Graduation Year
2011
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Granting Department
Psychology
Major Professor
Jamie Goldenberg, Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor
Tiina Ojanen, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Jennifer Bosson, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Kristen Salomon, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Brent Small, Ph.D.
Keywords
: Ostracism, Aggression, Self-Esteem, Exclusion Typicality, Self-Regulation
Abstract
Being excluded should motivate pro-social behaviors. Yet, exclusion can incite aggressive and anti-social responses. Two studies were conducted to examine how frequent experiences of exclusion impact self-esteem, perceptions that exclusion is typical of social experiences, and anti-social behaviors. In Study 1, participants completed pre and post-measures of exclusion typicality and self-esteem and reported, over eight weeks, feelings of exclusion and state self-esteem. Results supported the hypotheses in that experiences feeling excluded have direct and indirect effects on state and trait self-esteem as well as on exclusion typicality. In Study 2, participants were exposed to an exclusion manipulation and subsequent aggressive and anti-social behaviors were assessed. Results were inconsistent with hypotheses that exclusion typicality and self-esteem would moderate responses to exclusion. Discussion focuses on the implications for a model of exclusion elicited anti-social behaviors.
Scholar Commons Citation
Cooper, Douglas Phillip, "When Does the Straw Break the Camel's Back?: Examination of the Exclusion-Elicited Anti-Social Behavior Model" (2011). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/3048
