Michelle Hood
Biographic Data
| ID | 7530007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Hood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Hood |
| SIGNATURE | HOOD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2240-030X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Working Students and Precarious Employment: A Latent Profile Analysis
Combining work and study is challenging for most students, especially when they are in more precarious work contexts. Identifying which students struggle with this would better inform interventions and advance theory. Using a sample of working tertiary students (N = 415) and a person-centered research approach (latent profile analysis), we identified five different sub-groups of students based on indicators of precarious employment– high precario…
Maximizing and Satisficing in Job Search: A Person-Centred Approach
The existing literature calls for greater clarity on how different job search strategies influence outcomes and wellbeing. In Study 1 ( N = 1052; M age = 25.48; 41.9% females), we developed and validated the Maximizing and Satisficing Job Search Scale (MSJSS). Results demonstrated its associations with existing measures of general maximizing and satisficing tendencies and job search outcomes (e.g., choice regret, number of offers, and outcome sat…
How Career Development Is Affected When Students Work in Precarious Jobs: Impact of Meritocratic Beliefs
Most tertiary students now work to support themselves, but some are motivated by improving their employability and career development. However, many work in precarious jobs and the relationship between job quality and career development is poorly understood. We tested how precarious employment related to career capital, whether perceptions of organisational career growth (i.e. goal progress and ability development) explained this, and whether mer…
Negative Career Goal Discrepancy and Goal Adjustment in Young Adults: The Underlying Mechanism of Negative Emotions
Internal dissonance and disagreement with significant others over career goals can disrupt career progress. Based on goal setting and self-regulation theories, this study tested the relationships between self and parent career goal discrepancy (gap between what is desired and what is achieved) and career goal adjustment (career compromise and goal revision intentions) directly and indirectly via negative emotions (self- and parent-referenced care…
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for young people in the labor market. Based on an evolutionary life history perspective, we tested how and when perceived scarcity of job opportunities during the pandemic related to job search outcomes. Using a sample of Master’s student graduates ( N = 1434; 40.2% female; mean age 25.6 years) from one Chinese university, we found that scarcity was related to higher anxiety, which then related…
It Takes Work: How University Students Manage Role Boundaries when the Future is Calling
Managing boundaries between students’ work and study roles is crucial for success at university. Little research has examined the strategies used to manage these roles, the factors that relate to implementing them, and the outcomes associated with their use. Boundary management theory, an identity-based perspective, explains boundary management processes; yet, few studies have examined how identity affects the enactment of boundary strategies. We…
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism
We assessed the underlying mechanisms through which career motivational conflict was related to career volitional action in young adults. We tested a model in which career motivational conflict (parent-child career incongruence and career goal progress discrepancy) was related to reduced career volitional actions (career decision self-efficacy and career engagement) via self-regulatory failure (ego depletion in reference to talking to parents abo…
Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement
Relatively little is known about how working students manage their dual roles of work and study. To extend this research, we examined the direct and indirect relationships between boundary flexibility-ability (the appraised capacity to modify a boundary of one role to accommodate better the demands of another role) and boundary flexibility-willingness (the preparedness to do so) in both the work and study domains and outcomes of student burnout a…
The relationship between job precariousness and student burnout: A serial indirect effects model
Much research has examined the association between precarious employment and wellbeing in adults, but little is known about this relationship in working students. Using a sample of 224 (MAge 21 years; 68% female), we assessed self-perceptions of job precariousness across four domains (i.e., job insecurity, remuneration, conditions, flexibility) and tested the relationships between the four domains and student burnout, and whether these relationsh…
Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: A serial indirect effects model
We examined how mature-aged, non-traditional students (studying part-time, working full-time) managed their multiple roles by testing a serial, indirect effects model, in which student role congruence (i.e., extent to which students structure role boundaries to meet their own and others’ preferences) was related to study engagement, and where work-study conflict/facilitation and exhaustion, in sequence, were underlying mechanisms that explained t…
The Relationship Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Career Outcomes: A Life History Perspective
Based on the life history perspective, this study tested a serial mediation model in which family socioeconomic status (SES) related to person–job fit via resource scarcity, career exploration, and goal persistence. We expected that when seeking employment, higher SES students would perceive lower resource scarcity, and, in turn, adopt more adaptive career behaviors (i.e., career exploration and goal persistence) to maximize career success, which…
Organisational career growth: Implications for future perceived employability in students who work
A comparison between flipped and lecture-based course delivery of a career development programme for Chinese undergraduates
Existing research on the effectiveness of career courses often lacks evidence on the comparative effects of different pedagogical formats. This study compared the effects of a flipped classroom approach to a traditional lecture-based approach for delivering a career course among Chinese undergraduate students. A longitudinal quasi-experimental field design was used to assess changes in the career outcomes between the flipped and non-flipped group…
Career Goal Setting and Goal Pursuit in Young Adults: The Role of Financial Distress
Informed by goal-setting/self-regulatory theories, we tested the mediating role of career-related effort (i.e., goal striving) in the relationships between career-related indecision (i.e., goal ambiguity) and career-related stress (i.e., affect) and perceived employability (i.e., career-related attitude) and examined the effect of financial distress as a moderator in these direct and indirect relationships. Using a sample of 202 young adults ( M …
Applying boundary management theory to university students: A scoping review
A Low‐Intensity, High‐Frequency Intervention to Reduce Procrastination
Studies assessing the efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing procrastination have generally lacked robust longitudinal measurement tools. Recent developments in communication technology and applications of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) have made observations of such dynamic phenomena possible. We leveraged recent advancements in smartphone technology and ESM to measure delay associated with procrastination, while testing a low‐intensi…
The relationship between meritocratic beliefs and career outcomes: The moderating role of socioeconomic status
An Identity Control Theory Approach to Managing Career Identity in Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood provides an extended period during which potential career identities can be explored and feedback obtained before making a commitment. We tested an identity control theory model of the self-regulatory responses that emerging adults might make to negative feedback regarding their career identity. We surveyed 335 Australian emerging adults (mean age 19.28 years; 64% male) on negative career-related feedback, career-related goal d…
Parental Decision-Making and Deaf Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Parents or caregivers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing are required to make complex and rational decisions soon after the confirmation of hearing loss. Ways of facilitating decision-making have been a focus within the healthcare sector for two decades and shared decision-making is now widely viewed as the standard for good clinical care. A systematic literature review was undertaken to identify the extent to which the principles of sha…
Community, Family, and Individual Factors Associated with Adolescents’ Vulnerability, Daily Stress, and Well-being Following Family Separation
This study identified correlates of resilience among adolescents from separated families. Twenty-four adolescents (age 9–14 years) and their parents completed measures of sociodemographic risk and protective factors, interparental conflict, and adolescent responses to conflict. Adolescents reported their behavior, learning, mood, and anxiety difficulties as well as their stress and well-being using a 5-day diary. Resilient adolescents reported mo…
Bricks or clicks? Predicting student intentions in a blended learning buffet
This study examined predictors of students' intentions to access face-to-face (f2f) or online options for lectures and tutorials in a buffet-style blended learning 2nd-year psychology statistics course ( N = 113; 84% female). Students were aged 18 to 51 years ( M = 23.16; SD = 6.80). Practical and technological predictors, along with attitudinal and motivational factors drawn from the expectancy value model, were tested. Higher work commitments, …
Evaluating computer-based simulations, multimedia and animations that help integrate blended learning with lectures in first year statistics
The discipline of statistics seems well suited to the integration of technology in a lecture as a means to enhance student learning and engagement. Technology can be used to simulate statistical concepts, create interactive learning exercises, and illustrate real world applications of statistics. The present study aimed to better understand the use of such applications during lectures from the student's perspective. The technology used included m…
The effects of using a wiki on student engagement and learning of report writing skills in a university statistics course
A wiki was used as part of a blended learning approach to promote collaborative learning among students in a first year university statistics class. One group of students analysed a data set and communicated the results by jointly writing a practice report using a wiki. A second group analysed the same data but communicated the results in a practice report that they wrote individually. Both groups were taught the same material. The report was use…
Preschool home literacy practices and children's literacy development: A longitudinal analysis.
This 3-year longitudinal study tested and extended Snchal and Le Fevre's (2002) model of the relationships between pre-school home literacy practices and children's literacy and language development.Parent-child reading (home literacy environment questionnaire plus children's Title Recognition Test) and parental teaching of letters, words and name writing were assessed 6 months prior to children's school entry.The 143 children (55% males; mean ag…
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Preschool home literacy practices and children's literacy development: A longitudinal analysis.
This 3-year longitudinal study tested and extended Snchal and Le Fevre's (2002) model of the relationships between pre-school home literacy practices and children's literacy and language development.Parent-child reading (home literacy environment questionnaire plus children's Title Recognition Test) and parental teaching of letters, words and name writing were assessed 6 months prior to children's school entry.The 143 children (55% males; mean ag…
The effects of using a wiki on student engagement and learning of report writing skills in a university statistics course
A wiki was used as part of a blended learning approach to promote collaborative learning among students in a first year university statistics class. One group of students analysed a data set and communicated the results by jointly writing a practice report using a wiki. A second group analysed the same data but communicated the results in a practice report that they wrote individually. Both groups were taught the same material. The report was use…
Evaluating computer-based simulations, multimedia and animations that help integrate blended learning with lectures in first year statistics
The discipline of statistics seems well suited to the integration of technology in a lecture as a means to enhance student learning and engagement. Technology can be used to simulate statistical concepts, create interactive learning exercises, and illustrate real world applications of statistics. The present study aimed to better understand the use of such applications during lectures from the student's perspective. The technology used included m…
Bricks or clicks? Predicting student intentions in a blended learning buffet
This study examined predictors of students' intentions to access face-to-face (f2f) or online options for lectures and tutorials in a buffet-style blended learning 2nd-year psychology statistics course ( N = 113; 84% female). Students were aged 18 to 51 years ( M = 23.16; SD = 6.80). Practical and technological predictors, along with attitudinal and motivational factors drawn from the expectancy value model, were tested. Higher work commitments, …
Community, Family, and Individual Factors Associated with Adolescents’ Vulnerability, Daily Stress, and Well-being Following Family Separation
This study identified correlates of resilience among adolescents from separated families. Twenty-four adolescents (age 9–14 years) and their parents completed measures of sociodemographic risk and protective factors, interparental conflict, and adolescent responses to conflict. Adolescents reported their behavior, learning, mood, and anxiety difficulties as well as their stress and well-being using a 5-day diary. Resilient adolescents reported mo…
Parental Decision-Making and Deaf Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Parents or caregivers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing are required to make complex and rational decisions soon after the confirmation of hearing loss. Ways of facilitating decision-making have been a focus within the healthcare sector for two decades and shared decision-making is now widely viewed as the standard for good clinical care. A systematic literature review was undertaken to identify the extent to which the principles of sha…
An Identity Control Theory Approach to Managing Career Identity in Emerging Adults
Emerging adulthood provides an extended period during which potential career identities can be explored and feedback obtained before making a commitment. We tested an identity control theory model of the self-regulatory responses that emerging adults might make to negative feedback regarding their career identity. We surveyed 335 Australian emerging adults (mean age 19.28 years; 64% male) on negative career-related feedback, career-related goal d…
The relationship between meritocratic beliefs and career outcomes: The moderating role of socioeconomic status
Career Goal Setting and Goal Pursuit in Young Adults: The Role of Financial Distress
Informed by goal-setting/self-regulatory theories, we tested the mediating role of career-related effort (i.e., goal striving) in the relationships between career-related indecision (i.e., goal ambiguity) and career-related stress (i.e., affect) and perceived employability (i.e., career-related attitude) and examined the effect of financial distress as a moderator in these direct and indirect relationships. Using a sample of 202 young adults ( M …
Applying boundary management theory to university students: A scoping review
A Low‐Intensity, High‐Frequency Intervention to Reduce Procrastination
Studies assessing the efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing procrastination have generally lacked robust longitudinal measurement tools. Recent developments in communication technology and applications of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) have made observations of such dynamic phenomena possible. We leveraged recent advancements in smartphone technology and ESM to measure delay associated with procrastination, while testing a low‐intensi…
Student work-study boundary flexibility and relationships with burnout and study engagement
Relatively little is known about how working students manage their dual roles of work and study. To extend this research, we examined the direct and indirect relationships between boundary flexibility-ability (the appraised capacity to modify a boundary of one role to accommodate better the demands of another role) and boundary flexibility-willingness (the preparedness to do so) in both the work and study domains and outcomes of student burnout a…
The relationship between job precariousness and student burnout: A serial indirect effects model
Much research has examined the association between precarious employment and wellbeing in adults, but little is known about this relationship in working students. Using a sample of 224 (MAge 21 years; 68% female), we assessed self-perceptions of job precariousness across four domains (i.e., job insecurity, remuneration, conditions, flexibility) and tested the relationships between the four domains and student burnout, and whether these relationsh…
Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: A serial indirect effects model
We examined how mature-aged, non-traditional students (studying part-time, working full-time) managed their multiple roles by testing a serial, indirect effects model, in which student role congruence (i.e., extent to which students structure role boundaries to meet their own and others’ preferences) was related to study engagement, and where work-study conflict/facilitation and exhaustion, in sequence, were underlying mechanisms that explained t…
The Relationship Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Career Outcomes: A Life History Perspective
Based on the life history perspective, this study tested a serial mediation model in which family socioeconomic status (SES) related to person–job fit via resource scarcity, career exploration, and goal persistence. We expected that when seeking employment, higher SES students would perceive lower resource scarcity, and, in turn, adopt more adaptive career behaviors (i.e., career exploration and goal persistence) to maximize career success, which…
Organisational career growth: Implications for future perceived employability in students who work
A comparison between flipped and lecture-based course delivery of a career development programme for Chinese undergraduates
Existing research on the effectiveness of career courses often lacks evidence on the comparative effects of different pedagogical formats. This study compared the effects of a flipped classroom approach to a traditional lecture-based approach for delivering a career course among Chinese undergraduate students. A longitudinal quasi-experimental field design was used to assess changes in the career outcomes between the flipped and non-flipped group…
It Takes Work: How University Students Manage Role Boundaries when the Future is Calling
Managing boundaries between students’ work and study roles is crucial for success at university. Little research has examined the strategies used to manage these roles, the factors that relate to implementing them, and the outcomes associated with their use. Boundary management theory, an identity-based perspective, explains boundary management processes; yet, few studies have examined how identity affects the enactment of boundary strategies. We…
Motivational Conflict and Volitional Career Actions in Young Adults: Ego Depletion as an Explanatory Mechanism
We assessed the underlying mechanisms through which career motivational conflict was related to career volitional action in young adults. We tested a model in which career motivational conflict (parent-child career incongruence and career goal progress discrepancy) was related to reduced career volitional actions (career decision self-efficacy and career engagement) via self-regulatory failure (ego depletion in reference to talking to parents abo…
Negative Career Goal Discrepancy and Goal Adjustment in Young Adults: The Underlying Mechanism of Negative Emotions
Internal dissonance and disagreement with significant others over career goals can disrupt career progress. Based on goal setting and self-regulation theories, this study tested the relationships between self and parent career goal discrepancy (gap between what is desired and what is achieved) and career goal adjustment (career compromise and goal revision intentions) directly and indirectly via negative emotions (self- and parent-referenced care…
Perceived Scarcity of Job Opportunities and Job Search: An Evolutionary Life History Perspective
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for young people in the labor market. Based on an evolutionary life history perspective, we tested how and when perceived scarcity of job opportunities during the pandemic related to job search outcomes. Using a sample of Master’s student graduates ( N = 1434; 40.2% female; mean age 25.6 years) from one Chinese university, we found that scarcity was related to higher anxiety, which then related…
Working Students and Precarious Employment: A Latent Profile Analysis
Combining work and study is challenging for most students, especially when they are in more precarious work contexts. Identifying which students struggle with this would better inform interventions and advance theory. Using a sample of working tertiary students (N = 415) and a person-centered research approach (latent profile analysis), we identified five different sub-groups of students based on indicators of precarious employment– high precario…
Maximizing and Satisficing in Job Search: A Person-Centred Approach
The existing literature calls for greater clarity on how different job search strategies influence outcomes and wellbeing. In Study 1 ( N = 1052; M age = 25.48; 41.9% females), we developed and validated the Maximizing and Satisficing Job Search Scale (MSJSS). Results demonstrated its associations with existing measures of general maximizing and satisficing tendencies and job search outcomes (e.g., choice regret, number of offers, and outcome sat…
How Career Development Is Affected When Students Work in Precarious Jobs: Impact of Meritocratic Beliefs
Most tertiary students now work to support themselves, but some are motivated by improving their employability and career development. However, many work in precarious jobs and the relationship between job quality and career development is poorly understood. We tested how precarious employment related to career capital, whether perceptions of organisational career growth (i.e. goal progress and ability development) explained this, and whether mer…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Career development (7 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Career Development and Diversity (5 works) · Higher Education and Employability (5 works)