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Attitudes toward reconciliation in Canada: Relationships with connectedness to nature, animal–human continuity, and moral expansiveness.
Following intergroup conflict, reconciliation efforts most often focus on relationships among people. Though human-centric approaches are valuable, we propose people’s engagement in reconciliation is also related to their attitudes toward the broader natural world. With a sample of 233 undergraduate non-Indigenous Canadian students who completed an online survey, we investigated the relationships among connectedness to nature, animal–human continuity, moral expansiveness, and support for reconciliation. All variables correlated positively, though the correlation between animal–human continuity and support for reconci...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - July 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Evaluation of a mental health continuum model in two samples.
Conclusions: This study revealed important aspects of the Mental Health Continuum Model used by the MHCC, and provided preliminary evidence for its internal consistency and criterion validity. Replication with other samples and further validation research on the model is recommended. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - June 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Constructing and validating a measure of adolescents’ perceptions of sibling trust.
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new self-report measure of sibling trust that assessed the multidimensionality of adolescents’ perceptions of trust (i.e., reliability, emotional, honesty) toward their siblings and its association with relational satisfaction. Participants included 191 Canadian adolescents between 10 and 13 years old. Findings demonstrated sibling trust comprised reliability and honesty domains, which were observed to be partially invariant as a function of gender and birth order. Further, the domains of trust positively predicted siblings’ relational sa...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - June 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Connections between parental reciprocity and emerging adult depressive symptoms and loneliness: The role of peer social support.
Emerging adulthood is a developmental period marked by elevated mental health concerns; both theory and empirical research suggest that parental relationships play a salient role in emerging adult mental well-being. Additionally, peer social support has been explicated in the mental health of emerging adults, with evidence suggesting that it may serve as a mediating link between parent-emerging adult–child relationships and mental well-being. The present study used structural equation modeling to examine the relationships between the parent-emerging adult relationship, namely, parental relationship reciprocity, and peer ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - June 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Personalized and socialized need for power: Distinct relations to employee traits and behaviors.
The desire to influence others, also known as the need for Power (nPower), has been conceptualized in the literature as either Personalized (i.e., desire for power for one’s own ends) or Socialized (i.e., desire for power to help others). However, there is no valid scale to measure nPower, and it is unclear how Personalized and Socialized nPower relate to individual differences of employees and work-related behaviors. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were (a) to create and validate a new scale for Personalized and Socialized nPower and (b) to explore how scores on these scales relate to employee personality...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - June 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Mock juror decision-making in a self-defence trial involving police use of force.
Previous research has found that citizens’ attitudes concerning police legitimacy influence their behavior toward the police. However, this relationship has yet to be studied in the context of a jury trial involving police use of force (UoF). The primary goal of this article is therefore to examine whether mock jurors’ race, along with their perceptions of police legitimacy, predict verdict decisions in trials involving police UoF. We hypothesized that participants’ perceptions of police legitimacy would be significantly related to their verdict decisions. Additionally, we predicted that racial minorities would be le...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - June 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of the French version of the Pictorial Scale of Physical Self-Concept for Younger Children (P-PSC-C).
The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a French version of the Pictorial scale of Physical Self-Concept for younger Children (P-PSC-C). A sample of 216 French-speaking Canadian children (aged 5–12 years) participated in this study. Results supported the validity and reliability of the a priori single factor structure of the P-PSC-C. Subsequent analyses also supported the partial weak, strong, and strict invariance of this a priori measurement model as a function of children’s sex, and revealed latent mean differences showing that boys tended to present higher scores on the P-PSC-C com...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of the French version of the Pictorial Scale of Physical Self-Concept for Younger Children (P-PSC-C).
The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a French version of the Pictorial scale of Physical Self-Concept for younger Children (P-PSC-C). A sample of 216 French-speaking Canadian children (aged 5–12 years) participated in this study. Results supported the validity and reliability of the a priori single factor structure of the P-PSC-C. Subsequent analyses also supported the partial weak, strong, and strict invariance of this a priori measurement model as a function of children’s sex, and revealed latent mean differences showing that boys tended to present higher scores on the P-PSC-C com...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 31, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

French translation and validation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA-FR).
Conclusion: The MAIA-Fr was deemed appropriate to assess interoceptive awareness in French-speaking populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Community perceptions and pro-environmental behavior: The mediating roles of social norms and climate change risk.
Adapting to climate change in Canada will require collective action, and as such, gaining a better understanding of the social factors predicting pro-environmental behaviors is vital. In the current study, using theory from the organizational psychology domain, we examined whether individuals’ attachment to their community and perceptions of their community’s resilience were related to the extent to which individuals perceived norms related to pro-environmental action within close others, and in turn, whether these social norms are associated with perceptions of climate change risk and subsequent willingness to engage ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Collective efficacy in virtual teams: Emergence, trajectory, and effectiveness implications.
Use of virtual teams in workplace environments is common, and in this study, we investigated the emergence of collective efficacy in virtual teams. Collective efficacy—a team’s shared confidence in their ability to meet its goals—is an emergent state that has consistently been found to positively relate to team effectiveness. However, much of the past research on collective efficacy has focused on static approaches, ignoring the inherently dynamic nature of the construct. Thus, the past research has neglected to fully address the emergent nature of collective efficacy, which involves consensus (i.e., sharedness or ag...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Using personality feedback for work-related development and performance improvement: A rapid evidence assessment.
The personality-related literature in industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology and management has focused on the validity of personality scales for predicting criteria like job performance, and corresponding applications for personnel selection. In parallel, and subject to much less research attention, personality inventories have been used for developmental purposes in group workshops and individual coaching. Personality-assessment feedback represents modern means through which to follow ancient advice to “know thyself” (Emre, The personality brokers: The strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of person...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The relation between deceptive impression management and employment interview ratings: A meta-analysis.
Deceptive impression management (IM) describes the intentional distortion of information to employment interview questions. In the present research, we conducted a meta-analysis examining the magnitude of the relation between applicants’ use of deceptive IM and interview ratings. This research sought to address the mixed findings in the literature regarding the link between deceptive IM and interview ratings, as well as the limitation of how past meta-analyses were not able to distinguish between deceptive and honest tactics. Our results suggested that on average, deceptive IM was effectively unrelated to interview ratin...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Determining the appropriateness of extended time accommodations in standardized cognitive ability testing.
In selection contexts that employ standardized testing, the use of accommodations must be accompanied by evidence to support their appropriateness. Three studies examined the appropriateness of extended time accommodations in cognitive ability testing. Study 1 examined the speededness of the Canadian Forces Aptitude Test (CFAT) using data from 12,555 applicants to establish that speed is not a factor in the CFAT. Study 2 examined the impact of extra time in the completion of a paper-based administration of the practice CFAT for test-takers with and without a learning disability (LD). Data from 122 military trainees reveale...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research