Browsing by Author "King, Danielle"

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    Are you responsible for confronting prejudice?: Increasing ally behaviors by promoting responsibility
    (2021-04-30) Watson, Ivy Danielle; King, Eden B.; King, Danielle
    Increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is a critical goal for universities and organizations alike. Black employees make up less than 6% of the STEM workforce though they enter STEM majors at the same rate as White and Asian students. The proposed research’s overarching goal is to understand how interventions can increase personal responsibility to confront prejudice which may lead to decreasing experiences of prejudice for Black students in STEM-related academic programs. To do this, I focus on how the interventions of psychological standing and superordinate group identity may increase individuals felt responsibility to confront prejudice and the likelihood that the do in fact confront in situations of discrimination. These relationships were tested using an experimental study of 180 Rice undergraduate students. The results showed a significant effect of psychological standing on the likelihood of a student from a racial majority group confronting discrimination. These results support previous research on psychological standing and highlights the importance understanding and refining research on interventions allies can utilize to confront racial discrimination.
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    Is it Payday Yet? The Influence of Payday and Employee Financial Stress on Resilience
    (2024-04-17) Phetmisy, Cassandra; King, Danielle
    Financial stress, or having worries that one’s financial resources are insufficient for one’s needs (Starrin et al., 2009), is a salient experience for many adults in the United States (APA, 2022). People often turn to work as a way of navigating economic turmoil. Given that most people work to earn an income (Bloom & Milkovich, 1996), it is imperative for organizational scholars to understand how pay-related variables (e.g., payday) may affect employees’ experiences. Prior research has established that payday is a psychologically salient and important event for employees (Steed, 2018). Employees may anticipate payday and its direct effects on their lives (e.g., paying bills, saving money, providing security). Based on Conservation of Resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989), I argue that payday is a critical resource that influences the extent to which employees feel capable of overcoming work challenges (i.e., resilience capacity; Brykman & King, 2021). I also investigate the link between resilience capacity and exhaustion. Using experience sampling methodology with daily surveys across 28 days (N = 82 participants; 2,142 days), I found that resilience capacity mediates the positive relationship between financial stress and exhaustion. Within the context of payday, there was evidence that financial stress is negatively related to resilience capacity once employees pass the midpoint between paydays and are awaiting their next paycheck. Investigating resilience capacity in accordance with payday has implications for how employees perform at work, and the inclusion of financial stress provides a rich perspective on the extent employees are ready to overcome challenges at work.
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    Reflections on Juneteenth: Session Four
    (Rice University, 2020-06-19) King, Danielle; Hayes, Matthew; Hebl, Mikki
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    Unemployed But Resilient: A Model of Resilience Predictors and Outcomes During the Job Search Process
    (2022-08-12) Burrows, Dominique Nicole; King, Danielle
    Searching for employment is a taxing experience for working age adults, as unemployment denies individuals access to financial resources, social connections, and a sense of workplace identity (Moorhouse & Caltabiano, 2007). Thus, it is valuable to examine how resilience is accomplished during the job search process. Utilizing Self-regulation theory, the current study investigated a model of resilience during the job search process that tested behavioral and psychological resilience as separate constructs to fully demonstrate how resilience manifests within this context. Utilizing experience sampling methodology over 4 weeks, findings showed that coping predicts behavioral and psychological resilience and behavioral and psychological resilience predict well-being and performance over time. Specifically, cross-lagged analyses revealed that active coping at Week 1 predicted behavioral resilience at Week 2 and avoidance coping at Week 1 predicted psychological resilience at Week 2. Similar results were also observed in the relationship between resilience and the outcomes of well-being and job search performance. Additional, exploratory analyses revealed that behavioral resilience and psychological resilience predict each other across various time points, suggesting that one’s ability to be behaviorally (or psychologically) resilient impacts their ability to be psychologically (or behaviorally) resilient at a later time. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.