Project Staff
Faculty
The following faculty persons were active participants in the study. Most are based at Portland State University. The two exceptions are Dr. Rosalind Barnett and Dr. Berit Ingersoll-Dayton.
Margaret B. Neal, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the Institute on Aging, Portland State University (PSU). Co-Principal Investigator.
Leslie B. Hammer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, PSU. Co-Principal Investigator.
Rosalind C. Barnett, Ph.D., Senior Affiliated Scholar, The Henry A. Murray Institute, Radcliffe College. Project Consultant, January, 1997-December, 1999.
David L. Morgan, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Institute on Aging, PSU. Faculty Associate. Consultant on the conduction and analyses of the focus groups and on the development of the survey instrument. Completed work on the project June, 1998.
Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan. Faculty Associate (unpaid). Began work on the project June, 1998.
Jason Newsom, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute on Aging, PSU. Faculty Associate. Consultant on data analysis. Began work on the project July, 1998.
Ellen Skinner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, PSU. Unpaid consultant on the project for the development and analysis of the coping mechanisms used by study participants.
Staff
Jo L. Isgrigg, Ph.D., Project Manager (Jan, 1997 – Oct, 1999). Jo coordinated all project activities in her capacity as project manager until her departure near the end of the project’s third year. She received her doctorate in Public Administration and Policy in June, 1999.
Krista Brockwood, M.S., Project Manager (November, 1999 - present), Graduate Research Assistant (January, 1997 - June, 2000 with funding from the grant; Summer, 2000 with funding contributed by the Psychology Department; September, 2000 - June 2001, awarded Oregon Laurels scholarship; also paid part time with funding from the grant). Krista was a major player in all aspects of the project, including operation of the Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing Lab used for recruitment of focus group and survey participants, conduct of focus groups, mailing of the surveys, data preparation and analysis, conduct of the telephone interviews. She is an all-but-dissertated doctoral student in the Ph.D. program in Systems Science/Psychology. She used data from our project to complete her Master's thesis, and she also used data from the project for her dissertation.
Graduate Students
Ishrat Ara, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant (January, 1997 - June, 1998). Ishrat was a doctoral student in the Ph.D. program in Public Administration and Policy. She helped with literature reviews, development of the CATI screening survey, development of the focus group scripts, analysis of focus group data, development of the survey instrument, and data coding and entry. Ishrat was interested in examining women's roles, such as caregiving roles, in developing countries including her native Bangladesh.
Marco Behrmann, Graduate Exchange Student (volunteer; Fall 2001 - June 2002). Marco was a visiting psychology student from Germany in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology program at PSU. He developed and established the project web page and he was responsible for maintaining it. In addition he was involved in working on a research paper by analyzing data from the study.
Kathleen J.B. Bonn, M.A.C.P., Research Assistant (volunteer), beginning Spring, 2000. Kathleen aided in the review of literature and in preparation of reports and grant proposals.
Paula Carder, Ph.D., Graduate Research Assistant (January, 1997 - June, 1998). Paula completed her Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy in 1999. Paula was involved in the analysis of the focus group data and survey instrument development. She also was one of the interviewer supervisors in the CATI lab.
Suzanne Caubet, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant (June, 1998 - November, 2000; funding donated to the project by the Department of Psychology). Suzanne is a second-year graduate student in Psychology. She assisted with entry, coding and analysis of both qualitative data from the focus groups and quantitative data from the survey, and she helped in the development of the Employer Sourcebook as well as a paper on advice from sandwiched-generation couples. She is working on her master’s thesis using data from the project.
Cari Colton, M.A., Graduate Research Assistant (October, 1998 - present; served as a volunteer until funded by the Psychology Department, summer 2000; awarded Oregon Laurels scholarship, 2000-01). Cari is a third-year doctoral student in the Systems Science/Psychology program. She helped with literature reviews, data analysis, manuscript preparation, and dissemination of project information. Her interests include women’s issues, sexual harassment, and organizational psychology. She is all-but-dissertated doctoral student in the Ph.D. program and plans to use data from the project for her dissertation.
Jennifer Cullen, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant (paid by the Department of Psychology and donated to the project beginning Fall, 2000). Jennifer has aided in the analysis of data and the preparation of reports. She is working on her Master's thesis using the study's data.
Julie Guennette-Howard, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant (paid by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and donated to the project beginning Fall, 2000). Julie has been of assistance in the organization of files and report and manuscript preparation.
Terry Hammond, Graduate Research Assistant (September 1999 – June 2000 paid by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and donated to the project; June 2000 – present, volunteer, with some grant-funded paid hours). Terry has assisted in the development and design of the Employer Sourcebook, the transcription of the telephone interviews, the preparation of the final newsletter to research participants, and the review of manuscripts.
Ginger C. Hanson, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant (volunteer; Fall 2001 - present) Ginger is a doctoral student in the Systems Science/Psychology program. She has contributed to the development of materials to be used on the website and in newsletters.
Yueng-Hsiang (Emily) Huang, Ph.D. (January, 1997 - December 2000; volunteer, with some partial funding through the grant). Emily obtained her Ph.D. in Systems Science/Psychology in June, 2000. For her dissertation, she used both waves of our survey data to test a model of work-family conflict ("A model of antecedents of work-family conflict for dual earner couples in the sandwiched generation: A longitudinal study"). On the project, she was one of the interviewer supervisors in the CATI lab, assisted with the conduct and analysis of data from the focus groups, and assisted in the development of the Employer Sourcebook.
Jeff Johnson, Graduate Research Assistant (volunteer; October, 1998 - June 2000). Jeff is a third-year doctoral student in the Systems Science/Psychology program. He helped with literature reviews, data analysis, and article preparation. He completed his master’s thesis in June 2000, using data from our project ("The mediating effects of coping strategies on the relationship between perceived control in the workplace and work-family fit").
Angela Rickard, M.A., Graduate Research Assistant (volunteer; August, 1998 - November 2000). Angie is a third-year doctoral student in the in Public Administration and Policy. She is interested in human resources management and will be using data from the project for her dissertation (she is preparing her proposal this Fall). Angie assisted with data management, literature review, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.
Undergraduate Students
Tina Kim, Undergraduate Research Assistant (volunteer; December, 1998 - December, 1999).
John McLeod, B.A. Research Assistant (volunteer; November, 1998 - September, 1999).
Veronica Valenzuela, Undergraduate Research Assistant (volunteer; Spring, 2000 - June 2001).