Status Equilibration

Fueled by Uncertainty, Frustration, or Anxiety

Bibliographic Data

ID9890571
AuthorsDonald B Trow (Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13901, corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume30
Issue8
Pages721-736
Publication date1977-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001872677703000804
OpenAlexW2158481873
LanguageEN
References cited17

Status incongruence in groups is thought to produce tension and to give rise to attempts at equilibration of the incongruence by one means or another. Status incongruence is inevitably confounded with its constituent status differences, however, and it is possible that they by themselves produce part or all of both the tension and the equilibration. Attitudes toward status and toward incongruence are here employed to disentangle these main and interactive effects. Results suggest that anxiety concerning status per se has more to do with both the tension and the equilibration of status incongruent encounters than does either sensitivity to the imbalance of incongruence or frustration engendered by its injustice

Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Frustration · Injustice · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology

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