Research on the Mechanism of Emotional Contagion in the Circumstance of Job Failure Based on Attribution Theory

摘要

A inter-group scenario simulated experiment is adopted to investigate the influence of failure attribution and leaders' affective feedback on members' angry and frustration. Subjects are divided into eight groups based on four failure attributions and two affective feedbacks. The results show that, under failure circumstance at work: (1) affective feedback from leaders positively influences the members' emotions of anger and frustration. (2) Different failure feedback will influence the frustration of members. (3) Different attributions of failure have different effects on members' anger at two levels of affective feedback from the leader. The study took both failure attributions and affective feedback into consideration and enriched the study of impact of attribution on emotions.