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Assessing younger worker prescriptive stereotypes: The workplace ambivalent youngism scale (WAYS)
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2023
Year (definitive publication)
2023
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
A measure assessing prescriptive age stereotypes towards younger workers, the Workplace
Ambivalent Youngism Scale (WAYS), was developed and validated with 1,888 participants from
U.S. and Portugal across four studies. Study 1 generated younger worker prescriptive stereotypes
items. Study 2 explored the item pool factor structure. Study 3 validated the factor structure,
examined convergent and divergent validity and tested for measurement invariance. The final scale
has 25 items and eight first-order factors, subsumed under three second-order factors: humility-
deference, loyalty-belonging, and vitality-innovation, which show ambivalent expectations
regarding younger workers. Study 4 tested the predictive power of WAYS with time-lagged data.
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Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Psychology - Social Sciences
- Economics and Business - Social Sciences
