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II. PSYCHOLOGICAL AGE CLIMATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT 36 Figure 1. Completely Standardized Path Loadings for Correlated Two Factor Model of Psychological Age Climate (PAC) and Image of Younger Workers (YI) 3.2 Psychological Age Climate and Organizational Commitment We used the fixed effects approach to clustering to analyze the relationship between PAC and organizational commitment (Snijders & Bosker, 1999). This approach allowed us to control for the dependency in the data due to employees being nested within the eight companies in our sample. Due to the reduced number of clusters more elegant methods like generalized estimating equations or HLM could not be used, each requiring at least 10 if not 30 or more clusters (Horton & Lipsitz, 1999; Norton, Bieler, Ennett, & Zarkin, 1996; Snijders & Bosker, 1999). In accordance with this approach, seven dummy variables that accounted for differences in means of the eight companies were included into the regression equation. The PACS did significantly predict individuals’ affective commitment (H2), F(1, 293) = 30.85, p < 0.001. The more positive respondents perceived the age climate in their company the more committed they were (Figure 2).
II. PSYCHOLOGICAL AGE CLIMATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT 37 Figure 2. Relationship between Psychological Age Climate and Affective Commitment, no Controls Included Regression results are presented in Table 3. Analyses were repeated controlling for perceived image of younger employees in the company, positive affect at work, age, and organizational tenure. While the strength of the hypothesized relationship decreased, it remained significant F(1,289) = 6.93, p < 0.01 (H3). Interestingly, only positive affect at work (F(1,289) = 39.45, p < 0.001) and organizational tenure (F(1,289) = 6.34, p < 0.05) were additional significant predictors of affective commitment, while age and the image of younger workers in the company failed to contribute unique variance.
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