Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 
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This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.Just tell me it’s going to be OK! Fear of negative evaluation may be more important than fear of positive evaluation in predicting excessive reassurance seeking.
Excessive reassurance seeking (ERS) is a transdiagnostic maladaptive emotion regulation strategy wherein people excessively ask others for reassurance to reduce their anxiety. Evidence from one study suggests that fear of negative evaluation (FNE)—related to both social anxiety and depression—contributes to ERS. Research also highlights fear of positive evaluation (FPE) as characteristic of social anxiety, which is distinct from but related to FNE. No research to date has examined how FPE relates to ERS, despite theoretical tenets suggesting FNE and FPE may have opposite effects on ERS. We conducted 2 studies investiga...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - November 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Propriétés psychométriques de la version française du Jackson Personality Inventory—Revised (JPI-R).
In conclusion, results showed that psychometric properties of the French version of the JPI-R are generally sound, and are globally equivalent to those of the original version. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - November 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meta-analysis of the relation between interview anxiety and interview performance.
We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the effect of self-reported interview anxiety on job candidates’ interview performance. Correspondingly, we examined the extent to which this relation was moderated by anxiety measurement approaches, type of interview (mock vs. real), timing of the anxiety measurement (before vs. after the interview), age, and gender. The overall meta-analytic correlation of −.19 was moderated by measurement approach and type of interview. Additionally, we evaluated the contributing studies with respect to power/sample size and provide sample size guidance for future research. The overall negati...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - September 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Leaders’ trait mindfulness and transformational leadership: The mediating roles of leaders’ positive affect and leadership self-efficacy.
Long a focus of research on psychological well-being, mindfulness is now attracting empirical interest in the organisational sciences and we investigate whether and how leaders’ trait mindfulness is associated with transformational leadership. Drawing upon mindfulness and social learning theories, we hypothesise that leaders’ trait mindfulness is associated indirectly with transformational leadership and that leaders’ positive affect and leadership self-efficacy beliefs mediate this relationship. Using serial mediation procedures in PROCESS 3.0, multisource data from 183 leader-follower dyads showed that the effects ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Investigating the extravert advantage in training: Exploring reward sensitivity, training motivation, and self-efficacy as intermediary factors.
This study examined the influence of extraversion’s two dimensions (i.e., dominance and sociability) on training performance and explored the effects of relevant intermediary factors (reward sensitivity, self-efficacy) on training motivation and outcomes. Using a sample of 251 trainees completing basic military training, findings revealed that dominance was positively associated with training motivation and with theoretical and practical aspects of training performance, whereas sociability was not. Moreover, responsiveness (a facet of reward sensitivity) mediated the relationship between extraversion and training motivat...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Déterminants neuropsychologiques de l’infraction à caractère sexuel : Un dysfonctionnement frontal ?
Sexual offenders (SA) constitute a heterogeneous population, with complex issues. The consequences of their action are however always traumatic. It is therefore essential to understand their functioning. A growing number of clinicians and researchers have been interested in the neuropsychology of sexual offenders. Their studies showed that SA suffered from an overall executive dysfunction. It specifically concerns the left frontal lobe. The SA social cognition skills were also examined (empathic abilities, recognition of emotions, etc.), asking numerous questions. Our paper proposes a picture of the literature on sexual of...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Organizational stewardship: Examining a new measure in the stress and well-being framework.
Recently, scholars and practitioners have called for a more systemic approach to workplace well-being, shifting the focus from individual attitudes and behaviours to underlying factors of the work environment as key ingredients in the mitigation of work stress. While leadership has been examined extensively in organisational research as a personal characteristic, stewardship represents a metaphenomenon functioning beyond interpersonal exchanges. Stewardship is proposed as an organisational approach that emphasizes a sense of purpose toward the common good through the sharing of power, resources, and information across netw...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The mediating effect of team reflection on the relationship between a challenging learning goal and new product success.
The success rate of new products in the marketplace is dismal. A survey, based on setting a specific, challenging learning goal and team reflection, was administered to 194 members of 78 new product development teams in Turkey to determine whether there are teams who engage in reflection (i.e., deep level of critical thinking) when a specific, challenging learning goal is set. The results showed that setting a specific, challenging learning goal is associated with new product success, and team reflection mediates this relationship. These findings increase the external validity of the relationship between learning goals and...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Development, validity, and reliability of a French expectancy-value questionnaire in physical education (FEVQ-PE).
The purpose of the present study was to develop a reliable and psychometrically sound French questionnaire related to the expectancy-value theory in physical education. Four stages were followed: (1) the development of a preliminary version based on the findings of a literature review on expectancy-value and a committee process validation; (2) a 1st study conducted on 354 secondary school students (Mage = 14.3, SD = 1.9) to establish the factor structure (exploratory factor analyses) and internal reliability (Cronbach’s alpha coefficients) of this questionnaire; (3) a 2nd study based on 282 secondary school students (Mag...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Race--crime congruency in the Canadian context”: Correction to Maeder et al. (2016).
We examined whether cases in which the defendant’s race was congruent with a race-stereotypic crime would result in more guilty verdicts and different responsibility attributions. Canadian jury−eligible participants read 1 of 3 fictional trial transcripts in which we varied the race of the defendant (Black, White, or Aboriginal Canadian). We hypothesised that the Black defendant would receive the harshest treatment in an auto theft case, the White defendant in a fraud case, and the Aboriginal Canadian defendant in a case of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Results demonstrated only modest evide...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Contribution des traits psychopathiques à l’évolution des problèmes de conduites de filles et de garçons d’âge scolaire primaire.
Early onset conduct problems (CP) are at high risk of persistence throughout childhood. In addition, previous research has suggested that CP are at higher risk of persistence when they co-occur with psychopathic traits. Among the three dimensions of psychopathic traits in children (callous-unemotional, narcissism, and impulsivity), research has mainly focused on callous-unemotional traits, and thus the predictive value of the three psychopathic traits dimensions among children with severe CP remains unclear. The present longitudinal study aimed to establish the relative contributions of the three dimensions of psychopathic...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Employee business awareness: Scale development and validation.
This mutlisample research delineates the context of the employee business awareness construct, applies scale development procedures, and provides construct and nomological validity evidence of the developed measure. The initial 40-item scale was tested with a sample of 508 workers within a manufacturing company. Its content adequacy was then tested with 2 focus groups and 2 expert assessments. The construct and nomological validity of a modified 24-item scale was subsequently tested with front-line employees from 4 companies. The 4-dimensional structure was supported, scale and factor reliabilities were high, and hypothese...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
WISC-V Canadian norms: Relevance and use in the assessment of Canadian children.
Following debate over the use of the WAIS-IV Canadian adult norms that has been suitably addressed, this study examines the normative differences in the WISC-V child and adolescent data in three ways: (a) presenting a comparison of country normative data across subtest and composite scores for demographically matched and unmatched samples, (b) providing a review of Canadian-U.S. standard FSIQ score differences across ability level, and (c) comparing the case detection accuracy of the WISC-V CDN versus U.S. norms for children with intellectual disability and giftedness. Results demonstrate small mean differences overall in ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Facteurs de risque individuels de l’épuisement professionnel: Construction et validation du questionnaire style personnel au travail.
Occupational burnout has negative consequences for individuals, organizations as well as society. Organizational risk factors for burnout have been empirically studied, and there are tools to evaluate them, such as the Areas of Worklife Scale (AWS; Leiter & Maslach, 2002). Individual risk factors have not received similar systematic attention, and there is no instrument to evaluate them. The Style personnel au travail questionnaire (SPT; Papineau, Desjardins, Legault, & Demers, 2014) was developed to fill this gap, based on a review of the factors that correlated with the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI; Maslach & Jackson, ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Test-taking motivation in promotional employment re-examinations.
Managing applicant reactions to entry-level selection processes has been the subject of considerable research, but studies are needed to uncover the process by which test-taking motivation (TTM) affects performance in promotional contexts. We address this gap by proposing and evaluating a process model of promotional exam performance in high-stakes decision-making situations. Our model invokes theory and research on the role of past exam performance, self-set exam goals, and TTM. Empirical findings from a Canadian sample of police officers provides a test of our process model and indicates that past performance on promotio...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
