Reconciling female agentic advantage and disadvantage with the CADDIS measure of agency

Autor: Anyi, Ma, Ashleigh Shelby, Rosette, Christy Zhou, Koval
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Psychology. 107:2115-2148
ISSN: 1939-1854
0021-9010
DOI: 10.1037/apl0000550
Popis: Contradictory findings about whether agentic women are penalized or rewarded persist in gender and leadership research. To account for these divergent effects, we distinguish between agentic traits that people believe female leaders ought to possess (i.e., agency prescriptions) and ought not possess (i.e., agency proscriptions). We draw on expectancy violation theory to suggest that an agentic advantage is elicited when women are perceived to violate agency prescriptions (e.g., competence), whereas an agentic disadvantage is elicited when they are perceived to violate agency proscriptions (e.g., dominance). We first developed and validated a new, six-factor measure of agency in Studies 1 and 2, CADDIS (i.e.
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