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Health Behaviors Contributing to Overall Perceived Health, Mental and Physical Health Status, and Functional Impairment in Psychologists and Trainees
(2017-01)This study investigated the health behaviors and overall perceived health among psychologists and psychology trainees. Results revealed significant correlations between overall perceived health and physical activity, ... -
How Shared Leadership Improves Team Performance: Exploring the Role of Team Knowledge and Team Learning
(2016-08)Team-structured work is prevalent in organizations and the effectiveness of teams greatly depends on the leadership enacted. Ample studies have supported the utility of a more fluid team structure where leadership is the ... -
Identifying as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual at Work: Implications of Disclosure Within Work Teams
(2018-07)As is the case for members of any stigmatized minority group, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals face heightened adversity within the workplace (Herek, 2009). However, unlike employees with stigmatized identities ... -
Illegitimate Tasks and Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model
(2018-07)This study investigated the relationship between illegitimate tasks and employee silence and examined the mediating role of job engagement and the moderating effect of agreeableness and conscientiousness. Grounded in justice ... -
The Impact of Relational Training of Preferred Food and Non-Preferred Food to Arbitrary Symbols on Implicit Relational Tasks
(2015-05)The Mixed-Trial Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (MT-IRAP) is a tool for measuring implicit behavior (i.e., biases or beliefs the individual is unaware of or intends to conceal from the public) among individuals. ... -
The Impact of Social Desirability on an Individual's Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP) Score
(2018-10)The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP), developed by Miller (2000), was derived from the 16PF and purports to measure an individual’s ability to accurately assess his or her own self-knowledge. The scores ... -
Increasing Employee-Guest Interactions using a Guest-Delivered Token Economy at a Zoological Facility
(2018-04)Token economies have been used for many years to improve a multitude of behaviors in a variety of settings. However, research on token economies as an intervention to improve customer service-related behaviors of employees ... -
Individual and Social Factors Related to Perceptions of Rape
(2018-03)Ninety-two men, including twenty pairs of male friends, completed a series of self-report measures that sought to measure their levels of rape myth acceptance and asked men to estimate their friend’s level of rape myth ... -
Indonesian Women’s Health Determinants
(2016-12)This study utilized the Indonesian Family Life Survey 5 to investigate the relationships between broad health outcomes and selected biopsychosocial measures. The study population was comprised of 17,480 Indonesian women ... -
An Integrated Model of Attitude Theory and Applicant Faking Behavior
(2017-07)Applicant faking behavior (AFB) on personality measures has been a longstanding challenge for both researchers and practitioners. Applicant faking behavior is widely defined as a deceptive act that is intended to create ... -
The Integrated Model of Self-Confidence: Defining and Operationalizing Self-Confidence in Organizational Settings
(2018-07)Research suggests that self-confidence is related to success, educational achievement, negotiation, and personal well-being, among other things. It is commonly asserted that employees need to have some degree of self-confidence ... -
Investigating Factors Affecting Venture Growth Intention for Women Entrepreneurs
(2019-07)During the past several years the number of women-owned firms increased by 45% from 2007-2016, a rate five times faster than the national average. However, their overall venture growth is far below the national average. ... -
An Investigation into the Test-Retest Reliability of the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction with a Six Week Interval
(2018-02)The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP) is a measure to determine the accuracy of an individual’s ability to predict his/her own personality traits. Previous studies have demonstrated the validity of SAPP as a ... -
Is 'How'm I Doin'?' a Universal Question? Unpackaging Cultural Differences in Feedback Seeking
(2014-05)The feedback literature is based on the premise that given a favorable context and a drive to reduce uncertainties, all individuals should seek self-relevant performance information. However, this framework has only been ... -
Job Characteristics and Turker Motivation: A Crowdsource Study of Amazon Mechanical Turk
(2019-07)There is substantial opportunity for I-O psychology to study and further understand the growing industry of gig work. The research gap in the limited domain of gig work prompted the exploration of studying what perceived ... -
Job Search: From Setting the Goal to Obtaining the Job
(2018-07)Job searching is a nearly universal experience with important consequences. Although research on the job search process is extensive, few studies have examined the goals that individuals have during their job search (i.e., ... -
The Knowledge and Beliefs of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) Professionals on the Use of Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) in Forensic Interviews
(2017-01)The present study aimed at exploring the current level of knowledge of professionals in the field on Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA), childhood memory development, and the legal aspects of CSA cases, as well as surveying ... -
Leader Emotion Management Behavior and Perceived Leader Effectiveness: The Moderating Roles of Gender and Culture
(2016-12)A key aspect of successful management includes a leader’s responsibility to manage employees’ emotions (Leavitt & Bahrami, 1988). This form of management can be reflected in a number of behaviors, such as demonstrating ... -
Leveraging Stimulus Equivalence to Teach Piano to Children with Autism
(2018-12)Music-based interventions have been shown to benefit individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by improving deficits such as social behaviors, communication, and vocalizations, as well as reducing behavioral ... -
LOCUS-OF-CONTROL IN AN INTERACTIONIST APPROACH TO BEHAVIOR
(1982)The impetus for this empirical study is: 1) to provide further construct validity for the I-E scale; and 2) to advance the locus-of-control construct as an important concept in the growing theoretical model of interactionism. ...