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- Title
- Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
- Author
- Harrington, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
- Description
- Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...
- Title
- Communal Coping in the Context of Filial Caregiving
- Author
- Magid, Kirby
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Social psychology, Gerontology
- Description
- In the U.S., there has been a steady increase in the number of adult children providing care to their aging parents (i.e., filial caregivers). Filial caregiving impacts not only the caregiver and recipient, but also caregivers’ spouses. This neces...
- Title
- Disentangling the Complex Racial Disparities in Health among Adult Beneficiaries under Medicaid Managed Care: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
- Author
- Sun, Chengxiu
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Health services administration, Public health--Study and teaching
- Description
- There are few studies of the important issue of racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid managed care settings. This study addresses this deficiency using data collected by telephone interviews from a randomly stratified sample of adults who were...
- Title
- Evaluating the Efficacy of Stress as a Screening Tool in Voir Dires: Assessing its Effects on Cognition and the Ability to Render Competent Verdicts
- Author
- Lynch, Kalyne
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Prior research has primarily focused on the usefulness of bias scales in voir dires (Kassin & Wrightsman, 1983; Jones et al., 2015), yet studies have additionally shown that jurors experience psychosocial stress (NCSC, 1998; Bornstein et al., 2005...
- Title
- HOW ATTITUDES AFFECT GENDER AS A STATUS CHARACTERISTIC
- Author
- Randolph, Kyle
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology, Psychology, Experimental
- Description
- Status Characteristics theory (SCT) argues that individuals’ gender attitudes are inconsequential in the status process. SCT states that, since the status process is subconscious, conscious beliefs and attitudes are irrelevant. Because of this arg...
- Title
- Nonparametric Pricing Kernel Models
- Author
- Sun, Linman
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics
- Description
- The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the arbitrage asset pricingtheory (APT) have been the cornerstone in theoretical and empirical finance for the recent few decades. The classical CAPM usually assumes a simple and stable linear relationshi...
- Title
- Re-examining the positive conscientiousness-performance relationship: The role of neuroticism and stress
- Author
- Dunn, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Psychology, Personality
- Description
- This study adds to the growing body of research on the interactive effects of personality traits. The researcher hypothesized that the relationship between conscientiousness and task performance would be weaker for individuals high in neuroticism....
- Title
- Redefining Belonging: The Boundaries of Religious Identity in Institutions and Everyday Life
- Author
- Walker, Jonathan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- ABSTRACTThis study examines how religious identity and boundaries are constructed at three separate levels: the institutional, the local, and the individual. Using the case of Forest Hill Apostolic Church, I analyze the relationships between these...
- Title
- Social Class in The Organizational Sciences: A Meta-Analysis
- Author
- Loignon, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Psychology, Industrial management
- Description
- Social class has become increasingly popular in the organizational sciences. Recent studies have found that one’s social class influences phenomena ranging from decision-making, to pro-social behavior, and interpersonal interactions. Despite the b...
- Title
- TESTING THE STRICT DEPENDENCE ARGUMENT
- Author
- Burrill, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Social psychology
- Description
- Abstract Task cues are indications of how an individual in a task group thinks they will perform at the group’s task (Berger et al. 1986). Prior research (Conner 1977; Ridgeway et al. 1985) has shown that status characteristics influence the produ...
- Title
- THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HAVING A PRETERM INFANT AND LATER MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG PARENTS
- Author
- Smith, Kenesha
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Mental health, Medical sciences
- Description
- In 2017, 10% of babies were born preterm, accounting for one out of every ten infants born in the US. Previous research suggests that the birth of a preterm infant may lead to substantial challenges among parents, and may eventually lead to psycho...
- Title
- THREATENING UNIQUENESS OR ENCOURAGING UNITY: THE ROLE OF GROUP ENTITATIVITY IN DEMOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSE WORK GROUPS
- Author
- McBride, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- In this study, I apply the concept of entitativity (perceptions of "groupness") to demographically diverse workgroups. I propose that group-level entitativity will interact with group gender and ethnic diversity; the negative relationship between ...
- Title
- The Intersectional Effects of Race, Gender, and Class on Worker Outcomes
- Author
- Frevert, Tonya
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Social structure, Women's studies
- Description
- In this dissertation, I investigate how the combined structural locations of workers’ race, gender, and class affect their individual outcomes in their personal domain (health perceptions), their work domain (job satisfaction), and the interface b...
- Title
- The Link Between Youth Secrecy and Maternal Compassionate and Self-Image Goals
- Author
- Perry, Jasmine
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Youth secrecy toward their parents is related to negative outcomes including delinquency, conduct problems, depression, and anxiety. Secrecy literature tends to take one of two perspectives on the causes of youth secrecy: youth motivations for kee...
- Title
- The Transfer Seminar: Measured Impacts on Transfer Student Outcomes
- Author
- Swintal, Andrea
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
- Description
- The volume of transfer students across college and university campuses in the United States continues to rise; however, institutions continue to struggle with identifying and applying best practices that encourage these students to earn their bacc...
- Title
- UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIALIZATION SOURCES DURING THE ADAPTATION TO THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
- Author
- Dubose, Cornell
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Social psychology, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- CORNELL DUBOSE. Understanding the Influence of Socialization Sources During the Adaptation to the College Experience. (Under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Stearns)Every year in the United States, thousands of young adults start their college care...
- Title
- Understanding Older Workers' Decisions to Participate in Voluntary Training Opportunities
- Author
- Lopina, Erika
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior
- Description
- The current study integrated theories of adult development with theories of training motivation to address two overarching research questions: 1) Does the likelihood of participating in training differ between younger and older workers? and, 2) Ar...
- Title
- Understanding peer exchange relationships: A social relations analysis of reciprocity perceptions
- Author
- Thomas, Jane
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Psychology
- Description
- Although the majority of social exchange research within the organizational sciences relies on reciprocity as the underlying theoretical mechanism in exchange relationships, reciprocity is rarely studied in its own right. The current research soug...
- Title
- Who’s there? Boundaries, entitativity, and copresence in an online discussion forum
- Author
- Ernst, Brittany
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- In this study, social presence theory is proposed as an explanation for the relationship between permeability of boundaries and entitativity in online groups. This claim is tested in an experiment in which group boundaries are manipulated in a fic...