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Dr Yong Goh

Name Yong Goh
Position Senior Lecturer (Psychology)
Section School of Psychology and Wellbeing
Office B348
Location Ipswich Campus
Phone +61 7 3812 6152
Extension 6152
Email
Qualifications BA Qld , MPsych Qld , PhD Qld
Languages Chinese (accredited translator)
Homepage https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BwNHFwwAAAAJ&hl=en
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Biography

Yong Wah Goh has over 19 years of experience in the fields of stress and coping, wellbeing, cross cultural psychology, organizational assessment and behavioral change. Yong has developed a wide range of training workshops and assessment tools that foster wellbeing in the workplace and across different contexts. Yong Wah remains active in international research, leading a number of international research projects (e.g. China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Hungary) and publishes extensively on topics such as cross-cultural stress processes, workplace coping, wellbeing, and sustainability.

Yong is also a retired traditional martial art instructor with over 30 year's experience, he teaches basic Buddhism and meditation in his free time.

Research Career


  • Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies ( 200209 )
  • Industrial and Organisational Psychology ( 170107 )
  • Architecture not elsewhere classified ( 120199 )
  • Industrial And Organisational Psychology (incl. Human Factors) ( 520104 )
  • Architecture not elsewhere classified ( 330199 )
  • Multicultural ( 470212 )
  • Applied And Developmental Psychology ( 520100 )
  • Architecture ( 330100 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )

- Occupational stress, appraisal and coping.
- Impacts of social support and mindfulness on stress and coping.
- Cross cultural psychology.
- Positive psychology and well-being in the workplace.
- Impact of Spirituality on wellbeing.
- The psychology of sustainability


Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (Member)
Psychology Board of Australia (Member)
Editorial Board of Organizational Psychology - specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Communication (Review Editor)

Teaching


- Industrial and Organisational Psychology
-Psychology Complementary Studies A & B (Work Integrated Learning and Capstone Projects)
-Introduction to Cultural Safety in Practice
-Social Processes of Behaviour
-Honours Research Supervision


19 Years


9 Years


- Academic Misconduct Lead

Supervision


  • Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies ( 200209 )
  • Industrial and Organisational Psychology ( 170107 )
  • Architecture not elsewhere classified ( 120199 )
  • Industrial And Organisational Psychology (incl. Human Factors) ( 520104 )
  • Architecture not elsewhere classified ( 330199 )
  • Multicultural ( 470212 )
  • Applied And Developmental Psychology ( 520100 )
  • Architecture ( 330100 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )