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- Garcia, Danilo, 1973, et al.
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Police Personnel’s Affective Profiles: Work Climate and Commitment
- 2019
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Ingår i: 4th Asian Conference of Criminal & Operations Psychology, 9-12 July, Singapore.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is widely recognized that individuals’ perception of their work climate strongly influences personnel’s commitment at work. However, little attention has been paid to how individual differences in basic personality or affective profiles moderate this relationship. A total of 359 sworn and non-sworn police personnel answered an online survey comprising the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule, the Learning Climate Questionnaire (Management Relations and Style, Time, Autonomy and Responsibility, Team Style, Opportunities to Develop, Guidelines on How to do the Job, and Contentedness), and the Three Commitment Scales (Emotional, Continuance, and Normative). We calculated percentiles in positive and negative affect to cluster participants in four affective profiles with high/low positive affect (PA/pa) and high/low negative affect (NA/na): self-fulfilling (PAna), low affective (pana), high affective (PANA), and self-destructive (paNA). Using a Multiple Analysis of Variance, we demonstrated that personnel with a self-fulfilling profile scored higher on almost all work climate dimensions and in both affective and normative commitment. As expected, by conducting a multiple group Structural Equation Modelling using affective profiles as the moderator, we also showed that the relationship between work climate and commitment was complex. For instance, perceiving opportunities to develop at work predicted being emotionally committed to the organization for individuals with either a self-destructive or a self-fulfilling profile, but by good management relationships among those with a low affective profile. Hence, police leaders need to be aware of employees’ personality in order to know which specific work climate factors will lead to an adaptive and positive work commitment.
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- Garcia, Danilo, 1973, et al.
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Temperament Profiles (Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, and Reward Dependence) among Swedish Clergy
- 2021
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Ingår i: XXXII International Congress of Psychology. Prague, Czech Republic..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background Clergy, as other helping professions, experience a large number of stressors in their work, including role overload, and emotional labor and run a greater risk for depression and burnout. Previous research indicates that one factor for burnout vulnerability is individuals’ temperament. We investigated the prevalence of different temperament profiles among Swedish clergy. Method 515 Swedish clergymen/women self-reported their temperament. We calculated the percentiles for the temperament traits using the Swedish norms data in order to cluster participants in the eight combinations of high/low Novelty Seeking (N/n), high/low Harm Avoidance (H/h), and high/low Reward Dependence (R/r). Then we calculated the prevalence (percentage) of each profile within this population. Results We found the following prevalence: 17.90% Passionate (NhR), 11.30% Sensitive (NHR), 11.10% Cautious (nHR), 19.20% Methodical (nHr), 9.10% Explosive (NHr), 8.50 Reliable (nhR), 11.50% Adventurous (Nhr), and 11.40% Independent (nhr). Conclusion About 49% of the participants had a profile denoted with high Reward Dependence (i.e., warm, dedicated, attached, and dependent) and 50% with high Harm Avoidance (i.e., worrying, pessimistic, doubtful, shy and low in energy). Moreover, 20% had a Methodological (nHr) profile, which might be described as obsessional (i.e., inhibited, nH, aloof Hr, and privacy-seeking, nr) if character strengths and plasticity are not well developed. Such individuals do well in professions that require order, objectivity, and caution, rather than professions that require warmth and empathic relationships. To fully understand burnout and dropout, however, it is necessary to include individuals’ character and also factors related to their work climate.
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- Garcia, Danilo, 1973, et al.
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Who is Sleeping Beauty? Quality of sleep and adolescents’ Sleep-Psychophysiological-Emotional-Personality Profile
- 2018
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Ingår i: Biquarterly Iranian Journal of Health Psychology. - 2588-4204. ; 2:1, s. 9-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: We investigated gender differences among adolescents in quality of sleep, psychophysiological problems, dream frequency, emotional states, and personality traits and also if the effect of quality of sleep on psychophysiological problems, dream frequency, emotional states, and personality traits was moderated by gender. Method: High school pupils (n1 = 155, n2 = 142, and n3 = 325) responded to the Uppsala Sleep Inventory, the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule, Beck’s Depression Inventory, the Type A-Personality Scale, and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Gender differences were investigated using Multivariate Analyses of Variance and moderation using multi-group Structural Equation Modeling. Results: Girls scored higher in major sleep problems, difficulties falling asleep, night awakenings, psychophysiological problems, dream frequency, negative affect, depression, stress, and Type A-personality. Boys scored higher in novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and persistence. Girls’ quality of sleep was related to their psychophysiological problems, dream frequency, positive affect, negative affect, stress, novelty seeking, reward dependence, persistence, and self-directedness. Boys’ quality of sleep was related to their psychophysiological problems, negative affect, stress, Type A-personality, novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, and self-directedness. Conclusion: Girls showed the unhealthiest sleep-psychophysiological-emotional-personality profile. For both genders, good quality of sleep or “beauty sleep” might result in less psychophysiological problems, less negative affect, less stress, less novelty seeking, and less self-directedness. However, for boys, “sleeping beauty” comprises less Type A-behaviour, less harm avoidance, and more reward dependence; while for girls “sleeping beauty” comprises less frequency of vivid dreams, more positive affect, less reward dependence, and more persistent behaviour.
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- Guerra, Matheus, et al.
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Effects of a 10-Week Physical Activity Program on Asylum Seekers’ Physiological Health
- 2020
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Ingår i: 32nd Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We evaluated the effect of a 10-week training program on physiological health among a sample of 465 asylum seekers in Sweden, most of them from Syria. We found increases on the overall maximum aerobic fitness along with body composition (e.g., skeletal muscle mass) and a decrease in body fat.
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- Lindskär, Erik, et al.
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Physical Activity Intervention for Newcomers
- 2018
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Ingår i: 30th APS Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a 10-week training program among a small sample of newcomers, mostly originally from Syria. The preliminary results suggest that physical activity increased the sense of meaning and connectedness to society among this sample of newcomers, especially among women.
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- Nima, Ali Al, et al.
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Physical Activity for Refugees in Sweden: Effects on Biophysiological Measures
- 2018
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Ingår i: 30th APS Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA, USA: 27-27 May 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a 10-week training program on biophysiological measures among a sample of refugees in Sweden, mostly from Syria. The analyses suggested that physical activity increased the overall maximum aerobic fitness together with body composition (e.g., skeletal muscle mass), whereas body fat decreased.
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- Schϋtz, Erica, 1977, et al.
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Character and Subjective Well-Being among Swedish Priests
- 2018
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Ingår i: 9th European Conference on Positive Psychology. Budapest, Hungary.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Helping professionals have a working environment characterized by time pressure, unexpected challenges, and emotional issues [1]. According to statistics from The Swedish Social Insurance Agency, priests run a greater risk of being ill and burning out, which might impede their care for others due to stress and mental fatigue. Previous research by Cloninger and colleagues [2-4] indicates that character maturity (i.e., high self-directedness, high cooperativeness and high self-transcendence) contributes to both resilience and well-being, because these aspects influence human experiences in different life domains, in turn, facilitating the basis and extent of positive human development (see also [5]). Aim: Our aim was to first compare Swedish priests to the general population, with regard to character traits, and then to investigate the relationship between character and both resilience and subjective well-being within the priest population. Method: 515 Swedish priests (267 females, 246 males, 2 unreported) self-reported personality (Temperament and Character Inventory), resilience (Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale), and subjective well-being (Satisfaction with Life Scale, Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule, and Harmony in Life scale). Character traits Percentiles were computed using the Swedish norms. The relationship between priests’ character and self-reported resilience and well-being was investigated by first clustering priests according to all possible combinations of high (self-directedness: S, cooperativeness: C and self-transcendence: T) and low (self-directedness: s, cooperativeness: c and self-transcendence: t) scores in the character traits, which generated eight different profiles. Secondly, we conducted paired t-tests to compare resilience and well-being between profiles that differed in one character trait, while controlling for the other two. Results: As a group, the priests had a character profile high-average in self-directedness (percentile = 62.3), high in cooperativeness (percentile = 75.5) and very high in self-transcendence (percentile = 88.4). However, there was substantial variation in character profiles within the priest population (e.g., 21% SCT “creative”, 19.2% sct downcast, 11.5% Sct “authoritarian”, 10.3% SCt “organized”, and 9.3% ScT “absolutist”). Moreover, independent of any combination, self-directedness had a direct positive relationship to resilience and all well-being measures. Nevertheless, both cooperativeness and self-transcendence were related to resilience and well-being in certain conditions, but not in others. For example, cooperativeness was negatively related to negative affect when self-directedness and self-transcendence was high, but positively related to negative affect when both were low. Conclusions: Swedish priests, as a group, seem to have a "creative" character profile, which means they are personally organized and also self-transcendent. The large variation in the group suggests, however, a heterogeneity that might have important implications for their institutional roles, and their needs. In addition, self-directedness, the character trait in which the priests scored the lowest, was the trait of greatest importance for their resilience and well-being. Finally, the relationship between cooperativeness and self-transcendence to both resilience and well-being depended on its coherence to the other two character traits.
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- Schϋtz, Erica, 1977, et al.
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Swedish Priests’ Character, Resilience and Subjective Well-Being
- 2018
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Ingår i: 30th APS Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA, USA: 24-27 May 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Swedish priests, as a group, were high-average in self-directedness, high in cooperativeness, and high in self-transcendence. Self-directedness was associated to resilience and different measures of subjective well-being. Nevertheless, there was a large variation in character profiles that might have important implications for priests’ institutional roles and overall health.
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