Veen, Mette Jurrian van der (2023) Educationalism in Job Selection. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study was conducted to see if people show educationalism when selecting applicants for a job that doesn’t require a specific educational degree. 169 Participants (111 with a higher education and 58 without) had to evaluate four applicants for a job as branch manager. The applicants differed in educational level and whether they had relevant working experience or not. Exploratory analysis did find significant signs of educationalism in line with previous research. Participants with a higher education showed more explicit negative attitudes towards lower educated people, than participants without a higher education. Identification, diversity of the network and educational level were significant predictors for educationalism. However, our results suggest that a higher education was not evaluated to be more fitting for the job as branch manager. This was neither found for participants with and without a higher education. Instead, working experience explained (by far) the most amount of variance in the evaluation of applicants. All levels of identification with the educational level of higher educated participants, showed no difference in the evaluation of the higher and lower educated applicants. There is also no evidence that the difference in preference for educational level of applicants predicts educationalism in our sample. Our results suggest that our manipulation of experience was too large. And that a lack of randomization with the kind of experience and the educational level could have caused a systematic difference in evaluation. But our results could also suggest that branch manager is seen as a lower educated occupation. Whether educationalism is shown in a working setting could be dependent on the type of job.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Kuppens, T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2023 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2023 14:30 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1709 |
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