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Title: A Meta-Analysis of HPWS and Organizational Commitment: Examining National Culture as a Moderator
Author: Long, Wendy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Enhancing organizational commitment remains a critical issue for organizations worldwide. In extant literature, the relationship between high-performance work system (HPWS) and organizational commitment (OC) remains inconclusive. First, this paper...

Title: Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability, Preliminary Efficacy, and Anticipated Clinical Practice Implementation of a Mindful Eating Smartphone Application: A Mixed Methods Analysis Among Undergraduate Women with Binge Eating and Clinical Experts.
Author: Jafari, Nadia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Psychology
Description: Mental health applications (mHealth apps) are developed to bolster the utility and convenience of smartphones to stimulate behavior change, although many mHealth apps lack strong empirical support. Undergraduate women are daily app users and a hig...

Title: Attribution Theory and Apology Discourse in the Context of Medical Errors
Author: Hartsell, Haley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Health education
Description: Communication scholars have investigated medical error and apology discourse over the last 20 years. However, despite the previous research on this topic, little is known about what factors (i.e., controllability, emotional response, and error sev...

Title: Behavioral Displays of Femininity: Does Apologizing Undercut Perceptions of Women at Work?
Author: Hahn, Karli
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to test whether behavioral displays of femininity negatively affect perceptions of women’s leadership skills, competence and promotability and, therefore, impede progress towards gender parity. This study aimed to add...

Title: Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Psychology
Description: Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...

Title: Electronic Multitasking During Workplace Meetings: Why Do Employees Do It?
Author: Williams, Eleanor
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Employees are increasingly engaging in electronic multitasking during workplace meetings, as the proliferation of technology is on the rise. Though electronic multitasking is common and potentially harmful to meeting effectiveness because it distr...

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: Examining the Associations Among Physical Activity Counseling, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Activity Behavior
Author: Snapper, Leslie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Social sciences
Description: Physical activity is associated with a myriad of health benefits, yet rates of physical activity among adults in the United States remain low and traditional medical interventions often don’t address activity behavior. Despite evidence supporting ...

Title: Examining the Reliability and Validity of the Second Version of the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Tool (VISPDAT) for Single Adults
Author: Salim, Khalil
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Psychology
Description: Many communities use the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Tool (VI-SPDAT) to determine which individuals and/or households experiencing homelessness are most vulnerable and therefore prioritized for the limited housing resources...

Title: Exploring the Neurocorrelates of Virtual Reality Immersion Using EEG Frequency Decomposition Analysis
Author: Granson, Matthew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Neurosciences
Description: Immersion is a psychological state resulting in the sensation of being enveloped in another reality or environment and is commonly experienced while using interactive media such as videogames. The goals of the present thesis project were to (a) te...

Title: FUZZIER CONSTRUCTS IN CONTENT ANALYSIS: RATINGS FROM THE CROWD VS. TRADITIONAL EXPERTS
Author: Moffit, Miles
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The task of rating (or "coding") text data as a component of qualitative content analysis remains a time-consuming process. Advances in crowdsourcing platforms have presented novel opportunities to outsource this work away from the desks of academ...

Title: How long can they stand it? Examining the effectiveness of reflexology and a passive relaxation intervention in improving health outcomes in workers who stand
Author: Kavanagh, Kathryn
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Many jobs require workers to stand for prolonged periods of time while performing their job duties. Prolonged standing at work has been linked to negative health outcomes, particularly musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) and fatigue. Reflexology is one...

Title: Maternal Well-Being During Gestation: Examining the Role of Pregnant Embodiment
Author: Mooney, Jan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The transitional state of gestation is marked by rapid physiological shifts, at the intersection of sense of self and dominant societal discourses about pregnancy and motherhood. As a result, the experience of the body during pregnancy (i.e., preg...

Title: PATHWAYS TO COPING WITH EXTREME EVENTS: A STUDY OF THE RELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND FOUR TYPES OF RUMINATION
Author: Greene, Taryn
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study investigated the degree to which cognitive flexibility (CF) is related to rumination as part of the overall coping process. We sought to test four hypotheses concerning the relationship between global CF and four specific types of rumin...

Title: Promoting Health Equity Through Integrated Care: Implementing Universal Depression Screenings in Coastal Federally Qualified Health Centers
Author: Richie, Fallon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Depression rates in the U.S. continue to rise and create a significant economic burden. Integrating behavioral and mental health into primary care settings is one way to increase depression service delivery including screening, intervention, and f...

Title: SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION (SOC) STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED WORK ABILITY: THE ROLES OF PERCEIVED HEALTH AND JOB CONTROL
Author: Flinchum, Jonathan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived work ability (PWA) represents an employee’s perceptions of their ability to continue working in their current job given their personal resources and the characteristics of their job, and relates to many positive organizational outcomes (...

Title: SHE’S GOT THE “IT” FACTOR: DO FEMALE LEADERS GET CREDIT FOR THEIR CHARISMA?
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: While recent work has significantly advanced knowledge regarding charismatic leadership as a construct and its relationship to follower performance, substantial gaps in the literature persist. Specifically, the role gender may play as both an ante...

Title: SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
Author: Abberger, Claire
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Industrial management
Description: This study addresses gaps in the recruitment literature by drawing on signaling theory to explore how Fortune 500 firms (n = 91) signal CSR initiatives to attract applicants. A mixed-methods design incorporating topic modeling and qualitative inte...

Title: Self-Efficacy, Perceived Utility and Supervisor Support’s Relationship with Motivation to Transfer Training
Author: Alexander, Steven
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Workplaces conduct training in their organizations with the goal that employees will generalize that training and transfer the learned skills to their jobs. However, training transfer remains a challenge for many organizations. Since the initial t...

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BARRIERS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND SELF-REPORTED MENTAL HEALTH STATUS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Author: Gigler, Margaret
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Mental health
Description: Mental illness is a critical public health issue, as it is not only one of the most common causes of disability, but also carries a high disease burden with regards to physical health and premature mortality. Despite the high prevalence and its ac...