Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design, and Data Analysis provides a state-of-the-art review of current issues and best practices in the science of Occupational Health Psychology. Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) is a multidisciplinary and rapidly growing area of research and it is difficult or impossible for researchers to keep up with developments in all of the fields where scholars conduct OHP science. This book will help OHP scholars improve their own research by translating recent innovations in methodology into sets of concrete recommendations that will help scholars improve their own research as well as their training of future researchers.
About the Author: Dr. Robert Sinclair is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Clemson University, where he also serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Psychology. He completed his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Wayne State University in 1995. Prior to moving to Clemson University in 2008, he held faculty positions at the University of Tulsa and Portland State University. Dr. Sinclair is a founding member and Past-President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology. He currently serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior and as a panel member for the Occupational Safety and Health Study Section of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. His recent work includes an edited volume (in press with Jonathan Houdmont and Stavroula Leka) titled Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice (Volume 2) and an edited volume (in press with Tom Britt) titled Psychological Resilience in Military Personnel: Theory and Practice. Dr. Sinclair's research focuses on individual (e.g., personality) and organizational (e.g., leadership) factors that contribute to occupational health concerns faced by military personnel, nurses, and entry-level hourly employees. His specific interests include economic stress, the employment relationship, work schedules, counterproductive workplace behavior, and psychological resilience.
Dr. Mo Wang is an Associate Professor of Management at University of Florida, where he also serves as the co-director of the Human Resource Research Center. He received his joint Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Developmental Psychology at Bowling Green State University in 2005. Prior to moving to University of Florida, he held faculty positions at Portland State University (2005-2008) and the University of Maryland (2009-2011). Dr. Wang specializes in research and applications in the areas of retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, cross-cultural HR management, leadership, and advanced quantitative methodologies. He has received Academy of Management HR Division Scholarly Achievement Award (2008), Careers Division Best Paper Award (2009), and Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (2009) for his research in these areas. He also received Early Career Achievement Awards from Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (2012), Academy of Management's HR Division (2011) and Research Methods Division (2011), and Society for Occupational Health Psychology (co-sponsored by the APA and NIOSH, 2009). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Journal of Business and Psychology.
Dr. Lois Tetrick received her doctorate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983. Upon completion of her doctoral studies, she joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University and remained there until 1995 when she moved to the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston. She joined the faculty at George Mason University as the Director of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program in 2003. Dr. Tetrick served as Editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 2006-2010, Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 2002-2006, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology 1996-2001. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Management and Organizational Review. She co-edited the first edition and second editions of the Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology with James C. Quick and Health and Safety in Organizations with David Hofmann. She also co-edited The Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives with Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro, Lynn Shore, and Susan Taylor. Dr. Tetrick is a founding member of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology and a fellow of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). She served as 2007-2008 President of SIOP, the Chair of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management 2001-2002, and has represented SIOP on the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives 2003-2005, and the APA Board of Scientific Affairs 2006-2009. Dr. Tetrick's research interests are in the areas of occupational health and safety, occupational stress, and the work-family interface. Her other area of research focuses on psychological contracts and the exchange relationship between employees and their organizations. A common underlying interest in both of these lines of research is incorporating a global perspective in understanding employees' experiences of the work environment.
