The influence of thinking style, integrity, and age on the counterproductive work

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counterproductive work behavior, thinking style, integrity, adulthoodAbstract
This study explores the effects of thinking style, integrity and age on counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Using between subject design for 122 workers in young adulthood and 68 workers in middle adulthood, the study utilizes rational experiential inventory (REI) to determine the thinking style and self-report questionnaire to measure counterproductive work behavior and integrity. Regretion statistic found that integrity and age theirselves and interaction between them, have some effects on CWB. High-rational high-experiential thinking style have interact with integrity in affecting CWB.
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Blasi, A. (2004). Moral Functioning: Moral Understanding and Personality. In D. K. Lapsley, & D. Narvaez, Moral Development, Self, and Identity (pp. 335-348). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Caron, S. J. (2003). Personality Characteristics Related to Counterproductive Behaviors in the Workplace. Fullerton: California State University.
Colbert, A. E., Mount, M. K., Harter, J. K., Witt, L. A., & Barrick, M. R. (2004). Interactive Effects of Personality and Perceptions of the Work Situation on Workplace Deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 89, No. 4 , 599–609.
Ebner, N. C., Riediger, M., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Schema Reliance for Developmental Goals Increases From Early to Late Adulthood: Improvement for the Young, Loss Prevention for the Old. Psychology and Aging Vol. 24, No. 2 , 310–323.
Epstein, S., & Pacini, R. (2000-2001). The Influence of Visualization on Intuitive and Analytical Information Processing. Imagination, Cognition and Personality Vol (20) 3 , 195-216.
Everton, W. J., Jolton, J. A., & Mastrangelo, P. M. (2007). Be nice and fair or else: understanding reasons for employees’ deviant behaviors. Journal of Management Development Vol. 26 No. 2 , 117-131.
Fine, S., Horowitz, I., Weigler, H., & Basis, L. (2010). Is good character good enough? The effects of situational variables on the relationship between integrity and counterproductive work behaviors. Human Resource Management Review 20 , 73–84.
Foos, P. W., & Boone, D. (2008). Adult Age Differences in Divergent Thinking: It’s Just a Matter of Time. Educational Gerontology, 34 , 587–594.
Greenberg, J. (2002). Who stole the money, and when? Individual and situational determinants of employee theft. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 89 , 985–1003.
Gruys, M. L., & Sackett, P. R. (2003). Investigating the Dimensionality of Counterproductive Work Behavior. International Journal Of Selection And Assesment Vol. 11, No. 1 .
Impelman, K. (2006). Predicting Counter-Productive Workplace Behavior: Item Level Analysis of an Integrity Test. Ann Arbor: ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Labouvie-Vief, G. (2006). Emerging Structures of Adult Thought. In J. J. Arnett, & J. L. Tanner, Emerging adults in America: Coming of age in the 21st century (pp. 59-84). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. xxii, 340 pp.
Langley, L. K., Rokke, P. D., Stark, A. C., Saville, A. L., Allen, J. L., & Bagne, A. G. (2008). The Emotional Blink: Adult Age Differences in Visual Attention to Emotional Information. Psychology and Aging Vol. 23, No. 4 , 873–885.
Lockenhoff, C. E., T., C. J., & Lane, R. D. (2008). Age Differences in Description of Emotional Experiences of Oneself and Others. The Journal of Gerontology , 92.
Maas, M., & Bos, K. v. (2009). An affective-experiential perspective on reactions to fair and unfair events:Individual differences in affect intensity moderated by experiential mindsets. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology .
Marcus, B., & Schuler, H. (2004). Antecedents of Counterproductive Behavior at Work: A General Perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 89, No. 4 , 647–660.
Mickler, C., & Staudinger, U. M. (2008). Personal Wisdom: Validation and Age-Related Differences of a Performance Measure . Psychology and Aging Vol. 23, No. 4 , 787–799.
Narvaez, D., & Lapsley, D. K. (2009). Moral identity and the development of moral character. In L. S. D. Medin, Moral cognition and decision making, Vol. 50 of the Psychology of Learning and Motivation series (pp. 237-274 ). Notre Dame: Elsevier.
Negash, S., Romain, L., MacLeod, D., Howard, D., Jr., J. H., & Haris, M. (2004). Age Related Differences in Implicit Learning of Higher-order Regularities When Age Groups are Matched on Overall Accuracy. The Gerontologists , 519.
Neys, W. D., & Glumicic, T. (2008). Conflict monitoring in dual process: theories of thinking. Cognition vol 106 , 1248–1299.
Papalia, D. E., Olds, S. W., & Feldman, R. D. (2008). Human Development. New York: McGraw-Hill International Edition.
Penney, L. M., & Spector, P. E. (2005). Job stress, incivility, and counterproductive work behavior (CWB): the moderating role of negative affectivity . Journal of Organizational Behavior 26 , 777–796.
Pratisto, A. (2009). Statistik Menjadi Mudah dengan SPSS 17. Jakarta: Elex Media Computindo. Puka, B. (2004). Altruisme and Character. In D. K. Lapsley, & D. Narvaez, Moral Development, Self
and Identity (pp. 161-187). London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schlenker, B. R., Miller, M. L., & Johnson, R. M. (2009). Moral Identity, Integrity and Personal Responsibility. In D. Narvaez, & D. K. Lapsley, Personality, Identity and Character (pp. 316- 340). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shiloh, S., Salton, E., & Sharabi, D. (2002). Individual differences in rational and intuitive thinking styles as predictors of heuristic responses and framing effects. Personality and Individual Differences vol. 32 , 415–429.
Staudinger, U. M., & Kunzmann, U. (2005). Positive Adult Personality Development: Adjustment and/ or Growth? European Psychologist Vol. 10(4) , 320–329.
Teglasi, H., & Epstein, S. (1998). Temperament and personality theory: The Perspective of Cognitive- Experiential Self Theory. School Psychology Review; 27, 4 , 534.
Walker, L. J. (2004). Gus in the Gap: Bridging the Judgment–Action Gap in Moral Functioning. In D. K. Lapsley, & D. Narvaez, Moral Development, Self, and Identity (pp. 1-20). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yang, J. (2008). Can’t serve customers right? An indirect effect of co-workers’ counterproductive behaviour in the service environment. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 81, , 29–46.
Zhang, L.-F. (2008). Thinking Styles and Emotions. The Journal of Psychology, 142(5) , 497-515.
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Permatasari, M. (2012). The influence of thinking style, integrity, and age on the counterproductive work. Jurnal Psikologi Ulayat, 1(1), 75–88. https://doi.org/10.24854/jpu5
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