objective: the purpose of the present research was to determine the role of perceived communication deviance and inconsistent control (parental) in the family of malejuvenile offenders (age 12 yrs-18 yrs) through its comparison with their non-offender counterparts. methods: sample of the present research consisted of 200 adolescents divided into two groups of offenders and non- offenders from l...

BACKGROUND The positive deviance approach focuses on those who demonstrate exceptional performance, despite facing the same constraints as others. 'Positive deviants' are identified and hypotheses about how they succeed are generated. These hypotheses are tested and then disseminated within the wider community. The positive deviance approach is being increasingly applied within healthcare organ...

the aim of this research was to investigated or the relationship between ethical leadership and workplace deviance behaviors with mediating role of affective commitment and ethical climate. the statistical community was the employees of jahad agricultural organization of khozestan. the participants of this study included 220 employees who were selected by random sampling method. the instruments...

It is widely established that the Big Five personality traits of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability are antecedents to workplace deviance (Berry, Ones, & Sackett, 2007). However, these meta-analytic findings are based on self-reported personality traits. A recent meta-analysis by Oh, Wang, and Mount (2011) identified the value of acquaintance-reported personality in the p...

Stimulus novelty or deviance may be especially salient in anxiety-related states due to sensitization to environmental change, a key symptom of anxiety disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We aimed to identify human brain regions that show potentiated responses to stimulus deviance during anticipatory anxiety. Twenty participants (14 men) were presented a passive oddball audi...

2 List of Tables 6 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: The development and validation of a customer incivility scale 8 Workplace Deviance 9 Customer Service Context 11 Existing Workplace Incivility Measures 13 Linking Customer Incivility With Outcome Variables 15 Workplace deviance, job satisfaction, and turnover intent 16 Hypothesis 1 17 Hypothesis 2 18 Workplace deviance and personal strain 18

A sample of 99 early treated phenylketonuric children showed higher levels of behavioural deviance than 197 matched controls. For boys this excess of behavioural deviance persisted when IQ was taken into account. For phenylketonuric girls however it was restricted to those with IQs less than 70. The type of behavioural deviance shown by the boys over the whole IQ range was predominantly neuroti...

This study seeks to determine the impact of IT co-workers on individual deviance behavior in organizations. Using data collected from 322 IT employees and their supervisors in Chinese software companies, we also examine the impact of the Confucian work ethic on deviant behavior. The results suggest that both co-workers’ production deviance and the Confucian work ethic have impacts on individual...