社会的拒絶への反応性 : 反応の特質とその規定要因
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: In recent years, social rejection has been receiving more attention in social psychology. This article reviews and integrates a vast number of empirical studies that addressed how people react to social rejection and investigates the nature of psychological system for dealing with rejection. The existent literature indicates that social rejection produces a variety of consequences at affective, cognitive/perceptual, and behavioral levels. When a person is being rejected, she/he experiences social pain and lowered state self-esteem at the affective level, enhanced sensitivity to social information at the cognitive level, and manifests increased prosocial, self-defensive, or even aggressive behaviors at the behavioral level. These suggest that human mind is equipped with a response system to protect itself against threats from social rejection. This article also reviews researches that focused on individual difference variables in response to rejection: rejection sensitivity, attachment style, and trait self-esteem. This revealed that the degree to which people expect to be accepted by others determines the way how they detect signals of rejection and cope with threats of rejection. Finally future research directions are discussed.
Author: Miyazaki, Genta
Institution: Osaka City University
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7145921671