PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
McMahan, E. A., & Dehart Renken, M. (in press). Eudaimonic conceptions of well-being, meaning in life, and self-reported well-being: Initial test of a mediational model. Personality and Individual Differences.
McMahan, E. A., & Estes, D. (2011b). Age-related differences in lay conceptions of well-being and experienced well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10902-001-9251-0.
McMahan, E. A., & Estes, D. (2011a). Measuring lay conceptions of well-being: The beliefs about well-being scale. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12, 267-287.
McMahan, E. A., & Estes, D. (2010). Hedonic versus eudaimonic conceptions of well-being: Evidence of differential associations with experienced well-being. Social Indicators Research. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9698-0.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS
Dixon, K. J., King, L. M., & McMahan, E. A. (2011, May). Conceptions of well-being, behavior, and experienced well-being: A meditational model. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of Association for Psychological Science (APS), Washington, DC, May 26, 2011.
Cooley, E., Toray, T. Roscoe, L., McMahan, E. A., Willhite, K., Verba, D., Buckingham, D., Carlson, K., Moustafa, N., & Tidwell, A. (2011, April). The reactions to loss scale: Finding resilience in college bereavement. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA), Los Angeles, CA, April, 30, 2011.
McMahan, E. A., & Estes, D. (2011, April). Age-related differences in lay conceptions of well-being and the good life. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA), Los Angeles, CA, April, 29, 2011.
King, L. M., Dixon, K. J., & McMahan, E. A. (2011, February). The mediating role of behavior in hedonic and eudaimonic conceptions of well-being and actual well-being. Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Sciences, 70, 58.
Penningroth, S., Bartsch, K, & McMahan, E. A. (2010, July). Everyday prospective memory in younger and older elementary-school children: A diary study of parents' reports. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Prospective Memory (ICPM), Vancouver, BC, July 29, 2010.
McMahan, E. A., & Estes, D. (2010, April). Balance and imbalance in conceptions of well-being: Implications for experienced well-being. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association (RMPA), Denver, CO, April 16, 2010.
McMahan, E. A., & Estes, D. (2009, May). Individual conceptions of well-being: A new measure. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), San Francisco, CA, May 24, 2009.
Estes, D., & McMahan, E. A. (2009, May). Conceptions of human nature: Dimensions and correlates. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2009.
James, L.E., Tauber, S.K., McMahan, E. A., & Fogler, K.A. (2008, April). Proper name
learning in aging: No evidence for interference. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging
Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 13, 2008.
McMahan, E. A. & Estes, D. (2008, April). Values and mortality salience: The moderating effects of value orientation on cultural worldview defense III. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association (RMPA), Boise, ID, April 12, 2008.
McMahan, E. A. & Estes, D. (2007, May). Values and mortality salience: The moderating effects of value orientation on cultural worldview defense II. Poster session presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Washington, DC, May 26, 2007.
Estes, D., Uttal, D., & McMahan, E. A. (2006, May). College students’ beliefs about psychological research. Poster session presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), New York, NY, May 25, 2006.
McMahan, E. A. (2006, March). Values and mortality salience: The moderating effects of value orientation on cultural worldview defense.Poster session presented at the University of Wyoming’s Graduate Student Symposium, Laramie, WY, March 3, 2006.
McMahan, E. A., & James, L. E. (2005, May). The inhibitory deficit hypothesis and the age-related effects of inhibition on proper name and occupational learning. Poster session presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Los Angeles, CA, May 18, 2005.
McMahan, E. A., & James, L. E. (2005, April). Age, interference, and proper name learning. Poster session presented at the Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum, Colorado Springs, CO, April 30, 2005.
GRANTS FUNDED
Conceptions of Well-Being and Experienced Well-Being in South Korea and the United States: Scale Validation and Cross-Cultural Comparisons. Seoul National University, Center for Happiness Studies. Amount of Award: $15,000. Dates of Award: 7-1-11 to 6-30-11. PI: McMahan, E. A.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Conceptions of Well-Being and Experienced Well-Being in South Korea and the United States: Scale Validation and Cross-Cultural Comparisons.
PI: Ethan A. McMahan
The Relationship between Conceptions of Well-being and Daily Hedonic and Eudaimonic Behavior
PI: Ethan A. McMahan
Conceptions of Well-being and Perceptions of the Goodness and Quality of Others’ Lives
PI: Ethan A. McMahan
Further Validation of the Beliefs about Well-Being Scale
PI: Ethan A. McMahan
Conceptions of Human Nature: Dimensions and Correlates
PI: David Estes
Reactions to Loss and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis
PIs: Eric Cooley, Tamina Toray, and Lauren Roscoe
