Current & Recent Graduate Students

• Barbara P. Huff (Ph.D., May 2009)


• Dissertation: Fostering Academic Persistence.


• Current Position: Lecturer, College of Teacher Education and Leadership,ASU West.


• Research Interests: Adult Development, Applied Motivational Theory, Persistence in Higher Education, Teacher Education.


• Sample Publications:


• Okun, M. A., Huff, B. P., August, K. J., & Rook, K. S. (2007). Testing hypotheses distilled from four models of the effects of health-related social control.Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29(2), 185-193.


• Okun, M., Dittburner, J., & Huff, B. (2006)Perceived Changes in Well-being: The role of Chronological Age, Target Age, and Type of Measure.The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 63, 259-278.

• John A. Pugliese (ABD, expected graduation date, May 2010)


• Dissertation:Socialization of Physical Activity: The Relation between Contextual Factors and Parental Tactic Use within an Expectancy-Value Model.


• Current Position: Research Specialist II, County of Riverside Department of Public Social Services.


• Research Interests: Children’s Participation in Sports, Children’s Physical Activity Beliefs and Behaviors, Exercise-Related Social Control , Parental Socialization, and Research Design and Statistical Analysis.


• Sample Publications:


• Pugliese, J. A., & Tinsley, B. J. (2007). Parental socialization of child and adolescent physical activity: A meta-analysis.Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 331-343.


• Okun, M., Pugliese, J. A., & Rook, K. S. (2007). Unpacking the relation between extraversion and volunteering in later life: The role of social capital. Personality and Individual Differences, 42,1467-1477.

• Julia R. Steinberg (Ph.D.,May 2008)


• Dissertation:Stereotype Threat in Women in Mathematics-Related Fields.


• Current Position: Ellertson Postdoctoral Fellow in Abortion and Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.


• Research Interests: Abortion and Mental Health, Balancing Career and Family, Educational Persistence of Women, Reproductive issues, and Statistical Analysis.


• Sample Publications:


• Steinberg, J. R., & Russo, N. F. (2008). Abortion and Anxiety: What’s the relationship? Social Science and Medicine, 67 (2),238-252.


• Steinberg, J. R., True, M., & Russo, N. F. (2008). Work and Family Roles: Selected Issues. In F. L. Denmark & M. A. Paludi. (Eds.).Psychology of women: A handbook of issues and theories 2nd Edition (652-700). Westport: Greenwood Press.