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ItemPredicting Employee Attitudes to Workplace Diversity from Personality, Values, and Cognitive Ability(Elsevier, 2019)The current study assessed the predictive validity of broad and narrow measures of personality, values, and cognitive ability on employee attitudes to workplace diversity. Australian working adults (N = 731; 66% female; mean age = 43, SD = 12) completed the 200- item HEXACO Personality Inventory, Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire, ACER measures of numeric, verbal, and abstract reasoning ability, the Attitudes Toward Diversity Scale, and four scales measuring prejudice towards female workers, ethnic workers, older workers, and workers with a disability. Results showed that Honesty–Humility, Extraversion, Openness, and cognitive ability (especially verbal) predicted more positive attitudes to workplace diversity. Valuing power, security, and tradition more, and valuing universalism less was associated with more negative attitudes to workplace diversity.
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ItemWho Is the Wolf and Who Is the Sheep? Towards a More Nuanced Understanding of Workplace Incivility(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-01-31)Cortina, Rabelo, and Holland's (2018) perspective on studying victimization in organizations is a welcome contribution to workplace aggression research. We share their believe that considering a perpetrator predation paradigm may advance and proliferate research on issues related to gender harassment, bullying, mobbing, and other explicitly overt forms of victimization where the intent to harm is supposedly clear. However, we propose that, if blindly adopted, neither the dominant victim precipitation paradigm nor the suggested perpetrator predation paradigm will improve research on incivility or other more covert and indirect forms of victimization. In fact, we suggest in our commentary that both models may be counterproductive for understanding and remedying incivility in organizations.
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ItemAtención y memoria en una muestra de pacientes con quejas de memoria(Sociedad de Neuropsicología de Argentina, 2014-07-14)The goal of this investigation was to evaluate cognitive deficits on attention and memory through neuropsychological testing in patients with memory complaints. We assessed 204 subjects divided into four groups: 33 controls, 62 with No Cognitive Disorder, 65 with non demential cognitive disorder and 44 with dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type. We administrated several neuropsychological tests to evaluate focalized attention, sustained attention, attention span, concentration, retention and recall memory for both verbal and visual material. The results show that patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type show deficit in all the modalities of attention and memory assessed. The patients with non demential cognitive disorder differ from controls only if the group was divided by age. In patients under 60 years of age there were no differences in the tests administered compared to controls; the group of patients with 60 years and over was different from controls in some tests of attention and memory, with the group of controls having better results than the group of patients with non demential cognitive disorder. We conclude that this group of patients corresponds to Mild Cognitive Disorder and that this entity should consider age in its diagnostic criteria.