Is ambition a gendered issue? Students´ vs employees´ antecedents of Ambition about Leadership

  1. Lopez-Zafra, Esther 1
  2. Sánchez-Álvarez, Nicolás 2
  3. Carmona-Cobo, Isabel 3
  1. 1 Professor. University of Jaén
  2. 2 Universidad de Málaga
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    Universidad de Málaga

    Málaga, España

    ROR https://ror.org/036b2ww28

  3. 3 Assistant professor. University of Jaén
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Revista:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728,  1695-2294

Any de publicació: 2021

Volum: 37

Número: 2

Pàgines: 352-360

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.6018/ANALESPS.435341 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

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Resum

Obstacles along women career demonstrate how ambition for becoming a leader is complex because it is influenced by gender stereotypes and roles. In this study, 625 participants (54.24% women) from two statuses (379 students and 246 employees) were asked to imagine how they would react to a promotion to a leadership position and then completed a questionnaire including their beliefs about the consequences, core self-evaluations, ambition, positive and negative emotions, and gender role ideology. Students were more ambitious than employees, regardless of their gender. However, when analyzing the impact of ambition on the decision of accepting a leadership position we observe that positive affect generated by imagining a promotion is the key aspect to finally decide to accept the promotion in both students and employees. However, in students, regardless of their gender, the decision is predicted by negative affect, core-self evaluations but not by levels of ambition.

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Research funding data.- This study was supported by grant to the first author given by the Spanish Ministry of Science PSI2015-65241-R and a grant from the University of Jaén EI_ SEJ7_2019 to the first and third authors.

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