Rebecca Brossoit, Assistant Professor

Office: 203 Audubon Hall
Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Email: rbrossoit@lsu.edu 

Education

Biography

Rebecca Brossoit is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Louisiana State University. Dr. Brossoit earned her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology from Colorado State University and completed a graduate traineeship in Occupational Health Psychology through the Mountain and Plains Education Research Center. She also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Oregon Institute for Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health & Science University and received training in the design, implementation, and evaluation of workplace randomized controlled trial interventions.

Research Interests

• Sleep
• Worker Health, Safety, & Well-Being
• Work-Life Interface
• Nature
• Workplace Interventions
• Professional Issues in I-O

Dr. Brossoit’s research primarily focuses on the predictors, outcomes, and measurement of employee sleep, support for employee health and well-being, and the influence of nature on employee outcomes. Her approach to research is interdisciplinary and involves connecting ideas from sleep science and environmental psychology with industrial-organizational psychology and occupational health psychology. Her work also has an emphasis on the experiences of working populations that are disproportionately vulnerable to issues related to sleep, health, workplace safety, and work-related stressors (e.g., immigrant workers, construction workers, contract workers, nurses, military personnel). The goals of Dr. Brossoit’s research are to ultimately benefit workers, their families and communities, the organizations they work for, and the environment.

Publications

Brossoit, R. M., Stark, H. P., Crain, T. L., Bodner, T. E., Hammer, L. B., Mohr, C. D. & Shea, S. A. (In Press). Multidimensionality of the PROMIS sleep disturbance 8b short form in working adult populations. Sleep Health. 

Brossoit, R. M., Hammer, L. B., Crain, T. L., Leslie, J. J., Bodner, T. E., & Brockwood, K. J. (2023). The Effects of a Total Worker Health Intervention on Workplace Safety: Mediating Effects of Sleep and Supervisor Support for Sleep. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 28(4) 263–276. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000357

Brossoit, R. M., Crain, T. L., Stevens, S. C., Wong, J. R., & Guasta, L. (2023). Alert at Work? Perceptions of Alertness Testing and Recommendations for Practitioners. Occupational Health Science. 7(2), 379–396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00139-3

Brossoit, R. M. & Wong, J. R. (2023). Instilling Ethics in I-O: The Responsibility of I-O Graduate Training Programs. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. 16(2), 182–186. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2023.4

Brossoit, R. M. & Wong, J. R. (2023). “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore”: Reflecting on I-O Psychology’s Values and Assumptions Through the Lens of the Anti-Work Movement. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.

Perpich, R. A., Brossoit, R. M., Fisher, G. G., Kath, L. M., & Kunz, J. (2022). Going Upstream: Recommendations for Training the Next Generation of I-O Influencers. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

Wong, J. R., Crain, T. L., Brossoit, R. M., Hammer, L. B., Bodner, T. E., & Brady, J. M. (2022). Beyond Just Resilience: The Important Role of Work-Family Resources for Military Service Members. Occupational Health Science.

Hammer, L. B., Brady, J. M., Brossoit, R. M., Mohr, C. D., Bodner, T. E., Crain, T. L., & Brockwood, K. J., & (2021). Effects of a Total Worker Health® Leadership Intervention on Employee Well-Being and Functional Impairment. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.  

Robles-Saenz, F., Brossoit, R. M., Crain, T. L., Hammer, L. B., & Wong, J. R. (2021). Understanding the Role of Family-Specific Resources for Immigrant Workers. Occupational Health Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00099-0 

Brossoit, R. M., Wong, J. R., & Fisher, G. G. (2021). Same Degrees, Different Requirements: The Variety of Comprehensive (“Comps”) in I-O Psychology Master’s and Doctoral Programs. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.

Brossoit, R. M., Wong, J. R., Robles-Saenz, F., Barber, L. K., Allen, T. D., & Britt, T. W. (2021). Is that Ethical? The Current State of Industrial-Organizational Psychology Graduate Training in Ethics. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.

Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Crain, T. L., & Brossoit, R. M. (2021). Measuring Sleep in Adolescence: Comparing Subjective and Objective Daily Measures. Sleep Health.

Crain, T. L., Brossoit, R. M., Robles-Saenz, F., & Tran, M. (2020). Fighting Fatigue: A Conceptual Model of Driver Sleep in the Gig Economy. Sleep Health.

Brossoit, R. M., Crain, T. L., Hammer, L. B., Lee, S., Bodner, T. E., & Buxton, O. M. (2020). Associations Among Patient Care Workers’ Schedule Control, Sleep, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intentions. Stress & Health. 1–15. doi: 10.1002/smi.2941

Brossoit, R. M., Crain, T. L., Leslie, J. J., Hammer, L. B., Truxillo, D. M., & Bodner, T. E. (2019). The effects of sleep on workplace cognitive failure and safety. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 24(4), 411–422. doi:10.1037/ocp0000139

Crain, T. L., Brossoit, R. M., & Fisher, G. G. (2018). Work, nonwork, and sleep (WNS): A review and conceptual framework. Journal of Business and Psychology, 33(6), 675–697. doi:10.1007/s10869-017-9521-x

Ganster, D. C., Crain, T. L., & Brossoit, R. M. (2018). Physiological measurement in the organizational sciences: A review and recommendations for future use. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 5(1), 267–293. doi:10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032117-104613

Dr. Brossoit's research can also be found on her Google Scholar and ResearchGate pages.