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South Africa
2026

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Citations
27730
World Ranking
4483
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Charles E. Lance is affiliated with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Gender Studies, General Health Professions, and Demography.

The main topics covered in Charles E. Lance's work include Work-Family Balance Challenges, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Employment and Welfare Studies, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, and Family Caregiving in Mental Illness.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Charles E. Lance include Tracy L. Griggs, Claire E. Smith, Julie Holliday Wayne, Russell A. Matthews, and Marshall W. Pattie.

Publications by Charles E. Lance appeared in several academic journals, including Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Performance, The Gerontologist, International Journal of Psychology, and Group & Organization Management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Charles E. Lance are as follows:

  • On States and Traits in Work-Family Research, 2024, Human Performance
  • A primer on method effects on observed correlations with examples, 2024, International Journal of Psychology
  • Causal cycles, causal intervals, and measurement in over-time studies, 2024, Group & Organization Management
  • Stability and change in levels of work-family conflict: A multi-study, longitudinal investigation, 2021, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • Care Recipient Controlling and Manipulative Behavior and Caregiver Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Race, Caregiver Resentment, and Mutual Communal Behavior, 2021, The Gerontologist

Best Publications

  • A Review and Synthesis of the Measurement Invariance Literature: Suggestions, Practices, and Recommendations for Organizational Research

    Robert J. Vandenberg;Charles E. Lance

  • What Reviewers Should Expect from Authors Regarding Common Method Bias in Organizational Research

    James M. Conway;Charles E. Lance

  • The Sources of Four Commonly Reported Cutoff Criteria What Did They Really Say

    Charles E. Lance;Marcus M. Butts;Lawrence C. Michels

  • Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing:

    Jean M. Twenge;Stacy M. Campbell;Brian J. Hoffman;Charles E. Lance

  • Examining the Causal Order of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment

    Robert J. Vandenberg;Charles E. Lance

  • Motivational bases of affective organizational commitment: A partial test of an integrative theoretical model

    Lillian T. Eby;Deena M. Freeman;Michael C. Rush;Charles E. Lance

  • Risk Factors for Potentially Harmful Informal Caregiver Behavior

    Scott R. Beach;Richard Schulz;Gail M. Williamson;L. Stephen Miller

  • Residual Centering, Exploratory and Confirmatory Moderator Analysis, and Decomposition of Effects in Path Models Containing Interactions:

    Charles E. Lance

  • Method Effects, Measurement Error, and Substantive Conclusions

    Charles E. Lance;Bryan Dawson;David Birkelbach;Brian J. Hoffman

  • Statistical and methodological myths and urban legends : doctrine, verity, and fable in the organizational and social sciences

    Charles E. Lance;Robert J Vandenberg

  • What Is Method Variance and How Can We Cope With It? A Panel Discussion

    Michael T. Brannick;David Chan;James M. Conway;Charles E. Lance

  • A critique of the correlated trait-correlated method and correlated uniqueness models for multitrait-multimethod data.

    Charles E. Lance;Carrie L. Noble;Steven E. Scullen

  • Latent Growth Models of Individual Change: The Case of Newcomer Adjustment.

    Charles E. Lance;Robert J. Vandenberg;Robin M. Self

  • Examining the construct validity of mastery-avoidance achievement goals: A meta-analysis.

    Lisa E. Baranik;Laura J. Stanley;Bethany H. Bynum;Charles E. Lance

  • Individual differences in authenticity and mindfulness as predictors of verbal defensiveness

    Chad E. Lakey;Michael H. Kernis;Whitney L. Heppner;Charles E. Lance

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult Version in Healthy Adults and Application to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Robert M. Roth;Charles E. Lance;Peter K. Isquith;Adina S. Fischer

  • A Comparison Between Bottom–Up, Top–Down, and Bidirectional Models of Relationships Between Global and Life Facet Satisfaction

    Charles E. Lance;Gary J. Lautenschlager;Christopher E. Sloan;Philip E. Varca

  • Specification of the criterion construct space: An application of hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis.

    Charles E. Lance;Mark S. Teachout;Terrance M. Donnelly

  • RATER SOURCE EFFECTS ARE ALIVE AND WELL AFTER ALL

    Brian Hoffman;Charles E. Lance;Bethany Bynum;William A. Gentry

  • Tests of the causal directions of global — Life facet satisfaction relationships

    Charles E. Lance;Alison G. Mallard;Alex C. Michalos

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail M. Williamson
Gail M. Williamson University of Georgia
Robert J. Vandenberg
Robert J. Vandenberg University of Georgia
Brian J. Hoffman
Brian J. Hoffman University of Georgia
Adam S. Goodie
Adam S. Goodie University of Georgia
James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University
Joshua D. Miller
Joshua D. Miller University of Georgia
Filip Lievens
Filip Lievens Singapore Management University
W. Keith Campbell
W. Keith Campbell University of Georgia
Talya N. Bauer
Talya N. Bauer Portland State University
Dean Tjosvold
Dean Tjosvold Lingnan University

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