Abstract
This study investigated the moderating effects of perceived face threat and interactional justice in supervisor requests on employee psychological reactance and examined the mediating effects of reactance in the relationships of perceived freedom threat, face threat, and interactional justice with verbal defensiveness. Results showed that perceived face threat had significant main effects and moderating effects on reactance, but interactional justice, in spite of its significant main effects, did not have moderating effects on reactance. Results also showed that reactance did not mediate the effects of perceived freedom threat, face threat, and interactional justice on verbal defensiveness in real organizational setting.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
46
Issue
2
First Page
138
Last Page
158
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Qin and Gibson, Donald E.
(2014)
"Psychological Reactance and Verbal Defensiveness in the Workplace: The Effects of Perceived Face Threat and Interactional Justice in Supervisor Requests,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 46:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol46/iss2/3
Copyright
©2014 Iowa Communication Association
