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More Than a Feeling: The Role of Self-Compassion on the Affective Response to Negative Events in the Workplace
Get PDFAffective reactions and employee emotions have been studied since the days of the Hawthorne studies (Roethlisberger & Dickson, 1939). According to Affective Events Theory (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996), people react affectively to events in the workplace, and these reactions have consequences for the individual, the team, and the organization. For instance, negative events may lead to negative affect, which may mean decreased job attitudes for the individual (Judge & Larsen, 2001). These reactions may also be moderated by dispositional characteristics such as personality (Weiss & Kurek, 2003) and self-esteem (Ilies, De Pater, & Judge, 2007). The following dissertation focused on how one moderating dispositional characteristic, self-compassion, influenced the affective reactions to negative events in the workplace by people with visual impairments or blindness.
Self-compassion is made up of three sub-facets: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness (Neff, 2003a). Self-compassion is often referred to as compassion turned inward (Neff, 2003a). It has been widely studied in the counseling and clinical realm (e.g., Neff, 2012), with virtually no research in the industrial-organizational psychology literature.
The results indicate that self-compassion did not act as a moderator in this case, nor did any of its subcomponents predict negative affect, except for mindfulness. The subcomponents of self-compassion also did not predict organizational outcomes such as affective commitment and turnover intentions.
However, the results do indicate that affective commitment partially mediates the relationship between affective reactions and turnover intentions for people with significant visual impairment. This is important because people with disabilities, and more specifically people with significant visual impairments, are already exposed to many challenges in the workplace, such as discrimination and lack of basic resources (Wolffe & Candela, 2002). Being widely understudied in both the industrialorganizational psychology literature and the self-compassion literature, there is a gap in the research when it comes to their unique experiences. This dissertation adds to the literature by providing insight into how people with visual impairments or blindness cope with some of these challenges in the workplace, specifically negative events
Measuring the Onlooker Effect in Information Security Violations
Get PDFTodays’ organizations need to be ensured that their critical information is secure, not leaked, and inadvertently modified. Despite the awareness of organizations and their investment in implementing an information security management plan, information security breaches still cause financial and reputational costs for organizations. A recent report of the Ponemon Institute for 2019 showed that the global cost and frequency of data breach increased, and negligent insiders are the root cause of most incidents. Many insider threats to cybersecurity are not malicious but are intentional. Specifically, more than 60 percent of reported incidents in 2019 were due to negligent or inadvertent employees or contractors (Ponemon Institute 2020). Many behavioral cybersecurity research projects investigate factors that influence mitigating information security violations, but still, there is a need to have a better understanding of behavioral factors. One of these factors is the perception of being overseen by onlookers who are organization members to whom one’s security policy violations are visible, but who are not directly involved in the behavior.
This study examines the onlooker effect through the lens of Sociometer Theory and Affective Events Theory, which were used to investigate the impact of the perception of being overseen in a workplace on an intention to violate information security policies. In addition, this study tests the hypothesis that individuals under this situation experience different negative affective responses. Finally, this research tests the hypothesis that perceived onlooker threat intensifies these relationships by examining its moderating influence.
An experimental vignette study was conducted with the Qualtrics platform with the currently employed population who are aware of information security policies in their organizations to determine responses to treatment conditions. The results suggested that the interaction of the perceived presence of onlookers and perceived onlooker threat results in experiencing negative affective responses such as shame, guilt, fear, and embarrassment. Moreover, the results showed that employees experiencing fear, guilt, or embarrassment are less intended to violate information security policies.
Overall, this research the understanding of the onlooker effect and the essential role of perceived onlooker threat. This study has substantial theoretical and practical implications for information security scholars and practitioners
Mindful Eating Behavior in Post Surgical Bariatric Patients
Get PDFEmotional eating and binge-eating behavior in obese individuals and post-surgical bariatric patients are both linked to decreased ability to identify and cope with stress (Mitchell et al., 2016; Urquhart & Mihalynuk, 2011). In turn, obese patients who exhibit greater rates of stress-eating behavior show reductions in levels of mindfulness (Ouwens et al., 2015). The purpose of the study was to investigate the association between mindful eating component scores and selected weight loss outcomes in post-surgical bariatric patients.
Patients from a private bariatric clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana who underwent gastric sleeve or gastric bypass were invited to participate based on specific inclusion/exclusion criteria. Patient eligibility included male and female patients, ages 20-65 years who underwent bariatric surgery (gastric sleeve or gastric bypass) between June 1, 2011 and June 1, 2018. Participants were asked to complete a mindful eating questionnaire (MEQ) component, a survey modified from a validated MEQ, administered via the online survey platform Survey Monkey™ to assess eating behavior. Weight, gender, bariatric surgery type and length of time since surgery were measured.
A total of N = 121 participants completed the MEQ component partially (108 completed the survey in entirety). The age range was 20 to 65 years. 81.5% of all participants were female, 78% were white, 54% reported having surgery in the past three to five years and 95.4% underwent gastric sleeve surgery.
Mean presurgical body mass index (BMI) was 46.72 and mean weight loss was 34.47% of presurgical weight. Bariatric surgery dates averaged 48.61 months prior to study commencement. 88 (92%) of females and 19 (95%) of males experienced postoperative weight regain with a lowest post-surgical mean BMI of 30.93 for both genders.
The significant difference in mean total MEQ component score between males and females was not found. Females had MEQ component scores (M = 2.53, SD = 0.37) that were not statistically different than males (M = 2.52, SD = 0.52). Females scored higher in the survey domains addressing external cues, emotional response and distraction. In the awareness domain, males scored higher (M = 3.00, SD = 0.44) than females (M = 2.66, SD = 0.67) and this difference was statistically significant. The significant difference in average total MEQ component score between bariatric surgery types was not achievable due to low volume of gastric bypass surgery respondents (4.6%). The MEQ component score was higher in patients’ status-post gastric bypass (M = 2.66, SD = 0.34) when compared to the MEQ component score of patients’ status-post gastric sleeve (M = 2.52, SD = 0.40). A statistically significant difference between genders was found in the awareness domain with men scoring higher. No statistically significant association was observed between MEQ component scores and percent weight loss. A significant association was observed between MEQ component scores and patients who experienced post-surgical weight regain with a one-unit increase in MEQ component scores associated with every 6.03% increase in weight (β = 6.03, t(88) = 2.78, p \u3c 0.008).
This study found that mindful eating component scores were not related to weight loss, bariatric surgery type or length of time since surgery. Men scored significantly higher in one domain of the mindful eating, however no further significance between genders was identified. There was a significant association between mindful eating component scores and weight regain in this subgroup of patients
Combustion and Sparks
No full textSherpatrick Washington is an architecture student at Louisiana Tech University. In elementary school, she began drawing cartoon characters such as Spongebob, Mickey Mouse, and Scooby- Doo. She experimented with still life, which also enhanced her analog drawing skills. She took art classes until she reached high school, when it would no longer fit into her schedule, then began experimenting with PicsArt and digital art.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/quatrain-gallery-volume-4/1017/thumbnail.jp
from “Life”
No full textAna Balestrazzi is originally from Venezuela. She is a freshman at Louisiana Tech University studying political science. She takes pictures as a hobby, and was inspired by her father, a photographer. Her father graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a major in geography and minor in photography. Her pictures were inspired by beautiful things she found as she travelled.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/quatrain-gallery-volume-4/1014/thumbnail.jp
Strategies and Algorithms of Sudoku
Get PDFThis paper discusses different strategies for the game of Sudoku and how those strategies relate to other problem solving techniques while also attempting to use those other techniques in a way that improves the strategies for Sudoku. This includes a thorough analysis of the general algorithm and an algorithm that is formed by the Occupancy Theorem and Preemptive Sets. This paper also compares these algorithms that directly relate to Sudoku with algorithms to similar combinatorial problems such as the Traveling Salesman problem and more. With the study of game theory becoming more popular, these strategies have also been shown to help students in various ways in the classroom. To understand Sudoku on a deeper level, this paper demonstrates ways to model a puzzle by using permutation matrices and different symmetries