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Responses to Discrimination: Relationships Between Social Support Seeking, Core Self‐Evaluations, and Withdrawal Behaviors
Author(s) -
Wagstaff María Fernanda,
del Carmen Triana María,
Kim Sihyun,
AlRiyami Said
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.21634
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , conservation of resources theory , social support , core (optical fiber) , core self evaluations , context (archaeology) , social withdrawal , social environment , developmental psychology , job performance , paleontology , materials science , job design , political science , law , job satisfaction , composite material , biology
Drawing from the theory of conservation of resources (Hobfoll, 1989), we examined relationships between social support seeking as a response to perceived discrimination from supervisors, core self‐evaluations, and withdrawal behaviors. We further studied how the relationship between social support seeking and withdrawal behaviors was moderated by core self‐evaluations. With two different samples, we found, as expected, that social support seeking in response to discrimination from supervisors is positively related to employee withdrawal behaviors, and core self‐evaluations is negatively related to withdrawal behaviors. Across the two samples, we also found evidence that the relationship between social support seeking and withdrawal behaviors was weaker when core self‐evaluations were high compared to low. We discuss implications of our results in the context of past research. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.