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

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12721

Stephanie Demoulin, Florence Stinglhamber

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Quantification, that is, the shaping of human environments in numerical terms, is so widespread in contemporary societies that it has contaminated almost all spheres of human life. We explore the links between performance quantification and individuals' feelings of being treated in a dehumanized way, that is, metadehumanization. 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.

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绩效量化对压力和认同感的反作用：元人性化在组织、体育和社交网络中的作用。

量化，即用数字来塑造人类环境，在当代社会中非常普遍，几乎污染了人类生活的所有领域。我们探讨了绩效量化与个人被非人化对待的感觉（即元人性化）之间的联系。我们介绍了一项综合研究，该研究评估了绩效量化、元人性化之间的关系，以及元人性化在组织、体育和社交网络三种环境中的两种后果，即压力和身份认同。此外，我们还测试了该模型中两个个体变量（即好胜心和温柔心）的调节作用。在三个样本（样本 A、B 和 C 的样本数分别为 204、300 和 297）中，我们发现元人性化对绩效量化与压力和不认同之间的联系具有中介效应，而且这种效应在不同的情境下都能保持不变。出乎意料的是，我们的两个调节中介假设在不同样本中并不成立或显示出不一致的效果。

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.