Dr. Tahira M. Probst

Professor of Psychology
Dr. Tahira M. Probst
Departments:
Phone: (360) 546-9746
Fax: (360) 546-9038
Located in Classroom (VCLS) 208J
Support Staff: Janet DeWitt

Dr. Probst is on sabbatical during the 2011-2012 academic year. 

Please contact Marsha Michels (Academic Coordinator) or Dr. JP Garofalo (Associate Chair) for any student-related or advising questions that may arise. 

Faculty Advisor, HR Society.  For more information about the club, please visit: http://wsuv.orgsync.com/org/hrsociety (Note: Randy Boose is the interim Faculty Advisor for the 2011-2012 year.)

Courses

Course ID Title Meeting Time Location Semester Syllabus
Psych 512 Correlation, Regression, & Quasi-Experimentation Tu,Th 12:00-1:15pm Spring 2011
Psych 311 Elementary Statistics Tu,Th 10:35am - 12:25pm VUCB 100 Fall 2010
Psych 495 Field Experience in Personnel Psychology Tuesdays 9:10-10:25am (every other Tuesday) Spring 2011

Research

  • Occupational Health, Well-Being and Safety
  • Economic Stress and Job Insecurity
  • Organizational Safety Climate
  • Accident Under-reporting

Click to visit the Occupational Health and Safety Lab website.

Recent Publications

Estrada, A. X., Probst, T. M., Brown, J. W. & Graso, M. (2011). Evaluating the psychometric and measurement characteristics of a measure of sexual orientation harassment. Military Psychology, 23, 1–17.

Probst, T. M. (2011). On the use, misuse, and absence of theory in stress and health research. Stress & Health, 27, 1-2.

Konig, C. K., Probst, T. M., Staffen, S., & Graso, M. (2011). A Swiss-U.S. comparison of the correlates of job insecurity. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 60, 141–159.

Probst, T. M. & Graso, M. (2011). Reporting and investigating accidents: Recognizing the tip of the iceberg. In S. Clarke, C. Cooper, & R. Burke (Eds.), Occupational health and safety: Psychological and behavioral challenges (pp. 71-94). Surrey, United Kingdom: Gower. 

Probst, T. M. (2011). Job insecurity: Implications for occupational health and safety. In A. Antoniou & C. Cooper (Eds.), New Directions in Organizational Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (pp. 313-328).  Farnham, UK: Gower.

Probst, T. M. (2010). Multi-level models of stress and well-being. Stress and Health, 26, 95-97.

Probst, T. M., & Ekore, J. (2010). An exploratory study of the costs of job insecurity in Nigeria. International Studies of Management and Organization, 40(1), 92-104.

Probst, T. M., & Estrada, A. X. (2010).  Accident under-reporting among employees: Testing the moderating influence of safety climate and supervisor enforcement of safety practices. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 42, 1438-1444.

Probst, T. M. & Graso, M. (2010). Reporting and investigating accidents: Recognizing the tip of the iceberg. In S. Clarke, C. Cooper, & R. Burke (Eds.), Occupational health and safety: Psychological and behavioral challenges. Surrey, United Kingdom: Gower.

Probst, T. M., & Strand, P. (2010). Perceiving and responding to job insecurity: A workplace spirituality perspective. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 7, 135-156.

Reisel, W. D., & Probst, T. M. (2010). Twenty-five years of studies of job insecurity.  International Studies of Management and Organization, 40(1), 3-5.

Reisel, W. D., Probst, T. M., Chia, S-L., Maloles, C. M., & Konig, C. K. (2010).  The effects of job insecurity on job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior, deviant behavior, and negative emotions of employees.  International Studies of Management and Organization, 40(1), 74-91.

Sinclair, R., Sears, L. E., Probst, T. M., & Zajack, M. (2010). A multilevel model of economic stress and employee well-being.  In J. Houdmont & S. Leka (Eds.) Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice: v. 1 (pp. 1-21). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1998)
  • B.A., Psychology, University of Notre Dame (1993)