Carmen Buzea
A5066516076- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Romani and Gypsy Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family Support in Illness
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Balkans: History, Politics, Society
- Employee Performance and Management
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- European Politics and Security
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- AI and HR Technologies
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
Transylvania University of Brașov
2013-2025
Transylvania University
2017-2022
Tilburg University
2016
University of Johannesburg
2016
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
2016
Prior research in Western contexts has pointed to the benefits of supporting employees use their personal strengths at work. This manuscript aims investigate invariance relationship between employees' perceived organizational support for and well-being (work engagement, burnout, satisfaction with life) across countries. To this end, we collected a cross-sectional sample n = 1894 working individuals from five different countries (Germany, Indonesia, Netherlands, Romania, South Africa). The...
This study aims to evaluate a number of procedures that have been proposed enhance cross–cultural comparability personality and value data. A priori (anchoring vignettes direct measures response styles (i.e. acquiescence, extremity, midpoint responding, social desirability), posteriori focusing on data transformations prior analysis (ipsatization item parcelling), two modelling (treating as continuous vs ordered categories) were compared using collected from university students in 16...
This study examines ethnic, national, familial, and religious identity well‐being of 632 Roma minority 589 majority adolescents (age: M = 15.98 years, SD 1.34) in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Romania. Results indicated that showed lower endorsement national but stronger than their counterparts. Path models positive associations familial identities with well‐being, whereas was negatively associated particularly for Bulgaria Kosovo (countries a less active policy toward improving...
Abstract Despite the critical role of culture in understanding adolescent self and identity, there is a lack cross‐culturally validated measures self‐construal. The present study evaluated cross‐national measurement invariance Aspects Identity Questionnaire‐IV (AIQ‐IV), assessing four dimensions self‐construal: personal, relational, public, collective. sample included 16,795 adolescents aged 14–19 years from 30 countries across continents. four‐factor structure AIQ‐IV obtained using...
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between identity domains (educational and relational identity) life satisfaction in a cross-national perspective, by targeting minority (Roma) majority youth Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Romania. Based on the three-factor formation model, we investigated interplay three processes (i.e., commitment, in-depth exploration, reconsideration commitment) satisfaction. Participants were 1860 adolescents aged 12–19 years from...
Following Snir and Harpaz's (2012) model of Heavy Work Investment (HWI), we propose a that clarifies the relationship antecedents HWI to burnout.The consists several components: (a) external/situational antecedents, 'income' 'workload' internal/dispositional 'job engagement' 'workaholism'; (b) mediator variable, (divided into 'time' 'effort'); (c) 'burnout' as outcome variable.Data was obtained by social science students who surveyed 388 Romanian employees, ages 19 66, on two consecutive...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated motives that underlie support for preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized associations empathic prosocial concern and fear disease towards would be moderated by trust government. Results suggest association between was strongest when government weak (both at individual-...
This study explores how Romanian employees understand and describe equity theory constructs. We conducted 87 interviews to identify employee perceptions in relation to: (a) contribution that is worth rewarding, (b) expected rewards return for contribution, (c) referent person selected comparison order evaluate the fairness of employee–employer exchange, (d) dominant strategy reduce inequity. Results show expect be rewarded first their personal features second work behavior. The nonfinancial...
Transition to adulthood in countries that have seen recent historical structural changes society as well what it means be an adult represents important contexts for investigations of ways which positive development and transition are experienced. Situated such context, this cross-sectional study aimed (1) describe profiles psychological strengths, measured by the Five Cs youth (PYD) (2) document how identified might differ relation other aspects problematic development. Participants were 272...
Abstract The current study investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviorsin a large, cross-cultural sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized associations empathic prosocial concern and fear disease, with towards behaviors would be moderated by individual-level country-level trust in government. Results suggest association between disease was strongest when government weak (both at individual country-level). Conversely, high, but this...
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure that captures somatic symptoms of coronavirus-related anxiety.In large-scale collaboration spanning 60 countries with 21,513 respondents, we examined CAS's measurement invariance and the evidence convergent validity CAS scores in relation to fear satisfaction life (SWLS-3) scales.We utilized both conventional exact tests alignment procedures, revealing single-factor model fit data well almost all countries.Partial scalar was supported...
Work plays a central role in people's lives and their self-concepts.It was our objective this article to a) explore the factor structure of newly-developed measure work identity, Tilburg Identity Scale Commitment Reconsideration (TWIS-CRC) Romanian employee sample, b) examine whether is invariant at configural, metric, scalar levels across Romanian, English, Dutch, South African (Black White) employees.The theoretically assumed two-factor supported through exploratory analysis (EFA) first...
Abstract. The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS; Crocetti, Rubini, & Meeus, 2008 ) is a recently developed measure identity that has been shown to be reliable tool for assessing processes in adolescents. This study examines psychometric properties the U-MICS large adolescent sample from seven European countries focused on interplay commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration commitment. Participants were 1,007 adolescents Bulgaria (n = 146), Czech...
This article continues the work done for 2016 University Metaranking and updates its results 2017 edition, with new data available 2017.The relies on of performance Romanian universities in international league tables / rankings field higher education.The are discussed from a qualitative quantitative point view; furthermore, sensitivity analysis is also applied to them.Moreover, alongside global results, discusses domains subjects.Starting resulting metaranking, proposes possible...
Measuring Work MotivationAfter more than 100 years of research, the measurement work motivation remains an important topic in field human resource development, that has been studied extensively through theoretical and applied approaches.The continued interest measuring can be attributed to at least two factors.First, technological advances are driving structural changes workplace, such as computer-generated environments virtual teams working organizations (Latham & Ernst, 2006).In this...
Abstract Using cross‐sectional data from N = 4274 young adults across 16 countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic, we examined cross‐cultural measurement invariance of perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD) scale and tested hypothesis that association between PVD fear is stronger under high threat [that is, absence vaccination, living in a country with lower Human Development Index (HDI) or higher mortality]. Results supported bi‐factor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling model where...
The study explores folk theory on work culture as seen by Romanian employees (N = 146). Semi-structured interviews have been conducted to find answers the following questions: 1) Which are main qualities and flaws of workers? 2) What distinguishes Romanians others in terms working style? results show that categories describing style hardworking, cleverness, multitasking creativity, while are: "sloppy work", lack discipline, laziness multi-qualification. findings discussed light...