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Claire E. Smith

Claire Smith

Assistant Professor

CONTACT

Office: PCD 4151
Phone: 813/974-
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BIO

Dr. Claire E. Smith is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Deputy Director of the Sunshine Education & Research Center. She earned her Ph.D. In Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology from Bowling Green State University, where she researched employee recovery from work stress and burnout. She completed her postdoctoral training at the ßÙßÇÂþ»­â€™s School of Aging Studies, studying the connection between work, health behaviors (sleep, exercise), and long-term health outcomes as employees get older. Dr. Smith’s current research in occupational health psychology (OHP) connects these threads, aiming to answer the question: What are the biggest threats to modern workers aiming to live healthy, fulfilling, long lives, and how can we move toward effective solutions?

EDUCATION

  • 08/2021     Bowling Green State University: Ph.D. in I/O Psychology 
  • 08/2016     Georgia Institute of Technology: B.S. in Psychology 

RESEARCH

Our lab studies a variety of topics within occupational health psychology (OHP), spanning physical and mental health. Current topics of interest include the work-life interface (e.g., work as it relates to sleep, exercise, and romantic relationships in addition to work-family) and the long-term impact of work on health as we age (e.g., chronic conditions, mortality), with special attention to health disparities and the well-being of marginalized groups (e.g., racial/ethnic and sexual orientation minorities).

TEACHING

Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Occupational Health Psychology

SPECIALTY AREA

Industrial-Organizational

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

*Smith, C.E., Lee, S., Brooks, M.E., Barratt, C.L., & Yang, H. (2023). Working and working out: Decision-making inputs connect daily work stress to physical exercise.  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 28(3), 160–173. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000349.
            *Selected as an APA Editor’s Choice Paper

Smith, C.E., Lee, S., & Allen, T.D. (2023). Hard work makes it hard to sleep: Job characteristics link to multidimensional sleep phenotypes. Journal of Business & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-023-09882-y

Lawson, K. M., Lee, S., Smith, C.E., & Thiem, K. (2023). Staying in STEM: Work-to-life conflict and retention-related outcomes in a male-dominated occupation. Gender in Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-10-2022-0326

Smith, C.E., Wayne, J.H., Matthews, R., Lance, C., Griggs, T., & Pattie, M. (2022). Stability and change in levels of work-family conflict: A multi-study, longitudinal investigation. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95(1), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12372

Smith, C.E., Matthews, R.A., Mills, M., Hong, Y., & Sim, S. (2021). Organizational benefits of onboarding contingent workers: An anchoring model approach. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37, 525-541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-021-09757-0

Smith, C.E., Barratt, C.L., & Hirvo, A. (2020). Burned out or engaged at work? The role of self-regulatory personality profiles. Stress and Health, 37(3), 572-587. https://doi/ 10.1002/smi.3015