Confirmatory factor analytic procedures for assessing change during organizational entry

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Confirmatory factor analytic procedures that assess changes in the level of work-related constructs (e.g., organizational commitment), and also their reconstitution by individuals as they enter a new organization, are presented and applied to data from 101 doctoral program newcomers. The procedures assessed changes over time in the factor loadings, variances, and covariances of responses as well as changes in the level of common factor means, holding constant the latter changes in factor structure. The present application shows that this approach can yield profitable insights about shifts in the individual's perspective during organizational entry while also enabling researchers to determine the effect of such perceptual reconstitution on inferences about mean changes with repeated measures. Procedures are proposed to further apply this analytical framework to organizational entry and other research areas. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Performance, Organizational behavior

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Dispositional affect and work-related stress

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Trait negative affectivity (NA) has been asserted to be a factor that spuriously inflates relationships between self-reported stressors and self-reported strain outcomes. We tested this hypothesis with conventional work stress instrument responses and physiological assessments obtained from 311 fire and police department employees. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that NA did not measure a factor in common with measures of subjective strain. Latent-variable structural equations analyses, however, found that estimating the effects of NA on strain significantly attenuated the effects of work stressors. NA had no correlation with physiological stress outcomes. Trait positive affectivity did not attenuate relationships between work stressors and either subjective or objective stress outcomes. Implications for work stress research methodology and recommendations are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Job stress, Affect (Psychology)

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Vertical dyad linkage: a longitudinal assessment of antecedents, measures, and consequences

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A field study of 49 Junior Achievement companies examined the process of leader-member exchange. The test used a sociometric alternative to standard measures, and found that assessments converge with the different methods. The study also found demographic links to the quality of leader-member exchange.

Case studies, Testing, Leadership, Psychology, Applied, Applied psychology

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