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D Elizur

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PubMed1994

Gender differences in achievement motive: a facet analysis of Hungarian samples.

We devised an achievement motive questionnaire (Elizur 1979, 1986; Shye 1978a) based on a facet definition of achievement motive. We then administered it to 165 women and 362 men employed by a large industrial corporation in Hungary in order to examine achievement motivation. Although we found significant differences in the frequency of responses to the achievement motive items, the basic structure of the achievement motive domain was similar for women and men. We detected no special tendency for women to score higher than men on affective responses. These results support the view that gender differences in achievement motive are rooted in socialization processes rather than in basic differences between women and men.

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PubMed1994

Gender and work values: a comparative analysis.

The results of recent investigations on work values suggest that the contradictory findings in regard to gender differences may be rooted in variations in the underlying structure of the work-values domain. In the present study a definitional framework for work values was proposed and tested. Smallest space analysis (SSA; Guttman, 1968) was performed on the ratings of 24 work-value items by samples of men and women from Hungary, Israel, and the Netherlands. A double-ordered conceptual system, a radex structure, was obtained in each of the samples, reflecting two hypothesized facets: modality of outcome (cognitive, affective, and instrumental) and type of system performance contingency. Essentially the same structure was obtained for women and men. However, women ranked affective outcomes as well as some of the instrumental and cognitive values higher than men did, whereas men ranked some other cognitive (influence, independence, responsibility) and instrumental (pay) items higher than women did. Personal growth and use of abilities were ranked higher by men in some samples and by women in others.

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