GENERATIVE CHARACTERISTICS AS ANTECEDENTS OF ...

Hypotheses 1 through 8 were tested for both the female and male groups. Models
were run sequentially with an unconstrained model until all parameters, except structural
weights, were had been constrained. Leaving the structural weights unconstrained attributed
any differences between the groups to the groups themselves and not to the method bias. The
comparison across groups resulted in significant differences in the mechanisms by which
female and male participants engage in performance and development. The models are
illustrated in Appendices F and G. The model for females produced acceptable fit indices; the
model for males did not.
The models indicate that in the female group communications adaptability has a
significant but negative effect on both engaged performance (-0.58) and engaged
development (-0.36), while gratitude had no significant effect on either. Among the male
group gratitude had significant but negative effect on engaged development (-0.24) and no
significant effect on engaged performance, while communicative adaptability had no
significant effect on either dependent variable. These findings refute hypotheses 5 through 8
in both groups. Further, the findings fail to support the notion that individual generative traits
enhance engagement in either performance or self-development.
However, the findings indicate significant and positive effects of peer trust on
leadership trust (female 0.37, male 0.50), leadership trust on engaged development (0.38,
0.33), and leadership trust on shared values (0.52, 0.55) for both groups. The effect of
leadership trust on shared values had not been hypothesized and was entirely unanticipated.
Further, among females the direct effects of shared values on engaged performance and peer
trust on engaged development were hypothesized as H1 and H4 in the original model, were
significant and positive, and therefore are supported by the findings for the female group. H2
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