Margaret Nauta
Professor
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
PSY 110.003 Fundamentals Of Psychology
PSY 290.031 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
PSY 291.031 Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching
PSY 465.001 Vocational Counseling
PSY 110.002 Fundamentals Of Psychology
PSY 437.001 Group Psychotherapy And Counseling
PSY 499.031 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
PSY 290.031 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
PSY 291.031 Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching
Teaching Interests & Areas
Fundamentals of Psychology; Vocational Counseling; Group Psychotherapy and Counseling
Research Interests & Areas
Social and Cognitive Influences on Career Choice and Development; Academic and Professional Role Model Influences; Women's Career Development
Ph D Psychology (Counseling)
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
MS Psychology
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
BS Liberal Arts and Sciences (Psychology)
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Outstanding University Teacher Award
Illinois State University
2009
Outstanding College Teacher Award (social sciences)
Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences
2007
Teaching Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2002
Teaching Excellence Award
Iowa State University Graduate College
1997
Book Review
Review of John L. Holland’s Autobiography
Nauta, M.
(2022), Essays Celebrating John L. Holland’s Autobiography and Contributions to Career Theory, Research, and Practice: A Festschrift, Florida State Open Publishing
Book, Chapter
Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice and Adjustment
Nauta, M.
(2020), 61-93, Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work, Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Holland's Theory of Career Choice: Matching Personalities and Environments
Nauta, M.
(2019), 261-269, Career Theory and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice, CERIC
Holland's theory of vocational choice and adjustment
Nauta, M.
(2013), 55-88, Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work, Wiley
Career Planning survey
Nauta, M.
(2009), 107-111, A counselor's guide to career assessment instruments, National Career Development Association
Journal Article
Disentangling Trait Affect from Situational Affect in the Prediction of Academic Major Satisfaction
Nauta, M.
The Career Development Quarterly, 73, 142-150, (2025), http://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12377
Exploratory Actions as Mediators of the Association between Career Exploration Self-Efficacy and Decisional Outcomes: Does Exploration Type Matter?
Nauta, M.
Australian Journal of Career Development, 33 (2), 144-153, (2024)
Do materialistic adolescents ruminate more about their social media posts?
Hynes, K., Lannin, D., Kanter, J., Yazedjian, A., & Nauta, M.
(2022)
The Role of Situational Affect in Students’ Academic Major Satisfaction
Lehman, A., & Nauta, M.
The Career Development Quarterly, 70, 27-37, (2022), 10.1002/cdq.12287
Perceived interpersonal influences and college-major nontraditionality as predictors of women’s leadership aspirations
Yeoward, J., & Nauta, M.
Journal of Career Development, 48, 787-800, (2021)
The Associations of Health Symptoms and Perceptions with Work Volition
Bouchard, L., & Nauta, M.
The Career Development Quarterly, 69, 165-171, (2021)
Career Indecision Profile-65 scores: Test-retest reliability and measurement equivalence in college and non-college samples
Zobell, C., Nauta, M., & Hesson-McInnis, M.
Journal of Career Assessment, 27 (3), 510-526, (2019), 10.1177/1069072718775692
College students' health and short-term career outcomes: Examining work volition as a mediator
Bouchard, L., & Nauta, M.
Journal of Career Development, 45 (4), 393-406, (2018), 10.1177/0894845317699517
How do coworkers “make the place”? Examining coworker conflict and the value of harmony in China and the United States
Liu, C., Nauta, M., Yang, L., & Spector, P.
Applied Psychology: An International Review, 67 (1), 30-60, (2018), 10.1111/apps.12119
The Associations of Greek and Religious Organization Participation with College Students’ Social Well-being and Purpose
Turton, G., Nauta, M., & Wesselmann, E.
The Journal of Psychology Interdisciplinary and Applied, (152), 179-198, (2018)
The associations of Greek and religious organization participation with college students' social well-being and purpose
Turton, G., Nauta, M., Wesselmann, E., McIntyre, M., & Graziano, W.
Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 152 (4), 179-198, (2018), 10.1080/00223980.2018.1431601
Be mindful of what you impose on your colleagues: Implications of social burden for burdenees' well-being, attutides, and counterproductive work behavior
Yang, L., Liu, C., Nauta, M., Caughlin, D., & Spector, P.
Stress & Health, 32, 70-83, (2016), 10.1002/smi.2581
Entrepreneurial role-model exposure, self-efficacy, and women’s entrepreneurial intentions
Austin, M., & Nauta, M.
Journal of Career Development, 43, 260-272, (2016), 10.1177/0894845315597475
Workplace conflict and absence/lateness: The moderating effect of core self-evaluation in China and the United States
Liu, C., Li, C., Fan, J., & Nauta, M.
International Journal of Stress Management, 22, 243-269, (2015), 10.1037/a0039163
The Self-Directed Search as a stand-alone intervention with college students
Behrens, E., & Nauta, M.
The Career Development Quarterly, 62, 224-238, (2014), 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2014.00081.x
Examining the mediating effect of supervisor conflict on procedural injustice-job strain relations: The function of power distance
Liu, C., Yang, L., & Nauta, M.
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 18, 64-74, (2013), 10.1037/a0030889
Sexism as a predictor of attitudes toward women in the military and in combat
Young, L., & Nauta, M.
Military Psychology, 25, 166-171, (2013), 10.1037/h0094958
Are RIASEC interests traits? Evidence based on self-other agreement
Nauta, M.
Journal of Career Assessment, 20, 426-439, (2012), 10.1177/1069072712448895
Temporal stability, correlates, and longitudinal outcomes of career indecision factors
Nauta, M.
Journal of Career Development, 39, 540-558, (2012), 10.1177/0894845311410566
Presentations
Affect Frequency and Intensity as Determinants of Academic Major Satisfaction
Margaret Nauta, Cory A. Tyler
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2025
Trait and Situational Affect as Determinants of Academic Major Satisfaction
Margaret Nauta
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2024
Affect and Outcome Expectations as Determinants of Academic Major Satisfaction
Margaret Nauta, Kathryn L Skoog, Audrey J Strain, Karolina Wierzbicka
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 22, 2023
Associations Among Career Exploration Self-Efficacy, Exploratory Actions, and Decisional Outcomes
Margaret Nauta
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 23, 2022
A Diathesis-Stress Model Predicting Student Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
Namah Vyakarnam, Margaret M. Nauta
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 23, 2021
Interpersonal influences and major nontraditionality as predictors of women's leadership aspirations
Jennifer L. Yeoward, Margaret Nauta
127th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2019
Career Indecision Profile-65 Scores’ Measurement Equivalence in College and Non-College Samples
Margaret Nauta, Casey J. Zobell, Matthew Hesson-McInnis
Great Lakes Regional Counseling Psychology Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, April 13, 2018
College students' health, work volition, and short-term career outcomes
Lauren M. Bouchard, Margaret Nauta
125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August 4, 2017
The Association of Health Symptoms and Cognitions with Work Volition
Lauren M. Bouchard, Margaret Nauta
125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August 3, 2017
Evaluating the Efficacy of the Missouri Occupational Card Sort
Margaret Nauta
American Psychological Association, Denver, CO, August 4, 2016
CIP-65 scores: Psychometric properties and relationship to maximizing tendency
Casey J Zobell, Margaret Nauta
29th Annual Great Lakes Regional Counseling Psychology Conference, Bloomington, IN, April 9, 2016
Factors influencing the major satisfaction and leadership aspirations of men and women in traditional and nontraditional fields
Jennifer L Yeoward, Margaret Nauta
85th Annual Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference, Anderson, IN, October 12, 2014
Leadership aspirations among students in traditional and non-traditional fields
Margaret Nauta, Ashley K Niemczyk
122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 15, 2014
Co-worker conflict in cross-cultural settings: The moderating effect of harmony
Cong Liu, Raja S Kainth, S T Gebhardt, Liu-Qin Yang, Margaret Nauta, Paul E spector
29th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, Honolulu, HI, May 15, 2014
The associations between religious or Greek organization membership and college students' self-perceptions of loneliness, connectedness, and purpose
Gina M Paxon, Margaret Nauta
6th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology preconference on Psychology of Religion-Spirituality, Austin, TX, February 15, 2014
Be mindful of what you impose on your colleagues: Social burden in the workplace
Liu-Qin Yang, Cong Liu, Margaret Nauta, David E Caughlin, Paul E Spector
Biannual Conference of Work, Stress, and Health, Los Angeles, CA, May 15, 2013
Role models, self-efficacy, and women's entrepreneurial interests
Margaret Nauta, Michelle J Austin
120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL, August 15, 2012
Sexism as a predictor of attitudes toward women in combat
Lauren M Young, Margaret Nauta, Mark Swerdlik
120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL, August 15, 2012
Core self-evaluation and the relations between workplace conflict and withdrawal
N Pfeiffer, Cong Liu, Margaret Nauta, J Fan
27th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA, April 15, 2012
The relation between procedural injustice and conflict with supervisor
Cong Liu, Liu-Qin Yang, Margaret Nauta, S I Khan, C Shahani-Denning
27th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA, April 15, 2012