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The impact of job accommodations on stereotyping and emotional responses to coworkers with anxiety or depression.
The current research examined the impact of job accommodations (Study 1) and educational information (Study 2) on responses to coworkers with depression or anxiety. Participants read a scenario about a fictitious coworker returning to work following a leave of absence and answered items on negative stereotypes, unfairness, and emotional responses. Scenarios varied the reason for leave [depression, anxiety, surgery] and accommodation [yes, no]. In Study 2, half of participants also read information about the employer’s duty to accommodate. The results provided no evidence that accommodations or educational information inf...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Should I lead? An intrapersonal perspective on the Asian–White leadership gap.
Despite being seen as a “model minority,” Asian Americans remain underrepresented in organizational leadership roles in North America. The existing and limited research on this topic has primarily focused on external barriers to Asians’ advancement (e.g., discrimination); however, little is currently known regarding potential internal barriers that this group may also experience—and why they may arise. Across two cross-sectional survey studies using undergraduate student samples (Study 1: nAsians = 205, nWhites = 290; Study 2: nAsians = 105, nWhites = 176), we consistently found that Asian Canadians reported lower ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reconciliation and industrial–organizational psychology in Canada.
Industrial–Organizational (I–O) psychology is a rigorous applied discipline that has historically grown and adapted to meet the societal needs of the times. In 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its report, the fourth volume of which supplied the momentum and political will to begin a process of healing between the nation-state and the country’s Indigenous Peoples. While we are making progress in health, education, criminal justice, mental health services, social work, and many other disciplines, record high unemployment and poverty are left untouched. In this article, we (a) review the his...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Current directions in organizational justice.
The study of organizational justice, with its long and rich history, remains vibrant today. The aim of this article is to provide a snapshot of current directions. I set the stage by providing a brief sketch of the past, then I highlight two paradigm shifts—studying justice as a dependent variable and studying justice as a dynamic phenomenon—and show how these are changing how scholars think about and study justice in the workplace. Finally, I suggest one possible direction for the future—to actively investigate why and how injustice persists in the workplace. Altogether, scholars are launching exciting approaches fo...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emerging research in industrial–organizational psychology in Canada.
This article provides an overview of the special issue. It introduces the 10 articles featured in the special issue, and describes important topics (e.g., accommodation, leadership, selection, and virtual teams) and timely issues (e.g., justice, racial and gender equity, Indigenous employment, and environmental concerns) in the discipline of Industrial–Organizational (I–O) Psychology. Key workplace challenges are discussed, with an emphasis on the past and ongoing research done by I–O psychology scholars across Canada and the next steps needed to maintain vibrant I–O scholarship in this country. (PsycInfo Database ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Employer support for volunteering in Canada: A comparison of Francophones from Quebec and Anglophones outside Quebec based on a national survey.
This study investigated whether employer support for volunteering predicted various forms of community engagement behaviors (informal volunteering, charitable donations, and in-kind donations), using data from a nationally representative survey. Analyses were conducted on a national sample of 5,263 full-time employees (979 Francophones from Quebec; 4,283 Anglophones outside Quebec, aged 25–64, 55% women), adjusting for representation (bootstrap weights) and controlling for sociodemographic variables. The presence of ESV was associated with a higher likelihood of participation in informal volunteering, financial donating,...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Le lien entre les observations en milieu naturel, les rapports des parents et le rapport des enfants dans les relations fraternelles à la période scolaire.
Several studies of sibling relationships show that different observers assess the quality of sibling relationships in different ways. Our research examines school-aged children’s assessments of sibling relationship quality and aims to address three objectives: (1) to explore the correspondence between mothers’ and fathers’ assessments; (2) to explore the correspondence between independent observations and each parent’s assessment; and (3) to explore the correspondences between children’s self-assessments and those of their parents and independent observers. The study included a home visit to 62 intact heteroparen...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

COVID-19-related media consumption and parental mental health.
Currently, little is known about the relationship between COVID-19-related media consumption and mental health among Canadian parents. Consequently, the current study aimed to investigate the associations between the consumption of COVID-19-related news and mental health in a large sample of Canadian families. We recruited 924 Canadian parents, between April 14th and August 9th 2020, to participate in an online survey, which assessed their demographics, media consumption patterns, and their levels of anxiety, and depression. Relationships between COVID-19-related media consumption and parental mental health were analyzed u...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Relation entre la composition de la classe, le rendement scolaire et le concept de soi chez les élèves de quatrième année primaire.
This study examines the possibility that the cognitive and non-cognitive classroom composition is correlated with performance and self-concept, and that this correlation varies according to the level of knowledge and self-concept that 4th grade students have at the beginning of the school year. The study is based on a sample of 4639 students spread across 80 classrooms in two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Using multilevel multivariate analysis, the study shows that the cognitive and non-cognitive classroom composition effects are not significant in DRC schools. The importance of the cognitive compositio...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Rôle médiateur de la sursexualisation dans les liens entre l’attachement et l’engagement conjugal des jeunes adultes.
Sociocultural changes of recent decades have transformed the way young adults engage in their love relationships. Studies have revealed links between loving attachment and conjugal commitment. Yet the explanatory mechanisms of these links remain fragmented. The present study explores the mediating role of oversexualized behavior in the bonds of loving attachment and conjugal commitment of adults aged 18 to 30. To do this, 722 young Quebec adults living as couples were asked to complete online questionnaires. The results reveal that abandonment anxiety is directly and positively related to conjugal overcommitment and underc...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What messages do adults prefer? Understanding adults’ perceptions of intrinsic and extrinsic physical activity messages.
Physical activity messages serve as a potential mechanism to facilitate physical activity engagement in a resource-friendly manner that can complement other behavior change methods. The purpose of this study was to examine adults’ perception of the persuasiveness and preferences for physical activity messages framed intrinsically or extrinsically and tailored to the stages of change within the Comprehensive Messaging Strategy for Sustained Behavior Change. The second purpose of this study was to determine if participants of different motivation orientations and genders differed in their perceptions and preferences of mes...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

French adaptation of the Experience of Shame Scale: Validation in a French-Canadian sample.
Shame is a painful emotion that emerges when one’s self-image is threatened by feelings of being bad, worthless, weak, exposed, isolated, and unlovable. The present study aims to validate the international French adaptation of the Experience of Shame Scale (ESS), a self-report questionnaire assessing characterological, behavioral, and bodily shame by identifying eight areas of occurrence. A total of 314 French-Canadian adult participants completed online self-report questionnaires assessing psychological constructs relevant to shame assessment along with the ESS. The validation process explored: (a) internal consistency;...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Initial development of a questionnaire about parents’ perspectives on the strengths and interests of autistic preschoolers.
The aim of this study was to develop a new questionnaire for documenting young autistic children’s interests and strengths and to draw a preliminary portrait of these characteristics, by comparing them with a group of typical preschoolers. Two groups were recruited to revise the questionnaire at each stage of its development. The tool was pretested through telephone interviews with 27 parents of autistic children and 28 parents of typical children matched by age. A review by professionals and parents led to several modifications to the questionnaire. Preliminary results showed that the parents in both groups had favorabl...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Incidence and interpretation of statistical suppression in psychological research.
Suppressor variables increase the predictive power of one or more predictors by suppressing irrelevant variance. Although theoretically and statistically useful, no research has addressed the frequency or interpretation of statistical suppression (SS) in the psychological literature. In two studies, we explored the nature and interpretation of SS. In the first study, we reviewed regression analyses to determine the frequency with which SS occurs in psychological articles published in 2017. Approximately one-third of articles showed evidence of SS, although researchers almost never acknowledged or attempted to interpret the...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Adults’ sensitivity to the age-appropriateness of lawyer’s questioning of children in a physical abuse case.
This study explored if adults (laypersons) are sensitive to the appropriateness of questions posed by lawyers to child witnesses in court. We examined whether this sensitivity, if present, was influenced by (a) the child’s age (6 or 12-year old) and (b) the presence of judicial instructions. We also explored whether sensitivity to question appropriateness was related to adults’ perceived credibility of a child witness. All participants (N = 217) were provided with an adapted trial transcript depicting a prosecution lawyer questioning a child in a physical abuse case in Canada. Results suggest adults are sensitive to di...
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - April 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research