Dr Yong Goh

Name | Dr Yong Goh |
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Email Address | yong.goh@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Psychology) |
Qualifications | BA Qld, MPsych Qld, PhD Qld |
Department | School of Psychology and Wellbeing |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-0866 |
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Biography
Yong Wah Goh's area of expertise is occupational wellbeing, stress and coping across cultures. He has developed and delivered a wide range of training workshops and assessment tools that foster wellbeing, mindfulness and sustainable behaviour. Yong Wah remains active in delivering public talks and training workshops for communities/organisations/institutions within Australia and overseas. He is also active in international research, having successfully led a 5 nations research project (Australia, China, Japan, Hungary, Singapore) investigating workplace stress and wellbeing, and publishes extensively in the fields of organisational psychology, positive psychology and sustainability.
Yong Wah is the creator of the SHAPE-S Approach to Wellbeing and is leading a 3 nations (Australia, Singapore, China) research project in this area. His other research interests include language learning stress and coping process, spirituality's impact on wellbeing, and wellbeing under cross cultural contexts.
Yong Wah is also a Zen meditation teacher and an accredited traditional martial art instructor. He was a personnel psychologist with the Ministry of Defence Singapore before joining University of Southern Queensland
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Senior Lecturer | University of Southern Queensland | 2002 |
Expertise
Organisational Psychology
Wellbeing
Mindfulness
Stress and Coping
Sustainability
Cross Cultural Studies
Spirituality
Teaching
PSY3730 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
PSY2010 Social Processes of Behaviour
PSY3180 & PSY3190 Psychology Practicum A & B
PSY1040 Introduction to Cultural Safety in Practice
Fields of Research
- 330199. Architecture not elsewhere classified
- 470212. Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
- 520104. Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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AHPRA | |
Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia |
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Feasibility of a Web-based Positive Psychology Intervention for Adults of Sri Lankan Heritage Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Investigating the influence of psychological capital on the etiological process of stress and coping across cultural orientation and time: A structural modelling approach | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Development of the Workplace Singapore Mental Wellbeing Scale and Testing of a Conceptual Model in Predicting Employee Outcomes at the Singapore Workplace | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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CBCAC Project 1008302 | Adolescent wellbeing and stress resilience training workshop project | 2023 |