Dr Sean Lee ~ Lecturer Psychology

 

Sean’s primary specialization is industrial and organizational psychology. His secondary specializations include emotions, well-being and psychometrics. His studies focus on how we may enhance employees’ creativity, as well as promote better health and overall well-being. In terms of teaching, he has experience in teaching up to the postgraduate level. He currently serves as an Editorial Board Member at the Asian Journal of Social Psychology and Review Editor Board Member at Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science Section). He also conducts ad hoc peer-reviews for journals such as Organizational Psychology Review, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health.

 

I am currently seeking expressions of interest from potential PhD students wishing to work in any area(s) listed below:

Creativity and Innovation

• Individual context
• Team context

Emotions, Health and Subjective Well-Being

• Workplace context
• Daily life context

Psychometrics (e.g., scale development, validation, etc.)

 

Teaching

• PY3107: Psychological Assessment in Action (Level 3; SIN)
• PY5406: Organisational Systems: Teams and Culture (Level 5; SIN)
• PY5407: Personnel Assessment, Selection, and Development (Level 5; SIN)

Interests

Research

• Creativity (Individual and Team)
• Emotions, Health, and Subject Well-Being
• Psychometrics

Experience

• 2021 to present - Editorial Board Member, Asian Journal of Social Psychology
• 2021 to present - Advisor, JCU Singapore Psychology Society
• 2020 to present - Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science section)
• 2017 to 2019 - Research Award Reviewer, Association for Psychological Science

Research Disciplines

• Clinical and health psychology (5203)
• Applied and developmental psychology (5201)

Awards

• 2020 - Teaching Excellence Award
• 2019 - Presidential Doctoral Fellowship Award
• 2019 - Multidisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship Award

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU.

Journal Articles

• Lee S, Choy B and Yong J (in press) A bubble of protection: examining dispositional optimism as a psychological buffer of the deleterious association between negative work-family spillover and psychological health. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, , DOI:10.1080/1359432X.2021.1896494.
• Leung A, Brandon K, Phang R, Lee S and Huang T (in press) Linking creativity to psychological well-being: integrative insights from the instrumental emotion regulation theory. The Journal of Creative Behavior, , DOI:10.1002/jocb.524.
• Hartanto A, Yong J, Toh W, Lee S, Tng G and Tov W (2020) Cognitive, social, emotional, and subjective health benefits of computer use in adults: a 9-year longitudinal study from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS). Computers in Human Behavior, 104, Article: 106179, DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2019.106179.
• Hartanto A, Yong J, Lee S, Ng W and Tong E (2020) Putting adversity in perspective: purpose in life moderates the link between childhood emotional abuse and neglect and adulthood depressive symptoms. Journal of Mental Health, 29 (4), pp. 473-482, DOI:10.1080/09638237.2020.1714005.
• Lee S, Hartanto A, Yong J, Koh B and Leung A (2020) Examining the cross‐cultural validity of the positive affect and negative affect schedule between an Asian (Singaporean) sample and a Western (American) sample. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23, pp. 109-116, DOI:10.1111/ajsp.12390.
• Lee S and Park G (2020) Does diversity in team members' agreeableness benefit creative teams? Journal of Research in Personality, 85, Article: 103932, DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103932.
• Lee S (2020) Inflammation, depression, and anxiety disorder: a population-based study examining the association between Interleukin-6 and the experiencing of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 285, Article: 112809, DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112809.
• Hartanto A, Lee S and Yong J (2019) Dispositional gratitude moderates the association between socioeconomic status and interleukin-6. Scientific Reports, 9, Article: 802, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-37109-1.

Book Chapters

• Leung A, Koh B and Lee S (2020) Culture and creativity in multicultural teams. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press, New York, USA

Other research outputs

• Lee S (2019) Revisiting the Miller-Kanazawa debate: should Asia Be afforded more attention From evolutionary psychologists? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article: 547, DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00547.
• Lee S (2018) A proposed nomenclature and framework of emotional labor. Southeast Asia Psychology Journal, 6, pp. 41-58.
• Lee S (2018) Testing for measurement invariance: does your measure mean the same thing for different participants? APS Observer, 31 (8), pp. 32-33.