Browsing by Author "Svyantek, Daniel"

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A Person-Context Look at UPB and CWB: How Narcissism and Competitive (Cooperative) Organizational Context Influence Willingness to Engage in Unethical Behavior

Wilmore, Thomas (2021-04-19)

Previous research has indicated that narcissism functions as a positive predictor of counterproductive work behavior (CWB). However, research on moderators of the relationship between narcissism and unethical behavior in ...

Person-Job Fit: Do Job Characteristics Moderate the Relationship of Personality with Burnout, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment?

Doyle, Andrea (2014-07-24)

Decades-long research on personality-situation interaction's influence on behavior provided the underlying theory for the present study. Applied to the workplace, the underlying theory appears in the form of person-job and ...

Protective Effects of Positive Emotions

Busler, Jessica (2016-07-27)

This dissertation investigates the protective effects of positive emotions in cognitive and physiological realms. Previous research indicates that positive emotions lead to broader thinking compared to negative emotions ...

Psychometric Evaluation of the Child Rearing Inventory (CRI) in an Online Sample of Parents of Children Ages 3 to 12

Jimenez, Giselle (2023-06-29)

Parental tolerance has previously been defined as the function of how annoyed a parent becomes by their child’s defiant or disruptive behavior. However, there has been little research on parental tolerance as a construct ...

The Relationship of Self-Concept Clarity, Social Intelligence, and Empathy to Intellectual Humility

Conkey, Kate (2021-04-26)

The construct, humility has gained in popularity as a heralded leadership attribute and focus of study. Scholars have postulated that humility may possess subdomains. Intellectual humility (IH) is one of these subdomains. ...

The Representativeness of Gender Typicality and Attractiveness Bias in Personnel Selection

Hickey, Hayden (2018-05-03)

Bias in selection procedures has the potential to hinder effective decision making and disparage members of underrepresented groups. Thus, it is important to investigate factors which may contribute to biased judgments in ...

Risk Style, Regulatory Focus, and the Situation in Risky Choice Decision Making

Johnson, Vanessa (2009-12-15)

The present study investigated how two individual differences (risk style and regulatory focus) and three situational manipulations (order of problem context, order of frame, and order of chance) influenced participant ...

Spreading like wildfire: The impact of communication channel on emotional contagion

Doerr, Alexa (2014-07-02)

Affect is a burgeoning area of study in organizational research. However, very few studies to date have examined the impact of communication channel on message interpretation. Research merging these two areas is even more ...

Symptom Centrality and Bridge Symptoms in Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Multi-Sample Network Analysis in Trauma-Exposed Adults

Spitzer, Elizabeth (2019-06-07)

As self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB) remain a pressing public health concern, research continues to focus on risk factors, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prior research on SITB and PTSD has primarily ...

Testing the effect of timing of delivery of a cross-cultural training program

Hou, Ning (2014-11-06)

In this quasi-experimental field study I examined how timing of delivery impacted the effectiveness of a cross-cultural training program called “Realistic Orientation Programs for Entry Stress” (ROPES; Fan & Wanous, 2008). ...

Time pressure, personality, and information availability in escalation of commitment: An application of the Funder Personality Triad

Horn, Marianna (2015-07-28)

The current work focused on the exploration of specific individual differences and task aspects on escalation of commitment. Further, it sought to expand the literature in decision-making by utilizing a specific personality ...

Time to Quit with Grit? Expanding the Academic Persistence Framework

Whitman, Rachel (2019-02-21)

Examinations into the effect of motivation and ability on academic and workplace performance have been fluid in the past century. Current operationalizations have proposed grit—defined as perseverance and passion in pursuit ...

To Act Ethically or Not to Act Ethically: A Whole Person-Situation Interactionist Perspective to Prediction

Ritterbush, Elizabeth (2018-11-30)

The concept of what it means to be ethical and therefore the types of decisions that comprise ethical decision making had been a widely debated topic for centuries. This may be due in no small part to the proposed contextual ...

Trait Emotional Intelligence Differences in Pre-Career and Mid-Career United States Military Leaders

Bond, Andrew (2016-05-03)

Trait Emotional Intelligence is a well-established predictor of desirable workplace outcomes such as job performance. In military contexts, the fifteen facets of Trait Emotional Intelligence overlap considerably with the ...

Understanding Workplace Uncertainty: Inception, Development, and Preliminary Validation of the Workplace Uncertainty Tolerance Scale

Acosta, Joshua (2022-07-13)

Uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of the work experience (Simon, 1955; 1956), yet little scholarly research exists examining human functioning when experiencing uncertainty at work. This dissertation advances the ...