When Hurt Continues: Taking Conflict Personally Leads to Rumination, Residual Hurt and Negative Motivations Toward Someone Who Hurt Us

摘要

Individuals sometimes are hurt by the comments of others, and residual feelings of hurtrnare experienced after the episode. Because of individuals’ tendency to ruminate, we arguernthat residual hurt and its consequences may be especially common among individualsrnwho tend to take conflict personally (TCP). We hypothesized that TCP would be positivelyrnrelated to motivations to avoid and to seek revenge against offenders, and thesernrelationships will be mediated by the link between rumination and residual hurt. To testrnour hypotheses, we conducted a survey among undergraduates about how they reacted torna hurtful message. We confirmed our hypotheses.