Jana Kammerhoff

University of Bamberg · Institut für Psychologie

The popularity of miniature wargames (MWGs) has recently been on the rise. We aimed to identify the personality characteristics of people who play MWGs. Whereas the popular media have suspected that fantasy role-playing and war-related games cause antisocial behavior, past research on tabletop role-playing has shown that gamers are creative and emp...

In this study, we tested hypotheses concerning volunteers' not‐for‐profit work, specifically the relations of transformational leadership with performance and satisfaction as well as the question of how task and relationship conflict fit into these relations. We argue that conflicts are detrimental to satisfaction and performance and that the frequ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct and indirect crossover effects of leaders’ exhaustion on followers’ somatic complaints by testing leaders’ health-oriented behavior toward employees as a possible underlying mechanism. Design/methodology/approach A two-wave online study using data from different sources was conducted. In...

Conflict has negative effects on employees' job satisfaction and performance. Transformational leadership, on the other hand, has been shown to have strong positive relations with both job satisfaction and performance, but is negatively related to conflicts at the workplace. However, up to now how these different factors influence one another remai...

Die Buchreihe „Forschende Frauen in Bamberg“ begleitet das gleichnamige Forschungskolloquium der Frauenbeauftragten der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Der neunte Band unserer Reihe umfasst als Besonderheit sowohl das Kolloquium 2016 als auch 2017. Anlässlich des von uns für 2016 ausgerufenen „Genderjahres“ haben alle in diesem Buch veröffentli...

Purpose - This study questions whether applicants with different cultural backgrounds are equally prone to fake in job interviews, and thus systematically examines crosscultural differences regarding the attitude toward applicants' faking (an important antecedent of faking and a gateway for cultural influences) on a large scale. Design/methodology...