Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology (ePub)

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.