Pliaukstaite, Liucija (2022) Preferred Working Styles by the Regulatory Modes of Locomotion and Assessment. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
We conducted a study to explore the effect of suggestive and directive working styles on regulatory modes. Kruglanski and colleagues (2000) distinguish two manners of approaching goals: locomotion and assessment motivational orientations. Locomotion is described as a desire to move from state to state quickly, while assessment is concerned with comparing alternatives and choosing the “right” one. Autocratic and democratic conditions’ scripts were created by the example of “forceful” and “advisory” leadership described in the study of Kruglanski and colleagues (2007). Subjects participated in a word anagram task, after which they completed a short questionnaire about their feelings such as satisfaction, effectiveness, and enjoyment, and filled in the Regulatory Mode Questionnaire (RMQ; Kruglanski et al., 2000). We hypothesized that locomotors would experience higher regulatory fit in the directive condition while assessors would experience higher regulatory fit in the suggestive condition. Assessors were expected to write more words and spend more time on the task compared to locomotors. We did not find support for these hypotheses and further research needs to be executed to know the reasons. Note that assessment orientation was evoked by the democratic condition and the results should be interpreted with caution. Keywords: regulatory modes, fit, autocratic and democratic, suggestive and directive, leadership styles, working styles.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gutzkow, B. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2022 08:46 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2022 08:46 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/139 |
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