Status Conflict Research Articles

Who is Gossiping? Interactive Effects of Status and Status Conflict on Competence-Related Gossip

Who is Gossiping? Interactive Effects of Status and Status Conflict on Competence-Related Gossip

Never Too Much-More talent in football (always) leads to more success.

Though it may appear counterintuitive, certain positive attributes can eventually have negative consequences when taken to an extreme. This concept is exemplified in sports, where an increase in talent among team members initially leads to improved success, but beyond a certain threshold, excessive talent can adversely affect the team. This occurrence is known as the Too Much Talent (TMT) effect, wherein status conflicts among highly skilled players can hinder team performance, particularly in sports that require coordination and cooperation. While early evidence supported the TMT effect in team sports, its validity has recently been challenged. In this study, we analyzed a comprehensive dataset consisting of 780 data points across 42 seasons from seven top European football (soccer) leagues to examine the TMT effect's presence. Our findings reveal that football does not exhibit the TMT effect. Instead, we observed a consistent, positive correlation between the number of skilled players on a team and team success. Additionally, talent did not display diminishing returns, as its impact on success remained stable even at the highest concentrations of talent. We relate our results to existing theories and propose that future research comparing more individualistic and interdependent team sports could further enhance the field.

The 100 Most Impactful Articles on Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: An Altmetric Analysis.

To use the top 100 articles pertaining to total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) to understand the impact that social media platforms have on the dissemination of shoulder research while highlighting bibliometric factors associated with Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) to offer insight into the impact that social media platforms have on the dissemination, attention, and citation of shoulder research publications. In June 2023, the Altmetric database was searched using the following PubMed MeSH terms: "total shoulder arthroplasty" or "TSA." Articles with the highest AAS were screened to exclude other topics unrelated to TSA. The top 100 articles that met inclusion criteria were used in the final analysis. Bibliometric factors pertaining to each study were collected for further analysis of article characteristics in accordance with prior studies. The Altmetric Database query yielded 1,283 studies. After applying our inclusion criteria, the top 118 articles with the highest AAS were identified. The mean AAS was 29.14 ± 42.35, with a range of 13 to 402. The included articles represented 27 journals, with 70 articles attributed to 2 journals: Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES; 43%) and the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS; 16%). There was a significant increase in AAS for the presence of a conflict of interest (p = 0.042) and open access status (p < 0.01), but no association between the score and citation rate (p > 0.05). Top articles on TSA, as defined by high AAS, mostly comprise original clinical research performed in the United States or Europe. The presence of a conflict of interest and open access status is associated with an increase in AAS, but there was no association between AAS score and citation rate.

Authorship characteristics of hematology and oncology education chapters: A comprehensive analysis.

460 Background: Gender and geographic disparities in academic medicine, along with conflict of interest in medical education, necessitate examination for promoting equity and inclusivity in hematology and oncology education. This study presents the first analysis of authors' gender, authorship country diversity, and conflict of interest status in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH) educational books. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted on articles from ASCO, encompassing all volumes from 2012 up to 2022 and ASH educational books including all volumes from 2000 up to 2022. Author information was obtained from the ASCO and ASH educational book websites. Results: The analysis encompassed 2,784 articles. Females accounted for 44.2% of first authors and 37.6% of last authors in ASCO educational books, as well as 38.8% of first authors and 38.5% of last authors in ASH educational books. Among educational articles, the lowest female participation was in articles discussing colorectal cancer (26.7%), followed by global health (28.0%) and tumor biology (31.0%). The number of females first and last authors in ASCO and ASH educational articles increased significantly over time (p &lt; 0.001). The presence of international authors in articles remained relatively stable. Among articles with international female first authors, Canada had the highest proportion (24.4%), followed by the UK (18.4%) and Italy (11.0%). Similarly, for international female last authors, Canada ranked highest (26.2%), followed by the UK (20.5%) and Italy (12.0%). Repeated authorship roles along with diversity of authorship institutions will be further investigated. Of the articles analyzed, 59.6% reported at least one author with a conflict of interest, while 26.7% reported no conflict of interest for any author. Information on conflict of interest was not provided in 13.7% of the articles. Research funding was the most common type of conflict of interest (47.7%), followed by honoraria (33.4%) and travel accommodations and expenses (15.8%). The prevalence of conflicts of interest increased slightly over time, but not significantly. Conclusions: Our study suggests that female authorship has increased significantly over time. International authorship remained stable, with Canada having the highest proportion. To build on this positive momentum, it is essential to continue our efforts in further increasing female representation, promoting transparency in conflict-of-interest reporting, and mitigating potential biases in medical education.

Debate and well-being in self-managed groups: the moderating role of divergent status perceptions

Research suggests that debate, that is, open discussion behavior in work groups, can affect group-level outcomes. Yet, little is known about how debate may affect group member well-being. Drawing from the literature on debate and open conflict norms, we hypothesize that debate and well-being are positively associated because differing views can be shared and discussed openly. Additionally, based on theories on status conflicts and diversity, we expect that this relationship is moderated by the divergence of status perceptions within the group. Specifically, we propose that the positive relationship between group-level debate and well-being is stronger when group members’ perceptions of the hierarchical social status distribution in their group diverge strongly (rather than little) because in this situation debate can help resolve differing status construals. Data for this study came from 163 members of 29 self-organized activist groups that pursued social and/or ecological goals. Group members reported the level of debate within their group, perceived status distribution, and their individual well-being. Results of multilevel modeling showed that debate and well-being were positively related and that divergence of status perceptions moderated this relationship. With our study, we expand research on debate by investigating its relationship with well-being. Our study adds to the literature on status dynamics by showing that not only the distribution of social status, but also the divergent perception of its distribution is an important feature of status dynamics. Finally, we advance the literature by applying constructs from work and organizational psychology to activist well-being.

Land Mafia Case Handling Through the Optimalization of Land Mafia Task Force Role

Introduction: Various aspects regarding the importance of land often become conflicts in the society, such as land ownership status conflict, land tenure status conflict and compensation for land acquisition and usage. The forms of the legal mafia practice are brokers in buying and selling cases, bribes, illegal levies and land mafia due to inaccurate land data.Purposes of the Research: Explaining and analyzing how the state has handled cases of land mafia practices so far and the optimization of the role of the Land Mafia Task Force in preventing and eradicating the practice of the Land Mafia..Methods of the Research: The approach of the research is qualitative, verificative, evaluative, through statutory approach, and case approach. With documentation data collection techniques, audiovisual materials, and supported by interviews.Results of the Research: The handling of cases of land mafia practices through optimizing the role of the Land Mafia Task Force so far has never reflected the principle of prudence and respect for land rights holders. In handling land mafia cases, actions are often done arbitrarily to the detriment of the actual land rights holders that they do not reflect justice, balance, and does not protect the ownerships’ rights. The legal formula optimizes the role of the Land Mafia Task Force in preventing and eradicating land mafia practices, which is the formation of a Special Cross-Ministerial Team and Academics by making SOPs and technical instructions in carrying out activities to prevent and eradicate land mafia.

Status acuity: The ability to accurately perceive status hierarchies reduces status conflict and benefits group performance.

Humans are a fundamentally social species, having evolved in groups with status hierarchies. However, research on the dimensions of individual ability has largely overlooked the domain of status. Building upon research on the individual-level benefits of accurate status perceptions, we propose that there exists an individual dispositional ability to perceive groups' informal status hierarchies, which we call status acuity, and which has important implications for group dynamics. We find support for the existence and importance of status acuity across several studies. In Studies 1a and 1b, we develop and validate a measure of status acuity, find that it is distinct from previously studied individual abilities including emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence, and accurate learning of social networks, and find that it predicts important individual outcomes at work. In Studies 2 and 3, we examine the effects of status acuity in face-to-face groups. As predicted, groups whose members have higher status acuity experience less status conflict, which benefits performance on creative idea-generation as well as problem-solving tasks. This work extends existing research on status and group dynamics, and contributes to our understanding of the constellation of human abilities, offering a new answer to the question: "How well does this person work in groups?" (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

The effectiveness of status conflict in the conservation of Sultanahmet urban archaeological site

The effectiveness of status conflict in the conservation of Sultanahmet urban archaeological site

Features of the status-role structure of the risk of school bullying among adolescents

Introduction. The problem of bullying, according to UNESCO, has an international status: every third student around the world has experienced various forms of bullying from his classmates; “Victims” of bullying were three times more likely than their peers to feel like “outsiders,” twice as likely to miss school and have suicidal thoughts. Bullying as a socio-psychological phenomenon has become widespread in the last ten years in educational organizations of the Russian Federation. More often the victims of bullying are children with special physical and mental development. A bibliometric review of publications on the problem of the risk of school bullying among children with disabilities indicated their appearance in 2011 in the absence of studies characterizing the status-role structure of this phenomenon. In this regard, the aim of the study was to study the characteristics of the status-role structure of the risk of school bullying among adolescents. Materials and methods. Adolescents (N=163 students of conditionally healthy and N=86 students with disabilities) aged 14 to 16 from educational institutions of Kursk and the Voronezh region took part in the study voluntarily. We used standardized methods for diagnosing the risk of bullying, socio-situational anxiety, self-esteem and personal qualities, as well as mathematical and statistical methods of data processing: descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Results and discussion. There is a risk of school bullying in organizations. In collectives, there is low stability of boundaries, compliance with the rules of behavior by adolescents and mutual respect as a group norm, low ability to accept differences, role uncertainty and status conflicts. The majority of students are combined into such sociometric groups as "high-status" (conditionally healthy adolescents: 27%, N=44; adolescents with disabilities: 21%, N=18), "average" (conditionally healthy adolescents: 26%, N =43; adolescents with disabilities: 35%, N=30) and "neglected". The average level of maladjustment and mental stability, sensitivity, low self-esteem, increased anxiety level of adolescents provide the status of a victim. Based on the results of an empirical study, a scheme was developed for the distribution and transformation of the status-role positions of adolescents in a situation of risk of school bullying, determined by their individual personality characteristics and acting as targets for corrective and preventive work.

Konflik Sosial dan Budaya dalam Novel “Sekeping Cinta Untuk Yola” Karya Abas sebagai Bahan Ajar Sastra di Sekolah Menengah Atas

This study aims to describe the novel “Sekeping Cinta Untuk Yola” written by Abas including: (1) social conflict; (2) cultural conflict; (3) implication to the learning process in Senior High School. The method implemented in the study is qualitative-descriptive with the literature sociology approach by Rene Wallek &amp; Austin Warren (Sujarwa, 2019:40). The results of the study show that there are social conflict, cultural conflict, and implications to the learning process in Senior High School. First, there are 5 social conflicts discovered in the novel which are 5 related to affection, 5 related to responsibility, and 5 related to life’s harmony. Second, cultural conflict discovered in the novel which are 6 (15%) economy conflict, 5 (12%) local custom conflict, 10 (24%) religious conflict, 5 (12%) social status conflict, 2 (5%) cultural conflict, 4 (10%) sciences conflict, and 9 (22%) arts conflict. The conflicts attached to the novel “Sekeping Cinta Untuk Yola” written by Abas dominated by religious conflict with 24% and cultural conflict as the lowest with 5%. Third, implementations of learning materials including language aspect, psychological aspect, and cultural values. The novel is able to enhance student’s knowledge in Indonesian vocabulary, to comprehend the student’s capability which fits with its psychological development, and to represent the cultural values of society. In conclusion, this study perceives that novel “Sekeping Cinta Untuk Yola” written by Abas has the compatibility to be included in Indonesia literature learning materials for Senior High school. Keywords: social and cultural conflicts, novel, literature learning materials, Senior High School.

When We Unite, Not Divide: Status Homophily, Status Group, and Group Pperformance in the Korean Film

This study sheds light on status conflicts as a mechanism behind the negative effect of status homophily on group performance. In a short-term project group without a well-established local status hierarchy, status homophily among group members may cause status conflicts and reduce group performance. However, we argue that the intensity of status conflicts may vary by the average status of group members, that is, status group. A middle-status group, composed of middle-status members on average, focus on both global and local status attainments, so they may suffer less from status conflicts than high- and low-status groups whose members mainly focus on local status attainments. We test our hypotheses in the South Korean film industry from 2004 to 2017. The statistical results suggest that status homophily among actor/actress was negatively correlated with commercial performance, but this negative effect was the weakest for films with middle-status performers.

Teaching Multiple School Subjects Role Conflict: A Theoretically Informed Conceptual Framework

Emerging research suggests that the stress and complexities of the teaching profession contribute to early exits from the field. Stressors may be increased when individuals are tasked with teaching physical education and another school subject(s) concurrently. More specifically, role conflict in teaching multiple school subjects consists of three subdomains: status conflict, schedule conflict, and energy expenditure. The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretically informed conceptual model of this type of conflict that better informs the professional lives and careers of teachers. The framework’s three interrelated elements are dynamic and contextually bound and influence the experience of multiple subjects role conflict. These three elements include experiences of role conflict, contextual and individual factors, and an outer limit of individuals’ capacity to manage stressors. Three vignettes are used to illustrate how teachers’ experiences of conflict interact with contextual and individual factors to increase or decrease their capacity for stress.

Supplemental Material for Status Acuity: The Ability to Accurately Perceive Status Hierarchies Reduces Status Conflict and Benefits Group Performance

Supplemental Material for Status Acuity: The Ability to Accurately Perceive Status Hierarchies Reduces Status Conflict and Benefits Group Performance

Status Conflict and Team Creativity: The Roles of Depersonalization and Organizational Awareness

Status – one’s position and influence within a social network – is a psych-social resource which fulfills one’s need for social esteem. Striving to gain status in a social setup, including organizational settings, can cause conflict and reduce employees’ positive work behavior. This study is aimed at discussing two questions: first, how status conflict in team, a newly established type of conflict, poses a threat toward individual wellbeing and affects team creativity; and second, to what extent organizational awareness, an individual characteristic, might act as buffer against the negative effects of status conflict. The data was collected from 245 healthcare professionals from 55 teams and analyzed through multilevel analysis, after achieving the model fit. The counterintuitive findings at team level revealed that status conflict does not impede team creativity but causes depersonalization that could undermine the overall team creativity. This multilevel study serves to widen the literature, responding to the recent call for new research by investigating the effects of depersonalization caused by status conflict on team creativity. Likewise, from a practical standpoint, it also emphasizes social competency as a moderator that can reduce the negative feelings caused by status conflict. Additionally, the study extends the job-demand resource model by introducing status as an individual requirement in organizational context, arguing that depletion of status creates negative feelings which are ultimately able to lower creativity.

Discursive Constructions of Race and Gender in Racial Hate Crime Targeting Women in Sweden

ABSTRACT Research and official statistics alike identify women from racial minorities as a high-risk group for racial hate crime. Still, the construction of women in racial hate crime remains largely unstudied and the current knowledge on racial hate crime against women can at best be described as fragmentary. Therefore, aim of the present study is to explore the constructions of race and gender from the perspective of female victims of racial hate crime. The study draws on intersectional theory and consists of a discourse analysis based on nine interviews with women who have been targets of racial hate crime. The results show that the construction of race in hate crimes targeting women differs distinctively from the construction of race in hate crimes targeting men. The female victims of racial hate crime often find themselves entangled in racial power struggles between men: a power struggle in which men may show their status vis-á-vis out-group men by sexually controlling or abusing women. Thereby, women’s bodies are used as a tool in racial status conflicts between groups of men, as identities, scripts, and stereotypes found primarily within conservatism and right-wing ideology are enacted on the bodies of the victims.

The Concept of Pax Russica, Russian Strategic Narratives and their Possible Impact on Populist Movements and the Russophone Community in Estonia

In recent years, the Russian Federation has increased its aggressive rhetoric and information campaigns against the Baltic states as they identify these countries among the most vulnerable part of the West, which may be potentially handled by the Kremlin as a potential target audience for information and influence operations in their status conflict with the West. Moreover, the tools of information and influence operations of Russian Federation include all kinds of intimidation and manipulation techniques from cyber-attacks to political extortion among others. The research focuses on studying political influence Russia expectedly pursues through strategic narratives that find their way to reaching target audience. The research is primarily based on media analysis of Estonian media outlets in Estonian and Russian language and on structured interviews with various political figures and experts, opinion leaders, and representatives of Russophone community in Estonia.Probably the most fundamental idea of the modern state philosophy of the Russian Federation is the concept of the ‘Pax Russica’ (Russian World), which has been intensively developed during the last decade, promoted by abundant PR companies and information campaigns for the Russian-speaking internal and external audiences in mass media, social media, but also in popular and scientific literature. The concept of ‘Pax Russica’ has been used by Russian political elites as an ideological tool to unite all Russian-speaking people worldwide and to create a global Russian-speaking cultural, ideological, historical, social, political, economic and informational space as a powerful alternative to the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire. The concept of ‘Pax Russica’ is closely related to the compatriots policy of the Russian Federation, in which Russia has declared that its duty is protect Russian-speaking people not only in Russia, but also abroad.Russian-speaking population makes up 26-27% of the Estonian 1,300,000 population, and approximately 80% of them live in two counties: Harjumaa (including capital Tallinn) and Ida-Virumaa (northeast of Estonia) and it has been a valuable target for information and influence operations coming from Russia. The Russophone audience in Estonia constantly receives messages and narratives from Russia’s media channels, many of them promote negative perceptions against the West (e.g., about the "immorality" of the West, about "misdeeds" and "aggression" of NATO), stoking up the fear of migrants and refugees and other harmful narratives that break down positive images related to European identity, values and security architecture. What is characteristic to the Russian strategic narratives, these tend to be rather destructive, with the aim to destroy their potential adversary than to promote positive images on Russia. Besides the Russian-speaking community, Russia often targets various populist movements in Europe (also in Estonia) from left to right, etc. Russia pretends to protect, and promote worship against liberalism.

Examination of the Relationship between Self and Choice of Coping Strategies among U.S. Active Duty Military Wives

Previous research indicates that one’s identity relates to one’s use of specific coping strategies. Exploring the relationship between self and coping in military wives is crucial to understanding how they manage military lifestyle-related stressors. The researchers hypothesized that identity status, self-concept clarity, self-monitoring, mastery, and role conflict will be related to choice of emotion-focused coping or problem-focused coping strategies. Two hundred two participants completed an anonymous online survey containing standardized scales. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses revealed that emotion-focused coping had positive relationships with achieved identity status and role conflict. Problem-focused coping had positive relationships with moratorium status, self-concept clarity, self-monitoring, and mastery. Findings provide preliminary support that sense of self is important in understanding how military wives choose to cope with particular challenges.

Relative deprivation, perceived status conflict and innovative behavior of outsourced employees: multiple moderating effects of dual organizational support

PurposeHow to manage outsourced employees in interorganizational teams with triangular relationships has not yet attracted enough attention. Based on relative deprivation theory, this study explores how relative deprivation affects outsourced employees’ innovative behavior and investigates the complex moderating effects of dual organizational support.Design/methodology/approachThe authors tested their hypothesis by conducting a two-wave survey; responses to a questionnaire were collected from 283 outsourced employees and their managers among 52 client organizations.FindingsResults found that relative deprivation negatively influences the outsourced employees’ innovative behavior by eliciting their perceptions of status conflict. Support from client (supplier) organization attenuates (aggravates) the positive impact of relative deprivation on innovative behavior throughout status conflict. The moderating effect of client organizational support was moderated by support from supplier organization.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors selected the outsourced employees in a Chinese context to conduct this study, and the results need to be generalized in future research.Practical implicationsClient organizational support can alleviate the negative effect of relative deprivation on outsourced employees, whereas supplier organization support aggravates the negative effect; managers should pay attention to the different effects of the two organizations’ support and provide reasonable support for outsourced employees.Originality/valueThis study identified the mechanism of relative deprivation’s effect on outsourced employees’ innovative behavior from the perspective of interpersonal interaction and compared the effect of support from dual organizations. This study expands the research on triangular relationships, relative deprivation, status conflict and other field.

Rising to the Top: Motivational Forces Influencing Status Conflict in Sourcing Teams

Organizations often use cross‐functional teams to make key Operations and Supply Chain Management decisions, but doing so risks instigating conflict between team members since cross‐functional delegates often have opposing functional goals. While previous work has explored the effect of functional goals (i.e., external motivation) in cross‐functional team performance, we extend research in this area to incorporate individual team members' psychological needs (i.e., internal motivation). Specifically, we consider how the interplay of these motivational mechanisms can lead to status conflict within the team, and the ensuing implications on team performance. We conduct an experiment of 136 ad hoc team‐based sourcing decisions, complemented with a sequential qualitative study involving interviews with 37 practicing managers. The results show that functional goal misalignment leads to status conflict, as expected. Yet, counterintuitively, this effect can be mitigated with the team's composition in individual psychological needs for dominance, specifically with heterogeneously dominant individuals. Our study contributes to the behavioral operations management literature on sourcing teams and to the team motivation literature. We provide guidance on how managers can compose cross‐functional teams to improve decision outcomes considering the interplay of external and internal motivational mechanisms.

Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective

Formal hierarchies may be presumed to reduce uncertainty about the status ordering of employees as they imply a consistent global ranking. However, formal hierarchies in organizations are not merely linear, but are characterized by branching and nesting (i.e., they comprise subunits within the organization and subunits within other subunits), which creates a local ranking of individuals within each subunit. This can create tension between global and local formal ranks as status cues. Moreover, individuals may also draw on informal status cues that are inconsistent with formal ranks. Consequently, organizational members may experience upward status disagreement (USD), whereby each assumes they have higher status than the other. We offer a theoretical model that identifies important conditions under which cues arising from the structure of the formal hierarchy—either on their own or in conjunction with informal status cues—can be a source of USD. We also explore when USD can result in status conflict and identify moderators of this relationship. Our research has implications for how the frequency of USD can be mitigated as organizational structures become more complex and the workforce becomes increasingly diverse.