Women's Aspiration for Leadership - An Experimental Study on Agency and Gender
(2016) PSYP01 20152Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- The present study examined the effect of manipulated (threatened or affirmed) sense of agency on Swedish students’ preference for leadership, by ease of retrieval. Three hundred and twelve students (Mage = 23.04, SD = 2.70) participated in the experiment. The aim of the study was to investigate whether individuals’ leadership preferences was affected by perceived sense of agency. By contrasting a role as a leader and a role as a problem solver, participants rated their interest for each. In total N = 312 participants were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions (threatened agency, affirmed agency or no agency manipulation). The hypothesis that an agency threat should lead to a decreased preference for a leadership role, as... (More)
- The present study examined the effect of manipulated (threatened or affirmed) sense of agency on Swedish students’ preference for leadership, by ease of retrieval. Three hundred and twelve students (Mage = 23.04, SD = 2.70) participated in the experiment. The aim of the study was to investigate whether individuals’ leadership preferences was affected by perceived sense of agency. By contrasting a role as a leader and a role as a problem solver, participants rated their interest for each. In total N = 312 participants were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions (threatened agency, affirmed agency or no agency manipulation). The hypothesis that an agency threat should lead to a decreased preference for a leadership role, as compared to a problem solver role, was not supported by the obtained results. Furthermore, men did not show higher preference, as compared to women, for a role as a leader over a role as a problem solver. Possible methodological improvements are discussed, along with suggestions for further research. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/8565786
- author
- Löw, Vicky LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PSYP01 20152
- year
- 2016
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Gender, Ease of retrieval, Leadership, Agency
- language
- English
- id
- 8565786
- date added to LUP
- 2016-01-25 16:11:09
- date last changed
- 2016-01-25 16:11:09
@misc{8565786, abstract = {{The present study examined the effect of manipulated (threatened or affirmed) sense of agency on Swedish students’ preference for leadership, by ease of retrieval. Three hundred and twelve students (Mage = 23.04, SD = 2.70) participated in the experiment. The aim of the study was to investigate whether individuals’ leadership preferences was affected by perceived sense of agency. By contrasting a role as a leader and a role as a problem solver, participants rated their interest for each. In total N = 312 participants were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions (threatened agency, affirmed agency or no agency manipulation). The hypothesis that an agency threat should lead to a decreased preference for a leadership role, as compared to a problem solver role, was not supported by the obtained results. Furthermore, men did not show higher preference, as compared to women, for a role as a leader over a role as a problem solver. Possible methodological improvements are discussed, along with suggestions for further research.}}, author = {{Löw, Vicky}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Women's Aspiration for Leadership - An Experimental Study on Agency and Gender}}, year = {{2016}}, }