Social exchange theory suggests that after receiving help, people reciprocate by helping the original help giver. However, we propose that help recipients may respond negatively and harm the help giver when they perceive helping as a status threat and experience envy. Integrating the helping as status relations framework and the social functional perspective of envy, we examine when and why receiving help may prompt help recipients to undermine help givers. Across four studies, we find progressive support for our results, which show that when individuals receive task-related help from help givers who are perceived to be more, rather than less, competent than them, they experience greater status threat and envy. As help recipients experience envy toward help givers, they are likely to undermine help givers, and this positive relationship becomes stronger for help recipients who have higher status striving motivation. Our findings underscore the status dynamics implicated in helping interactions by highlighting that help recipients, especially those with higher status striving motivation, may paradoxically undermine help givers when they perceive status threat from and feel envious of help givers, as a result of receiving help from more competent help givers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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咬住喂养的手：一种基于地位的模型，说明何时以及为何接受帮助会激发社会破坏。

社会交换理论表明，在接受帮助后，人们会通过帮助最初的帮助者来回报。然而，我们建议，当帮助接受者将帮助视为一种地位威胁并感到嫉妒时，他们可能会做出负面反应并伤害帮助者。将帮助作为地位关系框架和嫉妒的社会功能视角相结合，我们研究了何时以及为什么接受帮助可能会促使帮助接受者破坏帮助提供者。在四项研究中，我们发现对我们结果的渐进支持，这表明当个人从被认为比他们更有能力而不是更能干的帮助者那里获得与任务相关的帮助时，他们会经历更大的地位威胁和嫉妒。当帮助接受者对帮助者感到嫉妒时，他们可能会破坏帮助者，并且这种积极的关系对于具有更高地位奋斗动机的帮助接受者来说变得更强。我们的研究结果通过强调帮助接受者，尤其是那些具有较高地位奋斗动机的人，可能会自相矛盾地破坏帮助者，因为他们从更多的人那里获得帮助，从而感知来自帮助者的地位威胁并嫉妒帮助者，从而强调了帮助互动中涉及的地位动态称职的帮助者。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。当他们从更有能力的帮助者那里得到帮助而感到来自帮助者的地位威胁并感到嫉妒时，他们可能会自相矛盾地破坏帮助者。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。当他们从更有能力的帮助者那里得到帮助而感到来自帮助者的地位威胁并感到嫉妒时，他们可能会自相矛盾地破坏帮助者。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。