Georgia State University

About: Georgia State University is a education organization based out in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 13988 authors who have published 35895 publications receiving 1164332 citations. The organization is also known as: GSU & Georgia State.

Citizenship behavior at the team level of analysis: The effects of team leadership, team commitment, perceived team support, and team size

Abstract: The authors investigated citizenship behavior at the team level of analysis by examining 71 change management teams, teams that are responsible for implementing organizational change. The authors collected data at an automotive-industry firm in the mid-Atlantic United States using a questionnaire methodology and an examination of company records. Team leader behavior, team commitment, and perceived team support all had large effects on team citizenship behavior, whereas team size had a small-to-negligible effect.

Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue: The Case of Immigrant Latinos

Abstract: Using the writings of the late social psychologist Ignacio Martin-Baro and other Latin American and Latino social scientists as a framework, this article examines the issue of domestic violence fro...

Perfectionism, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Self‐Esteem: A Structural Equations Analysis

Abstract: Authors and researchers have given increasing attention to perfectionism in recent years. This attention has included a proliferation of scales designed to measure perfectionism and investigations of the relationship between perfectionism and a host of emotional and physical problems and diagnoses. Perfectionism has been positively linked to eating disorders (Axtell & Newlon, 1993; Brouwers & Wiggum, 1993), depression (Blatt, Quinlan, Pilkonis, & Shea, 1995), personality disorders (Hewitt, Flett, & Turnbull, 1992), migraines (Brewerton & George, 1993), sexual dysfunction (Quadland, 1980), anxiety (Alden, Biding, W Flett, Hewitt, & Dyck, 1989), and obsessive compulsive disorders (Broday, 1988; Frost, Steketee, Cohn, & Griess, 1994). These findings are consistent with earlier anecdotal and theoretical work that framed perfectionism as pathological and linked perfectionism to lower levels of self-esteem. For instance, Horney (1950) described perfectionists as neurotically attempting to mold themselves to an impossibly idealized image, making low self-esteem inevitable. Missildine (1963) observed that dissatisfaction with self and low self-esteem were key elements of perfectionism. Hollender (1965) described the perfectionist as motivated by profound insecurity to continue attempting to gain acceptance from parents through performance accomplishments and faultless behavior. Burns (1980) maintained that perfectionists, who strain compulsively toward unrealistic and impossible goals of perfection, pay a price that "includes not only decreased productivity, but also impaired health, poor self-control, troubled personal relationships, and low self-esteem" (p. 34). Pacht (1984) suggested that in order to prove that they are loveable, perfectionists set goals unrealistically high. These goals are generally unattainable, and as a result, perfectionists see themselves as failures and unlovable. Pacht noted, "the insidious nature of perfectionism leads me to use the label only when describing a kind of psychopathology" (p. 387). Sorotzkin (1985) further noted that for the perfectionist "any deviation from the perfectionistic goal is likely to be accompanied by moralistic self-criticism and lowered self-esteem" (p. 564). Much of the early empirical work investigating perfectionism operationalized the construct in a fashion consistent with the early theoretical work. For instance, Burns (1980) modified a portion of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS; Weissman & Beck, 1978) and developed a scale specifically designed to measure the degree to which perfectionists strive "compulsively and unremittingly toward impossible goals and ... measure their own worth entirely in terms of productivity and accomplishment" (p. 34). Later efforts at assessing perfectionism have taken a multidimensional approach. Two scales, both called the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost, Marten, Lahart, & Rosenblate, 1990; Hewitt & Flett, 1989), were designed to measure different aspects of perfectionism. Hewitt and Flett proposed three dimensions of perfectionism: self-oriented perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism, and socially prescribed perfectionism. Self-oriented perfectionism includes setting high standards and using those standards to evaluate performance. Other-oriented perfectionism includes holding others to high standards and evaluating others critically when they fail to meet those standards. Socially prescribed perfectionism includes the belief that others are holding one to high standards and pressuring them to be perfect. Hewitt and Flett have consistently maintained that high scores on all three dimensions are considered to be indicative of pathology (e.g., Flett, Hewitt, Blankstein, & O'Brien, 1991; Flett et al., 1989). In another attempt to measure perfectionism from a multidimensional perspective, Frost et al. …

An information security meta‐policy for emergent organizations

Abstract: There is an increasing movement towards emergent organizations and an adaptation of Web‐based information systems (IS). Such trends raise new requirements for security policy development. One such requirement is that information security policy formulation must become federated and emergent. However, existing security policy approaches do not pay much attention to policy formulation at all – much less IS policy formulation for emergent organizations. To improve the situation, an information security meta‐policy is put forth. The meta‐policy establishes how policies are created, implemented and enforced in order to assure that all policies in the organization have features to ensure swift implementation and timely, ongoing validation.

Psychosocial Correlates of Internalized Homophobia in Lesbians

Abstract: This study investigated the relationship between lesbian internalized homophobia and various psychosocial variables in a national sample of 157 women.