Claire E. Smith

Assistant Professor

CONTACT

Office: PCD 4151
Phone: 813/974-0354
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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. Her research on occupational health psychology focuses on employees' health behaviors (e.g., sleep), relationships (e.g., workplace support, work-family), and long-term health (e.g., chronic conditions), including for high-risk populations. This work is pointed at the larger question: What are the biggest threats to modern workers aiming to live healthy, fulfilling, long lives, and how can we move toward effective solutions?
Her training is from Georgia Tech Psychology (B.S.), Bowling Green State University Psychology (Ph.D.), and USF School of Aging Studies (postdoctoral fellowship).
She is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Business & Psychology and Occupational Health Science and was recently honored with the NIH Early-Stage Investigator Award. Her work is regularly published in high-impact and interdisciplinary journals.

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 high-risk and high-stress employees and workforces.

TEACHING

Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Occupational Health Psychology

SPECIALTY AREA

Industrial-Organizational

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

French, K.A., Smith, C.E., Lee, S., & Chen, Z. (In Press). Can allostatic load cross over? Short-term work and non-work pile-up on parent and adolescent diurnal cortisol, physical symptoms, and sleep. Journal of Applied Psychology.

*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鈥�173. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000349.
            *Selected as an APA Editor鈥檚 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

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