Christopher J. L. Cunningham

• Ph.D.
• Professor at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Recent societal changes, including a global pandemic, have exacerbated experiences of and attention to burnout related to work and parenting. In the present study, we investigated how several social forces can act as demands and resources to impact work-related and parental burnout. We tested two primary hypotheses in a sample of women who responde...

Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology provides a thorough overview of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) with a focus on empowering readers to take appropriate and reasoned action to address a wide variety of worker health, safety, and well-being challenges that are present in working situations all over the world. Although relatively new...

In many ways, clergy (i.e., religious leaders including pastors, ministers) are a high-risk population. In their efforts to ensure the spiritual well-being of their congregations, clergy may neglect their own well-being and be unaware of the potentially detrimental effects that their work has on their health. The purpose of this study was to add to...

In many ways, clergy and religious leaders are an ignored, yet high-risk population. A clergy member unable to cope with challenges in his or her own life may be ineffective at helping church members to cope with their stress. In the present study, we developed and tested an operational model of clergy holistic health, including occupational demand...

Highlighting the archaic immigration system in the United States of America (US), the present study demonstrates for the first time the impact of green card waiting time on the work and family life of Indian immigrants living in the US. Our present findings show that 93.4% of our participants are very concerned about the estimated green card waitin...

Our understanding of the challenges and the broader role of spouses of expatriates is extremely limited. This study examined the impact of spousal work restrictions on expatriates' work life and overall life satisfaction using qualitative and quantitative analyses based on data from a sample of 409 Indian Information Technology professionals workin...

Drawing from identity theory, we proposed individuals with high work salience experienced high work stressors (interpersonal conflict, workhours, and workload), resulting in positive work‐nonwork conflict (WNWC), and individuals with high nonwork salience experienced lower work stressors, resulting in negative WNWC. Furthermore, we tested for the m...

Many scholars have written about the role of spirituality in health care. One mechanism for incorporating spirituality into the care of patients is to integrate clinically trained chaplains into hospital care teams. We examined in a mixed-methods fashion, the effects of this type of integrated care team within a teaching hospital setting. The quali...

Purpose Globalization has led to individuals working and living outside their native country. The purpose of this paper is to examine relationship between motives for expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment in Indian expatriates working in the US information technology (IT) industry. Additionally, the moderating effects of self-initiated expatri...

America's aging population needs interprofessional health care providers committed to providing high-quality, patient-centered care. Considering the often negative attitudes held by health care students about older adults and the impact that can have on their care, it is important to explore factors that influence student attitudes and desire to pr...

Recent commentary has suggested that performance management (PM) is fundamentally “broken,” with negative feelings from managers and employees toward the process at an all-time high (Pulakos, Hanson, Arad, & Moye, 2015; Pulakos & O'Leary, 2011). In response, some high-profile organizations have decided to eliminate performance ratings altogether as...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to amend and extend the emerging research that has utilized an employee-focused approach to examining the service recovery process. In doing so, we examine the influences of supervisor and coworker support for error management on two measures of employee service performance: service recovery performance and hel...

Background: Burnout and engagement are critical conditions affecting patient safety and the functioning of healthcare organizations; the areas of worklife model suggest that work environment characteristics may impact employee burnout and general worklife quality. Objectives: The purpose was to present and test a conditional process model linkin...

Early career physicians (ECPs) work an average of 80 h per week, and at times may approach 24 continuous hours working. These hours, combined with a stressful work environment, and an inability to physically and psychologically detach from work make ECPs likely to experience burnout and other negative health-related consequences. This study provide...

Theory and research suggest that an internalization of psychological " structure " related to self-esteem may mediate relationships of Maladaptive Narcissism with higher and Adaptive Narcissism with lower Anger. In the present study (N = 623), Self-Esteem and Contingency of Self-Worth Scales served as presumed indices of the presence or absence of...

Let's Correct Ourselves and How We Handle Unreliability in Performance Evaluation - Volume 7 Issue 4 - Christopher J. L. Cunningham, Neil Morelli

This chapter explores religion and spirituality as a form and source of demographic differences relevant to the study of occupational stress and well-being. The purpose of the chapter is to provide a resource and starting point to occupational health and stress researchers who may be interested in religion/spirituality. A review of critical religio...

Undergraduate and graduate nursing education programs can offer a very limited number of positions to a very large number of student applicants. Although practices vary widely across Schools of Nursing, it is common in many programs to use rational or holistic judgment when determining which student applicants to admit. The present applied study de...

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...

In 2001 the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations added "requirement to disclose unanticipated outcomes" to accreditation standards. Full disclosure increases patient satisfaction and trust in physicians. Though studies suggest elements of complete disclosure, there are no national standards.

Objectives: To obtain in-depth community input using qualitative and quantitative methods to guide development and marketing of a bike-share program in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Method: Focus groups and surveys assessed bicycling attitudes, beliefs, barriers, and behaviors of residents, workers, and university students. The authors completed nine...

The common usage of Conservation of Resources (COR) theory highlights the quantity of resources in explaining stress reactions and responses. To expand the theoretical understanding and explanatory power of COR theory, this study tested the proposition that the perceived importance of an individual's resources is a function of personal values. Usin...

It is increasingly recognised that work and family roles are interconnected. This is one reason why researchers and practitioners are working to understand and facilitate balance between work and nonwork roles. Most existing literature defines inter-role balance by emphasising work and family roles alone; unfortunately, this narrow focus prevents u...

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...

The factor structures of the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) and NEO-FFI Big Five questionnaires were examined via confirmatory factor analyses. Analyses of IPIP data for five samples and NEO data for one sample showed that a CFA model with three method bias factors, one influencing all items, one influencing negatively worded items, and...

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...

According to the ideological surround model of research, a more “objective” psychology of religion requires efforts to bring etic social scientific and emic religious perspectives into formal dialog. This study of 245 Iranian university students illustrated how the dialogical validity of widely used etic measures of religion can be assessed by exam...

My reaction to Ryan and Ford's (2010) tipping point discussion stems from the footnote assigned to the title of their article, “In keeping with recent trends in the field, we use ‘organizational psychology’ rather than industrial/organizational psychology throughout, except when directly quoting a source or providing a historical referent.” This on...

My reaction to Ryan and Ford's (2010) tipping point discussion stems from the footnote assigned to the title of their article, “In keeping with recent trends in the field, we use ‘organizational psychology’ rather than industrial/organizational psychology throughout, except when directly quoting a source or providing a historical referent.” This on...

Previous research has established that awareness of self-experience is a stress resistance resource. The present study conducted an analysis of measures that record different aspects of self-awareness (private self-consciousness, mindfulness, and integrative self-knowledge) to explain this stress-resistance effect in a sample of Iranian university...

23 WSH 2011: Call for Proposals 23 Book Announcements 7, 12, 15, 18 Editor's Welcome Note from the Editor Welcome to the eighth issue of the Newsletter of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology. Once again we have an interesting lineup of articles and an-nouncements. I am proud to report that our Across-the-Pond feature has a different and...

The work–nonwork supportiveness of an organization may influence applicant decision making among young applicants. This possibility was tested using a phased narrowing decision making task and three organizational attributes (salary, number of work–nonwork supportive policies/benefits and their related culture supportiveness). Data gathered from a...

In three Iranian samples, the brief Post-Critical Beliefs Scale is administered along with an array of psychological and religious measures. In efforts to explore the potential of the dialogical model, researchers administered Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and Quest Religious Orientation measures to both Iranian and Pakistani Muslim samples. These investig...

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...

Note from the Editor Welcome to the seventh issue of the Newsletter of the Society for Occupa-tional Health Psychology. Our line-up of articles again shows variety. Jonathan Houdmont, in our Across-the-Pond feature, wrote a history of our sister organi-zation, the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Bengt Arnetz contributed the firs...

Note from the Editor This, the fifth issue of the Newsletter of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, covers a diverse set of topics. The series devoted to graduate pro-grams in occupational health psychology continues with an article by Rachel Daniels and Kristi Zimmerman on the program at Portland State University. Previous issues of th...

Many corporations provide employees the option of participating in on-site fitness centers, but utilization rates are low. Perceived barriers to physical activity have been established as important correlates of physical activity, and recent research indicates that barriers may vary across settings. Work-site fitness centers may present unique barr...

Proactive personality was expected to moderate the relationship between controllable work and nonwork stressors (e.g., time-based work-family interference) and job/life satisfaction. Moderated multiple regression analyses of survey data from a sample of professionals (N=133) revealed a significant interaction between time-based family interfering-w...

Goal orientation was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between quantitative workload and frustration. Based on data from 460 graduate students, two forms of goal orientation moderated this relationship. Specifically, it was found that workload was positively related to frustration for people with high levels of avoiding goal orientation, bu...

Continuing changes to the nature of work brought on by technological leaps (e.g. Kurland and Bailey, 1999), increasingly diverse workforces, changes to the traditional contractual nature of work (e.g. Barley and Kunda, 2006), and shifting industry demands make it necessary for researchers who study workers and their work environments to consider dy...

The Presidential Perspective Bob Sinclair 7 A Message from the Membership Committee Mo Wang 8 Wellness Programs Leigh Schmidt 8 OHP Careers from a Health Psychology Perspective James McCubbin 9 NIOSH OHP Activities Edward Hitchcock 10 Editor's Welcome Note from the Editor This, our third newsletter, follows the APA/NIOSH/SOHP Work, Stress, and Heal...

Purpose This article aims to test the effectiveness of coaching for middle and executive level managers within a large recruiting organization. Design/methodology/approach Participants set goals to achieve during a 12‐month coaching programme. The sample consisted of middle managers ( n =30) and executive managers ( n =29) involved in US Army recr...

ABSTRACT Steve M. Jex, Advisor Recruitment of the best personnel is a major challenge for organizations. A neglected concern within this literature is how organizational efforts to improve employees’ work-nonwork interfaces might influence applicant decision making. Several important questions related to applicant attraction were addressed in the p...

Th t t d d i d t d t i h th k The present study was designed to determine whether work-related factors such as permissive culture or workplace stress are associated with the day-to-day use of alcohol tobacco or other associated with the day-to-day use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs (ATOD) among young adult workers. Previous research has found s...

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