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  • Assistant Professor
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Research Areas
  • Industrial/Organizational

Research Interests

I consider my research to primarily be at the intersection of organizational behavior and occupational health psychology. Specifically, I will often focus on the impacts of person-to-person exchanges (both at work and at home) on workers’ well-being—inclusive of psychological (e.g., burnout, work engagement), behavioral (e.g., aggression at work and at home), emotional (e.g., anger, anxiety), and cognitive (e.g., self-control) indicators. I am also interested in technology and work, politics and work, and human-animal interaction.

Selected Publications

    • Hughes, I. M., Gold, H., Curtis, E. L., & Stewart, C. (2025). Animals as more than just workers: Considering the role of pets as facilitators of nonwork-work processes. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. doi: 10.1017/iop.2025.10037
    • Gray, C. E., Skovera, I. R., Hughes, I. M., Kellman, D., & Offermann, L. (2025). Help! We need a measure: Developing and evaluating a multidimensional coworker support scale (MCSS). Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000408
    • Bazzoli, A., & Hughes, I. M. (2025). Money comes, money goes—does stress follow suit? A longitudinal and nonlinear perspective on workers’ financial stress. Journal of Business and Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s10869-025-10047-2
     
    • 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, 40(5), 766-781. doi: 10.1002/smi.3443
     
    • 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., Levey, Z. J., Lee, J., & Jex, S. M. (2023). Doing good to be (subtly) bad: A moral licensing view on the relations between organizational citizenship behavior and instigated incivility. Human Performance, 36(5), 201-218. doi: 10.1080/08959285.2023.2248961
     
    • 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, 73(2), 851-862. doi: 10.1111/apps.12463
    • 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
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