Research

Within the SWERV lab, research is primarily conducted on... 

... and how these constructs influence employee behavior and well-being, both at work and at home. 

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications


Hughes, I. M., Gray, C. E., Bazzoli, A., & Stavely, S. (In Press). Why your help is unhelpful: A multi-stage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.  


Hughes, I. M., Keith, M. G., Lee, J., & Gray, C. E. (2024). Working, scrolling, and worrying: Doomscrolling at work and its implications for work engagement. Computers in Human Behavior, 153. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2023.108130 


Hughes, I. M., & Freier, L. M. (2023). The other side of emotional support: The moderating role of personality in the relations between emotionally-valenced support elicitation experiences and strain. Applied Psychology: An International Review. doi: 10.1111/apps.12463

Hughes, I. M., Lee, J., Hong, J., Currie, R., & Jex, S. M. (2023). They were uncivil, and now I am too: A dual process model exploring relations between customer incivility and instigated incivility. Stress & Health. doi: 10.1002/smi.3221


Hughes, I. M., & Jex, S. M. (2022). Individual differences, job demands and job resources as boundary conditions for relations between experienced incivility and forms of instigated incivility. International Journal of Conflict Management, 33(5), 909-932. doi: 10.1108/IJCMA-02-2022-0045


Hughes, I. M., Freier, L. M., & Barratt, C. L. (2022). “Your help isn’t helping me!” Unhelpful workplace social support, strain, and the role of individual differences. Occupational Health Science, 6(3), 387-423. doi: 10.1007/s41542-022-00115-x

Featured on the Healthy Work Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rQijSwkdqAWRjekosmi3W?si=ApbRb0SCR3ecSZQ3I7wVPw&nd=1)

Featured on PaulSpector.com (https://paulspector.com/unhelpful-help-is-detrimental-social-support/)