Within the PAWW lab, research is primarily conducted on...
Social Support at Work
Workplace Mistreatment
Workplace Stressors (for example, job insecurity)
Technology Use at Work (for example, social media use)
Human-Animal Interaction
Politics and Work
... and how these constructs are tied to relevant outcomes, both at work and at home.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
+ = Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hughes, I. M., Guild, A.+, Lamb, K.+, LaRoche, R.+, & Stewart, K.+ (2024). Pet your cat, walk your dog: The spillover effects of morning quality time with pets on outcomes during and after the workday. Stress & Health. doi: 10.1002/smi.3443
The lab's first paper with undergraduate research assistant co-authors!
Hughes, I. M., Gray, C. E., Bazzoli, A., & Stavely, S. M. (2024). Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 29(4), 238-257. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000382
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., 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/)