Research
Within the SWERV 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)
... 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/)