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The Impact of Participant Characteristics, Perceived Motives, and Job Behaviors on Co‐Workers' Evaluations of Workplace Romances 1
Author(s) -
Brown Theresa J.,
Allgeier Elizabeth Rice
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb02732.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , romance , nomothetic , marital status , variation (astronomy) , nomothetic and idiographic , demography , sociology , psychoanalysis , population , physics , astrophysics
Using a policy capturing approach, we examined the importance that observers placed on 7 different factors when evaluating workplace romances. Nearly half the explained variation in observers' evaluations of workplace romances was accounted for by participants' marital status. Participants' organizational status relative to one another was also important in explaining the variation. A series of nomothetic analyses indicated that workplace romance participants' marital status, academic status, motive for entry into the relationship, and job performance affected observers' evaluations of these relationships. Observers' level of prior involvement in a workplace romance was also significantly related to a number of variables. Results suggest that when evaluating workplace romances, observers place the greatest importance on the personal characteristics of participants. Ramifications for policy formation are discussed.