Commitment to College
Barry, C.Y.H., & Okun,M.A.,(in press) Application on investment theory to predicting maintenance of the intent to stay among freshman. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. (PDF)
Okun,M.A., Goegan,B., & Mitric,N.(2009). Quality of alternatives institutional preference, and institutional commitment among fresh-year college. Educational Psychology., 29,371-383(PDF)
Okun, M. A., Karoly, P., Martin, J. L., & Benshoff, A. (2009). Distinguishing between
exogenous and endogenous intent-to-transfer students. Journal of College
Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 10, 507-524. (PDF)
Okun,M.A., Levy,R., Karoly,P., & Ruehlman,L.S.(2009). Dispositional happiness and college student GPA: Unpacking a null relation. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 711-715. (PDF)
Health and Well-being
Karoly,P., Okun,M.A., Ruehlman,L.S., & Pugilese,J.A.(2008). The impact of goal cognition and pain severity on disability and depression in adults with chronic pain: An examination of direct effects and mediated effcts via pain induced fear. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 32, 418-433. (PDF)
Lutz,R.,Karoly,P., & Okun, M.A.(2008).The-why-and-the-how-of-goal-pursuit-Self-determination,-goal-process-cognition,-and-participation-in-physical-exercise Psychology-of-Sport-and-Exercise, 9, 559-575. (PDF)
Okun,M.A,. & Karoly,P. (2007). Perceived goal ownership,regulatory goal cognition , and health behaviour change American Journal of Health Behaviour, 31, 98-109. (PDF)
Social Control in Dyadic Relationships
Logic, M., Okun, M. A., & Pugliese, J. A. (2009). Expanding the mediational
model of the effects of health-related social control. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39 , 1373-1396. (PDF)
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, 185-193. (PDF)
Volunteering
Okun, M. A., Pugliese, J., & 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. (PDF) |
