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What Makes a Business Person a Criminal: An Examination Through Academic Dishonesty
(2017-05)The present study examined the interaction between environmental and individual difference characteristics in predicting perceptions of white-collar crime and likelihood to engage in academic dishonesty. It adopted a ... -
When Personality Traits Need a Frame of Reference: Enhancing the Predictive Validity of Non-cognitive Measures.
(2003-12)The reconsideration of personality among personnel specialists is partly due to the discovery of the five-factor model of personality or the "Big Five" (Costa, 1996). In the years following the acceptance of this taxonomy, ... -
Where is My Mind? The Who, What, and Where of Mind Wandering at Work
(2020-12)Mind wandering is a phenomenon often tackled by cognitive psychologists and overlooked by organizational psychologists, despite numbers suggesting that disengaged employees cost organizations $550 billion a year. Mind ... -
Who Emerges as a Leader? A Study on Cultural Values, Citizenship, and Trust
(2020-08)In this study peer and supervisor perceptions of emergent leaders were assessed in order to better understand and predict leader emergence. Using two moderated mediation models, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB-I ... -
Women's Health: The Impact of Child Abuse on Healthcare Utilization
(2020-02)Research has consistently shown the negative consequences associated with child abuse. Specifically, those with a history of child abuse are more likely to suffer from psychological disorders and physiological diseases ... -
Work-Family Centrality Profile and Its Moderating Role on the Effects of Work-Family Conflict
(2019-05)This dissertation employs latent profile analysis to explore potential work-family centrality profiles and its associated antecedents, distal outcomes, as well as its interaction effect with work-family conflict in shaping ... -
Ya Gotta Wanna: Shifting Motivational Priorities in the Self-Control Process
(2018-10)Self-control has been linked to a range of important academic, social, and achievement-related outcomes (Tangney et al., 2004). However, there are a variety of differing perspectives on the process by which individuals ...