The current research aims to investigate how features for Job Application Portals (JAP) such as company information, job and relative advantage affect hunting. A cross-sectional field survey of 480 new graduates with IT applied scientific degrees was conducted in the intended environment comparative purposes, which included tech businesses EU, US, Asia samples application portal users. Using Sm...

current research paper is to delve into the employee-organization relationships as an effective factor on organizational citizenship behavior. the employee-organization relationships involve two dimensions: perceived organizational support and organizational identity. job autonomy is a moderator variable between the employee-organization relationships and organizational citizenship behaviors. t...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between physical, psychological, and social factors and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disability in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS A sample of 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) completed measures of self-reported disease activity and psychosocial functioning, including coping, personal mastery, social network, perceived stress,...

aim and background: psychological climate perceptions have received considerable attention in the organizational literature and have been used to predict a variety of important individual and organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction, burnout, job involvement, organizational citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, job control and job performance. the aim of this study was to inv...

Ethnic minority is a comparatively important group that comprises a large sector of the American hospitality industry. The purpose of this study was to investigate the career expectations of ethnic minority students majoring in the hospitality industry and to examine if ethnic minority students perceived more career barriers than White students. Results showed that ethnic minority students perc...

AIM Psycho-social adaptation to the diagnosis of cancer is a dynamic process, different from one patient to another, depending on many factors (location, stage, treatment, personality of each individual, environment - family, professional background, social-economic-cultural status). The aim of this study is to analyze the process of adaptation of patients with prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND M...

BACKGROUND The Illness Cognition Questionnaire (ICQ; Evers et al., J Consult Clin Psychol, 69:1026-1036, 2001) assesses three ways of cognitively evaluating the stressful and aversive character of a chronic illness: helplessness, acceptance, and perceived benefits. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the construct validity of the ICQ in individuals with chronic pain and patients...

Virtual worlds and serious online gaming simulations are expected to become more and more important in business contexts [27]. Our research evaluates the possible use of online games in the recruitment process by presenting two case studies of companies who implemented an online game to provide realistic job previews for potential applicants going with the opportunity to test and match their in...

This descriptive cross sectional census study identified the perceptions of Extension and Outreach employees of Iowa State University in the United States about job autonomy and control after two years of a major restructuring. Employees perceived autonomy and control over expressing views and ideas about their work and spending time on the job but perceived little influence over budget allocat...