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Intrasexual competition at work: Sex differences in the jealousy-evoking effect of rival characteristics in work settings
2010
Sex differences in jealousy-evoking rival characteristics in the relationship with a supervisor at work were examined in a community sample of 188 individuals from Argentina. Among men, the rivals’ social dominance and communal attributes evoked the most jealousy, followed by physical dominance. Among women, the rival’s communal attributes evoked the most jealousy, followed by social dominance and physical attractiveness. For men physical dominance of the rival and for women physical attractiveness of the rival evoked relatively more jealousy, especially among those high in intrasexual competition and confronted with a same-sex supervisor. When confronted with an opposite-sex supervisor, s…
Employee Recruitment: Identifying Response Distortion on the Personality Measure
2015
The aim of this study was to identify individuals who fake their response on personality assessments in the context of employee recruitment. In the study experiment, participants were randomly divided into two groups. The first group was instructed to complete a measure (BFI-44) honestly while the second group was instructed to complete the inventory as if they were job applicants participating in an employee recruitment. It was hoped that the second group would be induced to give fake responses. Cluster analysis and latent class analysis for a two-class constrained model was applied to and fitted to the data. The correlation between actual group (honest vs. faking) and predicted group obta…
Development of students' language competencies in the modern competitive environment
2020
The article highlights practical approaches to improving the language compe-tence of students in a changing socio-cultural and business environment. The article anal-yses the compulsory and optional components of the educational program on the example of Mykolayiv NationalAgrarian University in Ukraine. The authors describe the im-portance of the effective preparation of educational programs for the development of stu-dents’ professional linguistic competencies. Mykolayiv National Agrarian University in Ukraine is a great example of a combination of compulsory and optional components of educational programs. Students have the opportunity to improve their language competence in a professiona…