-day experience sampling survey (a total of 1,381 participants spread across the three data collection efforts) to contrast interpersonal meaning violation with a prominent conflict paradigm and demonstrate that interpersonal meaning violation is essential for understanding how conflict affects workplace wellbeing.
Author: Josh Hodge
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Australian Government
OpenAlex ID: W3177085239