de·vi·a·tion

(dē'vē-ā'shŭn),

1. A turning away or aside from the normal point or course.

2. An abnormality.

3. In psychiatry and the behavioral sciences, a departure from an accepted norm, role, or rule. Synonym(s): deviance

4. A statistical measure representing the difference between an individual value in a set of values and the mean value in that set.

[L. devio, to turn from the straight path, fr. de, from, + via, way]

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de·vi·a·tion

(dē'vē-ā'shŭn)

1. A turning away or aside from the normal point or course.

2. An abnormality.

3. psychiatry, behavioral sciences A departure from an accepted norm, role, or rule.
Synonym(s): deviance.

4. statistics A measurement representing the difference between an individual value in a set of values and the mean value in that set.

[L. devio, to turn from the straight path, fr. de, from, + via, way]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

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Hypothesis 2: Quantitative job insecurity will be positively related to employees' interpersonal deviance.

JOB INSECURITY AND WORKPLACE DEVIANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF LOCUS OF CONTROL

To the extent that the problems are perceived as learning opportunities and these learning opportunities are perceived as the result of either job assignments or as a result of supervisor actions, one would expect co-rumination to increase job satisfaction and decrease supervisor-targeted deviance respectively.

The Moderating Effects of Co-Rumination on the Relationships between Goal Orientations and Anxiety, Satisfaction and Deviance

Hypothesis 1: Positive affectivity is negatively related to employee deviance

Research suggests that the prosocial values promoted by authoritative parenting may have a similar effect on romantic infidelity as on general deviance and academic dishonesty.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLES, GENERAL DEVIANCE, ACADEMIC DISHONESTY, AND INFIDELITY

For the corresponding deviance variables (Table 1), women were considered deviant if their individual response was at least two standard deviations above or below their community's mean; women whose response was within two standard deviations of her community's mean served as the reference group.

A Deviance Approach to Understanding Use of Maternal Health Care Services in Bangladesh

As a special form of social deviance, the juvenile delinquency is defined as "the conduct of all minors and young people in conflict with the rules of social coexistence accepted and recognized in society" (Banciu Radulescu, 2002: 7).

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, AN IMMINENT THREAT TO THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY

Scientific research has went on to explain that even missing out on two hours of sleep (for exampling sleeping for 7 hours instead of 9) usually resulted in acts of deviance occurring in the workplace the next day, again because of the profound effect of sleep on self-controlling mechanisms.

SLEEP DEPRIVATION AMONG WORKING MOTHERS AND THEIR JOB PERFORMANCE

Hypothesis 4: Contempt towards weak performers in the organization positively affects interpersonal deviance.

Downside of performance appraisals & the potential for deviant behaviors

The first one was a single-factor model, frequently used in deviance and delinquency research, namely when a variety scale is used (e.g.

Deviant behavior variety scale: development and validation with a sample of Portuguese adolescents

In their chapter Michalak and Ashkanasy discuss counterproductive work behavior (CWB), organizational misbehavior, interpersonal deviance (bullying, sexual harassment, incivility), and organizational deviance (sabotage, theft, unauthorized absenteeism).

Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace

Using positive deviance for determining successful weight-control practices.

The positive deviance approach to change nutrition behavior: a systematic review/Abordagem do desvio positivo para a mudanca de comportamento alimentar: revisao sistematica