SPA Grants
NOW ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS!
Dissertation Grant | Student Research Grant | EISJ Grant
Dissertation Grant and Student Research Grant Deadline has been extended until October 30, 2024!
EISJ Grant is NOW OPEN through December 10 2024.
Please note, you can only be awarded one grant. Check back on this page for updates regarding grant notifications.
SPA Dissertation and Research Grants will be evaluated on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) on the following domains:
- Overall Quality of the Proposal
- Proposal is clear and well-written
- Proposal provides a clear rationale for the project with appropriate citations
- The method described in the proposal is clear and appropriate for the proposed project
- Feasibility of the Project
- The project is feasible based on the timeline and budget provided
- Potential to Contribute to the Field of Personality Assessment
- The proposed project will significantly contribute to the field of personality assessment and/or advance the field of personality assessment
A successful proposal will be well-written, provide a clear and compelling rationale for the project, the methods described are clear and appropriate for the proposed project, the project is feasible within the time and budget proposed, and the project has the potential to significantly contribute to and/or advance the field of personality assessment.
Dissertation Grant
July 25, 2024 - October 15, 2024 (EXTENDED DEADLINE to October 30th)
The Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) will be making grants to support dissertation research in the area of personality assessment. These awards of up to $800 dollars must have an approved dissertation proposal before applying for the grant. Although not required at time of application, to receive the grant, the student must hold an active student membership for the 2025 calendar year. It is expected that the findings of the dissertation will be presented at a forthcoming Annual Convention of SPA.
2024 Dissertation Grant Winners
| Megan Airey | Attachment Trauma: How the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP) May Inform Our Understanding of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) |
| Anthony Battaglia | The Psychological Vest: Trauma, Resiliency, and Posttraumatic Growth among Police Officers |
| Emily Bemis-Keir | Examination of the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of a Self-Report Version of the SCORS-G (SCORS-G-SR) |
| Rachel Chavin | Differences in Personality Pathology among Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Suicidal Behavior Patterns: A Latent Class Analysis |
| Kelci Davis | Gender Euphoria: Exploring a Potential Protective Factor Against Psychopathology in Transgender and Gender Diverse Populations |
| Adrienne Eldridge | Identifying the Moral Foundations of the Traditional Background Hypothesis of the MMPI-3 L Scale |
| Leah Emery | The Role of Self-Discrepancy Magnitude, Change, and Experience in the Expression of Personality Pathology |
| Alexandra Halberstadt | A Free, Open-Science, Empirically Supported Standardized Training Protocol for Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics (CAID) |
| Hyungji Kim | Momentary Suicidal Ideation in the Context of Romantic Conflict |
| Savnnah Parker | The Rorschach Performance Assessment System and the Measurement of Agression |
| Camryn Sutton | Using the MMPI-3 to Detect the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Somatization |
2023 Dissertation Grant Winners
| Ali Yunus Emre Akca | When it is Fake and When it is Flawed: The Impact of Biases and Stereotypes in Professionals' Decision Making About Fabricated Symptoms |
| Edleen De Jesus-Sanchez | An Examination of MMPI-3 Score Patterns of Sex Trafficked Women |
| Alana Gallagher | Hierarchical Structure of Post-traumatic Cognitions and Complex PTSD in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence |
| Callie Jowers | Do Dimensions of Object Relations Mediate the Relationship between Pathological Traits, Defenses, and Coping? |
| Julianne Lawson | Killing Two Birds with One Phone: Attachment, Technology-Interference, Relationship Satisfaction within Daily Couple Interactions |
| Gillian Moloney | Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the PAI-A Antisocial Features Scale |
| Kathleen Tully | The Role of Narcissism in Instagram Consumption |
2022 Dissertation Grant Winners
| Mark Blanchard | Do Relatedness and Flourishing Predict Doctor-Patient Relationships and Healthcare Utilization? |
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Rachel Davenport |
Using the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global to Evaluate the Impact of Parental Divorce on College Students' Interpersonal Functioning |
| Emily Leonard | An Examination of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) Profiles of International Saudi Arabian College Students |
| Kadie Lambardo | Exploring Personality Characteristics and Recidivism Risk Among Adult Male Sexual Offenders |
| Ilene Perez-Palen | The Influence of Native Language on Thematic Apperception Test Assessment of Defenses in International Spanish-Speaking College Students |
| Courtney Saunders | Differences in Socio-Cognitive Processes Among Individuals Exhibiting Characteristics of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: A Multimethod Approach |
| Ethan Xiong | Personality, Acculturation, and Religious Beliefs and Practices: A Comparative Study of Characteristics Associated to Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Services Among Hmong Americans and Non-Hmong Populations |
2021 Dissertation Grant Winners
| Christine Anerella | Humor Use During Conflict in Close Relationships |
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Paula Floyd |
Personality and Psychopathology Correlates of Institutional Misconduct among Juvenile Offenders |
| Alana Fondren | Assessing LGBTQ+ Community Connectedness, Postive Identity, and Mental Health Outcomes in Sexual Minority Emerging Adults |
| Savannah Grier | Capturing the Interpersonal and Momentary Dynamics of Codependency in Dyadic Conflict |
| Emily O'Gorman | |
| John Rucker | Development and Evaluation of an Object Relations Measures for the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB) |
Student Research Grant
July 25, 2024 - October 15, 2024 (EXTENDED DEADLINE to October 30th)
The Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) will be making grants to support all types of student research in the area of personality assessment. These awards of up to $500 dollars are open to undergraduate or graduate students in psychology or related fields. Although not required at time of application, to receive the grant, the student must hold an active student membership for the 2025 calendar year. It is expected that the findings of this research will be presented at a forthcoming Annual Convention of SPA.
2024 Student Research Grant Winners
| Shakur Dennis | Relationships between Openness to Experience, Health Behaviors, Chronic Disease Management, and Change Tendencies |
| Megan Keen | Assessing Psychopathology Overreporting in Adolescents using the MMPI-A-RF |
| Abigail Kowalski | Comparing the Effects of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and the Section II Model on Mock Juror Reactions to Women Defendants |
| Morgan Maples | Examining the Impact of Pain Relief Interventions on Self-Harm Behaviors in Individuals with Borderline Personality Features |
| Chloe O'Dell | Integrating Multiple Methods for the Assessment of Aggression in Young Adults |
2023 Student Research Grant Winners
| Lauren Allen | Roles of Informants' Well-Being in Evaluative Bias: Effects on Informant Ratings |
| Jen Ying Zhen Ang & Aakriti Prasai | Understanding Counselor Trainee Experiences with the Wright-Constantine Structured Cultural Interview |
| Matthew Chapman | A Qualitative Examination on Adult Male Sex Offenders and Their Adverse Childhood Experiences |
| Christine Hujing | Interpersonal Projection of Right-Wing Authoritarianism |
| Casey Lee | Use of Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Diverse Populations: Exploring Trainee Psychologists' Experiences |
| Paige MacQueen | Associations between Preceiver Bias on Informant-Report Personality Measures and the Informant's Personal Attitudes toward Mental Illness |
| Courtney Phillips | Examining the Predictive Power of Criterion A of the Alternative Model for Personality |
| Benjamin Poag | The Invasive Workplace: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits and Work-Related Technology Use |
| Tabea Springstein | Measuring Emotion Regulation Success in Daily Life and Evaluating Nomothetic and Idiographic Associations with Strategies and Situations |
2022 Student Research Grant Winners
| Rachel Chavin | Understanding How Different Personality Models Can Predict NSSI Tendencies |
| Colette Delawalla | Assessing the UPPS-P Facets of Impulsivity Using the MMPI-3 |
| Katherine Hein | Negative Affect Changes, Emptiness, and Interpersonal Conflict Related to Binge Eating and Borderline Personality Traits |
| Callie Jowers | Using the Rorschach to Assess Though Disorder: The Effect of the Examiner's Questions on Test Validity |
| Karen Kelley | Investigating the Transdiagnostic Potential of Rumination in Relation to Cluster B Personality Disorder Symptoms |
| Whitney Ringwald | Identifying Risk Pathways between Multi-Rater Assessments of Big Five Personality Traits and Binge Drinking with Passive Sensing Technology |
| Shannon Thomson | Differentiating Schizoid and Avoidant Personality Styles: The Role of the Self-Concept |
2021 Student Research Grant Winners
| Mark Blanchard | Health, Happiness, and Doctor-Patient Relationships: A Primary Care Study |
| Bailey Crittenden | Experimental Validation of R-PAS Distorted Form Quality Variable |
| Kelci Davis | Psychopathy Testing Bias in Sexual Orientation Minorities: A Slope-Intercept Bias Approach |
| Callie Jowers | The Role of Conscious and Unconscious Coping within the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders |
| Cory Knight | Pscyhological Flexibility, the Alternative Model of Personality Disorder in the DSM-5, and the Five Factor Model: A Quantitative Analysis |
| Madeline Lenhausen | Reference Group Processes in Personlity Assessment |
| Courtney Mason | Facets of the Five Factor Model and Negative Thoughts Predicting Non-Suicidal Self-Injury |
| Jiwon Min | Development of a Bried Personalized Mobile Intervention for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury |
| Giulia Pascarella | Evaluation of COVID-19 Emergency and Related Lockdown Policies Effects on the Normative Expectations for the Rorschach and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) |
| Armahn Rassuli | The Effects of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Gamers |
| Silas Sheridan | Interpersonal Dependency from a Narrative Perspective |
| Tingyun Tseng | Impact of Culture on Interpersonal Dependency Scored: A Comparsion of Second-Generation Taiwanese Immigrants and American Adults |
EISJ Grant
September 23, 2024 - December 10, 2024
SPA Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Research Grants is now open! Although we welcome applications from all professional levels, we, in particular, welcome applications from students and early-career professionals. These grants, ranging anywhere from $500 to a maximum of $10,000, are meant to support research that advances equity, inclusion, and social justice research, as defined by our Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (EISJ) track and key terminology for our convention. Although not required at time of application, to receive the grant, the applicant must hold an active SPA membership for the 2025 calendar year. It is expected that the findings of the research will be presented at a forthcoming Annual Convention of SPA.
Materials to be submitted on the application include:
- Project Proposal
- Itemized Budget
- Projected Timeline
- Resume or CV