Rewarding Valuable Services and Altruistic Motives: Gratitude and Pay for Essential Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bridger, Emma K. and Lally, Harkeeret (2022) Rewarding Valuable Services and Altruistic Motives: Gratitude and Pay for Essential Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Journal of Social Psychology. ISSN 0022-4545
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Abstract
Two studies examine whether a social-cognitive model of appraisal predicts gratitude towards workers deemed “essential” by the UK government during the Covid-19 response. Gratitude was predicted by appraisals of how essential work was, how costly and whether workers were contributing out of a genuine desire to help, and in turn predicted judgments of how much workers should earn. In a second experimental study support is found for the novel prediction that gratitude is systematically higher for lower-paid workers. The data extends the model and applies it to self-reported gratitude towards remote and unidentified workers during a period of crisis.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2144708 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Gratitude, social-cognitive, appraisals, income, Covid-19 | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Psychology | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Emma Bridger | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2022 11:08 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2023 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13733 |
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