Definition & Meaning | English word AGENTIC

Definitions of AGENTIC

1. That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
2. (psychology, by extension, of a psychological state of a person) that obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).
3. (psychology) Having to do with performance, or achieving status.
4. (psychology) Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.

Examples of Using AGENTIC in a Sentence

• According to one study, the study presents a new questionnaire called Work Agentic Capabilities (WAC) that measures the four agentic capabilities in the organizational context: forethought, self-regulation, self-reflection, and vicarious capability.
• Social cognitive theory is proposed in an agentic perspective, which suggests that, instead of being just shaped by environments or inner forces, individuals are self-developing, self-regulating, self-reflecting and proactive.
• All major aspects of the NARC have been empirically validated, with ADM showing consistently strong associations with high self-esteem, agentic extraversion, openness to experience, positive emotionality, and status, while RIV relates to unstable self-esteem, vulnerable narcissism, neuroticism, anger, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
• " By working with role-playing and masquerade, "the process of self-objectification was paradoxically experienced as positive, for it cleared a space which could be filled by her own self-determined visibility and agentic subjectivity.

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