Years before she began studying workplace well-being in Purdue University\u2019s College of Health and Human Sciences, Emma Showalter, a PhD student in the Department of Psychological Sciences\u2019 industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology program, was paying close attention to the work experiences of the people around her \u2014 her family members, her coworkers, the people she encountered working in human resources between her bachelor\u2019s degree and doctoral studies, her friends and more.<\/p>\n
Watching some of these individuals navigate demanding careers and struggle to achieve work-life balance sparked a deepened interest in understanding how work shapes people’s lives, an interest that now guides her doctoral research at Purdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,12],"tags":[263,387,2651,2652,962,240,176,1366,578],"class_list":["post-48347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-psychological-sciences","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-psychological-sciences","tag-emma-showalter","tag-i-o-psychology","tag-industrial-organizational-psychology-2","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-sang-eun-woo","tag-susan-bulkeley-butler-center-for-leadership-excellence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n