심리적 특권의식 관련변인에 관한 메타분석

초록

Psychological entitlement is considered as an individual trait in which the individual expects more than reward regardless of his or her effort and performance. The purpose of our study is verify the effectiveness through synthesizing statistically the relationship between psychological entitlement and related variables and suggest the way to deal with it. In line with the purpose of our research, we systematically collected the studies related to the psychological entitlement, and finally, 85 studies have been selected for meta-analysis. According to the analysis, we categorized 47 comparison variables into five categories such as demographics, individual personality, individual affect, organizational psychology and behavior, and other variables. The results showed that most variables have significant effect size for psychological entitlement excepted extraversion, self-monitoring, workplace deviance, social desirability, and academic entitlement. In particular, exploitive entitlement, nonexploitive entitlement, narcissism, social dominance orientation, and counterproductive work behavior presented a high level of effect size. Finally, we derived theoretical and practical implications for psychological entitlement and discuss the limitations and directions for future research.

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