Publications by authors named "Dirk D Steiner"
Objective: Despite positive effects of physical activity programs in the workplace, an appropriate measurement instrument to capture employees' decisional balance to exercise is lacking. This study sought to develop and validate a decisional balance scale for exercise adapted to the workplace.
Methods: Four complementary studies were carried out, with a total sample of 2398 French volunteer employees, to develop a preliminary version and examine its dimensionality, temporal stability, and construct validity.
Article Synopsis
- The article talks about how different cultures affect people’s feelings about sharing their opinions and making decisions.
- In "masculine" cultures like the United States, those who are better at something want to speak up and be involved in decisions, while in "feminine" cultures like the Netherlands, those who might be less capable still feel important and valued.
- The researchers did two studies to show how these ideas work in different cultures, and they looked at how changing the focus on competition or nurturing could change how people feel about having a voice.
Suppressing and faking emotional expressions depletes personal resources and predicts job strain for customer-contact employees. The authors argue that personal control over behavior, in the job and within the national culture, provides compensatory resources that reduce this strain. With a survey study of 196 employees from the United States and France, the authors supported that high job autonomy buffered the relationship of emotion regulation with emotional exhaustion and, to a lesser extent, job dissatisfaction.
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