Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Perceived Organizational Injustice and Corrupt Tendencies in Public Sector Employees: Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction","authors":"","doi":"10.24913/rjap.22.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.22.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Studies have shown that corruption may adversely affect the functionality of the law and institutions; and may frustrate socio-economic development. Most developing countries focus the fight against corruption on the deterrence perspective, which emphasizes the promptness and severity of punishment as a way of preventing and discouraging corrupt behaviors. Punishment may not adequately deter corruption, especially when employees are less satisfied with life or feel unjustly treated and may, therefore, engage in corruption as a justice-restoring act. This study, therefore, adopted a justice-focused approach to investigate the extent to which perception of organizational injustice and life satisfaction correlated with corrupt tendencies in public sector employees. The participants were 285 public sector employees (188 males; 97 females), whose ages averaged 39.09 years (SD = 8.40) with a range of 20 to 58 years. They were selected across large sections of two public sector organizations in Nigeria. Results of the 3-step hierarchical regression showed that perception of organizational injustice was significantly related with increased level of corrupt tendencies. As the participants’ level of life satisfaction increased, their tendencies of engaging in corruption reduced. Results of the mediation tests showed that, despite an increased perception of organizational injustice, life satisfaction was significantly related with low tendencies of engaging in corruption among employees. In order to reduce corrupt tendencies, organizations should efficiently handle perceived wrongdoing among employees and institute programmes that promote employees’ happiness and well-being.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83427800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adult psychological outcomes of former left behind children in Romania","authors":"","doi":"10.24913/rjap.22.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.22.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of adult labor migration in Europe, Romania is one of the leading work force sending countries, with 93 648 left behind children according to the ANPDCA (2017). The purpose of this empirical study is to investigate the perceived difficulties and outcomes of young adults with a left behind background. The sample size was 193 adults (83% F, mean age 24.93 years). The subjects were tested online with psychological measures assessing anxiety, depression, clarity of Self-Concept, generalized self-efficacy and school difficulties. The study found that contextual factors such as one or both parents left to work abroad, the duration of the separation, the age of separation may partly explain the inter-individual variations in the perceived psychological consequences related to labor migrant parents. The practical importance for educational actors of the results of this study resides in offering information on how to approach students whose parents left the country. Also the findings can inspire the optimization of the support policies for these children.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86658902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is Discrimination against disabled job candidates increased by previously acquired non-discriminatory moral credentials?","authors":"","doi":"10.24913/rjap.22.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.22.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies showed that people are more willing to express prejudiced attitudes towards others when their past behavior has established their credentials as non-prejudiced persons. We examined this moral licensing effect in organizational contexts on a sample of 318 elementary school teachers. First, participants were given the opportunity to disagree with a set of discriminatory sentences. Next, all participants were required to express their attitudes towards hiring a disabled person for a specific job within the educational working environment in a hypothetical scenario. We also investigated the associations of participants' decisions with other personal characteristics such as gender, age, and previous contact with persons with disabilities. We found that participants in the moral licensing condition expressed a stronger endorsement of the discriminatory decisional alternative. Results are discussed concerning the educational context regarding the inclusion of people with physical or mental disabilities within the academic working environment.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82941629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental Imagery, Optimism, and Self-efficacy: The Role of Imagery Perspective\u0000and Imagery Modality in Positive Cognition","authors":"Claudia A. Pop, Alexandru Tiba","doi":"10.24913/rjap.21.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.21.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined whether using different imagery perspectives and modalities plays a role in the link between vividness of imagining positive events and positive cognition such as optimism, self-efficacy and memory for positive mood. We asked participants to complete self-rating scales of positive cognition and to imagine doing various actions in positive situations from the external and internal perspectives of visual modality and when using kinesthetic modality. We found that vividness of imagining actions in positive situations from an external perspective predicts all positive cognitions: optimism and self-efficacy and memory of positive mood. The vividness of imagining actions in positive situations from the internal perspective of visual modality and kinesthetic imagery predicted only self-efficacy and memory of positive mood but not optimism. We discuss the findings in light of existing theories regarding imagery and positive cognition and suggest several possibilities of using imagery perspective for imagery interventions.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81182703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Higher aims and standards, new indexing and submission format","authors":"Paul Sârbescu, F. Sava","doi":"10.24913/rjap.21.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.21.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"As half of 2019 passed almost like a sparkle already, the first RJAP issue glimmers on the horizon. This editorial unfolds several accomplishments and announces future endeavors for the journal. “You can’t know were you’re going until you know were you’ve been”, or so they say. Hence, before we jump to the new additions to the journal, let’s take a brief look at our previous volumes. In the past years, RJAP had a lot of diversity – both in terms of article topics and types. Although oraganizational psychology is (probably) the most well represented and consistent area of our journal (e.g. Griep et al., 2015, Veress & Gavreliuc, 2018), it is far from being the only one. Implicit measures have consistently made their way into our volumes (e.g. Gruber, 2018; Sălăgean, 2017; Şoflău & Matu, 2016), while transportation psychology has also been represented (e.g. Măirean, 2018). One of the most noticed and cited article from the past few years focused on the national personality profile of Romanians (David et al., 2015). In 2018, bullying was a popular topic: both among primary school children (Ang et al., 2018) and among high school students (DiBlasi, Shin and Dill, 2018). And although the vast majority of published articles are represented by empirical papers, we also published two meta-analyses in the past three years: one on the association between personality and aggressive driving (Iancu, Hogea & Olteanu, 2016) and the other concerning the efficiency of socio-emotional learning programs (Boncu, Costea & Minulescu, 2017). Our previous aims also apply to the future of RJAP. We welcome empirical/methodological papers and metaanalyses from all areas of applied psychology. Literature reviews will only be considered if they provide meaningful ways of advancing applied research. We also wish to increase the number of published papers to +10 per volume. However, as before, quality will always precede quantity and no compromises will be made just for the sake of publishing more papers. So, what’s new about RJAP? Probably the most exciting news concern RJAP’s inclusion in PsycINFO and Scopus (very recent). As these new objectives were accomplished, the next stop is Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index. Another novelty concerns a new submission format addition: registered reports.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84978090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-authenticity, Optimism, and Neuroticism in relation to Basic Psychological Needs","authors":"D. Ionescu, C. Iacob","doi":"10.24913/rjap.21.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.21.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aimed at investigating the mediating role of one personality construct (i.e., dispositional optimism) on the relationship between self-authenticity and basic psychological needs (BPN) satisfaction. This study also aims to investigate the predictive role of three personality constructs (self-authenticity, optimism, and neuroticism) on basic psychological needs satisfaction. The participants were 566 Romanian adults from the general population (M = 43.66 years old, SD = 10.46), who were asked to fill in multiple questionnaires. Findings reveal that optimism mediates the relationship between self-authenticity and the satisfaction of the need for autonomy (β=.30, R2=.39, p<0.001) and also mediates the relationship between self-authenticity and the satisfaction of the need for competence (β=.51, R2=.36, p<0.001), but does not mediate the relationship between self-authenticity and the need for relatedness. Another result of this study is that the three personality factors (self-authenticity, optimism, and neuroticism) predict altogether the satisfaction of basic psychological needs (β= -.11, R2=.52, p<0.05). These results extend the current knowledge about personality determinants involved in autonomy, competence and relatedness basic needs from self-determination theory. In the end, the authors discuss the implications of the findings, the limits of the present study and future research suggestions.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85288631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Work-Life Conflict and Satisfaction with Life: Correlates and the Mediating Role of the Work-Family Conflict","authors":"A. Cazan, Camelia Truța, M. Pavalache-Ilie","doi":"10.24913/rjap.21.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.21.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"The permeable boundary between family life and professional life allows interferences between them which could lead to either positive or negative consequences in both plans of the employees’ lives. Our paper aims to analyse the relationships between the work-family conflict, organizational attachment, positive and negative affectivity, work satisfaction and life satisfaction and last but not least, well-being. The sample consisted of 245 employees. The main hypothesis highlights the mediating role of the work-family conflict in the relationship between affectivity, workplace attachment and job satisfaction and satisfaction with life. Future research could focus on the environmental factors mediating the relationships between life and job satisfaction and on their interaction with the dispositional factors.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80444121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Self Efficacy on Perceived Job Insecurity in the Nigerian Banking Industry: the Mediating Role of Employee Self Esteem","authors":"Adewale, A. Adekiya, B. Adepoju, Garba, Bala Bello, Bernardes Oscar","doi":"10.24913/rjap.21.01.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.21.01.03","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the assumption that the construct of self-esteem should acts as a major factor in the self- evaluation model and it’s often given a consideration whenever the objective is determining the nature of human behavior including the coping styles usually adopted by employees as a result of exposure to insecure job perception, this study extends on previous research by employing the use of Lazarus transactional stress theory and Korman social construction theory to present a research model which highlights employees self-efficacy as an antecedent of perceived job insecurity with employee’s self-esteem acting as a mediator in this relationship. To advance our line of theoretical reasoning, we elicit responses from a total of one hundred and fifty three (153) randomly selected bankers in four major Nigerian Banks to empirically prove that employee self-esteem represents a core construct whenever the objective is centered on reducing the perception of job insecurity from the perspective of job related efficacies. Specifically, two key findings were uncovered: 1) while increase in self-efficacy will directly lead to a significant increase in self-esteem, it will however lead to an insignificant decrease in perceived job insecurity. 2) An improvement in self-esteem exercises a direct, negative and statistically significant influence on perceived job insecurity. Hence, with the view that managers and practitioners can advance their course in reducing employee’s self-perceived job insecurity through self-efficacy by focusing on improving self-esteem, we conclude by proposing relevant personality based interventions in addition to those organizational and institutional based interventions which may be employed in advancing this course.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78322422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organizational Commitment, Organizational Justice and Work Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Model in a Romanian Organizational Setting","authors":"Z. Veress, A. Gavreliuc","doi":"10.24913/rjap.20.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.20.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"Our paper investigates the way in which the different dimensions of organizational justice and organizational commitment are mediated by work satisfaction. The rationale of the study is two folded. First, in our opinion there is a gap in scientific literature when it comes to studies that explore the way in which the dimensions of organizational justice and organizational commitment interact, most researches treating commitment as an aggregate concept. Second, even thou the interaction between organizational justice, job satisfaction and organizational commitment is well documented, studies that consider job satisfaction a mediator rather than an outcome variable are few even, if these few provide strong evidence regarding the value of job satisfaction as a mediator. Our research was done two Romanian manufacturing organization, in Harghita and Brașov Counties (N = 676) and the collected data was interpreted using exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The obtained model not only further enforces existing body of knowledge regarding the strong relation between organizational justice and commitment but also proposes a way in which the dimensions of these two concepts relate to each other, relation that is mediated by job satisfaction. Our proposed model shows that three of the four dimensions of organizational justice (procedural, distributive, interactional justice) are mediated by job satisfaction (distributive justice) and one is partially mediated (procedural).","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"28 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88111030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mortality salience and the Trolley Problem in Medical Students","authors":"G. Andrade, M. Redondo, D. Razdan","doi":"10.24913/rjap.20.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24913/rjap.20.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Terror Management Theory predicts that when subjects are exposed to mortality salience (i.e. they are reminded of their death), they develop higher levels of anxiety and have stronger holdings for their cultural worldviews. Mortality salience also makes subjects more cautious in many daily activities. These premises lead to the hypothesis that, under mortality salience, subjects are more deontological in their moral judgments. To test this hypothesis, medical students from a Caribbean school were presented with two classical versions of the Trolley Problem. Subjects were placed in two groups, on the basis of a computer random generator. One group was not exposed to mortality salience, the other group was. Results came out showing that being under mortality salience does not significantly increase the probability that subjects have a deontological approach to ethics.","PeriodicalId":36595,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89082434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}