High power = Motivation? Low power = Situation? The impact of power, power stability and power motivation on risk-taking
- 作者：Julia Hiemer ; julia.hiemer@sozpsy.phil.uni-erlangen.de ; Andrea E. Abele abele@phil.uni-erlangen.de
- 关键词：Risk-taking ; Low vs. high power ; Role stability ; Power motivation
- 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：64_01918869
- 类别：psy
- 出版时间：September, 2012
- 卷：53
- 期：4
- 页码：486-490
- 文件大小：212 K
摘要
The present research analyzes the influence of situational (role stability vs. instability) and personal (power motivation) variables on risk-taking behaviour of people with low vs. high power. We predicted that low power people are mainly influenced by the situation, whereas high power people also act in accord with their power motivation. We independently measured participants鈥?power motivation and later conducted a 2 (power role: high vs. low) 脳 2 (situation: stable vs. unstable role) experiment in which we assessed risk-taking behaviour in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART; ). We also ran a control group without role assignment. Supporting our hypotheses, risk-taking behaviour of people with low power was influenced by the situation, but not by power motivation, whereas risk-taking behaviour of powerful people was influenced by both sources. Control group鈥檚 risk-taking was somewhat influenced by power motivation.