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Gender, Entitlement, And Obligation : Role Of Agency And Communion As Mediators, Arya Adhikari
Gender, Entitlement, And Obligation : Role Of Agency And Communion As Mediators, Arya Adhikari
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The aims of this study were to investigate whether there persists a gender difference between men and women regarding agency and communion, and whether agency and communion mediate the relationships between gender and two dependent variables of interest: entitlement and obligation. One hundred seventy-seven undergraduate students rated themselves on the following measures: Agency and Communion Scale (Roch, Ciancetta, and Mishra, 2019), Psychological Entitlement Scale (Campbell et al., 2004) and Felt Obligation Measure (Eisenberger et al., 2001), assessed on both the supervisor and organization level. Results suggested that women scored significantly higher than men in communion. Gender differences were not significant …