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Cole Treadaway
Lab Manager & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Cole is a 3rd year PhD student in the lab from Atlanta, Georgia, who graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. His research interests include workplace mistreatment and counterproductive workplace behaviors, with a focus on workplace hazing.
“Intelligence is not a privilege, it’s a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind.” – Otto Octavius in Spiderman 2
Jenna Beltramo
Data Science Expert, Lodestone People Consulting
Jenna Beltramo is a doctoral candidate in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program at the University of Central Florida. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric from Oakland University and her master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Jenna’s research passions center around how individuals respond to and ultimately overcome adversity in the workplace, with a particular focus on the topics of resilience and posttraumatic growth, as well as the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. More recently, Jenna has been exploring processes of recovery among individuals suffering from chronic health conditions. Jenna and her husband rescued a cairn terrier named Oliver who has anxiety and hates the outdoors, but loves to play inside, cuddle, and meet new people. In her spare time, Jenna loves to volunteer at the local food pantry, work on her impossibly long reading list, cook for her friends, and travel even if it’s just a day trip.
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” – Disney’s Mulan
Wei-Cheng Chang
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Wei-Cheng is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Industrial- Organizational Psychology at University of Central Florida. He earned his M.S. in Psychology from National Chengchi University. His academic interests include employee well-being, aging, and retirement, and he has a ongoing research project studying the effect of preretirement social context on older workers’ engagement in bridge employment. Other than academics, he is a board game player, and he also enjoys playing video games and watching animation.
“Nothing is perfect, just want no regrets in my life.” – Bowen Liu
Yeeun Choi
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Yeeun is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program. Her research interests include workers’ well-being, work-nonwork (family) interface, aging, and research methods. Recently, she has been working on the HRS (Health and Retirement Study) archival data to study the impact of family factors on retirees’ well-being. She likes to visit Orlando’s theme parks and spend time with her family in her free time.
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
Kenzie Dye
Graduate Teaching Associate
Kenzie is a doctoral student in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Ph.D. program. She is passionate about occupational health psychology, with a specific focus on work boredom, the work-non-work interface, and the experiences of employees with chronic illnesses. Kenzie likes cooking, playing video games, listening to indie music, and hanging out in the Mills 50 and Milk districts. She has a cute, croaky half-ragdoll cat named Nico.
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do” – Bob Dylan
Amanda Grinley
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Amanda is a Ph.D. candidate in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at the University of Central Florida. As a member of the EHWB lab, Amanda is interested in studying mistreatment, occupational health psychology (OHP), employee stress, and aging. Her ongoing research projects with Dr. Jex include investigating the influence of factors such as empathy and age on counterproductive work behavior, mistreatment, and the stress process. Amanda earned her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Junyoung Hong
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Junyoung is a 5th year student in the IO psychology Ph.D. program. His research interests lie in people’s thoughts and values about their work, and the various indicators of well-being that are influenced by them. For example, research topics that he is fascinated with are work ethic, workaholism, work-life balance, burnout, and so on. Other than research activities, there is nothing special about personal hobbies. He just takes a walk every day, enjoying the warm weather compared to his home country.
“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry James
Boram Kim
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Boram is now a fourth-year student in the I/O psychology PhD program at the University of Central Florida. Boram earned a B.S. in Economics at the University of Seoul, and she worked at Samsung Heavy Industries as a buyer for over 5 years. After that, Boram realized that she wanted to study psychology specifically for employees’ minds, and she went to Sogang University to study psychology for her master’s degree. Boram is interested in workplace mistreatment—incivility, aging, and the meaning of work. In her free time, Boram tries to walk or run with her husband, and she also enjoys watching television shows.
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall