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Self-Control as the Moderator of the Relationship between Implicit Aggressiveness and Counterproductive Work Behaviors

Recently, James and LeBreton (2012) identified implicit aggression as an important predictor of counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs), and proposed the Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression (CRT- A) for the identification of implicitly aggressive individuals. The CRT-A is an innovative personality assessment instrument that is used to identify aggressive individuals by observing their performance on a set of inductive reasoning problems. These problems are designed to measure the respondents’ motive- based implicit biases and, therefore, serve as a measure of personality. The CRT-A was constructed under the assumption that aggressive individuals use specific justification mechanisms to reconcile the motive to aggress with the motive to hold favorable view of self. For example, aggressive individuals see their aggressive behaviors as completely reasonable considering that they sense hostility and danger in others’ behavior (i.e., they have hostile attributions bias), and see themselves as oppressed individuals acting in self-defense (victimization by powerful others bias). These justification mechanisms are expressed in some of the solutions offered on the ČINIOCI RADNE USPEŠNOSTI 21 conditional reasoning problems and are likely to be chosen by the individuals who often employ these mechanisms in reality. The CRT-A has sound psychometric characteristics, and was shown to be important for understanding and predicting CWBs over and above self-report personality measures (James & LeBreton, 2012 ; Berry, Sackett, & Tobares, 2010). It has been evaluated as a „groundbreaking“ approach to personality assessment by the American Psychological Association (APA, 2013, Spring, p. 4), and „a model for psychometric, conceptual, and theory-based implicit association measurement“ (Landy, 2008, p. 390). Considering that the CRT-A still represents a novel method of personality assessment, there is a lack of studies testing boundary conditions and contingencies for the effect of implicit aggressiveness on CWBs. In this presentation we will report the results of a study in which we tested whether dispositional self-control moderates the relationship between implicit aggressiveness, as measured with the CRT-A, and CWBs. We expected the relationship between the CRT-A scores and CWBs to be stronger for employees with lower self-control. A sample of 202 employees from various organizations participated in our study. The participants completed the research package consisting of the CRT-A, a self-control scale and self-reported occurrence of CWBs. Additionally, we collected ratings about the participants’ self-control and CWBs from their co-workers. The results of our analyses indicated the existence of expected moderating effect for self-reported CWBs, irrespective whether selfcontrol was self- or other-reported. However, the moderation effect was insignificant when other-reports of CWBs were used as the criteria.

Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression ; trait self-control ; counterproductive work behaviors

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