Department of Psychology

Professor Mitchelson’s research focuses on three general areas of inquiry – leadership and organizational culture, work-family conflict, and individual differences. In her research on leadership and culture, one research stream focuses on the persuasive, motivational and emotional outcomes a leader elicits by specifically activating different aspects of a follower’s self-identity, specifically one’s regulatory focus. In the area of work-family conflict, she considers how personality influences perceptions of WFC and the efficacy of current WFC theoretical models. Finally, her research in individual differences provides a bridge to her interests in leadership and work-family conflict. Her leadership research revealed the importance of considering personality using a new model of personality, the Abridged Big 5 Circumplex structure. She continues to investigate the utility, as well as refining the measurement, of this model of personality. Her work-family conflict and perfectionism research suggests a situational effect to perfectionism, which she is currently investigating.

• 2007, Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology , Wayne State University
• 2005, M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology , Wayne State University
• 1998, B.S., Psychology, Grand Valley State University

• Michel, J. S., Mitchelson, J., Pichler, S. M., & Cullen, K. L. (in press). Clarifying relationships among work and family social support, stressors, and work-family. Journal of Vocational Behavior, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2009.05.007.
• Resick, C. J., Mitchelson, J. K., Hanges, P. J. & Dickson, M. W. (in press). Culture, corruption, and the endorsement of ethical leadership. To appear in William H. Mobley (Editor), Advances in Global Leadership Studies, Vol 5.
• Mitchelson, J. K., Wicher, E. W., LeBreton, J. M., & Craig, S. B. (in press). Gender and ethnicity differences on the Abridged Big Five Circumplex (AB5C) of personality traits: A differential item functioning analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement.
• Giberson, T. R., Resick, C. J., Dickson, M. W., Mitchelson, J. K. & Randall, K. R. (in press). Leadership and organizational culture: Linking leader characteristics to cultural values. Journal of Business and Psychology.
• Mitchelson, J. K. (2009). Seeking the perfect balance: Perfectionism clusters and work-family conflict. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82, 349-367.
• Michel, J. S., Mitchelson, J. K., Kotrba, L. M., Baltes, B. B., & LeBreton, J. M. (2009). A comparative test of work-family conflict models and critical examination of work-family linkages. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74, 199-218.

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