Blake A Allan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5141249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blake A Allan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blake A |
| FAMILY NAME | Allan |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAN B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0814-1583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating Gendered Racial Microaggressions: Exploring the Mediating and Moderating Pathways to Workplace Well-Being for Black Women
The complex dynamics of racism and sexism in the workplace, particularly gendered racial microaggressions (GRMs), remain a critical concern for Black women. However, despite mounting research that experiencing GRMs predicts psychological distress and other adverse outcomes, the mechanisms through which GRMs influence workplace functioning and well-being remain understudied. Therefore, with a sample of working Black women (N = 156) from an online …
Social mobility through doctoral education: Exploring identity, classism, and belongingness
Development and Validation of the Privileged Social Class Attitudes Scale (PSCAS)
The goal of the study was to develop a scale to assess the social class attitudinal profiles of people with social class privilege. Based on social class theory and other models of privileged identities, we generated an item pool reflecting different attitudinal profiles. In Study 2, we found that the subscales fit together in a multifactor correlational model and established construct validity. However, the Action subscale surprisingly correlate…
The Myth of Social Mobility: Subjective Social Mobility and Mental Health
A common assumption is that upward mobility produces positive psychological outcomes. However, status-based identity framework and social class worldview model propose that perceived social mobility in either direction will lead to increased distress. Based on this claim, we examined relations among subjective social mobility, life satisfaction, and mental health using polynomial regression with response surface mapping. In Study 1, groups that e…
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework
Maternity leave includes the time that mothers take off from work to care for their baby and heal after childbirth. The United States’ maternity leave provisions lag behind other industrialized countries, resulting in poor quality maternity leave (QML) for many mothers. Accordingly, scholars have begun examining QML, a new construct that captures mothers’ subjective experiences of their leave, including dimensions like time off and flexibility. H…
Precarious work and workplace dignity during Covid-19: A longitudinal study
Structural Predictors of Underemployment During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Psychology of Working Perspective
In the present study, we surveyed a sample of working adults ( N = 495) in the United States to understand experiences with underemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from psychology of working theory, we examined a structural model linking economic constraints and experiences of marginalization to underemployment, as mediated by work volition and moderated by perceptions of economic conditions. Economic constraints, experiences of mar…
Critically evaluating and advancing research and statistical methods in vocational behavior research: Introduction to the 2020 special issue on research methodology
Precarious work in the 21st century: A psychological perspective
Classism, work volition, life satisfaction, and academic satisfaction in college students: A longitudinal study
Unemployment and Underemployment: Prevention and Counseling Implications
This chapter details the current state of the literature on unemployment and underemployment and explores how counselors and psychologists can take steps to address the unemployment and underemployment problems. It highlights the relations of several facets of underemployment to mental health and well-being. A number of global trends are contributing to the persistent issues of unemployment and underemployment in the United States and worldwide, …
Planning leisure: Helpful or harmful
The purpose of this study was to examine whether planning leisure resulted in more positive outcomes among undergraduate students. Using empirical and theoretical evidence as a guide, we conducted an experiment in which we directed participants to plan a leisure activity each day for six days. We hypothesized that planning leisure would lead people to engage in leisure more frequently and, consequently, experience more positive emotion and less n…
Introduction to the special issue: A cross-cultural exploration of decent work
Unemployment in the time of Covid-19: A research agenda
Predictors of decent work across time: Testing propositions from Psychology of Working Theory
Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration
The Strengths-Based Inclusive Theory of Work
This paper describes a new vocational theory—the strengths-based inclusive theory of work (S-BIT of Work). This theory addresses the ever-changing, dynamic nature of the world of work and integrates counseling psychology’s core values of emphasizing vocational psychology, strengths-based perspectives, multiculturalism, and social justice. We aim to provide a holistic vocational theory to inform career and work counseling practice by increasing cl…
Infusing Positive Psychological Interventions Into Career Counseling for Diverse Populations
Using the strengths-based inclusive theory of work as a framework, this paper describes how positive psychological interventions (PPIs) can be infused within career and work counseling for diverse populations. Exemplar constructs targeted in the interventions include hope, strengths, adaptability, and empowerment. First, we discuss research related to hope, strengths, adaptability, and empowerment interventions, particularly studies related to ca…
Conceptualizing Well-Being in Vocational Psychology: A Model of Fulfilling Work
Following from the strengths-based inclusive theory of work (S-BIT of Work), fulfilling work is a central goal of career and work counseling. However, vocational psychologists have yet to develop a comprehensive model of fulfilling work. We addressed this concern by reviewing the literature on well-being, developing the fulfilling work construct, and delineating an operationalized model of fulfilling work. This operationalization contains four co…
The development and initial validation of the Decent Work Scale.
Decent work is positioned as the centerpiece of the recently developed Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016). However, to date, no instrument exists which assesses all 5 components of decent work from a psychological perspective. In the current study, we developed the Decent Work Scale (DWS) and demonstrated several aspects of validity with 2 samples of working adults. In Study 1 (N = 275), a large pool of ite…
Bad Feminists? Perceived Self-Discrepancy Predicts Differences in Gender Equality Activism
Under (and Over) Employment: Measurement and Correlates of Employment Discrepancy
Despite the many studies examining the impact of unemployment, underemployment has often been neglected in psychology. Moreover, problems exist with the measurement of underemployment, including categorization of continuous variables and neglect of overemployment. In the current study, we used a new method of measuring underemployment, polynomial regression with response surface mapping, to examine discrepancies between ideal and real hours worke…
Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans: Locus of Control as a Mediator
The present study examined correlates of work volition—the perceived capacity to make occupational choices despite constraints—with a diverse sample of 213 U.S. veterans. Veterans with higher levels of formal education, higher yearly incomes, were married, and were employed, endorsed greater work volition. Those who experienced lower posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, endorsed lower levels of neuroticism, higher levels of conscientiou…
Purpose and Meaning in Career Development Applications
Purpose and meaning in career development is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary area of research and practice in which counseling and vocational psychology aligns with positive psychology to yield promising applications to career counseling. We provide a brief overview of theory related to purpose and meaning in work, then review six specific areas of application: strengths, positive emotions and flow, gratitude, work hope, job crafting, and p…
The Scale for Existential Thinking
This study introduced the construct of existential thinking, which we defined as the tendency\nto explore the fundamental concerns of human existence and the capacity to engage in a\nmeaning-making process that locates oneself in respect to these issues. We also assessed\nthe psychometric properties of the 11-item “Scale for Existential Thinking” (SET). In two\nstudies, we found the SET to have unidimensional factor structure and good reliability…
Conceptualizing Well-Being in Vocational Psychology: A Model of Fulfilling Work
Following from the strengths-based inclusive theory of work (S-BIT of Work), fulfilling work is a central goal of career and work counseling. However, vocational psychologists have yet to develop a comprehensive model of fulfilling work. We addressed this concern by reviewing the literature on well-being, developing the fulfilling work construct, and delineating an operationalized model of fulfilling work. This operationalization contains four co…
Under (and Over) Employment: Measurement and Correlates of Employment Discrepancy
Despite the many studies examining the impact of unemployment, underemployment has often been neglected in psychology. Moreover, problems exist with the measurement of underemployment, including categorization of continuous variables and neglect of overemployment. In the current study, we used a new method of measuring underemployment, polynomial regression with response surface mapping, to examine discrepancies between ideal and real hours worke…
The Myth of Social Mobility: Subjective Social Mobility and Mental Health
A common assumption is that upward mobility produces positive psychological outcomes. However, status-based identity framework and social class worldview model propose that perceived social mobility in either direction will lead to increased distress. Based on this claim, we examined relations among subjective social mobility, life satisfaction, and mental health using polynomial regression with response surface mapping. In Study 1, groups that e…
Purpose and Meaning in Career Development Applications
Purpose and meaning in career development is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary area of research and practice in which counseling and vocational psychology aligns with positive psychology to yield promising applications to career counseling. We provide a brief overview of theory related to purpose and meaning in work, then review six specific areas of application: strengths, positive emotions and flow, gratitude, work hope, job crafting, and p…
The Strengths-Based Inclusive Theory of Work
This paper describes a new vocational theory—the strengths-based inclusive theory of work (S-BIT of Work). This theory addresses the ever-changing, dynamic nature of the world of work and integrates counseling psychology’s core values of emphasizing vocational psychology, strengths-based perspectives, multiculturalism, and social justice. We aim to provide a holistic vocational theory to inform career and work counseling practice by increasing cl…
Infusing Positive Psychological Interventions Into Career Counseling for Diverse Populations
Using the strengths-based inclusive theory of work as a framework, this paper describes how positive psychological interventions (PPIs) can be infused within career and work counseling for diverse populations. Exemplar constructs targeted in the interventions include hope, strengths, adaptability, and empowerment. First, we discuss research related to hope, strengths, adaptability, and empowerment interventions, particularly studies related to ca…
Time Management, Passion, and Collaboration: A Qualitative Study of Highly Research Productive Counseling Psychologists
The present study interviewed 17 of the most research-productive counseling psychologists within APA-accredited counseling psychology programs. Using Consensual Qualitative Research, seven domains emerged from the interviews: root of productivity, personality characteristics, productivity strategies, work environment, nonwork life, impact, and tips. Within these domains, 13 general categories emerged and 19 typical categories emerged. Overall, th…
Social mobility through doctoral education: Exploring identity, classism, and belongingness
Classism, work volition, life satisfaction, and academic satisfaction in college students: A longitudinal study
Bad Feminists? Perceived Self-Discrepancy Predicts Differences in Gender Equality Activism
Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans: Locus of Control as a Mediator
The present study examined correlates of work volition—the perceived capacity to make occupational choices despite constraints—with a diverse sample of 213 U.S. veterans. Veterans with higher levels of formal education, higher yearly incomes, were married, and were employed, endorsed greater work volition. Those who experienced lower posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, endorsed lower levels of neuroticism, higher levels of conscientiou…
The Scale for Existential Thinking
This study introduced the construct of existential thinking, which we defined as the tendency\nto explore the fundamental concerns of human existence and the capacity to engage in a\nmeaning-making process that locates oneself in respect to these issues. We also assessed\nthe psychometric properties of the 11-item “Scale for Existential Thinking” (SET). In two\nstudies, we found the SET to have unidimensional factor structure and good reliability…
Time Management, Passion, and Collaboration: A Qualitative Study of Highly Research Productive Counseling Psychologists
The present study interviewed 17 of the most research-productive counseling psychologists within APA-accredited counseling psychology programs. Using Consensual Qualitative Research, seven domains emerged from the interviews: root of productivity, personality characteristics, productivity strategies, work environment, nonwork life, impact, and tips. Within these domains, 13 general categories emerged and 19 typical categories emerged. Overall, th…
Purpose and Meaning in Career Development Applications
Purpose and meaning in career development is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary area of research and practice in which counseling and vocational psychology aligns with positive psychology to yield promising applications to career counseling. We provide a brief overview of theory related to purpose and meaning in work, then review six specific areas of application: strengths, positive emotions and flow, gratitude, work hope, job crafting, and p…
Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans: Locus of Control as a Mediator
The present study examined correlates of work volition—the perceived capacity to make occupational choices despite constraints—with a diverse sample of 213 U.S. veterans. Veterans with higher levels of formal education, higher yearly incomes, were married, and were employed, endorsed greater work volition. Those who experienced lower posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, endorsed lower levels of neuroticism, higher levels of conscientiou…
Under (and Over) Employment: Measurement and Correlates of Employment Discrepancy
Despite the many studies examining the impact of unemployment, underemployment has often been neglected in psychology. Moreover, problems exist with the measurement of underemployment, including categorization of continuous variables and neglect of overemployment. In the current study, we used a new method of measuring underemployment, polynomial regression with response surface mapping, to examine discrepancies between ideal and real hours worke…
The development and initial validation of the Decent Work Scale.
Decent work is positioned as the centerpiece of the recently developed Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016). However, to date, no instrument exists which assesses all 5 components of decent work from a psychological perspective. In the current study, we developed the Decent Work Scale (DWS) and demonstrated several aspects of validity with 2 samples of working adults. In Study 1 (N = 275), a large pool of ite…
Bad Feminists? Perceived Self-Discrepancy Predicts Differences in Gender Equality Activism
Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration
The Strengths-Based Inclusive Theory of Work
This paper describes a new vocational theory—the strengths-based inclusive theory of work (S-BIT of Work). This theory addresses the ever-changing, dynamic nature of the world of work and integrates counseling psychology’s core values of emphasizing vocational psychology, strengths-based perspectives, multiculturalism, and social justice. We aim to provide a holistic vocational theory to inform career and work counseling practice by increasing cl…
Infusing Positive Psychological Interventions Into Career Counseling for Diverse Populations
Using the strengths-based inclusive theory of work as a framework, this paper describes how positive psychological interventions (PPIs) can be infused within career and work counseling for diverse populations. Exemplar constructs targeted in the interventions include hope, strengths, adaptability, and empowerment. First, we discuss research related to hope, strengths, adaptability, and empowerment interventions, particularly studies related to ca…
Conceptualizing Well-Being in Vocational Psychology: A Model of Fulfilling Work
Following from the strengths-based inclusive theory of work (S-BIT of Work), fulfilling work is a central goal of career and work counseling. However, vocational psychologists have yet to develop a comprehensive model of fulfilling work. We addressed this concern by reviewing the literature on well-being, developing the fulfilling work construct, and delineating an operationalized model of fulfilling work. This operationalization contains four co…
Unemployment and Underemployment: Prevention and Counseling Implications
This chapter details the current state of the literature on unemployment and underemployment and explores how counselors and psychologists can take steps to address the unemployment and underemployment problems. It highlights the relations of several facets of underemployment to mental health and well-being. A number of global trends are contributing to the persistent issues of unemployment and underemployment in the United States and worldwide, …
Planning leisure: Helpful or harmful
The purpose of this study was to examine whether planning leisure resulted in more positive outcomes among undergraduate students. Using empirical and theoretical evidence as a guide, we conducted an experiment in which we directed participants to plan a leisure activity each day for six days. We hypothesized that planning leisure would lead people to engage in leisure more frequently and, consequently, experience more positive emotion and less n…
Introduction to the special issue: A cross-cultural exploration of decent work
Unemployment in the time of Covid-19: A research agenda
Predictors of decent work across time: Testing propositions from Psychology of Working Theory
Critically evaluating and advancing research and statistical methods in vocational behavior research: Introduction to the 2020 special issue on research methodology
Precarious work in the 21st century: A psychological perspective
Classism, work volition, life satisfaction, and academic satisfaction in college students: A longitudinal study
Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework
Maternity leave includes the time that mothers take off from work to care for their baby and heal after childbirth. The United States’ maternity leave provisions lag behind other industrialized countries, resulting in poor quality maternity leave (QML) for many mothers. Accordingly, scholars have begun examining QML, a new construct that captures mothers’ subjective experiences of their leave, including dimensions like time off and flexibility. H…
Precarious work and workplace dignity during Covid-19: A longitudinal study
Structural Predictors of Underemployment During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Psychology of Working Perspective
In the present study, we surveyed a sample of working adults ( N = 495) in the United States to understand experiences with underemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from psychology of working theory, we examined a structural model linking economic constraints and experiences of marginalization to underemployment, as mediated by work volition and moderated by perceptions of economic conditions. Economic constraints, experiences of mar…
Social mobility through doctoral education: Exploring identity, classism, and belongingness
Development and Validation of the Privileged Social Class Attitudes Scale (PSCAS)
The goal of the study was to develop a scale to assess the social class attitudinal profiles of people with social class privilege. Based on social class theory and other models of privileged identities, we generated an item pool reflecting different attitudinal profiles. In Study 2, we found that the subscales fit together in a multifactor correlational model and established construct validity. However, the Action subscale surprisingly correlate…
The Myth of Social Mobility: Subjective Social Mobility and Mental Health
A common assumption is that upward mobility produces positive psychological outcomes. However, status-based identity framework and social class worldview model propose that perceived social mobility in either direction will lead to increased distress. Based on this claim, we examined relations among subjective social mobility, life satisfaction, and mental health using polynomial regression with response surface mapping. In Study 1, groups that e…
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