Research
Becoming team players: Team members’ mastery of teamwork knowledge as a predictor of team task proficiency and observed teamwork effectiveness.
The authors explored the idea that teams consisting of members who, on average, demonstrate greater mastery of relevant teamwork knowledge will demonstrate greater task proficiency and observed teamwork effectiveness. In particular, the authors posited that team...
Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork Effectiveness, and Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Job Context
We advance understanding of the role of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) and its subdimensions in the workplace by examining the mechanisms and context-based boundary conditions of the EI–performance relationship. Using a trait activation framework, we...
How Mindfulness Enhances Emotion Regulation Through Improvements in Executive Control
Although the psychological benefits of mindfulness training on emotion regulation are well-documented, the precise mechanisms underlying these effects remain unclear. In the present account, we propose a new linkage between mindfulness and improved emotion...
Mindfulness: overcoming intractable conflict
Intractable conflict involves reoccurring patterns of ineffective communication in which issues are not resolved and build over time. These situations can lead to bad feelings, damaged relationships, depression, aggression, anxiety and substance abuse. Grounded theory...
Connections between emotional intelligence and workplace flourishing
Higher emotional intelligence is associated with workplace flourishing. Emotional intelligence is associated with perceived workplace social support and power. Social support and power mediate between emotional intelligence and workplace flourishing. The individual...
The effect of mindfulness meditation training on biological acute stress responses in generalized anxiety disorder
Individuals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the mindfulness group had a greater drop in stress-related ACTH hormone. Individuals in the mindfulness group also had a greater drop in pro-imflammatory cytokines during the stress task. Findings suggest that...
Mind/Body Program Impact on Pregnancy Rates
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The contribution of mindfulness to predicting burnout in the workplace
Highlights The study tested whether mindfulness acted as a separate resource to buffer burnout.Mindfulness added to personal and workplace resources and workplace demands in JD–R.A large sample of participants in diverse occupations completed an online...