Linking Lighting Appraisals to Work Behaviors

Linking personality to helping behaviors at work: an interactional perspective.

Previous efforts to elucidate dispositional antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviors have yielded equivocal results. The current study presents and tests a theoretical argument for expecting conscientiousness to interact with interpersonal dimensions of personality in predicting helping behaviors. As hypothesized, the responses of 374 women and their supervisors reveal significant in...

Linking Individual Performance Appraisals with Departmental Outcomes:

Constrained choices? Linking employees' and spouses' work time to health behaviors.

There are extensive literatures on work conditions and health and on family contexts and health, but less research asking how a spouse or partners' work conditions may affect health behaviors. Drawing on the constrained choices framework, we theorized health behaviors as a product of one's own time and spouses' work time as well as gender expectations. We examined fast food consumption and exer...

Factors Influencing Female Caregivers' Appraisals of Their Preschoolers' Behaviors.

INTRODUCTION This study used the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation to explore family factors associated with primary female caregivers' appraisals of children's behaviors, distortion of their appraisals, and children's risk of having behavioral problems. METHOD A cross-sectional, correlational design was used. Data were collected from female caregivers of preschool...

Linking Parents’ Work Stress to Children’s and Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment

Recent research indicates that parental work stress has implications for the quality of family interaction and, in turn, children’s and adolescents’ adjustment. Studies in two distinct genres are reviewed: investigations relying on global reports of work demands, family dynamics, and child and adolescent adjustment and studies focusing on within-person comparisons of family interaction on days ...