Gender Differences in Variables Affecting Job Commitment Among Working Men and Women

Abstract

Management and professional Americans in diverse occupational settings (N = 178, 84 women and 94 men) were tested. An analysis was made of the relationship among certain personal variables (including intrinsic motivation), family characteristics, family pressure, job satisfaction, sex-role conflict, and need fulfillment as well as of their relationship to level of job commitment. The results generally confirmed the theoretical model of the job commitment process applicable to both women and men and presented by Chusmir (1982) but previously not tested.