Cynthia L S Pury
Biographic Data
| ID | 6542143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia L S Pury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia L S |
| FAMILY NAME | Pury |
| SIGNATURE | PURY C L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2941-2995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Serious Leisure, Job Satisfaction, & the Moderating Effect of Job Task Load
Serious leisure, a measure of high-quality leisure activity, has been shown to contribute to general life satisfaction and health outcomes. We examined the relationship between leisure seriousness and satisfaction with leisure, life, and job satisfaction, as moderated by perceived job task workload. We hypothesized that the relationship between serious leisure participation and employee well-being is moderated by job task load, such that (a) as j…
Positive psychology in a pandemic
As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to broaden these calls by considering the role that positive psychology factors can play in buffering against mental illness, bolstering mental health during COVID-19 and building positive processes and capacities that may help to strengthen future mental health. The pape…
Love and Power
Little things that count
The purpose of this Incubator is to encourage organizational researchers to attend to the most common type of business in the United States—the microbusiness. After defining and describing these businesses, we propose research questions on defining and managing performance, organizational citizenship, and work–family conflict in this novel business setting. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Elevated Resting Blood Pressure and Dampened Emotional Response
OBJECTIVE: Increased blood pressure is associated with decreased reports of aversiveness for both physical pain and psychosocial stressors. Based on these findings, higher blood pressure could be associated with altered emotional responses to a broader range of stimuli. There are at least 3 ways this could happen: a) less dire response to negative stimuli with no change in response to positive stimuli; b) more positive responses to both negative …
Assessing Subjective Daytime Sleepiness
The authors' purpose in the current study was to apply P. J. Lang's (1968, 1971, 1985) theory of multiple systems of emotional response to the study of subjective sleepiness. A total of 274 participants completed the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS), the Profile of Mood States (POMS), three sleepiness-related Visual Analogue Scales (VAS), and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). The authors completed correlations and factor analysis of the 4 sleepi…
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Assessing Subjective Daytime Sleepiness
The authors' purpose in the current study was to apply P. J. Lang's (1968, 1971, 1985) theory of multiple systems of emotional response to the study of subjective sleepiness. A total of 274 participants completed the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS), the Profile of Mood States (POMS), three sleepiness-related Visual Analogue Scales (VAS), and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). The authors completed correlations and factor analysis of the 4 sleepi…
Elevated Resting Blood Pressure and Dampened Emotional Response
OBJECTIVE: Increased blood pressure is associated with decreased reports of aversiveness for both physical pain and psychosocial stressors. Based on these findings, higher blood pressure could be associated with altered emotional responses to a broader range of stimuli. There are at least 3 ways this could happen: a) less dire response to negative stimuli with no change in response to positive stimuli; b) more positive responses to both negative …
Little things that count
The purpose of this Incubator is to encourage organizational researchers to attend to the most common type of business in the United States—the microbusiness. After defining and describing these businesses, we propose research questions on defining and managing performance, organizational citizenship, and work–family conflict in this novel business setting. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Love and Power
Positive psychology in a pandemic
As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to broaden these calls by considering the role that positive psychology factors can play in buffering against mental illness, bolstering mental health during COVID-19 and building positive processes and capacities that may help to strengthen future mental health. The pape…
Serious Leisure, Job Satisfaction, & the Moderating Effect of Job Task Load
Serious leisure, a measure of high-quality leisure activity, has been shown to contribute to general life satisfaction and health outcomes. We examined the relationship between leisure seriousness and satisfaction with leisure, life, and job satisfaction, as moderated by perceived job task workload. We hypothesized that the relationship between serious leisure participation and employee well-being is moderated by job task load, such that (a) as j…
Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (2 works) · Adverse effect (1 work) · Audiology (1 work) · Autoregulation (1 work)