Browsing by Author "Longoria, Roman Gabriel"
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Item Individual differences in the perception of confinement(1995) Longoria, Roman Gabriel; Quinones, Miguel A.There has been an abundance of research on people in confined environments. However, when investigating the negative effects associated with working or living in confined environments, the literature has generally tended to focus only on the objective characteristics of the environment. In addition, past research has tended to treat crowding and confinement as a unitary construct. The present paper provides a distinction between crowding and confinement. It also argues that research should examine the mediation of subjective environmental characteristics developed through individual perceptions. Eighty subjects were confined to rooms of varying sizes (volumes). An index to quantify perceptions of confinement was developed. A Perceptual Mediation Model is presented, and it is demonstrated that perceptions of confinement serve as the mechanism through which objective confinement influences state anxiety, negative affect, and mood. Implications for future research and its application are also discussed.Item The relationship between work experience and job knowledge: A theoretical and empirical reexamination(1997) Longoria, Roman Gabriel; Quinones, Miguel A.A study was conducted to examine the relationship between work experience and job knowledge. The data used came from the United States Air Force job performance measurement system (JPMS) database. Data on the cognitive ability and job tenure for two hundred seventy-two aerospace ground equipment specialists (AGE) were used. In addition two measures of task experience were obtained for a sample of 24 AGE tasks. These tasks were subsequently quantified in terms of their difficulty. Hypotheses that work experience predicts job knowledge, and that a task-level measure of work experience, as compared to a job level measure, would be more predictive of job knowledge were supported. In addition, it was shown that both cognitive ability and the difficulty of the task moderates the task experience--job knowledge relationship. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.