UNPACKING the IMPACT of GRATITUDE on UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Junho Oh; Ye Kang Kim; Guihyun Park; Sujin Lee

doi:10.1080/01639625.2023.2278510

UNPACKING the IMPACT of GRATITUDE on UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Junho Oh^*, Ye Kang Kim, Guihyun Park, Sujin Lee

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Abstract

Understanding and preventing unethical behavior is essential for social welfare. Prior research has shown that emotional processes have consequential effects on such behavior. The current work aims to unravel the mixed findings relating positive emotion to unethical behavior by suggesting that feeling gratitude may differentially influence one’s ethicality through three distinct pathways: cognitive (moral disengagement), motivational (greed), and relational (felt-security). Through our propositions, we advance a conceptual model for investigating the relationships among general positive emotion, gratitude, and unethical behavior, to gain clarity on these important connections. More broadly, researchers could use our model to illuminate a range of pathways linking gratitude and unethical behavior.

Original language	English
Number of pages	15
Journal	Deviant Behavior
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2278510
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2023

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