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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 ... -
Leading Together: Exploring Conditions for Shared Leadership Emergence in Teams
(2020-05)Modern workplaces require complex teamwork and leadership behaviors to innovate and achieve their goals effectively. Research has found that one of the best ways to help improve team collaboration and performance is to ... -
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. ... -
Long-term Effects of Response Cards on Student Engagement and Academic Performance by Students with Disabilities
(2015-05)This study examined the effects of response cards on student engagement and academic performance during math instruction. Students in a middle school classroom for students with emotional and behavior disorders (EBD) received ... -
Male Student Veterans: A Survey of Current Transition Challenges and Issues from Active Duty to Collegiate Life
(2017-01)The present study evaluated the challenges associated with transitioning from active duty to collegiate life. This included examining if psychological factors and demographic variables influence a male veteran’s ability ... -
MCMI - III Profiles of Combat Veterans: Predictors of Educational and Vocational Impairment
(1998-07)This study investigated the ability of four selected scales on the MCMI-III, Passive Aggressive, Avoidant, Antisocial and PTSD to determine the amount of variance contributed by each of the scales as predictors of educational ... -
Media and Technology Use Education in Pediatric Primary Care
(2020-02)Youth media and technology use is growing at rapid rates and is quickly becoming a necessary tool for effective functioning in the modern world. However, such use has been shown to result in negative consequences for ... -
Medication Non-Compliance: Compliance to Psychotropic Medications within Community Mental Health
(2020-02)According to the American Psychological Association (2019), approximately 25% of the adult US population has a mental illness. The cost to individuals as well as the United States government is significant, as it has ... -
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV (MCMI-IV) Profile Patterns and Scale Score Correlates for Jail Inmates Referred for Mental Health Services
(2019-12)Personality assessment measures have been heavily used and researched with criminal offender populations in the realms of clinical, forensic, and correctional psychology for reasons including assessing reoffending risk, ... -
Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Personality Characteristics of Parents Evaluated for Child Neglect
(2018-08)The primary purpose of this study was to examine Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Assessment-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) profiles of parents who underwent psychological evaluation subsequent to substantiated claims ... -
Motivated Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Leadership
(2019-12)Emotions are important and prevalent workplace phenomena. Previous research has found that emotions can impact different workplace-related outcomes, from increasing employee performance to increasing employee well-being ...