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Weight Bias and Mindset in Physical Educators
(2020-06-03)While physical education (PE) classes and sports teams create an opportunity to increase overweight and obese students’ interest in physical activity (Price, 1990), these are settings in which such students encounter stigma ... -
What About Blog? Problematic Internet Use And Personality In Bloggers
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)The purpose of the current study was to compare bloggers' personalities to the personalities of non-bloggers, and to determine whether it is possible to identify individuals who are more likely to use the Internet in a ... -
What About The Other Core Evaluations? The Development And Validation Of A Measure Of Core Other-evaluations And Its Relevance For Organizational Teams
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)The construct of core self-evaluations has garnered a great deal of attention in the organizational psychology literature and has been hailed as one of the strongest predictors of job satisfaction. However, the construct ... -
What Are The Long-term Consequences Of Peer Victimization? Changes In Biological Functioning And Its Effects On Psychological And Physical Health
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)Prior research has documented long-term psychological problems (e.g. emotional distress, anxiety, and depression; Kochenderfer-Ladd & Wardrop, 2001) experienced as a result of being bullied as an adolescent. Although being ... -
“What Did You Just Say?”: Defining and Measuring Political Correctness
(2017-05-12)Political correctness (PC) is a common topic in pop culture and online posts, recently gaining fresh attention in the media and in politics. Meanwhile, researchers have been discussing the meaning of this term, as well ... -
What Individual Difference And Social Context Veriables Predict University-level Academic Performance?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)The present study was an on-line correlational survey study of 377 UT-Arlington undergraduates. It examined what personality variables predicted university-level academic performance over and above conscientiousness, after ... -
What Role Do Teachers Play In Bullying Behavior?
Despite the fact that bullying is still viewed as a common behavior among adolescents, extensive research has established that bullying behavior can occur throughout life. After decades of investigation, it is clear that ... -
What's The Personality Of A Blank? An Examination Of The Personality Differences Between Reporters And Nonreporters Of Demographics
(Psychology, 2008-08-08)The current study examined the measurement equivalence of personality measures between those who report demographic variables (i.e., age, race, and gender) and those who do not report these variables. Measurement equivalence ... -
When Accuracy Hurts, and When It Helps: A Test of the Empathic Accuracy Model in Marital Interactions.
(American Psychological AssociationDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-11)This study tested predictions from Ickes and Simpson’s (1997, 2001) empathic accuracy model. Married couples were videotaped as they tried to resolve a problem in their marriage. Both spouses then viewed a videotape of the ... -
When accuracy hurts: Reactions of anxious–ambivalent dating partners to a relationship-threatening situation.
(American Psychological AssociationDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-05)Why are individuals who are anxious and uncertain about their partner’s love and commitment especially likely to have turbulent and unstable relationships? Guided by three theoretical perspectives—Ickes and Simpson’s (1997) ... -
WHO IS THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL: THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE JUST LEADER MEASURE
(2017-05-03)Much work has explored the dimensionality, antecedents and consequences of organizational justice; yet, the transfer of knowledge to application and intervention remains limited. The paper includes the development and ... -
WORKING COLLEGE STUDENTS: HOW WORK DEMANDS, PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, AND HEALTH IMPACT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
(2021-08-10)As costs of higher education increase and the demand for postsecondary skills in the labor market rise, more students will seek employment. Previous research suggests the risks of work demands affecting academic performance ... -
You are What you Turk: Empirically Testing an eLance Work Design Model
(2022-05-18)As the completion of short-term tasks on online work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk; i.e., eLancing) continues to increase in popularity, it is important to establish an understanding of how traditional ...