Enhancing Procedural Justice in Local Government Budget and Tax Decision MakingJournal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 30 Số 4 - Trang 798-815 - 2000
Nace R. Magner, Gary G. Johnson, Julie S. Sobery, Robert B. Welker
Two studies examined criteria for procedural justice in the related contexts of local government budgeting (Study 1) and taxation (Study 2). Questionnaire data were gathered from 272 municipal police chiefs in Study 1 and 81 municipal property owners in Study 2, Regression analysis indicated that ethicality. accuracy, and bias suppression were signiticant (p <...... hiện toàn bộ
Moral Norms and Environmental Behavior: An Application of Schwartz's Norm‐Activation Model to Yard Burning1Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 8 Số 2 - Trang 174-188 - 1978
Kent D. Van Liere, Riley E. Dunlap
The purpose of this study was to examine some conditions under which moral norms, i.e., respect for the health of others, would be expected to influence environmentally related behavior. In particular, using a model developed by Schwartz, the study was conducted to determine whether variation in awareness of consequences (AC) and ascription of responsibility (AR) were associated with yard‐...... hiện toàn bộ
The Relationship Between Control, Job Seeking, and Well‐Being in Unemployed PeopleJournal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 42 Số 3 - Trang 689-701 - 2012
Peter A. Creed, Michelle Hood, Lai Yin Leung
We tested the usefulness of the competence–contingency–control model to account for well‐being and job seeking in the unemployed. We surveyed 216 job seekers (M age = 35 years; M unemployment = 12.4 months) with measures of personal competency, beliefs about contingency relationships, job seeking, and well‐being. We hypothesized that co...... hiện toàn bộ
Heterogeneity in the Unemployment Experience: A Cluster Analytic Investigation1Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 24 Số 6 - Trang 473-488 - 1994
Connie R. Wanberg, Marc C. Marchese
Two hundred forty‐seven unemployed individuals completed a battery of scales assessing constructs relevant to the unemployment situation. These constructs included: financial situation, employment commitment, job‐seeking confidence, time structure, mental health, cognitive impairment, physical symptoms, and unemployment negativity (how upset an individual is about being unemployed). The re...... hiện toàn bộ
Sweetening the Till: The Use of Candy to Increase Restaurant Tipping1Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 300-309 - 2002
David B. Strohmetz, Bruce Rind, Reed Fisher, Michael Lynn
A common practice among servers in restaurants is to give their dining parties an unexpected gift in the form of candy when delivering the check. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the impact of this gesture on the tip percentages received by servers. Experiment 1 found that customers who received a small piece of chocolate along with the check tipped more than did customers who re...... hiện toàn bộ
Directionality of the Association Between Social Support and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Longitudinal Investigation1Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 36 Số 12 - Trang 2980-2992 - 2006
Daniel W. King, Casey T. Taft, Lynda A. King, Charity Hammond, Erika R. Stone
This study examined the nature of the association between social support and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology among 2,249 male veterans of the 1990‐1991 Gulf War. Using structural equation modeling, a cross‐lagged panel analysis indicated a strong negative relationship between PTSD at Time 1 and social support at Time 2, while social support at Time 1 did not predict PTS...... hiện toàn bộ
Coping Self‐Efficacy as a Mediator of Distress Following a Natural DisasterJournal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 29 Số 12 - Trang 2443-2464 - 1999
Charles C. Benight, Erika Swift, Jean M. Sanger, Anne E. Smith, Dan Zeppelin
Social‐cognitive theory and conservation‐of‐resources theory were utilized to understand individual differences in psychological response to natural disaster. Coping self‐efficacy, lost resources, social support, and optimism were assessed along with demographic variables in predicting distress following Hurricane Opal. Participants included 67 residents of Okaloosa County, Florida. Multip...... hiện toàn bộ
Consumers' Affective Response to Delays at Different Phases of a Service Delivery1Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 21 Số 10 - Trang 810-820 - 1991
Laurette Dubé, Bernd H. Schmitt, France Leclerc
A field experiment was conducted in an educational setting to investigate affective reactions occurring at different phases of the delivery of a service. An eight‐minute delay caused more negative affective reactions when it occurred either before the service started (preprocess) or after the service had terminated (postprocess) than when it occurred in the middle of the service encounter ...... hiện toàn bộ