Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks

We present an integrative research that assessed the relationships between performance quantification, metadehumanization, and on two of metadehumanization's consequences, that is, stress and disidentification, in three contexts, that is, organizations, sport, and social networks. In addition, we test the moderating roles of two individual variables, that is, competitiveness and tender-mindedness, in this model. In three samples (Ns = 204, 300, 297, for Samples A, B, and C, respectively), we show a mediation effect of metadehumanization on the links between performance quantification and stress and disidentification that holds despite of contextual variations. Unexpectedly, our two moderated mediation hypotheses did not hold or showed inconsistent effects across samples.PMID:38251747 | DOI:10.1111/bjso.12721
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research