Responses to discrimination: : Relationships between social support seeking, core self-evaluations, and withdrawal behaviors

• Autores: María Fernanda Wagstaff, María del Carmen Triana, Sihyun Kim, Said Al-Riyami
• Localización: Human Resource Management, ISSN-e 1099-050X, Vol. 54, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 673-687
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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