Browsing Auburn University Graduate School by Author "Fan, Jinyan"

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Achieving interview equilibrium: Striking balance between technology and human-centered approaches in asynchronous video interviews

Zawacki, Alissa (2022-11-18)

Asynchronous video interviews (AVI), or one-way video interviews, are becoming increasingly popular in organizations’ hiring processes despite the limited and mixed empirical support for this newer technology procedure. ...

Assessing Parental Readiness to Change: A Psychometric Evaluation of the READI-SF in a Community Sample

Proctor, Kaitlin Baker (2016-06-17)

Engagement in parent training continues to be a barrier to service delivery (Brestan & Eyberg, 1998; Chacko, Wymbs, Chimiklis, Wymbs, & Pelham, 2012; Eyberg, Nelson, & Boggs, 2008; Miller & Prinz, 2003; Nock & Kazdin, 2005; ...

Assessing Personality through a Chatbot-based Structured Interview: Developing and Testing Two Parallel Predictive Models

Liu, Jiayi (2023-07-25) ETD File Embargoed

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) are changing the way organizations assess talent. Even though conversational AI has been increasingly used to conduct interviews, ...

Assessing to Learn and Learning to Assess: Examining Assessment Fidelity for the Parent-Child Interaction Coding System

Baker, Kaitlin (2012-11-06)

Fidelity to treatment protocol has been found to predict treatment outcome (Schoenwald, Sheidowm & Chapman, 2009; Henggeler, Schoenwald, Liao, Letourneau, & Edwards, 2002) and is especially important to evaluate within the ...

Beyond Single-Document Detection: A Within-Subject Authorship Authentication Approach in the Age of Generative AI

Richardson, Jonah (2026-08-04) ETD File Embargoed

The rapid development and integration of generative AI platforms like ChatGPT into daily life has created challenges for verifying authentic human writing in personnel selection contexts and beyond. This dissertation ...

A Comparative Analysis of Predictive Model and Large Language Model Approaches to Workplace Competency Assessment

Couvillion, Isabelle (2025-12-04) ETD File Embargoed

Workplace competencies serve as foundational components of organizational effectiveness, directly influencing talent selection, employee development, and strategic planning. Traditionally, these competencies are assessed ...

A Conditional Reasoning Test for Risk and Incident Propensity

Doerr, Alexa (2016-08-09)

Occupational injuries and fatalities persist in large numbers in the United States. Injuries and fatalities that occur at work have a high social and financial cost to employers. Moreover, human error is often to blame ...

Disobedience and Deviance: An Empirical Categorization of Insider Cybersecurity Behaviors

Whitman, Rachel (2021-07-28)

Employees pose a significant threat to organizational cybersecurity. Researchers have called for increased examination of the traits and antecedents related to poor cybersecurity compliance. The current study contributes ...

Does multitasking work for you? The role of multitasking fit in employee job satisfaction and turnover intentions

Grove, Julia (2020-07-20)

Person-job (P-J) fit refers to the degree of congruence between an employee and their occupation. P-J fit is important for organizations to understand, because it predicts job satisfaction and turnover intentions, such ...

The Effect of Prompt Construct Relevance on the Validity of Linguistic-Based Psychological Trait Scores

Li, Jingyi (2026-08-06) ETD File Embargoed

A tacit assumption in both AI-based and traditional assessment research and practice is that prompts must be tailored to the constructs being measured. The present study challenges this assumption by examining whether and ...

The effects of selection ratio and applicant goal orientation on faking behavior

Ellis, Ronald (2012-11-05)

I expand on McFarland and Ryan’s (2006) and Mueller-Hanson, Heggestad, and Rose’s (2006) proposed models of faking behavior in selection contexts by examining relevant situational and individual difference variables. The ...

Emotional Reactions to a Middle Warning Message: A Physiological Approach

Hack, Elissa (2018-04-17)

Socially desirable responding or faking has posed a serious threat to the validity and utility of personality tests used as selection tools for organizations. There have been numerous attempts to circumvent this issue. A ...

An Exploratory Approach of Developing Visually Appealing Furniture Design Concepts by Employing Psychological Effects

MEN, HAOREN (2025-05-07)

The conscious application of perceptual psychology in furniture design has not been fully explored in shaping user experience. The psychology of perception involves cross-disciplinary applications. Despite extensive research ...

Exploring process of LMX from the perspective of attachment style

Hou, Ning (2016-06-27)

The adult attachment theory has been introduced to leadership research recently, and leader-member exchange (LMX) has been a popular construct to study the relationship between leader and follower. This dissertation reviewed ...

From Small Talk to Smart Talk: Development of an AI Chatbot to Infer Intellect and Cognitive Ability

Everett, Jordan (2025-12-03) ETD File Embargoed

This thesis sought to develop an AI chatbot that can infer participants’ intellect and cognitive ability scores. Cognitive ability has been a construct of interest for over 100 years, with links to many important outcomes ...

A Grounded Theory of Employed Professional Role Identity: One Pathway to Understanding Professional-Organizational Relationships

Stevens, Gregory (2014-10-10)

An increasing amount of research has recently been devoted to the complex dynamics surrounding employed professionals, particularly from the standpoint of understanding the ways in which they identify with their roles in ...