The Effect of Group Affiliation Motive on Unethical Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model
Authors: 
Wenbo Li, Yanmei LiAuthors Info & Claims
Wenbo Li, Yanmei LiAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 332 - 337
Abstract
Purpose: As one of the fundamental social motives, group affiliation motive is an underlying psychological factor that guides social behaviors. This study explores the relationship between group affiliation motive and unethical behaviors, with risk perception in the ethical domain as the mediator and anxiety as the moderator. Methods: 305 participants were surveyed using group affiliation motive scale, risk perception scale, unethical behaviors scale, and anxiety scale. Results: ①group affiliation motive negatively predicts unethical behaviors; ②risk perception in the ethical domain play a mediating role between group affiliation motive and unethical behaviors; ③anxiety moderates the relationship between group affiliation motive and risk perception in the ethical domain. Conclusion: Under the moderation of anxiety, group affiliation motive, exerts an influence on the unethical behaviors through risk perception in the ethical domain.
References
[1]
Buss, D. M., & Cantor, N. E. (Eds.). 1989. Personality psychology: Recent trends and emerging directions. New York: Springer-Verlag Publishing.
[2]
McAdams, D. P., & Pals, J. L. 2006. A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist,61, (2006), 204–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.61.3.204
[3]
Kenrick, D. T., Neuberg, S. L., Griskevicius, V., Becker, D. V., & Schaller, M. 2010. Goal-driven cognition and functional behavior: The fundamental-motives framework. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, (2010), 63-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721409359281
[4]
Schaller, M., Kenrick, D. T., Neel, R., & Neuberg, S. L. 2017. Evolution and human motivation: The fundamental motives framework. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11, (2017). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12319
[5]
Peter K. Jonason, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, 2018. The fundamental social motives that characterize dark personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 132, (2018), 98–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.05.031
[6]
Gong Tianping, Zhao Kai, 2023. The dimension of value in moral space, Journal of Southeast University, Philosophy and Social Science Edition, (September 2023).
[7]
Leary, M. R., & Kelly, K. M. 2009. Belonging motivation. In M. R. Leary & R. H. Hoyle (Eds.), Handbook of individual differences in social behavior. 400–409. Guilford Press.
[8]
Lancaster, J.B. 1976. Primate behavior and the emergence of human culture. New York: Holt.
[9]
Henrich, J., & Boyd, R. 1998. The evolution of conformist transmission and between-group differences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19, (1998), 215–242. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(98)00018-X
[10]
Hill, K., & Hurtado, M. 1989. Hunter-gatherers of the new world. American Scientist, 77, (1989), 437–443.
[11]
Tomas M. Jones, 1991. Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An Issue Contingency Model. Academy of Management Review, (1991), 16. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1991.4278958
[12]
D.J. Brass, D.J. Butterfield, and B.C. Skaggs, 1998. Relationships and unethical behaviors: A Social Network perspective. Academy of Management Review, (1998), 23. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1998.192955
[13]
Deanne N. Den Hartog, Annebel H. B. De Hoogh, 2007.The Interactive Effects of Belongingness and Charisma on Helping and Compliance, Journal of Applied Psychology, (2007), Vol. 92, No. 4, 1131–1139. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.92.4.1131
[14]
Ortwin Renn, Bernd Rohrmann, 2007. Risk Perception Across Cultures, Beijing: Beijing Publishing House.
[15]
Schwartz A, Hasnain M. 2001. Risk perception and risk attitude in informed consent. Working paper, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1357530902000558
[16]
Slovic, P., Fischhoff, B., & Lichtenstein, S., 1986. The psychometric study of risk perception. In V. T. Covello, J. Menkes, & J. Mumpower (Eds.), Risk Evaluation and Management, (1986), 3–24. New York: Plenum Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2103-3_1
[17]
Weber, E. U., Blais, A.-R., & Betz, N. E. 2002. A domain specific risk-attitude scale: Measuring risk perceptions and risk behaviors. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15(4), (2002), 263–290. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.414
[18]
Zhou Gang, Lu Yanfei, Zhang Yuanhu, 2023. Morality and Human Group Active Existence, Industry and Technology Forum, (2023)
[19]
Nicolas Baumard, Jean-Baptiste André, Dan Sperber, 2013. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, 59–122
[20]
Finucane, M.L.Alhakami, Slovic.P, 2000. The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making13, (2000). https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(200001/03)13:1%3c1::AID-BDM333%3e3.0.CO;2-S
[21]
Meng Bo, Liu Mao, Li Qingshui, Wang Li, 2010. Theoretical Modeling of Risk Perception and Analysis of Influencing Factors. China Journal of Safety Science, October (2010), Vol. 20, No. 10
[22]
Liu Jianbin, 2018. Cognitive and Behavioral Investigation of Business Graduate Students on the Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom Teaching - A Study of anxiety and Depression in Independent College Graduates' Employment in Relation to Type A-B Personality Type, Education Modernization, (2018), 251-253
[23]
Michael Siegrist, Joseph Árvai, 2020. Risk Perception: Reflections on 40 Years of Research. Risk Analysis, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13599
[24]
Neel, R., Kenrick, D. T., White, A. E., & Neuberg, S. L. 2016. Individual differences in fundamental social motives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, (2016), 887–907. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000068
[25]
Blais, A.-R., & Weber, E. U. 2006. A Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale for adult populations. Judgment and Decision Making, 1(1), (2006). 33–47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500000334
[26]
John Paul Fraedrich, 1993. The Ethical Behavior of Retail Managers.Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Mar., 1993), 207-218.
[27]
P. F. Lovibond, S. H. Lovibond, 1995. The structure of negative emotional states: comparison of the Depression anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and anxiety Inventories. Behaviour Research and Therapy, (1995), 335-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(94)00075-U
[28]
Xi Xu, Xie Xiyao, Xu Rui, 2010. Testing report of Depression - anxiety - Stress Scale (DASS-21) in Chinese college students. Chinese Clinical Psychology, (2010), 18(4): 443-446.
Index Terms
- The Effect of Group Affiliation Motive on Unethical Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model
Recommendations
Parental mediation, cyberbullying, and cybertrolling
Researchers are concerned with identifying the risk and protective factors associated with adolescents' involvement in cyberharassment. One such factor is parental mediation of children's electronic technology use. Little attention has been given to how ...
Exploring online green behavior among college students in Taiwan: A moderated mediation model of perceived compatibility
AbstractAlthough there are many studies related to offline green behavior, limited efforts have been devoted to investigating key elements that would lead to better online green behavior. Accordingly, the primary purpose of this study is not only to ...
The Influence of Disease Avoidance Motive on the Economic Behavior Ethics under the Impact of Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model
IMMS '22: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Management and Management ScienceObjective: As one of the basic social motives, Disease Avoidance Motive is the deep psychological factor behind many social behaviors. Since the emergence of the COVID-19 and its continuous spread across the world at the end of 2019, the ever-changing ...
Comments
Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
May 2024
349 pages
ISBN:9798400716874
DOI:10.1145/3673971
Copyright � 2024 ACM.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
Publication History
Published: 09 September 2024
Check for updates
Qualifiers
- Research-article
- Research
- Refereed limited
Funding Sources
- National Social Science foundation of China
- The Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Conference
ICMHI 2024
ICMHI 2024: 2024 8th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics
May 17 - 19, 2024
Yokohama, Japan
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 20Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)20
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)20
Reflects downloads up to 19 Oct 2024
Other Metrics
Citations
View Options
View options
View or Download as a PDF file.
PDFeReader
View online with eReader.
eReaderHTML Format
View this article in HTML Format.
HTML FormatGet Access
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign in