Wiston Rodriguez

Undergraduate Institution: San Diego State University

Wiston Rodriguez’s research focuses on topics within occupational health psychology such as workplace mistreatment, illegitimate tasks, and the work-nonwork interface. He is also interested in DE&I research, specifically looking at the unique experiences of LGBTQ+ employees and how those experience impact work and nonwork outcomes. His research has received funding from The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Personality and Individual Differences, Organizational Psychology Review, and Stress and Health. He also has applied experience working with global and Fortune 500 organizations in the areas of talent management, learning and development, assessment, and applied consulting. He currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses.  

Representative publications and presentations:

  • Nadal, K. L. Y., Rodriguez, W. A., Tejada, E., Almanzar, D., Sissoko, G., & Hussain, S. (in press). Did it get better? The Realities of queer and trans youth of color in K-12 schools. Journal of School Violence. 

  • Rodriguez, W. A., & Zhou, Z. E. (2023). How supervisor incivility begets employee silence: The role of trust in supervisor and perceived organizational support. Occupational Health Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00159-7

  • Rodriguez, W. A., Zhou, Z. E., Busse, K. A., & Che, X. X. (2023). Family-to-work conflict and instigated incivility. Stress and Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3282

  • Wax, A., Rodriguez, W. A., & Ascencio, R. (2022). Spilling Tea at the Water Cooler: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Workplace Gossip. Organizational Psychology Review.  

  • Rodriguez, W. A., Busse, K., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, July). How Supervisor Incivility Begets Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model. Oral presentation presented at the Biannual Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health, Bordeaux, France.

  • Busse, K., Rodriguez, W. A., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, July). Eating Stress Away? The Spillover and Crossover Effects of Job Insecurity on Employee and Spousal Stress and Unhealthy Eating. Oral presentation presented at the Biannual Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health, Bordeaux, France.

  • Rodriguez, W. A., Busse, K., Weglarz, E., Che, X., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, April). How Family-Work Conflict Triggers Silent at Work Through Motivation and Exhaustion. Poster presented at the 37th annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.

  • Rodriguez, W. A., Weglarz, E., Busse, K., Che, X., & Zhou, Z. E. (2022, April). The Roles of Negative Rumination and Self-control in the Link Between WFC and CWB. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.

  • Sutphin, J., Rodriguez, W., Shah, S., Dinh, J. V. (2022, April). Patient trust in healthcare: An integrative review using organizational science. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.Rodriguez, W. A., Cheban, Y., Shah, S., & Watts, L. L. (2020). The general factor of personality and creativity: Diverging effects on intrapersonal and interpersonal idea evaluation. Personality and Individual Differences167, 110229.

  • Zhiqinq, Z. E., Che, X. X., & Rodriguez, W. A., (2020). Nurses’ experiences of workplace mistreatment. Handbook of Research on Stress and Well-Being in the Public Sector.

  • Rodriguez, W. A., Cheban, Y., Shah, S., & Watts, L. L. (2020, April). When does personality inhibit idea evaluation? Poster presented at the 35th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX. 

  • Rodriguez, W.A., Zhou, Z. E., & Lu, C-Q. (2020, April). Incivility and employee silence: A serial mediation model. Poster presented at the 35th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.

  • Shah, S., Rodriguez, W. A., Ray, E., Che, X. X., & Zhou, Z. E. (2020, April). Workplace incivility and work-family conflict: Effects of negative rumination and mindfulness. Poster to be presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.

  • Wald, D., Zhou Z., & Rodriguez W. A., (2019, April). Illegitimate Tasks and CWB-O: Psychological Contract Violation as a mediator. Poster presented at 34th annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologist Conference, Washington D.C.

  • Rehmann, C., Cheban, Y., Rodriguez, W. A., Iniguez, J., & Wax, A. (2018). We can do it! Efficacy as a driver of learning in interdisciplinary teams. Presented at the 98th Annual WPA Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 26-29, 2018.