We are happy to share that our article „Collective rumination: When ‘problem talk’ impairs organizational resilience” is now published in Applied Psychology (Online First).

While social interaction is commonly seen as a major resource for organizational resilience, dysfunctional social interactions and their negative effects on coping with and overcoming adversity are less well understood. This conceptual article develops theory on collective rumination—defined as repetitive and prolonged discussions of adverse events that center on the negative and uncontrollable aspects of the situation—and its detrimental effects on organizational resilience.

With our conceptual article, we answer earlier calls to theorize about forms of social interactions that are not valuable but destructive for organizational resilience and elucidate previously neglected social dynamics that are dysfunctional for recovering from adversity.

Our article is freely and permanently available online: https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apps.12315