Chan, Gail and Barnes-Holmes, Dermot and Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne and Stewart, Ian
(2009)
Implicit Attitudes to Work and Leisure Among North
American and Irish Individuals: A Preliminary Study.
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 9 (3).
pp. 317-334.
ISSN 1889-1780
Abstract
The current article reports the findings from two preliminary experiments investigating the
Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Implicit Relational Association Procedure (IRAP) as
measures of implicit attitudes in the domain of work and leisure among North American and
Irish individuals. The IAT and IRAP tasks involved responding under time pressure on a
computerized task, with response latency as the dependent variable. The IAT required participants
to categorize positively or negatively valenced words with stimuli associated with either Work
or Holidays. The IRAP required that participants confirm or deny that Work and Holidays are
similar or opposite to positively and negatively valenced words. Participants also completed
an explicit measure consisting of a Likert-based questionnaire. In both Experiments, citizens
of the United States of America produced performances on the IAT and IRAP that indicated
more negative attitudes to work and more positive attitudes to holidays than both Canadian
and Irish citizens. Responses on the explicit measures did not accord with this overall pattern
of group differences. The results support the use of the IRAP as a measure of implicit attitudes
and furthermore the findings appear to be generally consistent with a recent large-scale survey
of attitudes to work across 23 countries
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure; Implicit Association Test; work; leisure; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
| Item ID: |
4966 |
| Depositing User: |
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
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| Date Deposited: |
19 May 2014 14:12 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy |
| Publisher: |
Asociacion de Analisis del Comportamiento |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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