Personal narratives to improve attitudes towards stigmatized immigrants: A parallel-serial mediation model

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022110525
Author(s):  
Juan-José Igartua ◽  
Diego Cachón-Ramón
Keyword(s):  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Threat Perception ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Exposure Condition ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Narrative Persuasion ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Serial Mediation

This work addresses the study of factors that increase the persuasive efficacy of testimonial messages aimed at improving intergroup attitudes. The results of two online experiments ( N = 840) on the effect of empathy with, and similarity to, the protagonist in personal stories designed to improve attitudes towards immigrants are presented. In both studies, participants were given instructions to induce a certain exposure condition (empathy vs. an objective or distanced perspective) immediately before reading a narrative whose protagonist was an immigrant with high or low similarity to the audience. The results of mediation analysis show that both empathy and similarity increased identification and narrative transportation, which in turn reduced counterarguing, thus resulting in a more positive attitude towards the outgroup and lower threat perception. The results are discussed in the context of research on narrative persuasion and the design of campaigns to reduce racism and xenophobia.

What Links Maternal Prepregnancy BMI to Early Childhood BMI: A Serial Mediation Analysis

Obesity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Zhang ◽  
Hong Mei ◽  
Ke Xu ◽  
Chunan Li ◽  
Zhiguo Xia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Prepregnancy Bmi ◽  
Serial Mediation

scholarly journals Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6808
Author(s):  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Xueyao Ma ◽  
Xianglian Yu ◽  
Meizhu Ye ◽  
Na Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Southeast China ◽  
General Distress ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
Support Family

The consequence of childhood trauma may last for a long time. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of childhood trauma on general distress among Chinese adolescents and explore the potential mediating roles of social support and family functioning in the childhood trauma-general distress linkage. A total of 2139 valid questionnaires were collected from two high schools in southeast China. Participants were asked to complete the questionnaires measuring childhood trauma, social support, family functioning, and general distress. Pathway analysis was conducted by using SPSS AMOS 24.0 and PROCESS Macro for SPSS 3.5. Results showed that childhood trauma was positively associated with general distress among Chinese adolescents. Social support and family functioning independently and serially mediated the linkage of childhood trauma and general distress. These findings confirmed and complemented the ecological system theory of human development and the multisystem developmental framework for resilience. Furthermore, these findings indicated that the mental and emotional problems of adolescents who had childhood trauma were not merely issues of adolescents themselves, but concerns of the whole system and environment.

scholarly journals Why and How Does Empowering Leadership Promote Proactive Work Behavior? An Examination with a Serial Mediation Model among Hotel Employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2386
Author(s):  
Chung-Jen Wang ◽  
I-Hsiu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Embeddedness ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Serial Mediation

With the increasing competition in contemporary enterprise, sustainable human resource management is a powerful resource for workplace mental health. On the basis of job demands-recourses theory and conservation of resources theory, this study examined the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ proactive work behavior. It also explored how job design inspires employees to be embedded in their work and to exhibit proactive work behavior. In addition, the research probed the mediating roles of job characteristics and job embeddedness in a serial mediation model within an integrated model. Data were collected from 461 employees of three- to five-star hotels through stratified random sampling. Results indicated that (1) empowering leadership has positive influences on job characteristics and proactive work behavior; (2) job characteristics have a positive influence on job embeddedness; (3) job embeddedness has a positive influence on proactive work behavior; (4) job characteristics mediate the effect of empowering leadership on proactive work behavior; (5) job embeddedness mediates the effect of empowering leadership on proactive work behavior; and (6) job characteristics and job embeddedness jointly mediate the effect of empowering leadership on proactive work behavior by bootstrapping analyses. Accordingly, this study suggests that promoting sustainable human resource management is needed for human health and organizational value at work, both of which enable empowering leadership to improve proactive work behavior via job characteristics and job embeddedness. The theoretical and managerial implications of empirical findings are also discussed.

Impact Of Digital Leadership On Open Innovation: A Moderating Serial Mediation Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 13398
Author(s):  
Tasneem Fatima ◽  
Afshan Masood ◽  
Mehwish Majeed ◽  
Muhammad Usman Ali
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Serial Mediation

Restaurant choice and religious obligation in the absence of halal logo: A serial mediation model

2022 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 103109
Author(s):  
Ezlika M. Ghazali ◽  
Dilip S. Mutum ◽  
Muhammad Waqas ◽  
Bang Nguyen ◽  
Nur Azureen Ahmad-Tarmizi
Keyword(s):  
Mediation Model ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
Religious Obligation

Exploring the impact of green human resource management on environmental performance: the roles of perceived organizational support and innovative environmental behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabeen Hussain Bhatti ◽  
Farida Saleem ◽  
Ghulam Murtaza ◽  
Tazeem Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
Green Human Resource Management ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) practices and the environmental performance (EP) of firms belonging to industries that may lean toward environmental pollution (e.g. oil and gas). The authors propose a holistic (serial mediation) model based on the ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO) theory and the social exchange theory (SET) and integrate organizational, i.e. perceived organizational support (POS), and individual, i.e. innovative environmental behavior (IEB), factors as explanatory mechanisms. The authors then test the model in a developing country context.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from white collar workers in the oil and gas industry in Pakistan. A structural equation modeling (SEM) technique and the PROCESS model 6 were used to analyze the hypothesized serial mediation model.FindingsThe authors found support for the fully meditating serial mediation model. Although the direct effects of GHRM and EP were insignificant, the total effects and indirect effects through POS and IEB were significant. Similarly, the research also found support for organizational and individual factors as explanatory mechanisms in the relationship between GHRM and EP.Originality/valueThis research adds to the existing literature on GHRM and the corporate EP link through proposing and testing a model of the mediating effects of POS and IEB. Furthermore, it provides empirical evidence of this model in the oil and gas sector using an Asian developing country as the context of study.

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