COHESION IDENTITY AND AFFECT: THE ROLE OF GROUP ENTITIVITY

Informações

Código: EOR1455
Divisão: EOR - Estudos Organizacionais
Tema de Interesse: EOR-B - Comportamento Organizacional

Autores

Gazi Islam

Resumo

The following paper attempts to develop a new measure of group ‘entitativity’ and showhow this measure relates to important concepts in group research. First, we reviewprevious literature on entitativity, discussing measurement issues associated withentitativity and identifying a lack of a psychometrically valid measurement tools in theextant entitativity literature. Then, we explore an understanding of the concept allowingus to link it with climate strength, providing for a later examination of convergentvalidity. Next, we develop and test a measure of entitativity, linking it with groupcohesion, group identity, and provide support for the relationship between our measure ofentitativity and climate strength. Finally, we discuss the significance of these findings andthe study of entitativity for the social sciences.

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