Faculty Sabbatical Leave Report

Description of Accomplishment during a Sabbatical Leave

This article reports the development and psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Shame Inventory (ISI), a culturally salient and clinically relevant measure of interpersonal shame for Asian Americans. Across 4 studies involving Asian American college students, the authors provided evidence for this new measure's validity and reliability. Exploratory factor analyses and confirmatory factor ...

Sabbatical leave: who gains and how much?

A rigorous quasi-experiment tested the ameliorative effects of a sabbatical leave, a special case of respite from routine work. We hypothesized that (a) respite increases resource level and well-being and (b) individual differences and respite features moderate respite effects. A sample of 129 faculty members on sabbatical and 129 matched controls completed measures of resource gain, resource l...

Journal of Applied Psychology Sabbatical Leave: Who Gains and How Much?

Exploring the Sabbatical or Other Leave as a Means of Energizing a Career,

THISARTICLE CHALLENGES LIBRARIANS to create leaves that will not only inspire professional growth but also renewal. It presents a framework for developing a successful leave, incorporating useful advice from librarians at Concordia University (Montreal). As food for thought, the author offers examples of specific options meant to encourage professionals to explore their own creative ideas. Fina...

On sabbatical leave of absence from Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, and INFN,

I investigate, at leading twist level, the consistency of the BFKL equation with the renormalization group, when next-to-leading log-x terms are included in the quark-sea channel of the anomalous dimension matrix. By use of k⊥-factorization, I find that, besides next-to-leading small x resummation formulae, a leading, x-dependent redefinition of initial quarks and gluons is needed. Its interpre...