Dr. Probst has been inducted into the Washington State Academy of Sciences for her pioneering research on the effects of precarious work (including job insecurity, unemployment, underemployment episodes, and financial stress) on worker health, well-being, safety, and performance, and advancing understanding of the impact of organizational, state, and national policies on those relationships. She is part of the 29-member class of 2023 inductees who join the nonprofit organization with a mission to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.

Andrea’s research was highlighted in the February 2023 issue of WSU Vancouver’s Research Now! 

In part, the article notes,

Since 2020, Bazzoli’s research has followed three paths: first, exploration of the nature of economic stressors (e.g., job insecurity and financial stress), their explanatory mechanisms, novel consequences, and individual and contextual moderators; second, the investigation of predictors and correlation of proactive safety behaviors in the workplace, including safety voice and accident underreporting; and third, examination of how advancements in quantitative methodology can be best used to advance empirical and substantive work in organizational psychology.

Bazzoli’s research is getting noticed. Bazzoli was lead author on a 2022 study published in the journal “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health” that was one of the top WSU news stories in 2022. The study looked at how workers in the United States are affected by precarity – a persistent insecurity in employment or income.

The full story can be read here.

Research from the Coalition for Healthy and Equitable Workplaces lab has been ranked among the top research stories coming out of WSU over the past year.

Trust in government linked to work attitudes

• Led by Hyun Jung Lee, graduate student; co-authored with former graduate students Erica Bettac and Lixin Jiang

Deep economic divide found even among employed during COVID‑19

• Led by Andrea Bazzoli, doctoral student, Tahira Probst, and Jasmina Tomas (visiting Fulbright Scholar)

This follows our research making the annual lists in 2020 and 2021 as well.

A December 2020 Stanford PLOS Biology publication ranked the world’s top scientists.  Dr. Tahira Probst was listed among the top 2% for overall career and single year citations within the Business and Economics field.

5th year graduate student, Sean Rice, has been selected to receive a Total Worker Health Dissertation Award from the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, a NIOSH-funded Education and Research Center, for his project entitled, “Measuring well-being: A longitudinal psychometric investigation into the theoretical structures of workplace well-being and implications for assessment.”

Dr. Probst was awarded a 1-month Visiting Professor Research Grant from Sapienza University of Rome to conduct research on the impact of work-family conflict on employee safety and health outcomes with collaborators Drs. Laura Petitta and Claudio Barbaranelli in Italy during June of 2019.

Erica Bettac was one of only 4 students to receive a Marchionne Summer Research Grant from the Department of Psychology at WSU.  Her research will focus on work-life balance issues among the self-employed and entrepreneurs.

Dr. Probst was awarded a 1-month Visiting Professor Research Grant from Sapienza University of Rome to conduct safety and health research with collaborators Dr. Laura Petitta and Claudio Barbaranelli in Italy during the Spring of 2018.

Alina Chizh was awarded a Department of Psychology Undergraduate Research Grant and Honors Program funding for her study to evaluate cognitive and affective mediators of the relationship between job insecurity and employee creativity. Kendall Rogers also received Honors Program funding to support her honors thesis on antecedents of intrasexual competition at work.

Lindsey Lavaysse, a 2nd year graduate student, was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious 3-year award provides a tuition waiver, generous stipend, and research funding for the remainder of her PhD program. Lindsey is one of only 3 I/O graduate students nationwide to receive an NSF fellowship this year.