The Influence of Negative Emotion on Upward Social Comparison The Moderated Effect of Spiritual Experience.

• Main Authors: Jui-Yang Hsu, 徐瑞陽
• Other Authors: Kuo-I Chang
• Format: Others
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ukt6rt

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 國際企業學系 === 103 === Past research on spiritual experience can be found in religion and medical field. The spiritual experience, for example, can have an impact on the emotion and reduce the risk to get Depression. Also, past research indicated that people would have a better way to deal with pressure if they had spiritual experience before. However, it is rarely that the relative research of spiritual experience can be found in organization behavior field. The main purpose of this study is trying to figure out that if the negative affect which triggered by the upward social comparison can be moderated by the personal spiritual experience. The data is collected from different department of police office and hospital in Hualien. Through the paper questionnaire, the final sample of this study is 620. The results showed that 1) upward social comparison would trigger the negative affect for those who are low- performance in the group, 2) spiritual experience has no moderate effect on the relationship between upward social comparison and negative affect. The contribution of this article is to provide empire evidence for enterprise to know more about the effect of spiritual experience to the negative affect which were caused by upward social comparison.