臺大管理論叢 NTU Management Review VOL.29 NO.3

The Mediating Effect of Glass Ceiling Beliefs in the Relationship between Women’s Personality Traits and Their Subjective Career Success 204 extroverts are more impulsive and active than introverts, and they find ways to become prominent and progress (Watson and Clark, 1997). Therefore, we argue that extroversion personality traits of women will help them deal with resilience and denial in order to move forward for their career advancement. On the other hand, introverts are less ambitious compared to extroverts, and women with introversion personality traits will become pessimistic toward their career advancement in the form of acceptance and resignation. Additionally, these negative beliefs have a negative impact on the career success of women (Judge et al., 1999; Smith, Caputi, et al., 2012). Therefore, we offer the following proposition: Proposition 1: Women’s glass ceiling beliefs mediate the relationship between extroversion and their subjective career success such that a high level of extroversion increases resilience and denial and decreases acceptance and resignation, which in turn increases subjective career success. Agreeable personality types are cheerful, trusting, and cooperative (Watson and Clark, 1997). However, unlike the other Big Five personality traits, agreeableness can cause people to sacrifice their career plans in order to please others, which may have a negative impact on their career success (Judge et al., 1999). Women possessing pessimistic beliefs such as acceptance and resignation may also give up because of their preference for other goals or avoidance of disagreements (Smith, Crittenden, et al., 2012). People with a low agreeable personality type will disagree with people and are likely to break the traditional rules (Judge et al., 1999). We argue that denial and resilience provide the ability to fight for career success, and low agreeableness can lead to more denial and resilience in the workplace because of people’s disagreeable nature (Judge et al., 1999; Smith, Caputi, et al., 2012). Therefore, we offer the following proposition: Proposition 2: Women’s glass ceiling beliefs mediate the relationship between agreeableness and their subjective career success such that a high level of agreeableness decreases resilience and denial and increases acceptance and resignation, which in turn decreases subjective career success.