Tahira M. Probst

Biography

Dr. Tahira M. Probst directs the Coalition for Healthy and Equitable Workplaces lab. She is internationally recognized for her occupational health psychology research on job insecurity, workplace safety, and worker well-being, shaping both scholarly understanding and real-world practice. She is past Editor of Stress & Health, current Associate Editor of Journal of Business and Psychology, and sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Occupational Health Science, and International Journal of Stress Management. She is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Her recent research focuses on the intersections of changing workplace technology and precarious workers.

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Classes Taught

• Psychology 307: Human Factors in Artificial Intelligence
• Psychology 310: Work, Stress, and Health
• Psychology 311: Statistics in Psychology
• Psychology 412: Psychological Testing and Assessment
• Psychology 529: Occupational Health Psychology

Research Interests

• Occupational Health, Well-Being and Safety
• Economic Stress and Job Insecurity
• Organizational Safety Climate
• Accident Under-reporting

Selected Publications

• Probst, T.M., Shoss, M., Bankins, S., Behrend, T., Dragano, N., Jetha, A., Koopman, J., Selenko, E., Tang, P. M., van den Broek, A., & Vietas, J. (forthcoming). Aligning artificial intelligence with worker health, well-being, and safety: An occupational health psychology agenda. Occupational Health Science invited commentary.
• Bazzoli, A., & Probst, T. M. (2025). The science of job (in)security: I-O psychology insights on reshaping the federal workforce using Schedule F. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2025.10016
• Debus, M. E., Probst, T. M., Bazzoli, A., & Lee, H. J. (2025). The long reach of unemployment: Sensitizing or inoculating employee reactions to job insecurity? Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10052-5
• Probst, T. M., Petitta, L., Ghezzi, V., & Barbaranelli, C. (2025). Job preservation and strain effects of technology-induced job insecurity on in-role and extra-role job performance. Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10062-3
• Probst, T. M., Petitta, L., Ghezzi, V., Lavaysse, L., Bettac, E., & Barbaranelli, C. (2025). Caregivers at risk: How stereotype threat exacerbates the impact of family-to-work conflict on workplace safety. Safety Science, 185, 106783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106783
• Roll, L. C., Probst, T. M., De Beer, L. T., Tu, Y., Wang, H. J., & De Witte, H. (2025). Occupation insecurity due to automation: Validation of the Occupation Insecurity Scale across four countries. Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10071-2
• Sinclair, R., Graham, B., & Probst, T. M. (2024). Economic stress and occupational health. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 11, 423-451. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-091922-020639
• Bazzoli, A., & Probst, T. M. (2023). Vulnerable workers in insecure jobs: A critical meta-synthesis of qualitative findings. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 72(1), 85-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12415
• Bazzoli, A., & Probst, T. M. (2022). Taking stock and moving forward: A textual statistics approach to synthesizing four decades of job insecurity research. Organizational Psychology Review, 12(4), 507-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/20413866221112386
• Bazzoli, A., Probst, T. M., & Tomas, J. (2022). A latent profile analysis of precarity and its associated outcomes: The haves and the have-nots. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13), 7582. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137582
• Lavaysse, L. M., & Probst, T. M. (2021). Pregnancy and workplace accidents: The impact of stereotype threat. Work & Stress, 35, 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2020.1774937
• Probst, T. M., Lee, H. J., & Bazzoli, A. (2020). Economic stressors and the enactment of CDC-recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors: The impact of state-level context. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(12), 1397-1407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000797
• Probst, T. M., Goldenhar, L., Byrd, J., & Betit, E. (2019). Development and validation of the Safety Climate Assessment Tool (S-CAT): A rubric-based self-assessment for the construction industry. Journal of Safety Research, 69, 43-51.
• Probst, T.M., Sinclair, R., Sears, L., Gailey, N., Jennings, K., & Cheung, J. (2018). Economic stress and well-being: Does population health context matter? Journal of Applied Psychology, 103, 959-979.
• Probst, T. M., Petitta, L., Barbaranelli, C., & Lavaysse, L. (2018). Moderating effects of contingent work on the relationship between job insecurity and safety. Safety Science, 106, 285-293.
• Jiang, L., & Probst, T. M. (2017). The rich get richer and the poor get poorer: Country- and state-level income inequality moderates the job insecurity-burnout relationship. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 672-681.