Emotions are ubiquitous in the workplace. In recent years the ideal of the non-emotional workplace has slowly given way to the realization that emotions not only are an indelible part of work life but have an important role to play. Emotions at the work place are implicitly divided into good...

Purpose – The purpose of the present research is to test the hypothesis that hiring decisions are influenced by the perceived femininity and masculinity of candidates as inferred from their career history. Design/methodology/approach – Two job selection simulation studies were conducted in...

An experiment was conducted to assess (1) the interaction between global task motivation and motivational aspects of the environment (level of controls and autonomy-support present in the environment) and (2) gender differences with regard to this interaction. Forty male and forty female...

Depression is composed of multiple subcomponents including social, cognitive, affective, and somatic symptomatology. Many widely used self-report scales are also multidimensional, suggesting that the subcomponents of depression are empirically differentiated, yet the use of a composite score is...

The aim of the present research was to investigate, via multi-group analyses, the dimensional structure of the CES-D (Radloff, 1977) across three age groups. For this, three studies were conducted on cross-sectional samples of French speaking respondents, varying in age and drawn from the Quebec...