Xavier Borteyrou

Paris Descartes, CPSC | Paris 5 · Institut de Psychologie

Although soft skills training is called for by many scholars and managers, empirical studies on concrete training programs are scarce and do not always have the methodological rigor that is necessary to draw meaningful conclusions about their impact. In the present research, we investigate the effects of a new soft skills metacognition training pro...

We examined whether core self-evaluations (CSE) are negatively associated with perceived job demands and emotional exhaustion (EE) (differential exposure hypothesis), as well as decrease the relationship between job demands and EE (differential reactivity hypothesis, DRH). This study is the first to examine the DRH with EE as strain outcome. Employ...

When the notion of soft skills appeared in 1972, one of the main conclusions was that soft skills are essential, but insufficiently observed, known and assessed. Fifty years later, the extensive literature about soft skills still struggles to find agreement on a definition of soft skills, besides their cross-functionality and their opposition to ha...

The examination of cultural differences between French and American organizations allowed us to better understand people’s political engagement in the French organizational context. This paper examines the political engagement construct within the French organizational context and reports a research that aimed at validating the French Political Eng...

Based on social cognitive theory, we propose that self-efficacy is a personal resource that protects people from the impact of confinement in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a longitudinal study where 197 French citizens were surveyed over 8 weeks of confinement (though only 25 participants responded each of these 8 weeks), we examined the...

To date, research on the dark triad has mainly adopted a variable-centered perspective to investigate work-related outcomes of each dimension of the dark triad, thus not considering their potential combined effects. To overcome this issue, authors have begun to examine the dimensions of the dark triad by adopting a person-centered approach. Because...

A weekly study on workers’ telework experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary results after the first three weeks of telework.

This article concerns the measurement of burnout among human services professionals through its most widely used measure: the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS). In particular, it deals with its factor structure, the inclusion or non-inclusion of the personal accomplishment construct in burnout conceptualization (and measurem...

This study examined the mediating effect of core self-evaluations on the relationship between person–environment fit and job satisfaction among professional laboratory technicians. One hundred and ninety-seven professional laboratory technicians (158 females and 39 males) from both France and Belgium completed a person–organization fit scale; a per...

Free e-prints available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/w5IsYwkvfcgcWE4XQX9v/full The aim of this article is to analyze further the association of burnout with (poor) physical health, addictive behaviours and suicidal tendency among general practitioners (GPs). Four hypotheses were studied: (H1): burnout (i.e. emotional exhaustion, EE, and d...

Leaderless group discussions (LGDs) constitute one of the oldest assessment center exercises. In recent times, their added value has sometimes been questioned in light of trends to streamline assessment centers. The purpose of the present study is to examine the incre-mental validity of LGD ratings over cognitive ability scores and personality rati...

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Our aim was to improve understanding of the relationship between emotional labour and health outcomes by developing an exploratory fine-grained scale based on previous research. With this measurement, we wished to clearly distinguish re-evaluation and attentional deployment (i.e., the 2 aspects defined as deep acting); amplification and suppression...

The purpose of the study was to assess nursing aides’ abusive behavior towards elderly people, as well as the relationship of such behavior to burnout variables. For the item generation phase, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 14 nursing aides working in French psychogeriatric departments. A total of 16 work-related items were retained...

This paper has two objectives: first to adapt a French political skills scale to an organizational environment, based on the scale of Ferris et al. (2005), and second to highlight the moderating role of political skills on burnout. The adaptation of the scale was assessed among 170 French employees. The moderating role of political skills on burnou...

Laboratoire de psychologie « Santé et qualité de vie » EA 4139 Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 3 ter place de la victoire 33076 Bordeaux cedex Résumé Cette étude porte sur la construction d"une échelle de coping spécifique au personnel soignant et non soignant en oncologie. Nous avons d"abord réalisé des interviews auprès de 168 personnes afin...

Revue InteRnatIonale de PSycholoGIe SocIale 2014 n° 2 5 le rôle modérateur des compétences politiques sur le burnout The moderating role of political skills on burnout Résumé Cet article traite de deux objectifs: premièrement l'adaptation d'une échelle française de mesure des compétences politiques en milieu organisationnel, sur la base de l'échell...

If past research has established the predictive validity of Assessment Centers (A.C.) in the field of personnel assessment and recruitment, their construct validity has not been demonstrated. Within the framework of a larger study aiming to construct and validate an Assessment Center for French Navy officers, we elaborated a group situation (leader...

This study is a report of the development and testing of the Work Stressor Inventory for Nurses in Oncology. Stressors in oncology nursing are generally assessed using generic stress scales like the Nursing Stress Scale or the Health Professions Stress Inventory. However, qualitative investigations have highlighted the specific nature of the stress...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the French adaptation of the Family Relationship Index (FRI) from Moos and Moos. The FRI is a self-report inventory which consists of 27 items assessing family relations. It is composed of three dimensions: family cohesion, family expressiveness (of feelings...

Cette recherche, réalisée auprès d’infirmières exerçant en cancérologie, est guidée par le modèle exigences-contrôle-soutien (Karasek & Theorell, 1990). Cependant, en accord avec les auteurs qui plaident pour une prise en compte de la spécificité du contexte dans les recherches sur le stress au travail, nous avons dans un premier temps conduit 3 fo...

The current investigation, studying the burnout among oncology nurses, was guided by the Demand Control Support model (Karasek & Theorell, 1990). However, in accordance with scholars claiming for a context-specificity in occupational stress research, we first conducted 3 semi-structured focus groups to identify the specific sources of demands, cont...

This study concerns the construction of a coping scale specifically for care-giving and non-care-giving personnel in oncology. We first held interviews with 168 persons with the 'aim of collecting, among other things, the behaviors utilised for confronting stressful professional situations. That step permitted us to construct a coping scale compose...

The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the French adaptation of the Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scales, a widely used instrument in body image research. The questionnaire is composed of five subscales: Appearance Orientation, Appearance Evaluation, Overweight Preoccupation, Self-classified We...

The aim was to assess intensities of State Anger over one week, reported by physical education teachers working in Education Priority Zone schools, to obtain descriptive data in diaries of these teachers' actions and reactions related to students' misbehavior. French physical education teachers (N=175) completed the Trait Anger Scale, the Trait Anx...

In France, breast cancer is the most frequent cancer women suffer from. One of the surgical treatments consists in taking out the whole breast. Several studies have explored the strategies people elaborate to cope with this illness and with anticancer treatments, but few studies have dealt on the manner couples face such events. The aim of this stu...

Cette étude porte sur la validité d’une épreuve de jeu de rôle. L’échantillon se compose de 125 officiers de marine, évalués à la fois pas psychologues et des officiers de marine. Tous les évaluateurs ont participé à des séances de formation (utilisation de grilles comportementales, formation sur les biais de l’évaluation, entraînement sur des séqu...

The present study was designed to obtain validity estimates for a role-play test. Participants were 125 french Navy officers who were rated by a pool of professional assessors and psychologists. All the assessors received reccurring training sessions, focusing on the behavioral checklists on rating errors, and on share frame of reference. The asses...

Nous avons réalisé l’adaptation française du STAXI-2 [Spielberger CD. Manual for the state-trait anger expression inventory STAXI-2. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources; 1999] que nous avons administrée à 546 femmes et 539 hommes français, âgés de 18 à 70 ans. Les items des sous-échelles de colère-état, colère-trait, expression de la col...

If past research has established the predictive validity of Assessment Centers (A.C.) in the field of personnel assessment and recruitment, their construct validity has not been demonstrated. Within the framework of a larger study aiming to construct and validate an Assessment Center for French Navy officers, we elaborated a group situation (leader...