Research

Research areas and relevant publications are listed below. Note: Name change as of May 2018 – all prior publications are under Rachel L. Williamson.

Employee Well-Being

Smith, R. W., DeNunzio, M. M., Haynes, N. J., & Thiele, A. (in press). The importance of appraisal in stressor-well-being relationships and the examination of personality traits as boundary conditions. Journal of Managerial Psychology

Smith, R. W., Kim, Y.-J., & Carter, N. T. (2020). Does it matter where you’re helpful? Organizational citizenship behavior from work and home. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 25, 450-468. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000181

Clark, M. A., Smith, R. W., & Haynes, N. J. (2020). The multidimensional workaholism scale: Linking the theory, conceptualization, and measurement of workaholism. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 1281-1307. doi: 10.1037/apl0000484

Carter, N. T., Lowery, M. R., Smith, R. W., Harris, A. M., Listyg, B., Conley, K. M., Maupin, C. K. & King, R. T., (2020). Understanding job satisfaction in the causal attitude network (CAN) model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 959-993. doi: 10.1037/apl0000469

Eby, L. T., Mitchell, M. E., Williamson, R. L., & Maupin, C. K. (2020). The development and test of a framework linking strain-based gambling interference with work and nonwork to cognitive disengagement and reduced role performance. Community, Work & Family, 23, 201-223. doi: 10.1080/13668803.2018.1473336

Eby, L. T, Allen, T. D., Conley, K. M., Williamson, R. L., Henderson, T. G., & Mancini, V. S. (2019). Mindfulness-based training interventions for employees: A qualitative review of the literature. Human Resource Management Review, 29, 156-178. doi: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2017.03.004

Beiler-May, A., Williamson, R. L., Clark, M. A., & Carter, N. T. (2017). Gender bias in the measurement of workaholism. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99, 104-110. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2016.1198795

Williamson, R. L., & Clark, M. A. (2017). Workaholism and Work-Family Conflict. In J. Nicklin (Ed.), Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century: Perspectives, Practices, and Challenges.

Williamson, R. L., & Clark, M. A. (2016). Book review of "The work-family interface: An introduction." Academy of Management Learning and Education, 15, 394-397. doi: 10.5465/amle.2016.0100

Allen, T. D., Eby, L. T., Conley, K. M., Williamson, R. L., Mancini, V. S., & Mitchell, M. E. (2015). What do we really know about the effects of mindfulness-based training in the workplace? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 8, 652-661. doi: 10.1017/iop.2015.95

 

Diversity

Smith, R. W., Baranik, L. E., & Duffy, R. D. (2020). Psychological ownership within psychology of working theory: A three-wave study of gender and sexual minority employees. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 118, 103374. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103374

Williamson, R. L., Beiler-May, A., Locklear, L., & Clark, M. A. (2017). Bringing home what I'm hiding at work: The impact of sexual orientation disclosure at work for same-sex couples. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103, 7-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2017.08.005

Griggs, T. D., Eby, L. T., Maupin, C. K., Conley, K. M., Williamson, R. L., Vande Griek, O. H., & Clauson, M. G. (2016). Who are these workers, anyway? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 9, 114-121. doi: 10.1017/iop.2015.123

 

Personality

Smith, R. W., & DeNunzio, M. M. (2020). Examining personality-job characteristic interactions in explaining work outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 84, 103884. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103884

Smith, R. W., Hulett, A. L., & Maples-Keller, J. L. (2019). Personality testing and the Americans with Disabilities Act: An applicant/employee perspective. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12, 167-171. doi: 10.1017/iop.2019.33

Castille, C. M., Castille, A.-M. R., & Smith, R. W. (2019). Assessing Ideal Personalities at Work: Is it all Just a Little Bit of History Repeating? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12, 133-137. doi: 10.1017/iop.2019.25

Harris, A. M., Williamson, R. L., & Carter, N. T. (2019). A conditional threshold hypothesis for creative achievement: On the interaction between intelligence and openness. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13, 322-337. doi: 10.1037/aca0000182

Maples-Keller, J. L., Williamson, R. L., Sleep, C. E., Carter, N. T., Campbell, W. K. & Miller, J. D. (2019). Using item response theory to develop a 60-item version representation of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory using the International Personality Item Pool: Development of the IPIP-NEO-60. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101, 4-15. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1381968

Carter, N. T., Guan, L., Maples, J. L., Williamson, R. L., & Miller, J. D. (2016). The downsides of extreme conscientiousness: a facet-level examination. Journal of Personality, 84, 510-522. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12177

Maples, J. L., Carter, N. T., Few, L. R., Crego, C., Gore, W. L., Samuel, D. B., Williamson, R. L., Lynam, D. R., Widiger, T. A., Markon, K. E., Krueger, R. F., & Miller, J. D. (2015). Testing whether the DSM-5 personality disorder trait model can be measured with a reduced set of items: An item response theory investigation of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. Psychological Assessment, 27, 1195-1210. doi: 10.1037/pas0000120

 

Other

Castille, C. M., Zhang, D., & Smith, R. W. (2020). Opening up: How do I conduct peer review with open science in mind? The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 58(2). 

Zhang, D., Smith, R. W., & Lobo, S. (2020). Should you sign your review? Open peer-review and review quality. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 13, 45-47. doi: 10.1017/iop.2020.5