James M. Diefendorff
Ph.D. University of AKron

Associate Professor: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Contact Information

Office: Arts and Science Building, room 318
Phone: (330) 972-7317
E-mail: jdiefen@uakron.edu

Dr. Diefendorff received his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from The University of Akron in 1999. His research interests include self-regulation, motivational traits, emotional display rules, and emotion management at work. His publications have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Human Performance. Dr. Diefendorff is currently or has previously served on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. He also is an associate editor of Journal of Business and Psychology. Dr. Diefendorff is currently an associate professor of psychology at the University of Akron. Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Akron, Dr. Diefendorff served on the faculty in the Psychology Department at Louisiana State University and in the Business School at The University of Colorado at Denver. He also was a visiting assistant professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University in the Summers of 2007 and 2009.

Recent Publications

Greguras, G. J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (In press). Why does proactive personality predict employee life satisfaction and work behaviors? A field investigation of the mediating role of the self-concordance model. Personnel Psychology.

Diefendorff, J. M., & *Chandler, M. M. (2010). Motivating employees. In S. Zedeck (Ed.). Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 65-135). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Diefendorff, J. M., Morehart, J., & Gabriel, A. (2010). The influence of power and solidarity on emotional display rules. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 120-132.

Lord, R. G., Diefendorff, J. M., Schmidt, A. M., & Hall, R. J. (2010). Self-regulation at work. In S. T. Fiske (Ed.). Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 543-568. Chippewa Falls, WI: Annual Reviews.

Chau, S. L., Dahling, J., Levy, P. E., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2009). A predictive study of emotional labor and turnover. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 1151-1163.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Greguras, G. J. (2009). Contextualizing emotional display rules: Examining the roles of targets and discrete emotions in shaping display rule perceptions. Journal of Management, 35, 880-898.

Greguras, G. J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2009). Different fits satisfy different needs: Linking person-environment fit to employee attitudes and performance using self-determination theory. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 465-477.

Loi, R., Yang, J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2009). Four-factor justice and daily job satisfaction: A multi-level investigation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 770-781.

Yang, J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2009). The relations of daily counterproductive workplace behavior with emotions, situational antecedents, and personality moderators: A diary study in Hong Kong. Personnel Psychology, 62, 259-295.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Croyle, M. H. (2008). Antecedents of emotional display rule commitment. Human Performance, 21, 310-332.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Lord, R. G. (2008). Self-regulation and goal striving processes. In R. Kanfer, G. Chen, & R. Pritchard (Eds.). Work Motivation: Past, Present, and Future (pp. 151-196). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Richard, E. M. (2008). Not all emotional display rules are created equal: Distinguishing between prescriptive and contextual display rules. In. N. M. Ashkanasy, & C. L. Cooper (Eds.). Research Companion to Emotion in Organizations (pp. 316-334). Northampton, CT: Edward Elgar.

Diefendorff, J. M., Richard, E. M., & Yang, J. (2008). Emotion regulation at work: Linking strategies to affective events and discrete negative emotions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 498-508.

Dr. Diefendorff's Vita



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