Date of Award
5-2019
Document Type
Campus Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Clinical Psychology
First Advisor
Jean Rhodes
Second Advisor
Richard Lerner
Third Advisor
David Pantalone
Abstract
There is insufficient research on what responsibility is and how it develops. The present work reviewed research on responsibility development and proposed a construct structure that involves reliably meeting demands, accepting consequences for one’s actions, and exhibiting a concern for others. This study used survey data from the Assessment of Character in the Trades Study (Johnson et. al. 2014), a longitudinal, mixed-methods investigation of character development in men (n = 213; mean age 18.76 years) in four postsecondary institutions to answer: (1) Is a three-factor model of responsibility empirically supported and replicable across time? (2) Do individuals differ in their development of responsibility and if so how? (3) Does educational setting impact trajectory membership? Though each of the three components of responsibility exhibited good internal consistency, exploratory factor analyses did not support a three-factor model. Latent class growth analyses revealed four statistically distinct trajectories of responsibility development. Multinomial regression analyses revealed that educational setting significantly predicted membership into trajectory classes. Implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Garza Sada, Gabriel M., "Responsibility Development in Young Men in Postsecondary Settings: Construct Structure and Contextual Influences" (2019). Graduate Doctoral Dissertations. 480.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/doctoral_dissertations/480
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