Fight and Flight: a Contingency Model of Third Parties’ Approach-Avoidance Reactions to Peer Abusive Supervision

Integrating deontic justice theory and the approach-avoidance framework, we propose that peer abusive supervision will elicit third parties’ approach-avoidance emotional and behavioral reactions. Drawing upon scope of justice theory, we posit that peer victimization serves as a key contingency in the relationship between peer abusive supervision and third parties’ approach-avoidance emotional reactions as well as having indirect impacts on...