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Research has indicated that organizations have climates that may affect the behavior of individuals within the organization. The purpose of this study was to define equal opportunity climate as a specialized form of organizational climate and to develop further the Hooper, Miller, Topping, and Wells-Parker (1989) measure of equal opportunity that is sensitive to sex inequity on the college campus. In addition, the study was designed to provide evidence for ecological dissonance theory, which predicts, among other things, that environments with ecological dissonance will result in low satisfaction and commitment among inhabitants. The results indicated, and it was concluded, that the factorial validity established through factor analysis, the internal consistency analysis, and the discriminant validity provided evidence for construct validity. Ecological dissonance theory predictions were also confirmed.
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Miller, D.I., Majors, M., Giesen, M. et al. The Hooper equal opportunity measure: An operational definition of ecological dissonance theory. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 164–166 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333995
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