University of Hartford

About: University of Hartford is a education organization based out in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 1244 authors who have published 2481 publications receiving 48973 citations. The organization is also known as: UHart.

Gender Orientation as a Correlate of Communicative Competence.

Abstract: This study demonstrated a relationship between adaptability and rewarding impressions as dimensions of communicative competence with gender orientation. Androgynous individuals demonstrated the highest levels on a linear composite of adaptability and rewarding impressions. Further analysis found that masculinity was the significant contributor to adaptability and femininity the significant contributor to rewarding impressions. Results are discussed from the control/dominance nature of masculinity and sensitive/receptive nature of femininity.

Consistently Inconsistent: A Review of the Literature on Eating Disorders and Body Image Among Women of Color

Abstract: Over the last decade, there has been growing recognition that the eating disorders literature has largely omitted the experiences of women of color and instead presumed these to be “golden girl” disorders which only affect White girls and women (Mastria, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 19:59–77, 2002; Smolak & Striegel-Moore, In: Striegel-Moore, Smolak (eds) Eating disorders: Innovative directions in research and practice. American Psychological Association, 2001). Though an increasing awareness of the importance of racial and ethnic differences among women has led more researchers to include women of color in their studies, the majority of this work focuses on comparison studies between White women and women of color (with a higher representation of Black women than other racial groups). Comparison studies with White women can obfuscate important aspects of women of color’s experiences and can, inadvertently, render the White female experience as the “norm” by which we compare others. Furthermore, women of color’s experiences tend to be compared to White women’s experiences by applying concepts such as the thin ideal as if they were universal. Very little effort has been made to attempt to understand women of color’s lived experiences of body image and eating issues outside and apart from existing theories validated with White women (Bordo, 2009).

The effectiveness of reward systems on innovative output: An empirical analysis

Abstract: This study investigated the relationship of patent output to the reward systems for individual R&D scientists in high technology firms. A survey of technical managers in 57 Connecticut firms collected information on firm size, R&D expenditure, and the frequency of use of eighteen different reward systems. Using a regression model, patent output was found to be dependent on firm size, R&D expenditure, and on monetary and non-monetary reward systems, informal award programs and variable bonuses based on the issue of patents. When a subset of small firms was investigated separately, non-monetary rewards were shown to be ineffective. However, variable bonuses remained important to patent output and large sum reward payments ($50,000) also demonstrated a significant effect.