Sharma Payal N, Rogers Kristie M, Ashforth Blake E
Department of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology, Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Marquette University.
J Appl Psychol. 2025 May;110(5):648-670. doi: 10.1037/apl0001231. Epub 2024 Aug 29.
Moral stigma attached to an occupation can scar workers through discrediting, shaming, and denying respect. It can also open the door to interpersonal mistreatment, but little is known about how morally stigmatized workers navigate anticipated disrespect to potentially avoid harm. We explore this issue in a study of an occupation carrying severe moral stigma and where disrespect and workplace mistreatment are pervasive: models in hip-hop and rap music videos. Through analyses of 71 interviews with 48 video models and 19 industry informants, field observations, and archival data, we show how severe moral stigma and industry constraints promote generalized disrespect of video models (i.e., denial of worth to all role occupants) and, thus, each model's personal vulnerability to mistreatment. Two distinct groups of models emerged from our analysis-those who viewed themselves as emboldened in their role identity and those who did not-and this emboldened role identity was associated with differing perceptions of their personal vulnerability to mistreatment and their behaviors to mitigate it. The first group of models, those reporting an emboldened role identity, perceived their vulnerability to mistreatment as controllable. They strategically used both assertive behaviors (that earned respect from others) passive behaviors (that avoided disrespect from others) to mitigate mistreatment. By contrast, the second group perceived their vulnerability to mistreatment as uncontrollable and reported using only passive behaviors (to avoid disrespect) when mistreatment was imminent. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of our findings, advancing knowledge of dirty work, workplace mistreatment, respect dynamics, and identity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
与某一职业相关的道德污名会通过诋毁、羞辱和剥夺尊重来伤害从业者。它还可能引发人际间的虐待行为，但对于那些背负道德污名的工作者如何应对预期中的不尊重以避免潜在伤害，我们却知之甚少。我们在一项关于一个背负严重道德污名且不尊重和职场虐待行为普遍存在的职业的研究中探讨了这个问题：嘻哈和说唱音乐视频中的模特。通过对48名视频模特和19名行业线人的71次访谈、实地观察以及档案数据的分析，我们展示了严重的道德污名和行业限制如何导致对视频模特的普遍不尊重（即否定所有担任该角色者的价值），进而使每个模特个人容易遭受虐待。我们的分析中出现了两类不同的模特——那些认为自己在角色身份中充满勇气的模特和那些不这样认为的模特——这种充满勇气的角色身份与他们对个人遭受虐待的易感性以及减轻这种易感性的行为的不同认知相关。第一类模特，即那些报告有充满勇气的角色身份的模特，认为自己遭受虐待的易感性是可控的。他们策略性地同时使用自信行为（赢得他人尊重）和被动行为（避免他人不尊重）来减轻虐待。相比之下，第二类模特认为自己遭受虐待的易感性是不可控的，并报告说在虐待即将发生时只使用被动行为（避免不尊重）。我们讨论了研究结果的理论和实际意义，推进了对脏活、职场虐待、尊重动态和身份认同的认识。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
