Eric Deemer
Professor
Research Groups
Career Development Research Lab
The Career Development Research Lab, led by Dr. Eric Deemer, studies the intrapersonal and contextual factors that shape academic and career development.
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Advancing Knowledge on Motivation and STEM Career Development
Dr. Deemer’s career development research team broadly investigates the intrapersonal and contextual factors that influence individuals’ academic and career development. Individual team members conduct research centered on areas of personal interest that relate to issues of career development. Topics of inquiry include threatening stereotypes and their relation to science identity, work-family balance, impostor phenomenon, procrastination, achievement motivation, and academic momentum. A major theme of the team’s research centers on how these factors promote or inhibit entry of members of underrepresented groups into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers.
Projects
Research Projects
Our research team conducts career development research that focuses on investigating the intrapersonal and sociocultural factors that influence individuals’ career-related attitudes, decisions, and behaviors.
Publications
(Students in bold)
Deemer, E. D., Dotterer, A. M., Duhon, S. A., Derosa, P. A., Song, Y., Mehta, N. T., & Pruitt, V. (in press). Longitudinal analysis of academic motivation: Examining the antecedent roles of perceived discrimination and stereotype threat among African American STEM majors. Journal of Black Psychology.
Deemer, E. D., Li, H., Mathis, D. L., & Barr, A. C. (2025). What if I fail? Examining the association between avoidance motivation and research career intentions. The Career Development Quarterly, 73(2), 80-91.
Deemer, E. D., Dotterer, A. M., Duhon, S. A., Derosa, P. A., Lim, S., Bowen, J. R., & Howarter, K. B. (2024). Does university context play a role in mitigating threatening race-STEM stereotypes? Test of the stereotype inoculation model. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 17(2), 190-199.
Bowen Pereira, J., & Deemer, E. D. (2023). A test of a cognitive appraisal model of the influence of perceptions of seriousness and self-compassion as influencing impostor experiences. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 28(3), 191-200.
Deemer, E. D., Barr, A. C., Belote, A., Hall, M. C., Xu, C., & Ogas, J. P. (2023). Online science instruction can promote adolescents’ autonomy need satisfaction: A latent growth curve analysis. Research in Science Education, 53(5), 961-975.
Soto Sullivan, C. M., Deemer, E. D., & Yadav, A. (2023). Work-family balance satisfaction of racially and ethnically minoritized postdoctoral scholars in the STEM fields. Journal of Career Development, 50(6), 1263-1278.
Deemer, E. D., Ogas, J. P., Barr, A. C., Bowdon, R. D., Hall, M. C., Paula, S., Capobianco, B. M., & Lim, S. (2022). Scientific research identity development need not wait until college: Examining the motivational impact of a pre-college authentic research experience. Research in Science Education, 52(5), 1481-1496.
Deemer, E. D., Sharma, P., & Xu, C. (2022). Leadership/Teamwork self-efficacy scale: Longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis in the context of an energy science intervention. Journal of Career Development, 49, 585-599. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845320953899
Dolson, J. M., & Deemer, E. D. (2022). The relationship between perceived discrimination and school/work-family conflict among graduate student-parents. Journal of Career Development, 49, 174-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845320916245
Lin, C., & Deemer, E. D. (2021). Stereotype threat and career goals among women in STEM: Mediating and moderating roles of perfectionism. Journal of Career Development, 48, 569-583.
Deemer, E. D., Navarro, R. L., Byars-Winston, A. M., Jensen, L. E., & Chen, C. P. (2020). Investigating graduate education and undergraduate research intentions of college science students. Journal of Career Assessment, 28, 43-58.
Jensen, L. E., & Deemer, E. D. (2020). Attachment style and self-handicapping: The mediating role of the imposter phenomenon. Social Psychology of Education, 23, 1259-1276.
Jensen, L. E., & Deemer, E. D. (2019). Identity, campus climate, and burnout among undergraduate women in STEM fields. The Career Development Quarterly, 67, 96-109.
Soto, C., & Deemer, E. D. (2018). Communal goals, campus climate perceptions, and cultural differences in perceived academic satisfaction. The Career Development Quarterly, 66, 35-48.
Deemer, E. D., Yough, M., & Morel, S. A. (2018). Performance-approach goals, science task preference, and academic procrastination: Exploring the moderating role of competence perceptions. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 200-213.
Slaten, C. D., Elison, Z. M., Deemer, E. D., Hughes, H. A., & Shemwell, D. A. (2018). The development and validation of the University Belongingness Scale. The Journal of Experimental Education, 86, 633-651.
Deemer, E. D., Dotterer, A. M., Morel, S. A., & Bastnagel, A. E. (2017). Undergraduate students’ achievement goals for conducting research: Examining the motivational benefits of classroom affiliation. Learning Environments Research, 20, 325-338.
Capobianco, B. M., Deemer, E. D., & Lin, C. (2017). Analyzing predictors of children’s formative engineering identity development. International Journal of Engineering Education, 33, 44-54.
Deemer, E. D., Lin, C., & Soto, C. (2016). Stereotype threat and women’s science motivation: Examining the disidentification effect. Journal of Career Assessment, 24, 637-650.
Deemer, E. D., Lin, C., Graham, R., & Soto, C. (2016). Development and validation of a measure of threatening gender stereotypes in science: A factor mixture analysis. Journal of Career Assessment, 24, 145-161.
Our Team
Heming Li
Graduate Student
Vanessa Pruitt
Graduate Student
team Alumni
Yujin Song
Dissertation Title: Online Video Gaming and STEM Outcomes Among College Students
Internship Site: Purdue University Counseling and Psychological Services
Chunyu Xu
Dissertation Title: The Relationships Among Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Procrastination of College Students
Internship Site: University of Michigan Counseling and Psychological Services
Sergio Maldonado Aguinega
Dissertation Title: Fostering Connections in Contexts of Incarceration: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Building Therapeutic Relationships Between Therapists and Formerly Incarcerated Clients
Internship Site: Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island
Jessica Bowen Pereira
Dissertation Title: The Development and Validation of a Culturally Informed Impostor Phenomenon Scale for Black Students
Internship Site: UAB-BVAMC Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium
Denny Putra
Dissertation Title: Internalized Racism and Asian American Mental Health
Internship Site: Brigham Young University Counseling Center
Seoyoung Lim
Dissertation Title: Life Satisfaction and Burnout Among Graduate Students: A Systematized Review
Internship Site: University of Maryland Counseling Center
Michael Lotz
Dissertation Title: The Threat of Ableist Attitudes on the Performance and Well-Being of Individuals with Disabilities
Internship Site: Butler University Counseling Center
Haley Sterling
Dissertation Title: Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Quality Maternity Leave
Internship Site: Charles George (Asheville, NC) VA Medical Center
Laura Jensen
Dissertation Title: Bridging the Gap Between Vocational Theory and Mental Illness
Internship Site: Wichita Collaborative Psychology Internship Program (WCPIP)
Abby Bastnagel
Dissertation Title: Factors Influencing LGB STEM majors’ Underrepresentation in STEM Fields.
Internship Site: Butler University Counseling Center
Jordan Dolson
Dissertation Title: The Moderating Influence of Advisor Support on the Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and School/Work-Family Conflict Among Graduate Students
Internship Site: Iowa State University Counseling Center
Cristina Soto Sullivan
Dissertation Title: Work-Family Balance Satisfaction of Ethnically and Racially Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Scholars in the STEM fields.
Internship Site: University of Minnesota Counseling Center
Samantha Morel
Dissertation Title: Exploring A Career Path Towards Well-Being: How Parental Behaviors, Career Values Awareness, and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Impact Well-Being in Undergraduate College Students
Internship Site: Texas A&M University Counseling Center
Kathy Wierzchowski
Dissertation Title: The Role of Stereotype Threat and Impostor Phenomenon in Predicting Female Undergraduate Students’ Persistence in STEM
Internship Site: Grand Valley State University Counseling Center
Chaihua Lin
Dissertation Title: Stereotype Threat, Perfectionism, and Women’s Career Outcomes
Internship Site: University Counseling Center at the University of Florida, Gainesville
Hayley Hughes
Dissertation Title: College Women Athletes: Contribution of Attachment, Identity, and Athlete Engagement to Meaning in Life
Internship Site: University Counseling Center at the University of Oklahoma
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