Summary: Recent research on the “Köhler effect” (e. g., Hertel, Kerr, & Messé, 2000a,b) has demonstrated that persons increase their effort when working with a stronger coworker compared to when working as individuals. One pre-condition for these ...
Summary: Past investigations of performance on a conjunctive physical persistence task have yielded consistent evidence of motivation gains in the less able worker - a pattern first seen in data collected over 70 years ago (Köhler, 1926, 1927). Moreover, ...
Women Underevaluate Themselves: Self-Evaluation-Biases in a Simulated Job InterviewAbstract: Achievement-related self-evaluations were assessed in a simulated job interview situation. Each of the 74 men and women who participated in the laboratory study ...
Expressivity, Instrumentality and Psychological Health. Validation ofa Scale Assessing Gender Role Self-ConceptAbstract: Two studies assessing the test criteria of a scale (GTS+) are reported, which were constructed on the basis of items from BSRI and ...
Abstract. The theoretical foundations of this research were Future Time Perspective (Simons et al., 2004) and Expectancy × Value (Wigfield & Eccles, 2002) theories of motivation. The goals of the current study were to better understand (1) the ...
Men’s professional work roles require different attributes according to the gender-typicality of their occupation (female- versus male-dominated). We predicted that levels of men’s strain and job satisfaction would be predicted by levels of self-ascribed ...
Frauen weisen eine deutlich erhöhte Anfälligkeit für Depression und Angst auf. Daher stellt sich die Frage, wie das Geschlechtsrollen-Selbstkonzept mit der Beeinträchtigung des psychischen Wohlbefindens zusammenhängt. Neben dem Geschlechtsrollen-...
Abstract. Affiliation, control, and self-esteem are psychological needs that human beings attempt to satisfy and protect (Epstein, 2003; Grawe, 2004). From a motivational perspective, behaviors, attentional and cognitive biases as well as symptoms can ...