Dr. Liu-Qin Yang is a Professor at Portland State University. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida, with emphases on occupational health psychology and quantitative methodology. She holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Psychology, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature, and a Master of Arts degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, all from Beijing Normal University, China. Dr. Yang also has applied experiences in working with the public and private sectors in China and the U.S.
Dr. Yang’s research concerns how employees manage their motivation and stress at work, with the ultimate goal of enhancing employees’ and organizations’ well-being and productivity. Through examining the interplay of individual characteristics (e.g., emotions, self-identity, personality), and psychosocial environment (e.g., leader behavior, organizational climate, incivility), she focuses on understanding the dynamic employee stress and motivation processes and their implications for employee health and productivity. Specifically, Dr. Yang's research interests include workplace relationships and mistreatment prevention, emotion and work motivation, occupational health, and quantitative methodology. In recent years, Dr. Yang and her team have made more and more effort toward understanding the dynamic affective processes (e.g., from the lens of change/shift), and the dynamic development of mistreatment spiral and mistreatment prevention (e.g., intervention). You may read more about Dr. Yang’s research at Yang research profile. You may read more about Dr. Yang’s Motivation, Mistreatment, Measurement and More (4M) Lab.
Dr. Yang is the director of the Occupational Health Psychology-Total Worker Health® training program (funded by CDC/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-NIOSH). She is the President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology. Dr. Yang was an Associate Editor for the journal Applied Psychology: An International Review. She currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Occupational Health Science. She regularly serves on the review panel for CDC/NIOSH.
Dr. Yang loves hiking, camping, and playing badminton. The Pacific Northwest feels like home to her in many ways.
Undergraduate Classes Taught
- PSY345 Motivation
- PSY361 Industrial/Personnel Psychology
- PSY362 Organizational Psychology
- PSY410 Work, Stress & Health
Graduate Classes Taught
- PSY510 Work, Stress & Health
- PSY510/610 Work Motivation
- PSY521/621 Univariate Quantitative Methodology
- PSY595/695 Introduction to Psychological Measurement
Selected Publications
* denotes student authors # denotes Equal contribution
Tay, L., *Batz-Barbarich, C., Yang, L.-Q., & Wiese, C. (2023). Well-Being: the ultimate criterion for organizational sciences. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38, 1141-1157. [Editor Commendations]
Lyons, B.J., # Baldridge, D., # Yang, L.-Q, & *Bryan, C. (2023). Disability severity, professional isolation perceptions, and career outcomes: When does leader-member exchange quality matter? Journal of Management. DOI: 10.1177/01492063221143714
--Reported by media outlets like ScienceDaily, NewsMedical, and OpenAccessGovernment
Yang, L-Q., *Fox, S., & *McMahon, K. (2023) Mistreatment in organizations: Where are we and where are we going? In L. E. Tetrick, G. G. Fisher, M. T. Ford, & J. Campbell Quick (Eds.), Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology (3rd ed.). American Psychological Association: Washington D.C.
# Yang, L.-Q., # Wang, W., Huang, P.-H. & *Nguyen, A. N. (2022). Optimizing measurement reliability in within-person research: guidelines for research design and R Shiny web application tools. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09803-5 [Editor Commendations]
Yang, L.-Q., Cronpanzano, R., Daus, C., & Martinez-Tur,V. (Eds, 2020). The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect. Cambridge Handbook Series of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.