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Self-efficacy mediates the relationship between perfectionism and life satisfaction in South Korean adults Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Bo Sun Kim,Minjeong Kim
Our aim in this study was to provide a better understanding of the links among self-oriented and self-critical perfectionism and life satisfaction by examining the mediating effect of self-efficacy in this relationship. We collected survey results from 300 adults in South Korea and conducted structural equation modeling. The results show that participants' self-efficacy mediated the path from self-oriented
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Self-service versus human interaction in private consumption: The moderating role of brand personality Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Seojin Stacey Lee,Kiwan Park,Yaeri Kim
We explored how consumer attitudes toward service delivery types (selfservice technology vs. face-to-face) differ in a private consumption context depending on the brand personality (underdog brand vs. topdog brand). Using banking service (Study 1) and hotel service (Study 2) scenarios, we empirically investigated the interaction effects between service delivery types and brand personalities on consumer
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Homestay customers' perceived value mediates the influence of customer participation and host–customer interaction on customer satisfaction Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Mengyuan Lu,Baozhong Yi
With the rapid development of homestay accommodation, it is urgent to study the mechanism of satisfaction of guests as customers. We used value cocreation theory to explore customer participation and host–customer interaction as antecedents of customer perceived value, and how this then influenced their satisfaction. We analyzed data from 344 homestay guests using partial least squares regression and
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Daily work engagement and positive emotions in the workplace: Job crafting as a mediator Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 DongYang Wang
I combined the broaden-and-build and job demands–resources theories, and examined the effect of employees' daily positive emotions outside the workplace before work on work engagement, and the mediating roles of (a) seeking resources and challenges and (b) reducing demands, in this daily job-crafting relationship. I collected data from 103 medical staff daily for 5 days, resulting in 515 data points
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Human-like underdog brands: How brand personality affects selfservice technology adoption Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Yaeri Kim,Kiwan Park,Seojin Stacey Lee
This research explored the effects of service delivery types (conventional face-to-face service vs. self-service technologies; SSTs) and brand personality (underdog brand vs. top-dog brand) on consumers' brand attitudes. Study 1 revealed that consumers perceived more anthropomorphic features in underdog brands than in top-dog brands (Hypothesis 1). The anthropomorphic brand personality of an underdog
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Risk sensitivity mediates the relationship between construal level and ethical decision making Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Zhi Zang,Qingyue Zheng,Lingna Luo
Although researchers have proposed that construal level has a substantive impact on decision making in ethical scenarios, the internal mechanism underlying this relationship is yet to be fully explored. Drawing on construal level theory and risk sensitivity theory, we conducted two ethical dilemma experiments to test the mediating role of risk sensitivity in the relationship between construal level
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Customer mistreatment, employee depression, and organizational citizenship behavior: Emotional intelligence as a moderator Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Jeeyoon Jeong,Ji Hoon Lee
Grounded in conservation of resources theory, this study investigated the relationship between customer mistreatment and organizational citizenship behavior by examining the mediating mechanism of depression in the workplace and the moderating role of emotional intelligence. Korean service employees ( N = 319) completed a survey at two time points spaced 3 weeks apart. We found that customer mistreatment
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The association of perfectionism and active procrastination in college students Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Mariana V.C. Coutinho,Aaina Menon,Rasha Hasan Ahmed,Imani Fredricks-Lowman
It has been shown that perfectionism is a precursor to passive procrastination, which is a form of self-regulation failure, but little is known about the role of perfectionism in active procrastination. Thus, we sought to determine the relationship of high standards and discrepancy with active procrastination, which is a functional form of procrastination linked to better academic performance and psychological
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Psychological safety mediates the relationship between leader–member exchange and employees' work engagement Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Jie Mao,Kangya Tian
This study explored the association between leader–member exchange (LMX) and employees' work engagement by developing an integrative model including psychological safety as a mediator. We designed a survey and distributed it via email; data were collected from 305 employees working at a manufacturing company in East China. Results of structural equation modeling show that LMX was positively related
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The effect of lucky price end numbers on consumers' intention to purchase a product Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Libin Chen,Huanli Mu,Ke Ma,Lin Jiang
Consumers' cognition of a number or numbers in prices as being lucky can affect their purchase intention. We carried out four experiments with 450 undergraduate students to investigate their purchase intention when buying products with price end numbers that they considered to be lucky or unlucky. The results show that participants in the group that was offered the product with a lucky price end number
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How power affects moral judgments: The role of intuitive thinking Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Mufan Zheng,Ana Guinote
Power affects how people think about moral issues, and has been found to elicit deontological moral judgments. We hypothesized that powerholders' propensity to rely on intuitive thinking would trigger deontological moral choices. In two studies, power was induced by role simulation tasks and participants then made a judgment on a moral dilemma that did not involve bodily harm. In Study 1 memory cognitive
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Emotional autobiographical memory impairment features in three mental disorders Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Zhiwei Yang,Xufeng Liu
We proposed the Emotional Autobiographical Memory Test (EAMT) as a specialized method for measuring emotional autobiographical memory impairment in patients with mental disorders. The EAMT was tested with 32 patients with schizophrenia, 18 patients with bipolar disorder, 32 patients with depression, and 42 people undiagnosed with such disorders. We extracted 13 indices of five kinds of features from
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Psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Hyo-Jeong Kim,Kiho Kim
We validated a Korean version of the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ) by investigating its factor structure with a nonclinical sample. Participants were 495 undergraduate students in Korea. The results show that the Korean version of the BAPQ (K-BAPQ) had adequate internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .75–.89). Correlations between scores on the BAPQ and on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient were
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The impact of white space on consumers' perception of and attitude toward advertising Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Shouwei Li,Ping Liu,Wei Li
This study explored the impact of white space in advertisements on consumers' perception of and attitude toward the advertisement. Participants (N = 333) took part in two studies online. The results show that more (vs. less) white space increased independent self-construal consumers' positive attitudes toward the advertisement by increasing the relative effect of freedom on advertisement attitudes
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What makes consumers take risks in self–other purchase decision making? The roles of impression management and self-construal Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Hayea Kim
I investigated how impression management (IM) affected consumers' purchase decision making for themselves and for others, and analyzed how IM, self-construal, and self–other decision making affected consumers' risk taking. Participants were 224 students from a university in Korea. Results show that participants with lower IM took greater risks when making decisions for others (vs. themselves). However
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Team diversity, perspective taking, and employee creativity: The importance of psychological safety Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Youngsam Cho
I investigated how and when cognitive team diversity motivates employees to engage in creativity, and proposed perspective taking as a psychological mechanism underlying the relationship, and psychological safety as a boundary condition for the effect of cognitive team diversity on perspective taking. I assessed the proposed relationships with data from 151 Korean employees in research and development
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Leisure attitude, stress-related growth, and quality of life during COVID-19-related social distancing Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Jee Hoon Han,Hye Ji Sa
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and related restrictive measures have impacted on leisure activities globally; South Korea is no exception. In this cross-sectional study we identified the need to increase leisure opportunities during social distancing and respond to changes in leisure activities post-COVID-19. The leisure attitude, stress-related growth, and quality of life of 260
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Effort–reward imbalance and job burnout in preschool teachers: A moderated mediation model Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Liping Guo,Mingming Huang,Yaqin Wang,Song Shi,Manhua Yang,Jing Shuai
To explore the impact mechanism of effort–reward imbalance on job burnout, we surveyed 2,251 preschool teachers using measures of effort–reward imbalance, job burnout, future time perspective, and positive psychological capital. The results show that effort–reward imbalance, positive psychological capital, and future time perspective were significantly related to preschool teachers' job burnout. Future
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Personal and positive: Fifty years of publishing Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Robert A.C. Stewart
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Childhood maltreatment and prosocial behavior: Roles of social support and psychological capital Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Ying Yang,Zhenning Yang,Weiguo Qu
We examined the relationship between childhood maltreatment and prosocial behavior, with social support and psychological capital incorporated as hypothesized mediators. Participants were 581 adolescent students (360 girls, 221 boys) who completed questionnaires regarding prosocial behavior, childhood maltreatment, social support, and psychological capital. The results reveal that childhood maltreatment
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Maternal and paternal parenting stress and children's aggression and anxiety/depression: Children's self-regulation as a moderator Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Jieun Choi
I examined whether maternal and/or paternal parenting stress predicted children's aggression and anxiety/depression, and whether this parenting stress interacted with children's self-regulation in the prediction of their aggression and anxiety/depression. Data were obtained from the 7th wave of longitudinal data of the Panel Study on Korean Children. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis
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Employees' feedback-seeking strategies and perceptions of abusive supervision Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Hsiao-Yen Mao
I investigated the relationship between the strategies (inquiry and monitoring) employees use in the context of feedback-seeking behavior (FSB), and their perception of abusive supervision. Participants were 187 employees with various occupations, from whom survey data were collected in two waves. Empirical results indicate that inquiry FSB was negatively related to the perception of abusive supervision
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Why and when others reciprocate my knowledge sharing in work teams: Attribution of intention and social values Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Hyunjee Hannah Kim,Jin Nam Choi
Knowledge sharing is a fundamental method for transferring expertise among individuals and capitalizing on knowledge resources. In this study we used attribution theory to explore why and when people reciprocate in text context of knowledge sharing. We conducted a field survey of 94 leaders and 334 members of their teams and demonstrated that team members reciprocated knowledge sharing because they
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: September 29, 1934–October 20, 2021 Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Robert A.C. Stewart,Sarah L. Krivan
We note, with sadness, the passing of Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, pioneer of the concept of flow and known for his research on happiness, creativity, leadership, and motivation. He was a longtime member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal.
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The effect of money magnitude on unfair proposals and decisions in ultimatum and dictator games Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Nan Ye,Qiangqiang Wang,Zhiwei Wang
To explore the effect of money magnitude in unfair decisions, participants accepted or rejected the allocation scheme proposed by the other participant/player in ultimatum games, or chose an allocation scheme to share a certain amount of money with the other participant/player in dictator games. The results show that in ultimatum games, as the amount of money increased, when the level of unfairness
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Sleep quality, anxiety, somatic symptoms, and features of brain structure in parents of children with disabilities Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jing Zhou,Shaohua Gao,Tongda Sun,Weiwei Gao,Wenxiu Fu,Zhiguo Ying,Wenqin Mao
We investigated sleep quality, anxiety, and somatic symptoms of 330 parents of children aged 0–6 years with disabilities, and explored the features of their brain structure using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-15, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7. We compared these results with those of a control group of parents (n = 330) of children with typical development
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Effects of authentic leadership on follower performance in corporate social responsibility activities Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Dongsoo Kim,Bonjin Koo,Zong-Tae Bae
We investigated the effects of authentic leadership on follower performance in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities by drawing upon social identity theory. With data from 340 participants who took part in CSR activities in a large Korean firm, we tested the hypotheses that team identification would mediate the positive relationship between authentic leadership and follower performance,
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The cross-modal affective priming effect: Effects of the valence and arousal of primes Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Cheng Kang,Nan Ye,Fangwen Zhang,Yanwen Wu,Guichun Jin,Jihong Xie,Lin Du
Although studies have investigated the influence of the emotionality of primes on the cross-modal affective priming effect, it is unclear whether this effect is due to the contribution of the arousal or the valence of primes. We explored how the valence and arousal of primes influenced the cross-modal affective priming effect. In Experiment 1 we manipulated the valence of primes (positive and negative)
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Looking in and looking out: Effects of (in)congruent corporate social responsibility on organizational cynicism Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Zhen Li,Fuxi Wang,Liqian Yang
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts targeting both internal stakeholders (i.e., employees) and external stakeholders (i.e., environment, community, consumers) can mitigate employees' negative attitudes and behavior. However, the effects of (in)congruence between internal CSR (ICSR) and external CSR (ECSR) perceptions have not yet been examined. We used social comparison theory to investigate
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The impact of online reviews on renters' perceived trust in property information Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Yang Zhang,Jie Sun,Haoyuan Li,Yuhao Zhu,Xianghui Wang,Chengliang Wu
Using cognitive consistency theory, we explored the mechanisms of prospective renters' cognitive processing and cognitive outcomes of reviewing rental listing information on the Internet. We conducted an eye-movement experiment with 102 prospective renters to investigate the mechanisms influencing their cognitive processing and outcomes, via a 2 (comment form: subjective, objective) × 2 (risk preference:
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Determinants of continuance intention for over-the-top services Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jang-Suk Lee,Jaehee Cho
We investigated the effects of factors determining people's continuance intentions for using over-the-top (OTT) services. We used the expectation–confirmation model (ECM) and the information systems success model as the basic theoretical framework, and included habit as an extension to the ECM. Data were collected through an online survey of 226 Korean adults aged in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, who were
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Effect of perceived product innovativeness on consumers' product attribute preferences: The mediating role of self-efficacy Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jin Sun,Jingran Sun,Xinrong Yao
On the basis of the structural alignment model, we conducted two experiments to examine the effect of consumers' perceived product innovativeness on their product attribute preferences, and to test the mediating role of self-efficacy. Data were obtained from 263 participants, and the results showed that consumers paid more attention to alignable (vs. nonalignable) attributes when purchasing new products
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Effect of corporate social responsibility perception on job satisfaction Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Sung-Hoon Ko,Sae Hoon Lee,Ji-Young Kim,Yongjun Choi,Jongsung Kim,Hyun Chul Kang
This study empirically examined the effect of the perception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on job satisfaction, as mediated by compassion and positive emotions toward work. Data were collected from 232 employees working in manufacturing, financial, telecommunications, transportation, and service industries in South Korea. The results confirm that (a) there were positive relationships
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Explicit and implicit attitudes toward people with COVID-19: Need for community mental health services Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Yun Jung Choi,Dong Hee Cho
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, social stigmatization of people who have been infected with the virus has been observed. This study measured the degree of social stigma by examining implicit and explicit attitudes toward people with COVID-19. Explicit attitudes were measured through self-reporting, taking into account the three components of behavior, cognition, and emotion, and we used
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Affect mediates the influence of the "Three Good Things" intervention on depression and well-being Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Shuman Wu
The "Three Good Things" is a self-administered positive psychological intervention that is effective in reducing depressive symptoms and improving well-being; however, there is still little known about its possible underlying mechanisms. I examined the efficacy of the Three Good Things intervention and investigated the mediating role of positive and negative affect in the intervention's effect on depressive
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Exploring extremity and negativity biases in online reviews: Evidence from Yelp. com Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Minjung Roh,Sung-Byung Yang
While some online reviews explicitly praise or criticize a product, others reveal a neutral evaluation. We predicted that extreme reviews would be considered more useful than moderate ones, and that negative reviews would be considered more useful than positive ones. To test these predictions, this study collected a dataset comprising 951,178 reviews of New York restaurants made by 142,286 reviewers
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Do agreeableness and social value orientation predict altruistic behavior under time pressure? Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Qiangqiang Li,Gengdan Hu,Dandan Pan
Although time pressure is closely related to altruistic behavior, there is relatively little research on whether altruistic traits can predict altruistic behavior under time pressure. Using a modified dictator game paradigm, we investigated whether the altruistic traits of agreeableness and social value orientation could predict altruistic behavior under time pressure. We recruited 120 participants
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Multimodal intervention improves core symptoms in preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Yan Qin
I tested the effect of a psychobehavioral intervention combined with electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback on the core symptoms of preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants were 42 preschool children with attention-deficit, hyperactive-impulsive, or compound-type ADHD. They were randomly divided into the control group, a psychobehavioral intervention
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Relationship between organizational identification and employee voice: A meta-analysis Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Rongbin Ruan,Wan Chen
The extant literature contains conflicting findings about the relationship between organizational identification and employee voice. To estimate a more realistic correlation between these two variables, we conducted a meta-analysis of 40 empirical studies associated with organizational identification and employee voice. We also analyzed cultural context, education level, common method variance, and
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Brand attachment and oppositional loyalty: The moderating role of moral identity Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Guo Cheng,Weiping Yu
Comprehension of the driving factors and dimensional structure of oppositional loyalty (OL), which comprises willingness to pay a price premium, oppositional referrals, schadenfreude, and antibrand actions, is limited. To analyze OL behavior, we collected 453 surveys from Xiaomi mobile online communities. The results show that brand attachment had a positive effect on each dimension of OL. In addition
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Understanding Korean early childhood teachers' challenges in parent–teacher partnerships: Beyond individual matters Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Yoo-Seon Bang,Hye-Jin Jang,Ji-Hyun Jung
We conducted individual and group interviews with six early childhood teachers to better understand their difficulties in establishing parent–teacher partnerships, and to explore the underlying causes of such difficulties. The results show that all the teachers experienced various challenges in their relationships with parents because of fear of conflict, unexpected struggles, parents' distrust, and
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The positive effect of perceived leader humor on negative workplace gossip Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Xiaojuan Shi
The purpose of this study was to examine the positive relationship between employee perceived leader humor and employee negative workplace gossip about a leader (NWGL). Using a multiple time point investigation of leaders and followers (N = 168), I found that perceived leader humor was positively related to NWGL and that employee perceived team inclusion mediated this relationship. Further, employee
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South Korean college freshmen students' perceptions of happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Sanghee Lee,Song Yi Lee,Jaeeun Jung
Happiness is an important factor influencing academic performance, and many college freshmen have experienced adjustment difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic. We applied Q methodology to explore South Korean freshmen students' perceptions of happiness in 2020. Participants were divided into three groups according to perceptions of happiness: (a) those who considered relationships as vital for
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Mindfulness and cell phone dependence: The mediating role of social adaptation Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Weiling Wang,Yuyan Qian,Yuping Wang,Yuhong Zhang
We explored the mediating role of social adaptation in the relationship between mindfulness and cell phone dependence among college students. Data were obtained from 937 college students, who completed the Smartphone Addiction Inventory, the Adolescent Mindfulness Measure, and the Social Adaptation Questionnaire. The results suggest that mindfulness and social adaptation were significantly and negatively
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Early adolescents' parent–child communication and friendship quality: A cross-lagged analysis Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Weiguo Qu,Kexin Li,Yulong Wang
This study explored the two-way relationship between parent–child communication and the friendship quality of early adolescents, as well as the stability of these constructs and of gender differences, using a cross-lagged analysis. We conducted a 10-month follow-up study with 842 adolescents using the Parent–Adolescent Communication Scale and the Friendship Quality Questionnaire. Results show that
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Neural correlates of pride and joy recognition in early childhood Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Yue Jiang
I investigated neural processing during the recognition of pride and joy in early childhood using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Electroencephalography recording was taken of 21 children aged between 4 and 6 years. They were shown photographs of familiar peers and strangers whose facial expressions displayed the emotion of either pride or joy. ERPs were recorded for the children's judgment
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Albert Bandura: December 4, 1925–July 26, 2021 Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Robert A. C. Stewart,Sarah L. Krivan
We note, with sadness, the passing of Dr Albert Bandura, pioneer of the theories of social learning and of self-efficacy, and of the concept of moral disengagement, whose research contributions informed current understanding of human behavior. Since 1992, Dr Bandura was a member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal.
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The effect of gender stereotypes on cross-modal spatial attention Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Jiyou Gu,Huiqin Dong
Using a spatial-cueing paradigm in which trait words were set as visual cues and gender words were set as auditory targets, we examined whether cross-modal spatial attention was influenced by gender stereotypes. Results of an experiment conducted with 24 participants indicate that they tended to focus on targets in the valid-cue condition (i.e., the cues located at the same position as targets), regardless
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The influence mechanism of social interaction on intention to continue using mobile public welfare applications Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Fenfen Zhao,Xiaohui Shi,Xiumei Li
Social interaction is an important factor for many mobile applications, including mobile public welfare applications (MPWAs), to successfully attract users to keep using them. We explored the influence mechanism of social interaction on users' continuance of usage behavior in relation to MPWAs by constructing an interaction–experience–intention influence path. A survey was designed and distributed
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Public service motivation and proactive behavioral responses to change: A three-way interaction Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Si-Rui Sun
I applied person–organization fit theory to examine the conditional effect of public service motivation on turnover intention and responsible behavior, as two types of change-related proactive behavioral responses. Respondents were 462 public sector employees. The results show there was an association between public service motivation, and turnover intention and responsible behavior, but affective
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Stress and career adaptability during COVID-19: A serial multiple mediation model Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Jianfeng Zhuang,Yali Jiang,Haiping Chen
To understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected students about to enter the job market, we surveyed 754 university seniors to investigate the perceived stress–career adaptability relationship. We also assessed if positive psychological capital (PsyCap) and work volition mediated this relationship. The results show that the seniors' perceived stress during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively predicted
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The influence of contagious disease threat on general risk-taking tendency Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Muhammad Kasheer,Myungwoo Nam
We conducted two studies to investigate the effects of the threat of a contagious disease on people's tendency to engage in risk-taking behaviors that are not directly related to the disease, such as investment decisions. In Study 1 we demonstrated that individual differences in germ aversion influenced risk-taking tendency. Participants with relatively high germ aversion were less likely than were
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Antecedents and consequences of college students' satisfaction with online learning Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Nam-Hyun Um,Ahnlee Jang
We delved into the antecedents and consequences of college students' satisfaction with online learning. We proposed the antecedents would be interactions, teaching presence, self-management of learning, and academic self-efficacy, and that the consequence would be intention to continue to use online learning. Participants were 236 college students in South Korea who completed an online survey. Our
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How information processing style shapes people's algorithm adoption Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Ke Zhang
Across four studies I tested why people are averse to relying on algorithmic judgments in person judgment tasks (e. g., student admissions), and examined how such aversions can be attenuated. I proposed that people tend to focus more on case-specific information (vs. general propositions) in person-judgment tasks, and that algorithms (vs. human experts) are believed to be skilled at addressing general
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How does power distance belief influence consumers' new product acceptance? Life satisfaction and social demonstrance as moderators Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Qing Li,Siyun Chen
Scholars have not yet established how power distance belief (PDB) influences consumers' new product acceptance. We examined the relationship between PDB and new product acceptance (i.e., consumers' preference and attitude), along with the moderating roles of life satisfaction and social demonstrance, and the mediating role of need to belong. Through three studies, our findings show that when life satisfaction
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Edward de Bono: May 19, 1933–June 9, 2021 Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Robert A. C. Stewart,Sarah L. Krivan
We note, with sadness, the passing of Dr Edward de Bono, pioneering researcher in the field of creative thinking and longtime member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal.
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Does leader mindfulness influence voice behavior? Leader–member exchange as a mediator Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Zhou Wang,Lei Shi,Liyin Wang
In this study we identified leader mindfulness as a characteristic relevant to facilitating employee voice behavior, and examined leader–member exchange (LMX) as a mediator of this relationship. Via a field study of supervisor–subordinate dyads (197 subordinates and 62 supervisors) in a large retailing company in East China, we revealed a partial mediation model in which leader mindfulness was positively
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The effectiveness of a web-based positive psychology intervention in enhancing college students' mental well-being Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Kunyan Liu,Yunfei Duan,Yilin Wang
During the global pandemic, lockdown policies aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 have been affecting all demographics. Although they may be continuing their studies online, university students may suffer severe mental consequences because of loneliness and social isolation. To help students improve their psychological well-being, we examined the effectiveness of a web-based positive psychology
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Proactive personality and employee outcomes: The moderating role of team autonomy Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Zhao Bao,Mengliang Shi,Yunpeng He,Ping Luo
We used self-determination theory to investigate the effects of proactive personality on employees' work engagement and helping behavior, as well as the moderating role of team autonomy in this relationship. Twowave data were collected from 75 sales teams (75 team leaders and 464 team members) from a large private company in South China. Multilevel path model analysis was used to test our hypotheses
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Mental health and personality implications among medical students during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic Social Behavior and Personality (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Lingyu Zhang,Jiaying Wu,Chuying Deng,Meimei Zhang,Changjin Li,Qi Wang
Few studies have explored the correlations between personality traits and mental health during the outbreak period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess the personality traits and mental health of 142 students at Wenzhou Medical University, using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Sleep Status Self-Rating