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What is your status portfolio? Higher status variance across groups increases interpersonal helping but decreases intrapersonal well-being

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  • Fernandes, Catarina R.
  • Yu, Siyu
  • Howell, Taeya M.
  • Wood Brooks, Alison
  • Kilduff, Gavin J.
  • Pettit, Nathan C.

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Individuals belong to multiple groups across various domains of life, which in aggregate constitute a portfolio of potentially distinct levels of experienced status. We propose a two-factor model for assessing the effects of an individual’s status portfolio, based on status average (mean status level across groups) and status variance (degree to which status varies across those groups). Five studies using samples in general-life and work-specific contexts reveal the importance of both status average and status variance, the latter of which has been largely unexplored by status researchers to date. Individuals experiencing higher status variance show greater perspective taking, which in turn increases interpersonal helping. However, higher status variance also increases anxiety, decreasing intrapersonal well-being. Our results provide evidence of the additional explanatory power of accounting for status variance alongside status average, and highlight the importance of considering individuals’ aggregate experience of status across the multiple groups to which they belong.

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  • Fernandes, Catarina R. & Yu, Siyu & Howell, Taeya M. & Wood Brooks, Alison & Kilduff, Gavin J. & Pettit, Nathan C., 2021. "What is your status portfolio? Higher status variance across groups increases interpersonal helping but decreases intrapersonal well-being," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 165(C), pages 56-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:165:y:2021:i:c:p:56-75
    DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.04.002
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