We examined the predictive relationships between distinct types of emotional regulation and psychological burnout in a sample of 85 practicing nurse professionals. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to predict emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy from the genuine expression, faking, and suppression of discrete positive and negative emotions. The genuine expression of negative emotions predicted emotional exhaustion, and the genuine expression of positive emotions predicted cynicism and reduced professional efficacy. Results highlight the value of distinguishing among emotional valences and regulation types when examining the emotional antecedents of worker stress.

Typical stressful emotions for wartime military wives have not changed since the Vietnam War. Given the catastrophic nature of the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) war of the 21st century, growing concerns have emerged from the public regarding this population's psychological and physical health. A qualitative phenomenological analysis explored an in-depth OIF deployment separation on eight military wives' psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being with soldier-husbands' indefinite deployment. From the dominant thematic findings emerged an overall experience for this population, named a “survival-recovery effect.” Results strikingly mirrored previous empirical research that confirmed the military wives have been unprepared to manage war-induced deployment separations. Implications suggested a critical need to develop intervention support services and programs aimed at addressing the unique wartime stressors for this population. Insights from these women have the potential to guide future military wives through a wartime crisis. Findings have wide benefits for the military wife population vital to soldier retention, segments of the military and civilian scientific communities, and the field of psychology. Future recommendations and limitations are outlined.

This phenomenological hermeneutic study explored the meaning found in the lived experience of producing scholarship for five higher education administrators from within the major areas of administration in higher education—academic affairs, business affairs, and student affairs—from a single research university. In the historical and recent scholarship about the three fields of higher education, one issue that has not been addressed is the meaning found in producing scholarship as an administrator. Thus, the challenges and rewards of producing scholarship as a practicing administrator, creating the first step toward a possible new era in the practice of scholarship on college campuses, were explored. Individual semistructured interviews were the primary source of data, and the authors used a three-step data analysis process to develop both an understanding of what producing scholarship means for each participant and an interpretation of the meaning of producing scholarship as a higher education administrator. Across all the lived experiences of the various scholarly endeavors, each administrator was more connected to education and contributed more to the educational environment by participating in scholarly activities. The administrators were found to be more connected to the people within the university, to their own field of practice, and to the university itself.

In this study, the authors hypothesize that safety-specific job engagement is important to prevent occupational near misses in high-risk occupations. The authors also hypothesize that safety program–focused justice perceptions and the absence of job distractions provide the workplace conditions necessary to support this engagement. Further, safety-specific job engagement mediates the prediction of occupational near misses by justice perceptions and job distractions. Results of a survey administered to 2,488 full-time employees working in the manufacturing, nuclear research and production, and mining industries provide support for the hypothesized relationships among the individual constructs and partial support for the mediation hypothesis. Through structural equation modeling, the authors found that safety-specific job engagement mediated the relationship between safety program–focused justice perceptions and near misses. Another finding was that the relationship among job distractions, safety-specific job engagement, and near misses is more complex, and a clear understanding of their relationship is subject to future investigation.

The process of organizational and personal improvement can often be a daunting challenge, particularly for organizational and executive leaders. To address this process, the authors offer a cognitive learning strategy for any leader to consider as part of his or her personal development process based on the nexus of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's stages of grief, Benjamin Bloom's cognitive taxonomy, and Richard Schuttler's executive mentoring model. In a time when formal and informal leaders are needed to set a great example, the industry of mentoring (and coaching) appears to have many people trying to help others, yet perhaps not all of them have the foundational underpinnings of knowledge needed to fully understand the emotional reactions or steps to learning.