Phenomenology of Retaliating to Workplace Ostracism in Academia

Q4 Psychology

Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research Pub Date : 2020-07-06 DOI:10.33824/pjpr.2020.35.2.17

T. Fatima, A. Bilal, Muhammad Imran

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Abstract

The present qualitative inquiry sheds light on the psychological ramifications and behavioral responses of workplace ostracism in Higher Educational Institutes of Pakistan. The data was collected from 20 ostracized teaching faculty members from public and private sector universities through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and thematic analysis was carried out by NVIVO 11 Plus software. This was supplemented by content analysis to find the strength of each theme in the form of relative frequencies. The findings revealed three major themes; (1) psychological ramifications manifested in threatened needs and negative emotional reactions, (2) behavioral responses (pro-social, antisocial, and avoidant), (3) the underlying causes of diverse behavioral responses. It was found that negative psychological impacts of ostracism were inevitable, but behavioral responses were primarily pro-social due to ostracized faculty’s future-orientation, high importance of maintaining relationships, absence of alternative relations, less exposure to ostracism, and re-inclusion expectations.

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学术界对职场排斥的报复现象学

本定性调查揭示了巴基斯坦高等教育机构工作场所排斥的心理后果和行为反应。这些数据是通过半结构化访谈从公立和私立大学的20名被排斥的教师中收集的。访谈记录、转录，并通过NVIVO 11 Plus软件进行主题分析。内容分析补充了这一点，以相对频率的形式找到每个主题的强度。调查结果揭示了三个主要主题；（1）心理后果表现为受威胁的需求和负面情绪反应，（2）行为反应（亲社会、反社会和回避型），（3）不同行为反应的根本原因。研究发现，排斥的负面心理影响是不可避免的，但行为反应主要是亲社会的，这是由于被排斥的教师的未来取向、维持关系的高度重要性、缺乏替代关系、较少受到排斥和重新融入的期望。

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期刊介绍： Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research (PJPR) is published biannually by the National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan. Its first issue was published in Summer, 1986. Since then two issues, one in summer and the other in winter, have been appearing every year. The Journal provides an outlet for fully documented researches addressing educational, social, developmental, and other areas of Psychology. Preference is given to empirical articles, which deal with the application of psychological knowledge in understanding the problems of national and international importance. The Journal welcomes contributions from all corners. However, participation from the developing countries is eagerly sought in view of its under-representation in research journals published in the West. The PJPR maintains an international editorial board of Consulting Editors belonging to different countries, with expertise in a large number of areas. It employs a double-blind reviewing process i.e., the authors are not identified to reviewers and reviewers are not made known to authors. The contents of PJPR are being abstracted by the Proquest, and in PsycInfo. PJPR is included in the List of Social Sciences Journals recognized by Higher Education Commission, Pakistan.