Janice Langan-Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 5517552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Langan-Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Langan-Fox |
| SIGNATURE | LANGAN-FOX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Big Five Traits as Predictors of Subjective and Psychological Well-Being
Despite considerable research on personality and "hedonic" or subjective well-being, parallel research on "eudaimonic" or psychological well-being is scarce. The current study investigated the relationship between the Big Five traits and subjective and psychological well-being among 211 men and women. Results indicated that the relationship between personality factors and psychological well-being was stronger than the relationship between persona…
Modelling skill acquisition in acquired brain injury
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a debilitating condition often requiring extensive rehabilitation. Although cognitive rehabilitation is concerned with overcoming a skills deficit, the application of skill acquisition research in this context has been non-existent. Examining post-injury learning in terms of the qualitative variables associated with different phases of skill acquisition is likely to be beneficial in assessing patient status and moni…
Entrepreneurship research and practice: A call to action for psychology
Entrepreneurship is a major source of employment, economic growth, and innovation, promoting product and service quality, competition, and economic flexibility. It is also a mechanism by which many people enter the society's economic and social mainstream, aiding culture formation, population integration, and social mobility. This article aims to illuminate research opportunities for psychologists by exposing gaps in the entrepreneurship literatu…
Supporting Employee Participation: Attitudes and Perceptions in Trainees, Employees and Teams
Research in employee participation has tended to focus on participation outcomes rather than the process of successful implementation, and to evaluate program success in terms of (a) employee attitudes (e.g. satisfaction) post-participation and (b) productivity or effectiveness. We argue that such approaches ignore the process component of successful implementation such as the long-term maintenance of interest in and support for participation amo…
Process in skill acquisition: Motivation, interruptions, memory, affective states, and metacognition
Models of skill acquisition, such as Ackerman's (1988) theory of skill acquisition, largely ignore the experiences and dynamic internal processes of a person while learning a skill (e.g., how they feel, what strategies they are using, the role of the external environment). Riding and Powell (1993) suggested that the information-processing model (a common conceptualisation of learning and thinking) is an inadequate model to explain the complexitie…
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia: Introduction
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia: Introduction." Australian Psychologist, 32(1), pp. 10–11
Ability-performance relations during skill acquisition
Industry depends on effective training for employees so that organisations can be efficient and productive. A number of theories exist to explain the relationship between ability and performance. The present paper explores difficulties in testing theories of skill acquisition, with a focus on Ackerman's model of ability—performance relations, and summarises various research projects which have tested this theory. Suggestions are made for further …
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia part 2: Introduction
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia part 2: Introduction." Australian Psychologist, 32(3), p. 145
The dimensionality of ratings of performance appraisal systems
The performance appraisal (PA) literature focuses predominantly on the characteristics and actions of performance “raters”, ignoring the fact that the success of any performance appraisal system depends largely on employee or appraisee perceptions. This study investigates employee perceptions of performance appraisal, with a focus on the structure and dimensionality of these perceptions. Two hundred and eighty-seven executives and managers from a…
Role Reward and Role Stress in Managerial and Professional Women
The importance of balancing personal and work demands has become increasingly relevant in recent years as large numbers of women move into the labour market full time. The present study was designed to examine differences in role rewards and stress amongst a group of 163 managerial and professional women. Subjects completed a questionnaire about the stress and rewards associated with their work and family roles. Although no significant difference…
Operant” and “respondent” measures of dispositions: Sex differences in the degree of independence between needs, values, and traits
Career Orientations in Women from Rural and Urban Backgrounds
This study examines career orientations in women from rural and urban backgrounds, using a longitudinal data set collected over a period of 10 years, from 1973-1982. When first contacted, respondents were 18 years of age. The final data collection in 1982 resulted in a sample of some 1300 women. The longitudinal data was analyzed using LISREL structural equation modeling and was guided by a theoretical framework developed by Krumboltz (1981), whi…
A Contextualist Model of Professional Attainment: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Career Paths of Men and Women
This study investigates the importance, in adolescence, of motivational, contextual, and demographic variables in predicting professional attainment in the early stages of career development. Using a synthesis of two theories; the Levinson Life Cycle and the Astin Theory of Career Choice, longitudinal data derived from approximately 3,000 adolescent students over a 10-year period from final year secondary school through to the age of 27 was analy…
Determining career orientations in women from different social-class backgrounds
Entrepreneurship research and practice: A call to action for psychology
Entrepreneurship is a major source of employment, economic growth, and innovation, promoting product and service quality, competition, and economic flexibility. It is also a mechanism by which many people enter the society's economic and social mainstream, aiding culture formation, population integration, and social mobility. This article aims to illuminate research opportunities for psychologists by exposing gaps in the entrepreneurship literatu…
A Contextualist Model of Professional Attainment: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Career Paths of Men and Women
This study investigates the importance, in adolescence, of motivational, contextual, and demographic variables in predicting professional attainment in the early stages of career development. Using a synthesis of two theories; the Levinson Life Cycle and the Astin Theory of Career Choice, longitudinal data derived from approximately 3,000 adolescent students over a 10-year period from final year secondary school through to the age of 27 was analy…
Process in skill acquisition: Motivation, interruptions, memory, affective states, and metacognition
Models of skill acquisition, such as Ackerman's (1988) theory of skill acquisition, largely ignore the experiences and dynamic internal processes of a person while learning a skill (e.g., how they feel, what strategies they are using, the role of the external environment). Riding and Powell (1993) suggested that the information-processing model (a common conceptualisation of learning and thinking) is an inadequate model to explain the complexitie…
Determining career orientations in women from different social-class backgrounds
Ability-performance relations during skill acquisition
Industry depends on effective training for employees so that organisations can be efficient and productive. A number of theories exist to explain the relationship between ability and performance. The present paper explores difficulties in testing theories of skill acquisition, with a focus on Ackerman's model of ability—performance relations, and summarises various research projects which have tested this theory. Suggestions are made for further …
Supporting Employee Participation: Attitudes and Perceptions in Trainees, Employees and Teams
Research in employee participation has tended to focus on participation outcomes rather than the process of successful implementation, and to evaluate program success in terms of (a) employee attitudes (e.g. satisfaction) post-participation and (b) productivity or effectiveness. We argue that such approaches ignore the process component of successful implementation such as the long-term maintenance of interest in and support for participation amo…
Operant” and “respondent” measures of dispositions: Sex differences in the degree of independence between needs, values, and traits
Determining career orientations in women from different social-class backgrounds
Operant” and “respondent” measures of dispositions: Sex differences in the degree of independence between needs, values, and traits
Career Orientations in Women from Rural and Urban Backgrounds
This study examines career orientations in women from rural and urban backgrounds, using a longitudinal data set collected over a period of 10 years, from 1973-1982. When first contacted, respondents were 18 years of age. The final data collection in 1982 resulted in a sample of some 1300 women. The longitudinal data was analyzed using LISREL structural equation modeling and was guided by a theoretical framework developed by Krumboltz (1981), whi…
A Contextualist Model of Professional Attainment: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Career Paths of Men and Women
This study investigates the importance, in adolescence, of motivational, contextual, and demographic variables in predicting professional attainment in the early stages of career development. Using a synthesis of two theories; the Levinson Life Cycle and the Astin Theory of Career Choice, longitudinal data derived from approximately 3,000 adolescent students over a 10-year period from final year secondary school through to the age of 27 was analy…
Role Reward and Role Stress in Managerial and Professional Women
The importance of balancing personal and work demands has become increasingly relevant in recent years as large numbers of women move into the labour market full time. The present study was designed to examine differences in role rewards and stress amongst a group of 163 managerial and professional women. Subjects completed a questionnaire about the stress and rewards associated with their work and family roles. Although no significant difference…
The dimensionality of ratings of performance appraisal systems
The performance appraisal (PA) literature focuses predominantly on the characteristics and actions of performance “raters”, ignoring the fact that the success of any performance appraisal system depends largely on employee or appraisee perceptions. This study investigates employee perceptions of performance appraisal, with a focus on the structure and dimensionality of these perceptions. Two hundred and eighty-seven executives and managers from a…
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia: Introduction
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia: Introduction." Australian Psychologist, 32(1), pp. 10–11
Ability-performance relations during skill acquisition
Industry depends on effective training for employees so that organisations can be efficient and productive. A number of theories exist to explain the relationship between ability and performance. The present paper explores difficulties in testing theories of skill acquisition, with a focus on Ackerman's model of ability—performance relations, and summarises various research projects which have tested this theory. Suggestions are made for further …
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia part 2: Introduction
Industrial and organisational psychology in Australia part 2: Introduction." Australian Psychologist, 32(3), p. 145
Supporting Employee Participation: Attitudes and Perceptions in Trainees, Employees and Teams
Research in employee participation has tended to focus on participation outcomes rather than the process of successful implementation, and to evaluate program success in terms of (a) employee attitudes (e.g. satisfaction) post-participation and (b) productivity or effectiveness. We argue that such approaches ignore the process component of successful implementation such as the long-term maintenance of interest in and support for participation amo…
Process in skill acquisition: Motivation, interruptions, memory, affective states, and metacognition
Models of skill acquisition, such as Ackerman's (1988) theory of skill acquisition, largely ignore the experiences and dynamic internal processes of a person while learning a skill (e.g., how they feel, what strategies they are using, the role of the external environment). Riding and Powell (1993) suggested that the information-processing model (a common conceptualisation of learning and thinking) is an inadequate model to explain the complexitie…
Modelling skill acquisition in acquired brain injury
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a debilitating condition often requiring extensive rehabilitation. Although cognitive rehabilitation is concerned with overcoming a skills deficit, the application of skill acquisition research in this context has been non-existent. Examining post-injury learning in terms of the qualitative variables associated with different phases of skill acquisition is likely to be beneficial in assessing patient status and moni…
Entrepreneurship research and practice: A call to action for psychology
Entrepreneurship is a major source of employment, economic growth, and innovation, promoting product and service quality, competition, and economic flexibility. It is also a mechanism by which many people enter the society's economic and social mainstream, aiding culture formation, population integration, and social mobility. This article aims to illuminate research opportunities for psychologists by exposing gaps in the entrepreneurship literatu…
The Big Five Traits as Predictors of Subjective and Psychological Well-Being
Despite considerable research on personality and "hedonic" or subjective well-being, parallel research on "eudaimonic" or psychological well-being is scarce. The current study investigated the relationship between the Big Five traits and subjective and psychological well-being among 211 men and women. Results indicated that the relationship between personality factors and psychological well-being was stronger than the relationship between persona…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Career development (3 works) · Career Development and Diversity (3 works)