Goal orientations and social comparison: The role of different motivations in affiliation preferences
- Authors
- Park, Yoobin; Park, Sun W.
- Issue Date
- 10월-2017
- Publisher
- SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
- Keywords
- Task orientation; Ego orientation; Upward comparison; Downward comparison; Social comparison
- Citation
- MOTIVATION AND EMOTION, v.41, no.5, pp.617 - 627
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- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 617
- End Page
- 627
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/82088
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11031-017-9634-6
- ISSN
- 0146-7239
- Abstract
- In light of previous findings that both task and ego orientations are related to engagement in social comparison, the present research aimed to investigate this association in depth by examining why and with whom task- and ego-oriented individuals engage in comparisons. In Study 1, we found that task-oriented individuals tended to prefer working with a high performer because they wanted to improve themselves. In Study 2, we provided participants with success or failure feedback before asking them to indicate partner preferences. In the face of failure, task-oriented individuals showed a preference for a high performer due to self-improvement motivation. On the contrary, ego-oriented individuals were more motivated to feel superior to others and/or less motivated to improve themselves, which in turn led them to prefer a less competent partner. The present research demonstrated that the seemingly identical relation between the two goal orientations and the tendency to engage in social comparison might be substantially different in nature.
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