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Sample Adequacy and Implications for Occupational Health Psychology Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Jesse S. Michel ,
Paige Hartman ,
Sadie K. O'Neill ,
Anna Lorys  and
Peter Y. Chen
Jesse S. Michel*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
Paige Hartman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
Sadie K. O'Neill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
Anna Lorys
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
Peter Y. Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jesse S. Michel, Department of Psychology, Auburn University, 226 Thach Hall, Auburn, AL 36849-5214. E-mail: jmichel@auburn.edu
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Bergman and Jean (2016) skillfully summarize how the industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology literature generally overrepresents salaried, core, managerial, professional, and executive employees. We concur that that the underrepresentation of traditional workers (i.e., wage earners, laborers, first-line personnel, freelancers, contract workers, and other workers outside managerial, professional, and executive positions) can negatively affect our science. In our commentary we extend the arguments of Bergman and Jean by (a) discussing the appropriate use of samples, which are determined by study goals and hypotheses, and (b) further examining samples in occupational health psychology (OHP) and related journals, which generally require worker samples.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 193 - 197
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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