Impact of Employee Demography, Family Responsibility and Perceived Family Support on Workplace Resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1249-1262
Author(s):  
Sujata Bose ◽  
Durba Pal
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Family Responsibility ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Work Factors ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

Resilience at workplace has been identified as an essential attribute of employees which enables them to cope with challenges associated with the changing nature of modern businesses. Among the work and non-work factors that add up to these challenges for employees, family responsibility features as a very crucial factor that also plays a significant role in an employee’s career-related choices and outcomes. This study examines the impact of family responsibilities and perceived family support on an employee’s workplace resilience, probing further into their interaction effect. It also examines the effect of three demographic variables, namely employee’s age, gender and marital status on workplace resilience. Data were collected from more than 200 professionals from one of the major metropolises in India. The results show that the employee’s age has a significant main effect on workplace resilience. Multiple regression with interaction effect reveals that while family responsibility and perceived family support have a significant main effect, their interaction effect is insignificant.

The Impact of Virtual Physical Activity Interventions on Depression and Anxiety among College Students: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Murray ◽  
Michele Marenus ◽  
Ana Cahuas ◽  
Kathryn Friedman ◽  
Haley Ottensoser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Resistance Exercise ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Exercise Intervention ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are growing issues for college students, with both aerobic-resistance training and mindfulness-yoga exercises known to be effective in reducing symptoms and severity. However, no known research is available comparing these two depression and anxiety interventions simultaneously and in a virtual environment. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the effects of a virtual aerobic-resistance exercise intervention (WeActive) and a virtual yoga-mindfulness mindfulness exercise intervention (WeMindful) on depression and anxiety symptoms in college students METHODS The participants were 78 college students who anonymously completed a Qualtrics survey including the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) and the Major Depression Inventory (MDI) at baseline and the post-test. Participants were randomly assigned to either the WeActive or WeMindful group and underwent two 30-minute virtual aerobic-resistance exercise lessons or yoga-mindfulness lessons per week for eight weeks. RESULTS The results of ANCOVA with repeated measures indicated that, while not statistically significant, both groups showed a notable decrease in anxiety with a marginal significant main effect of time (F = 3.485, p = 0.066, η2 = 0.047) but no significant main effect of group and no significant interaction effect of time with group. The two intervention groups experienced a significant decrease in depression with the main effect of time (F = 3.892, p = 0.052, η2 = 0.052). There was no significant main effect of group or interaction effect of time with group for depression. CONCLUSIONS College students in both WeActive and WeMindful groups experienced a significant decrease in depression symptoms and a decrease, though not significant, in anxiety as well. The study suggests that virtual WeActive and WeMindful interventions are effective approaches to managing US college student depression and anxiety during a pandemic.

Behavioral biases and investors’ decision-making: The moderating role of socio-demographic variables

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950020
Author(s):  
Naveeda K. Katper ◽  
Muhammad Azam ◽  
Nazima Abdul Karim ◽  
Syeda Zinnaira Zia
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of behavioral biases on investment decision, and the interaction effect of socio-demographic characteristics. Data were collected from a sample of 179 individual investors in the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The authors conducted a hierarchical regression analysis to test the moderating effect of socio-demographic variables on behavioral biases. The results show that behavioral biases have a significant impact on investors’ decision-making. Moreover, socio-demographic variables (education, occupation and marital status) moderate the relationship between emotional biases and investors’ decision-making. This study provides a new addition to prior literature by investigating the impact of behavioral biases on investors’ decision-making, and the interaction effect of socio-demographic characteristics.

Work-Family Challenges and Their Impact on Career Decisions: A Study of Indian Women Professionals

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghamitra Buddhapriya
Keyword(s):  
Women Professionals ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Family Responsibility ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

A broad review of existing literature on barriers to women's career advancement suggests that one of the most important reasons inhibiting women's rise to the top positions in management is the work-life conflict that women professionals experience because of their strong commitment to family responsibilities. The primary objective of this study is to understand the impact of family responsibilities on the career decisions of women professionals and also to find out the type of work-life support they would require from their employers to balance their work and life in a better manner. The study is conducted with 121 women professionals working in government services, public sector, private sector, and in NGOs across different levels. The perception of women professionals regarding the barriers against their career advancement is studied. The impact of demographic factors like managerial level, marital status, and family structure on all the above-mentioned issues are also analysed. Following are some of the major findings of the study: Apart from other factors, ‘commitment to family responsibility’ and ‘lack of gendersensitive policies by the employer’ are considered as important barriers which affect the career advancement of women professionals to senior positions. Senior and middle level professionals believe more strongly than the junior level women professionals that commitment to family responsibility hinders women professionals' advancement. Family responsibility considerably affects the career decisions of women professionals. It is generally expected that the female spouse should take care of the family responsibility. Women professionals agree that children's responsibility hinders their ability to advance. They think that they are not able to utilize their full potential and at times they have to make career trade-offs because of the family responsibilities. They also believe that putting career ahead of family leads to social disapproval and rejection and at the middle level of their career, the pressure for conforming to the societal norms could be more. The research reveals the expectations of the women professionals in terms of the support that organizations can provide to help them in achieving better work-life balance and advance in their career. A significant percentage of respondents have shown their strong preference for provisions like flexible working hours, childcare facilitates and emergency care for children and elders, support for non-work commitment, wellness, and personal development programmes. Half of the women professionals agree that “flexibility in work location” (working from home⁄telecommuting) can be taken up as an additional support provision. The requirement for all these work-life provisions are felt more at the middle and junior level rather than at the senior level.

Assessing the impact of demographic variables on mentoring-managerial effectiveness relationship

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poornima Madan ◽  
Shalini Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Managerial Effectiveness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between mentoring, managerial effectiveness and demographic variables. Being in a mentoring relationship offers a low-cost experiential learning, encourages diversity and inclusion, helps in expanding professional associations and boosts engagement. The use of mentoring programs can achieve this to a larger extent by making managers effective. Design/methodology/approachThe study was administered on 350 middle-level managers, representatives of five private sector banks in Delhi/NCR. Variables in the study were assessed using validated instruments. Descriptive statistics, t-test, correlation and hierarchical regression were used for data analysis. FindingsThe study depicts that mentoring has a positive and significant impact on managerial effectiveness. The research contributed in establishing that the demographic variables (gender and marital status) positively moderate the relationship between mentoring and managerial effectiveness. Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the knowledge base and skillfulness of the young mangers are taken care by the way of organizational training, mentoring relationships complement it with added focus on personal directions to deal with minutiae of organizational processes. Mentors provide a critical linkage to an organization’s competitive advantage by helping expanding connections and networks of employees, and thereby, enhancing productivity which directly affects profitability. Managers and policymakers should chart out the mentoring plans, keeping in perspective the demographic variables, specially the gender of the mentee and the marital status. Originality/valueThis is a pioneer study contributing to the present reserve of knowledge and understanding of the subject by contextualizing the impact of demographic variables on mentoring and managerial effectiveness in Indian private sector banks.

Family Responsibilities and Career Outcomes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Leslie ◽  
Patricia Dahm ◽  
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Model ◽  
Parental Status ◽  
Career Outcomes ◽  
Family Responsibility ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

This chapter advances the understanding of the impact of family responsibilities on career outcomes (e.g., hiring, promotion, and pay) by proposing an integrative model, spanning theories from economics, psychology, and sociology, that includes multiple mechanisms through which family responsibilities may affect career outcomes. The model serves as a guide for reviewing the literature on the effect of family responsibilities—including marital and breadwinner status, parental status, pregnancy, and use of family-friendly policies—on career outcomes. The chapter concludes that family responsibilities affect career outcomes, net of any productivity differences between employees with and without family responsibilities, suggesting discriminatory treatment. The effect is not uniformly negative; employees with family responsibilities have either less favorable or more favorable career outcomes than employees without. We find that whether family responsibilities positively or negatively affect career outcomes, and the mechanisms driving the effect, depends on the family responsibility type and, at times, employee gender.

The impact research of online reviews’ sentiment polarity presentation on consumer purchase decision

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Xiaohang Zhang ◽  
Yunxia Mao ◽  
Peng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Because online shopping is risky, there is a strong need to develop better presentation of online reviews, which may reduce the perceived risk and create more pleasurable shopping experiences. To test the impact of online reviews’ sentiment polarity presentation, the purpose of this paper is to adopt a scenario experiment to study consumers’ decision-making process under the two scenarios of mixed presentation and classified presentation of online reviews collected from Jingdong.com in China: focusing on the comparative analysis on the differences of the consumers’ perceived risk, purchase intention and purchase delay, and further studying the interaction effect of involvement and online reviews’ sentiment polarity presentation. Design/methodology/approach This paper employed a 2×2 factorial experiment to test the hypothesis. The experimental design is divided into four groups: 2 (online reviews’ sentiment polarity presentation: mixed presentation vs classified presentation) × 2 (involvement: low vs high), each of which contains 90 samples. Through the data analysis, the main effect, mediation effect and moderating effect were examined. Findings The results show that compared with mixed presentation, classified presentation can reduce purchase intention and increase purchase delay due to the existence of loss aversion and availability heuristic. Furthermore, the paper also confirms that there is a significant interaction effect between involvement and online reviews’ sentiment polarity presentation. Originality/value The existing research pays less attention to the impact of online reviews presentation on consumers’ decision making, especially the lack of discussion on the interaction effect between involvement and online reviews presentation. For this reason, this paper proposes a problem, which concerns whether mixed presentation and classified presentation of online reviews will affect consumers’ decision making differently.

The Impact of Endorsing the Belief in a Just World on Social Judgments

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Testé ◽  
Samantha Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Just World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Impact

The present research examines the social value attributed to endorsing the belief in a just world for self (BJW-S) and for others (BJW-O) in a Western society. We conducted four studies in which we asked participants to assess a target who endorsed BJW-S vs. BJW-O either strongly or weakly. Results showed that endorsement of BJW-S was socially valued and had a greater effect on social utility judgments than it did on social desirability judgments. In contrast, the main effect of endorsement of BJW-O was to reduce the target’s social desirability. The results also showed that the effect of BJW-S on social utility is mediated by the target’s perceived individualism, whereas the effect of BJW-S and BJW-O on social desirability is mediated by the target’s perceived collectivism.

The impact of cultural factors on attachment dynamics: a view from Irish society

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Michael O’Toole
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Irish Context ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In this article I examine aspects of the relationship between mothers and sons from an attachment perspective in an Irish context. Through the works of Irish writers such as Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, and Colm Tóibín, I focus on particular aspects of this relationship, which fails to support the developmental processes of separation and individuation in the many men who come to me for psychotherapy. I illustrate key points concerning this attachment dynamic through the use of clinical examples of my work with two men from my practice. While acknowledging that many other cultural factors play a significant role in the emotional development of children, integrating the work of our poets, novelists, and scholars with an attachment perspective

Assessing the Impact of the Inlet Total Pressure Distortion on the Turbofan Thrust

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Ezrokhi ◽  
E. A. Khoreva
Keyword(s):  
Total Pressure ◽  
External Compression ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Inlet Distortion ◽  
Air Inlet ◽  
Engine Thrust ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Pressure Recovery Factor ◽  
The Impact

The paper considers techniques to develop a mathematical model using a method of «parallel compressors». The model is intended to estimate the impact of the air inlet distortion on the primary parameters of the aero-engine.  The paper presents rated estimation results in the context of twin spool turbofan design for two typical cruiser modes of flight of the supersonic passenger jet. In estimation the base values σbase and the average values of the inlet ram recovery σave remained invariable. Thus, parametrical calculations were performed for each chosen relative value of the area of low-pressure region.The paper shows that an impact degree of the inlet distortion on the engine thrust for two modes under consideration is essentially different. In other words, if in the subsonic mode the impact assessment can be confined only to taking into account the influence of decreasing average values of the inlet total pressure, the use of such an assumption in the supersonic cruiser mode may result in considerable errors.With invariable values of the pressure recovery factor at the engine intake, which correspond to the speed of flight for a typical air inlet of external compression σbase, and average value σave, a parameter Δσuneven  has the main effect on the engine thrust, and degree of this effect essentially depends on a difference between σave and σbase values.

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