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Browsing PhD Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Psychology"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)Seasonal influenza vaccination of Health Care Workers (HCWs) is the most effective method to protect staff and patients during influenza epidemics. Although Canadian provincial and territorial governments offer a publically ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Research has extensively documented the negative consequences associated with the experience of stress. An expanding body of psychological research has focused on the concept of recovery, and suggests that individuals can ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)There is substantial research on the importance of autonomous motivation in the workplace; however, little is known on how to change motivation. Drawing on motivation and leadership theories, this dissertation examined the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-02)Workplace dignity has been an emerging topic in psychology in the last decade and is theoretically tied to employee well-being (Khademi et al., 2012; Utriainen & Kyngäs, 2011). However, dignity at work has been difficult ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)Most studies on the psychological impact of military operations have focused on mental health outcomes and protective factors. Notwithstanding the importance of mental health, other dimensions of military operations stand ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Despite its intuitive importance to organizational management, the concept of employee recognition has received little systematic research attention. Because there is no generally accepted construct definition, different ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)A key component to maintaining a safe work environment is having employees’ regularly engaging in safety behaviours. It is important to understand both the quantity and quality of motivation when trying to predict safety ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Although the impact of psychologically healthy workplaces on organizational and employee level outcomes has received increased attention over recent years (e.g., Day & Randell, 2014; Loughlin & Mercer, 2014), leaders ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)A self-reported measure of work-related attention capacities was developed and validated in the current dissertation. The 12-item Workplace Attention Trifactor Scale (WATS) was created from the conceptual integration of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)To date the relationship between perceptions of safety climate and organizational justice does not appear to be empirically tested. There are no known studies that examine the relationship of distributive, procedural, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Over the past few decades, scientists and practitioners have shown a great deal of interest in the topic of abusive supervision. The first generation of abusive supervision researchers focused on defining abusive supervision ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Although transformational leadership has consistently been shown to have a positive effect on direct reports’ well-being, a focus on leaders' own well-being is lacking. Moreover, leadership interventions have been proposed ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Work related injuries and fatalities can cause significant human suffering as well as considerable social and economic costs. A growing body of research has demonstrated that leaders can play an important role in enhancing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)This research examines how a hospital’s transformation to lean management produced change-supportive behaviours and attitudes. Comparisons to a wait-list control group showed improvements in leadership trust, communication, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)A critical assumption of the leadership development literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert & Kelloway, 2014). Drawing on self-determination theory, I address the question of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This study aims to explore the link between stressors and strain at work by examining individuals’ experiences of stressors over time. The link between stressors and strain was evaluated with the job demands-resources ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Understanding job performance has been an important and longstanding workplace challenge for over a century. However, continued criterion deficiency has resulted in ongoing disparity between job performance and job performance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The application of mindfulness in organizations has been steadily rising. Despite the popularity of applying mindfulness to the workplace, the use of mindfulness techniques at work has outpaced scientific understanding of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)The present study examined the relationship between transformational leadership (using the Global Transformational Leadership Scale) and employee well-being (using the General Health Questionnaire - 12, and the Job-related ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)Recovery experiences (e.g., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery, control) have been proposed to work in opposition of the strain process and help employees to unwind and restore their resources (Sonnentag & Bayer, ...
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