This study investigates the extending negative effects of impression management (IM) on organizational outcomes in nursing context. Specifically, this aims to understand impact IM workplace exclusion through deviance. The data came from 277 head nurses (nurses leadership positions) elderly care homes Belgium. Structured paper-and-pencil questionnaires were administered site respondents’ workpla...

This article examines the medicalization of deviance through a sociological lens. A definition of deviance is offered in terms of behavioral conduct, and indicates potential reasons individuals behave in a deviant manner. Next, a description of the medicalization of deviance is offered that describes ways deviant behaviors have been re-categorized as medical conditions that can be treated throu...

The current meta-analysis provides a comprehensive and updated review on integrity-testing findings across industries countries in the past 50 years (k = 150, N 67,016). Integrity tests were coded into types of overt tests, covert biodata, organizational measures, value/moral reasoning/situational judgment integrity-related cognitive ability novel measures. criterion measures workplace deviance...

We compared the positive deviance (PD) approach in Save the Children's field guide with a case-control study (CCS) to identify behaviors associated with good nutritional status in Afghan refugee children 6 to 24 months of age in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. The positive deviance inquiry (PDI), utilizing observations and interviews with mothers, fathers, and secondary caregi...

Purpose: This manuscript investigates the impact of organizational justice on citizenship behaviour and workplace deviance examines mediator effect between deviance.Design/methodology/approach: study utilizes a quantitative method to investigate four hypotheses using PLS3-SEM 185 respondents from five research universities in Malaysia.Findings: Findings this reveal positive negative effects dev...

In this study, the relations between parents, older siblings, peers, adolescents’individual characteristics, and adolescents’deviant attitudes and behaviors were examined simultaneously, using a social learning perspective and data of 121 families from inner-city Philadelphia. Results of structural equation models showed that older deviant siblings had the strongest effect on adolescent devianc...

CONTEXT Peer-group deviance is strongly associated with externalizing behaviors. We have limited knowledge of the sources of individual differences in peer-group deviance. OBJECTIVE To clarify genetic and environmental contributions to peer-group deviance in twins from midchildhood through early adulthood. DESIGN Retrospective assessments using a life-history calendar. Analysis by biometric...

Today behaviors such as drug abuse, moral and social deviance, failure and dropout, adolescent pregnancies and violence and aggression, running away from home and suicide are known as high-risk. These behaviors are due to undesirable consequences on the social system and even affect personality system, discussed by many scholars and researchers. In this study, the role of family functioning, at...