Bart Weathington

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Numbers involved in the gender gap in computer science are substantial and growing. The gender gap has been slowly decreasing in most STEM fields, with several showing significant gains, leading some to believe that time will solve the problem. However, the percentage of degrees awarded to women in computer science peaked in 1986, and has been sign...

Endurance sport competition requires long and often intensive aerobic efforts. In this atmosphere, athletes who experience a self-proclaimed "bad day" may choose to drop out of a competition instead of completing it. The current study examines the relationship between gender, goal orientation, and participation motivation with in-competition drop-...

This chapter focuses on research that involves more than two levels or conditions of a single independent variable. It also examines an extremely useful statistical technique known as the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The ANOVA has evolved into an elaborate collection of widely used statistical procedures in contemporary behavioral and social resea...

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All researchers have a responsibility to act in a moral and ethical manner. This responsibility is especially critical for psychologists because their research directly affects the lives of the people and animals that are a part of their research. This chapter examines common ethical issues that arise when researchers go about the process of collec...

High levels of life stress, both positive and negative, are associated with injury risk 1,2 • The stress-injury response includes: the stressor, the stress response, and the injury 2 • Coping mechanisms affect the impact of stress on athletic performance and risk of injury 1 • Coping resources moderate the influence of life stress on injury vulnera...

Personal information available on networking websites such as and Facebook© and LinkedIn© is being used more frequently in the workplace. This study examined the effect of alternative sources of information (i.e., information beyond that provided on a formal resume) on applicant evaluations and selection decision making. Alternative information was...

This study evaluated Equity Sensitivity (ES) as an explanation for individual differences in employee valuation and satisfaction with non wage employee benefits (i.e., fringe benefits) utilizing both the Equity Sensitivity Instrument (ESI) and Equity Preference Questionnaire (EPQ). ES proposes that individuals vary in their tolerance for inequity....

High levels of life stress, both positive and negative, are associated with injury risk 1,2 • The stress-injury response includes: the stressor, the stress response, and the injury 2 • Coping mechanisms affect the impact of stress on athletic performance and risk of injury 1 • Coping resources moderate the influence of life stress on injury vulnera...

Weiss and Rupp (2011) argue that because of its prevailing paradigm, industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology can be viewed as having run out of interesting questions to answer and that many of the questions that are being studied are trivial and uninteresting. Although this contention itself may cause quite a bit of debate, the fact that it can...

The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of salary level, amount of leave per year, the extent of cost-sharing for health care insurance coverage, and type of retirement plan on individuals’ job choice within a United States employment context. Salary, amount of vacation time, cost of health insurance, and type of retireme...

Self-knowledge is a Muslim psychological ideal, but social theory suggests that the dynamics of narcissism and self-esteem may challenge the stability of Muslim society. In Iranian university students, an Integrative Self-Knowledge Scale displayed relationships with narcissism, self-esteem, and empathy that reflected relative mental health; and the...

The coach-athlete relationship is an important determinant of athlete stress and motivation levels. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between athlete evaluations of coaching characteristics (specifically likeability and technical expertise), student-athlete motivation, perceived stress, and self-reported skill....

In theory, mindfulness has a role to play in resolving intercultural conflicts. This suggestion rests upon the relatively untested presumption that mindfulness operates similarly across cultures. In a test of this presumption, university students from two countries that are often in conflict at the governmental level, Iran (N = 723) and the United...

While most research on the impact of race on employment evaluations has focused on non-Blacks' perceptions of hiring decisions, the current study extends existing research by focusing on such perceptions in a Black sample. Relying on similarity theory and identity theory, this study hypothesized that the selection-related decisions made by Black ra...

With continuing increases in the cost of medical insurance and other “fringe” benefits, payroll cost for monetary and non-monetary aspects of compensation is a significant factor for most organizations. While this is not a new phenomenon, relatively few studies in the empirical literature have examined the role of fringe benefits in employee compen...

The Survey of Personal Beliefs (SPB) is a frequently used measure of irrational beliefs, but can display less than ideal psychometric properties. In the first study of the present project, the five subscales of the SPB correlated as expected with higher levels of perfectionism, shame, and guilt. A confirmatory factor analysis, nevertheless, reveale...

Researchers have examined the fit or match between a person and an organization extensively in the empirical literature. Overall findings have supported the existence of a positive relation between the congruence of employee and organizational values with employee attitudes toward the organization. However, this relation is not fully understood, an...

This paper investigated the relationship among gender role, personality and peer and self evaluations of leadership behavior. Participants formed teams to complete a leaderless group activity and then completed personality, gender role, and leadership questionnaires. Results indicated that low femininity and high extraversion scores were predictive...

In Heinz Kohut's (1977, 1984) theory of the psychology of the self, good parenting provides a child with optimal frustration and just the right amount of loving empathic concern. In the present study, the authors examined the relations of perceived parental empathy and love inconsistency with measures of narcissism, self-esteem, and depression. In...

Researchers have suggested that dispositional optimism is related to both stress and stress outcomes. However, the nature of this relationship has not fully been explained. The authors contributed to a better understanding of this relationship by evaluating dispositional optimism, stress, overall life satisfaction, and job burnout in a sample of re...

Many organizations and institutions are spending extensive time, money, and resources to justify a focus on diversity. In this paper, we argue that, instead of justifying demographic diversity, the more appropriate focus is on properly managing the processes and outcomes of a diverse workforce. Demographic diversity in the workplace is a reality. I...

Researchers have commonly assumed benefits that employees view as more valuable have a greater influence on their attitudes and behaviors. Researchers have used 2 common methods to measure benefit value: attaching a monetary value to benefits and using self-reports of benefit importance. The present authors propose that the 2 approaches are concept...

The authors examined perceptions of distributive justice, procedural justice, trust, organizational commitment, organizational satisfaction, and turnover intentions among survivors in an organization that had recently completed an organizational downsizing. Results suggested that trust partially mediated the relationship between distributive justic...

The authors examined the congruence between an individual's personal-life value placement and attitudes at work. Specifically, they examined how people place value on work, family, religion, and themselves (the personal life values), respectively, and how that choice influences affect, commitment, conscientiousness, and honesty in the workplace (at...

Past research suggests that employee perceptions of the benefits provided to them by their organization can influence employee attitudes. Three factors that appear to influence the perception of benefits by employees are benefit satisfaction, benefit importance, and the perceived motive of the organization in providing the benefit to employees. How...

Past research suggests that employee perceptions of the benefits provided to them by their organization can influence employee attitudes. Three factors that appear to influence the perception of benefits by employees are benefit satisfaction, benefit importance, and the perceived motive of the organization in providing the benefit to employees. How...

In recent situations such as Bosnia and Haiti, the failure of soldiers to interpret cultural expression has led to embarrassing and potentially dangerous situations. The current research represents an evaluation of virtual reality as a display medium for emotion recognition training. The research utilized a 3×3×6 mixed research design. Forty-eight...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston, 1999. Degree granted by Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-41).