
Larissa K Barber- Ph.D.
- Professor at San Diego State University
Larissa K Barber
- Ph.D.
- Professor at San Diego State University
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August 2020 - present
August 2018 - present
August 2007 - May 2009
Education
April 2007 - May 2010
August 2005 - May 2007
August 2001 - May 2005
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Publications (108)
Organizations rely heavily on asynchronous message-based technologies (e.g., e-mail) for the purposes of work-related communications. These technologies are primary means of knowledge transfer and building social networks. As a by-product, workers might feel varying levels of preoccupations with and urges for responding quickly to messages from cli...
Employees often feel obligated to respond to work messages like emails and texts immediately – a psychological experience known as workplace telepressure. Telepressure is an important problem to address given its link to work burnout. Disconnection policies that encourage employees to unplug after work hours have been a popular solution adopted by...
Research demonstrating that employees who are undermined at work engage in similar behavior at home suggests this connection reflects displaced aggression. In contrast, the present study draws on self-regulation theory to examine the work-home undermining spillover/crossover process. We propose that poor sleep quality transmits the influence of wor...
The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace has gained considerable research attention in the occupational health field due to its effects on employee stress and well-being. Consequently, new ICT-related constructs have proliferated in occupational health research, resulting in a need to take stock of both potential r...
Although there is ample research on sleep and negative work behaviors, our understanding of the link between organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) and sleep is scarce and inconsistent. Theory-driven research on this topic is dominated by a sleep-enhances-OCB perspective, which focuses on the detrimental effects of sleep on OCB. Using an induct...
Given the persistent financial and psychological costs of abusive supervision in organizations, a greater understanding of the mechanisms that employees can use to cope with abuse is warranted. In the present study, abusive supervision is expected to be negatively related to a key employee coping mechanism – self-compassion – and this hindered mech...
Workplace telepressure is a psychological experience related to work-related messages. Research on measurement invariance for telepressure is scarce, especially with respect to occupations. This paper used a moderated nonlinear factor analysis technique to examine how occupational characteristics predict telepressure experiences and differential ra...
Organizations often use message-based technologies like emails and text messages to send work-related requests and responses. Although these communications can often be convenient, workers often feel the urge to respond quickly– an experience known as workplace telepressure. Workplace telepressure has been associated with lower employee recovery ex...
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an integral part of conducting work, ranging from email and sharing documents remotely to having virtual video meetings. Drawing from a self-regulation framework, this chapter highlights three self-regulatory impairment aspects of ICT use that contribute to lower psychological well-being:...
Fear of Missing Out at Work - Full Measure and Citation
AOM 2022 Conference, Kulkarni and Baldridge Symposium Submission (11361)
Discussant Comments (Susanne Bruyère, Adrienne Colella)
Rethinking Workplace Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
Through Multiple Levels and Lens
Discussant Comments:
Susanne M. Bruyère, Cornell University
Adrienne Colella, Tulane University
At a time when diversity, eq...
Workplace telepressure represents the psychological experience of feeling pressured to check and respond to work-related electronic messages. This concept is usually studied in the context of technology in the workplace, which has received increasing attention in organizational research. Workplace telepressure is defined as the combination of the p...
Several decades of research have addressed the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. However, segmented research streams with myriad terminologies run the risk of construct proliferation and lack an integrated theoretical justification of the contributions of ICT concepts. Therefore...
Engagement in leisure activities during non-work hours has been postulated to benefit worker well-being through need fulfillment and satisfaction during leisure experiences. This study explored whether an active leisure intervention among employees improves daily leisure domain-specific need fulfillment and enjoyment, which subsequently promotes wo...
Recovery from work is generally thought to occur outside of the workplace. However, employees may also have the opportunity to recover within the work day via microbreaks during demanding work tasks. Two major strategies for mitigating fatigue include psychological detachment (i.e., mentally disengaging) and replenishing motivational incentives via...
This project explored social evaluations of electronic multitasking during work meetings, including factors that may affect whether it is seen as a counterproductive meeting behavior. We used an experimental vignette design to test whether social evaluations (norm violating, agency, and communalism) of a hypothetical coworker’s electronic multitask...
Human resource development (HRD) practitioners often implement mentoring programs for the purpose of fostering employee career growth and satisfaction. This study examines a less widely researched function of mentoring—to mitigate employee burnout. Specifically, this study examines mentoring as a buffer of relations between employee neuroticism and...
In this chapter, we review evidence for the link between technological work practices and employee affect. Generally, technology (e.g. virtual work and telecommuting) is adopted in the workplace for its potential positive impact on employee productivity, yet it may also come with costs to affective well-being. Guided by affective events theory (Wei...
Research on how sleep influences social behavior at work—particularly sleep’s impact on job performance—is growing, yet still in relatively early stages. This chapter provides an overview of existing research on sleep and job performance and proposes avenues for further examination. We focus specifically on sleep’s relationship to social aspects of...
The popular business media argues that the “fear of missing out” (FoMO) on work-related opportunities harms employees’ health and performance. Yet, these claims rely on the study of FoMO in college students in non-work contexts. Therefore, we explored workplace FoMO among employees across three studies. We first developed a measure and provided val...
Purpose. We explored whether trait and state mindfulness alters the relationship between abusive supervision and interactional justice perceptions, which then predicts supervisor-directed retaliation.
Design. Study 1 examined these relationships among 230 employees using a cross-sectional survey design. Study 2 further examined these relationships...
Background/objectives:
Intrusions are a type of workplace interruption defined as unexpected interpersonal contact that disrupts workflow. Drawing from the Job Demands-Resources model of work stress, we examined how two personal resources - extraversion and emotional stability - influence relations among intrusions and strain outcomes.
Design/met...
Workplace technology has posed some challenges to worker well‐being. This research examined how workplace telepressure—a preoccupation and urge to respond quickly to message‐based communications—is related to work life balance evaluations, as well as how work recovery experiences might explain this relationship. Using an online survey design, Study...
Information and communication technologies (ICT) afford benefits in staying connected and increasing work flexibility for employees; however, they also bring us negative behavioral and psychological outcomes. This research examines the potential consequences of workplace telepressure, referring to the preoccupation with and urge to respond quickly...
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become a ubiquitous and integral aspect in our social lives and our work world. Smartphones, laptops, and other devices keep us easily connected to people and tasks across both work and home domains. Although heralded as time- and cost-saving initiatives that boost employee flexibility, uninten...
Workplace telepressure—an employee’s preoccupation and urge to respond quickly to work-related messages via information and communication technologies (ICTs)—may be associated with negative well-being outcomes for workers. The present study expands upon past work on ICT-related stressors and worker well-being with an examination of the presumed rol...
Self-leadership has gained popularity in organizational research and practice. It is comprised of three main components: behavior-focused strategies, constructive thought patterns, and focusing on natural rewards. Past work has distinguished self-leadership from some personality traits, but more work is needed beyond the five-factor model. This stu...
The book examines gender roles, gender inequity, and the impacts of both unintentional and purposeful efforts to undermine women’s equal treatment in the United States, documenting what women have faced in the past and still face in America today.
Although women’s rights is a worldwide issue, this book examines how in the United States, an alleged...
Cyberloafing—a type of counterproductive behavior—occurs when employees use the internet for personal use while at work. Past research shows that work role stressors (i.e., role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload) and Big Five personality traits (i.e., neuroticism, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness) predict cyberloafing, b...
In 3 studies, we developed and tested the first comprehensive, self-report measure of workplace interruptions. The Workplace Interruptions Measure (WIM) is based on a typology of interruptions that included intrusions, distractions, discrepancy detections, and breaks. The four-factor structure was reduced to a 12-item measure in Study 1 (N = 317) a...
University students often have sleep issues that arise from poor sleep hygiene practices and technology use patterns. Yet, technology-related behaviors are often neglected in sleep hygiene education. This study examined whether the Sleep Treatment Education Program for Students—modified to include information regarding managing technology use (STEP...
Over the past several years, interest into the role of sleep in the workplace has grown. The theoretical shift from research questions examining sleep as an outcome to placing sleep as the independent variable has increased experimental approaches to manipulating sleep in organizational studies. This is an exciting trend that is likely to continue...
This study examined trends in how psychology internships are supervised compared to current experiential learning best practices in the literature. We sent a brief online survey to relevant contact persons for colleges/universities with psychology departments throughout the United States (n = 149 responded). Overall, the majority of institutions of...
This research extends the differentiated job demands–resource model by integrating the main propositions of the transactional theory of stress to examine how cognitive appraisal processes link employee perceptions of abusive supervision to engagement and exhaustion. Two studies were conducted using a broad sample of employees. Study 1 developed the...
The connection between sleep and ethical behavior is a compelling area of research that has received little attention to date, but may explain why ethical lapses may occur in some people more than others or within individuals over time. In this chapter, we discuss what qualifies as ethical behavior and common frameworks for ethical decision-making....
Telepressure is a psychological state consisting of the preoccupation and urge to respond quickly to message-based communications from others. Telepressure has been linked with negative stress and health outcomes, but the existing measure focuses on experiences specific to the workplace. The current study explores whether an adapted version of the...
Classroom management involves managing students’ requests for course policy changes. Instructors can adhere to the course policies, or convey flexibility through making an exception for the student. The current study empirically examines students’ emotional reactions (hostility, guilt, surprise) and fairness perceptions to course policy decisions....
Classroom management involves managing students’ requests for course policy changes. Instructors can adhere to the course policies or convey flexibility through making an exception for the student. The current study empirically examines students’ emotional reactions (hostility, guilt, and surprise) and fairness perceptions to course policy decision...
Although psychologically detaching from work is beneficial for employee well-being and productivity, heavy workloads can interfere with detachment. Drawing from the self-regulation literature, we expand the stressor-detachment model to explore 2 attentional factors that shape the workload-detachment relationship: dispositional self-control-defined...
This study explored whether academic entitlement predicts counterproductive research behaviors (CRBs), operationalized as study absences and careless responding. Academic entitlement has been linked with other forms of counterproductive academic behaviors, but most research has demonstrated this relationship using self-report measures. The current...
Includes characteristics of ineffective performance feedback, and provides suggestions for effective delivery of performance feedback.
Three studies draw from evolutionary theory to assess whether sleepiness increases interpretive biases in workplace social judgments. Study 1 established a relationship between sleepiness and interpretive bias using ambiguous interpersonal scenarios from a measure commonly used in personnel selection (N = 148). Study 2 explored the boundary conditi...
Group projects are often used in psychology courses to prepare students for future collaborative work. However, psychology alumni report that their education did not adequately prepare them for collaborative work. To better understand these perceptions, this study examined how instructor contributions (involvement and evaluation techniques) promote...
The undergraduate psychology curriculum often does not address guidelines for acceptable participant behavior. This two-part study tested the efficacy of a recently developed online learning module on ethical perceptions, knowledge, and behavior. In the preliminary quasi-experiment, students who viewed the module did not have higher end-of-semester...
Sleep loss and daytime sleepiness are common experiences for employees across many occupations. Although researchers commonly focus on the detrimental effects of sleep issues for attention and vigilance during task performance, we review research that examines how sleep issues influence interpretations of, and interactions in, the work environment....
As educational attainment becomes increasingly more important in employment settings, undergraduate grade point average (GPA) will persist in being an attractive selection tool. It is important that recruitment professionals understand the implications of the use of this measure. Thus, this article aims to unify the GPA literature in order to offer...
This 41-page document assists faculty who supervise psychology undergraduate internships, either as a course instructor or site sponsor, by (a) reviewing background on the importance of internships and their role in the experiential learning model, (b) discussing instructor considerations for setting up an internship course in terms of design and e...
The present research extends the differentiated job demands-resource (JD-R) model by integrating the main propositions of the transactional theory of stress to examine how cognitive appraisal processes link perceptions of abusive supervision to engagement and burnout. We conducted two studies using a broad sample of U.S. employees. Study 1 (N = 243...
This study examined extraversion as a moderator of the relationship between negative work-home conflict and stress-related outcomes among US employees using conservation of resources theory and privacy regulation theory. Introverts only experienced stronger negative effects of negative work-home conflict on work-related resource depletion (job burn...
Research has suggested that a lengthier course syllabus may increase positive impressions of
instructor effectiveness. In this investigation, we disentangle the effects of adding restrictive
course boundary information from the addition of course content information. Furthermore,
we examine the role of instructor gender as a moderator of the relati...
This study examined the mechanism by which information and communication technology (ICT) use at home for work purposes may affect sleep. In this investigation, data from 315 employees were used to examine the indirect effect of ICT use at home on sleep outcomes through psychological detachment, and how boundary creation may moderate this effect. R...
Despite abundant research on the consequences of perceived abusive supervision, less is known about how employees develop perceptions of supervisory abuse. Across two studies, we integrate classic and recent theoretical work on attributions to understand the causal explanations underlying employee perceptions of and reactions to abusive supervision...
Keywords:stress;sleep;recovery;self-regulation
This study replicated ego-depletion predictions from the self-control literature in a computer simulation task that requires ongoing decision-making in relation to constantly changing environmental information: the Network Fire Chief (NFC). Ego-depletion led to decreased self-regulatory effort, but not performance, on the NFC task. These effects we...
In this investigation, we draw from the job demands-resource model and conservation of resources theory to examine the relationship between job demands, the work-family interface and worker behaviours. Data collected from an online survey of workers revealed that hindrance demands indirectly increase interpersonal and organizational deviance throug...
The current study examined poor sleep hygiene as a behavioral factor that may undermine psychological and social well-being. Though the connection between sleep and well-being is well documented, the mechanism by which sleep hygiene may affect well-being is currently unknown. Using the transactional model of stress as a framework, we tested a multi...
Reviews the book, Publish and Prosper: A Strategy Guide for Students and Researchers by Nathaniel M. Lambert (see record 2013-32915-000 ). It is no secret that research productivity is key to academic success. Researchers are familiar with the phrase “publish or perish”—a phrase that often elicits considerable anxiety in novice and seasoned researc...
In this age of mobile technology, individuals find themselves constantly bombarded by competing demands, which often leads to multitasking. Although polychronicity (preference for multitasking) has been proposed to be a key predictor of multitasking performance, findings have in fact been mixed. This study proposes that self-control may moderate th...
Insomnia is a prevalent experience among employees and survey respondents. Drawing from research
on sleep and self-regulation, we examine both random (survey errors) and systematic (social desirability)
effects of research participant insomnia on survey responses.With respect to random effects, we
find that insomnia leads to increased survey errors...
This study expands on past work-life research by examining the nomological network of satisfaction with work-life balance-the overall appraisal or global assessment of how one manages time and energy across work and nonwork domains. Analyses using 456 employees at a midsized organization indicated expected relationships with bidirectional conflict,...
Previous research has emphasized facets of both the organizational environment and individual differences as predictors of work engagement. This study explored sleep hygiene as another important behavioural factor that may be related to work engagement. With a sample of 328 adult workers, we tested a multiple mediator model in which sleep hygiene p...
Drawing from the conservation of resources framework and self-control principles, we proposed a moderated mediational model through which emotional exhaustion may be linked to counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs). Analyses conducted with 175 Midwestern government workers revealed that both depersonalization (i.e. detachment from one's work, cus...
This 33 page document describes participant ethics and an educational approach to participant rights and responsibilities that addresses the reciprocal nature of the researcher-participant relationship. It also provides four instructor resources: (a) websites that discuss participants rights and responsibilities, (b) a student learning module, (c)...
The Brief Self-Control Scale (BSCS; Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004) was developed to assess dispositional self-control as it is conceptualized by contemporary theoretical perspectives; however, concerns regarding its unidimensionality and validity remain. This article addresses these concerns using three samples to define, confirm and test a mu...
This study tests the assumption that disengagement from a task indicates poor self-control, especially following little progress. A total of 120 undergraduate students worked on Sudoku puzzles, a logical reasoning task for which progress could be measured. A binary logistic regression revealed a three-way interaction among dispositional self-contro...
Reviews the book, How Motivation Affects Cardiovascular Response: Mechanisms and Applications edited by Rex A. Wright and Guido H. E. Gendolla (see record 2011-09271-000 ). Given that cardiovascular disease consistently ranks as the leading cause of death worldwide (Mendis, Puska, & Norrving, 2011), Wright and Gendolla’s collection of cutting-edge...
The authors examined the extent to which student access to the MyGrade application in Blackboard may facilitate motivation and exam improvement via grade monitoring. In support of self-regulated learning and feedback principles, students indicated that the MyGrade application helped them better monitor their course performance and increased their m...
Sleep may have psychological implications for the stress process because of its effect on self-regulatory functioning. This study explored the psychological benefits of sleep using an integrated self-regulatory strength model, which includes resource enhancement in addition to resource replenishment. Combined with the restorative effects of suffici...
The practical constraints of conducting rigorous research in applied settings often limit the ability to include well-validated, but lengthy, measures in survey designs. In the current study we tested the utility of using a strategic item selection process to alleviate this issue. We evaluated the measurement and structural model fit of items selec...
Using 659 K-12 teachers, this study explored the extent to which well-being outcomes were affected by differential emotion regulation strategies (surface versus deep acting) for positive emotion expression (supportive display rules) versus negative emotion expression (disciplinary display rules). Analyses showed that almost half of the teachers rep...
• Reviews the book, Choke: What the secrets of the brain reveal about getting it right when you have to by Sian Beilock (see record 2010-19850-000 ). This book outlines the science behind choking—performing at less than one’s full potential under stressful situations—and strategies to overcome it. Through vivid vignettes in academic, athletic, and...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teachers’ perceived student misbehaviour and emotional exhaustion, and the role of teacher efficacy beliefs (related to handling student misbehaviour) and emotion regulation in this relationship. Additionally, we examined teacher turnover intentions in relation to emotional exhaustion...
Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) negatively affect the well-being of an organization and/or the performance of its employees. This study compared the predictive validity of the Big Five traits with respect to the one-, two-, and five-dimensional approaches for measuring CWBs. Survey results from employees (N=233) confirmed previous relations...
This study examined affect regulation styles that best discriminated among affectivity groups representing languishing, moderate, and flourishing emotional health. Using the Measure of Affect Regulation Styles (MARS; Larsen & Prizmic, 2004) with 380 undergraduate students, analyses revealed nine affect regulation strategies (i.e., understanding/ana...
Although scholars and practitioners tout the merits of various work–life initiatives, little research has been conducted to determine (a) whether broad categories of initiatives exist, and (b) whether these categories are predictive of work experiences or outcomes. We postulate 2 general types of work–life initiatives: work flexibility and nonwork...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teachers' perceived student misbehaviour and emotional exhaustion, and the role of teacher efficacy beliefs (related to handling student misbehaviour) and emotion regulation in this relationship. Additionally, we examined teacher turnover intentions in relation to emotional exhaustion...
This article re-conceptualises the framework surrounding work–life balance. Though previous research has focused primarily on the ways in which work life and non-work life influence each other (mostly negatively), we present an alternative perspective that focuses on personal pursuits and the management of personal resources. We introduce a persona...