Is one’s work related to political attitudes? - Four different work appreciation dimensions and their relationship to trust in institutions

Trappe, Annika (2024) Is one’s work related to political attitudes? - Four different work appreciation dimensions and their relationship to trust in institutions. Master thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

This study aims to link the work context and political attitudes using perceived work appreciation and trust in institutions. Based on the literature, a new scale is created to measure four distinct dimensions of work appreciation: work appreciation by supervisors, colleagues, society, and oneself. Factor analysis provided evidence for the four predefined dimensions of work appreciation with high factor loadings and no significant cross-loadings. Looking at the relationship between work appreciation dimensions and trust in institutions, only work appreciation by society yielded a significant result indicating a positive relationship with trust in institutions (β = .16; p = .034). The control variables, higher education (β = .19; p = .014) and being female (β = -.20; p = .003), also yielded significant results. Due to the work appreciation dimensions of work appreciation by supervisors and colleagues (r = 0.644, p < 0.01) as well as by society and oneself (r = 0.510, p < 0.01) being highly correlated, an exploratory analysis was run combining these dimensions. Only the combined work appreciation by supervisor and colleagues scale (β = .15; p = .025) as well as higher education (β = .19; p = .014) and being female (β = -.20; p = .005) yielded significant results with trust in institutions. Therefore, for future research, it is important to keep investigating these dimensions and possibly change them and look closer into the role of education and gender in creating practical implementations to increase trust in institutions. Keywords: work appreciation, trust in institutions, political attitudes, work identity

Item Type:	Thesis (Master)
Supervisor name:	Kuppens, T.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Master Psychology]
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2024 13:36
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2024 13:36
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4334

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