Lisa Goguen

Lisa Goguen
Program Coordinator, Psychology
Associate Professor, Psychology
Graham Building, 111
Penn State Hazleton
76 University Drive
Hazleton, PA 18202-8025

Peer relationships; Academic & social adjustment during college transition; Social anxiety and social relationships during transition periods; Autism and social interactions

The impact of social anxiety and self-esteem on college adjustment, academics, and retention, Journal of College Counseling - April, 2014
Collaborators: Alicia Nordstrom, Author; Marnie Heister, Secondary Author

The impact of social anxiety and self-esteem on college adjustment, academics, and retention, Journal of College Counseling
Collaborators: Alicia Nordstrom, Author; Marnie Heister, Secondary Author

Associations among peer relationships, academic achievement, and persistence in college, Journal of College Student Retention - 2010
Collaborators: Lisa Swenson, Author; Marnie Hiester; Alicia Nordstrom

Stability and change in perceived attachment to parents and adjustment outcomes during the first semester transition to college life: The influence of gender and residence - September, 2009
Collaborators: Marnie Hiester; Alicia Nordstrom; Lisa Swenson

Adolescents' collaboration in the classroom: Do peer relationships or gender matter?, Psychology in the Schools - 2008
Collaborator: Lisa Swenson; JoNell Strough

The role of peer relationships in adjustment to college, Journal of College Student Development - November, 2008
Collaborators: Lisa Swenson; Alicia Nordstrom; Marnie Hiester

Students' Experiences with Internet-based Testing in an Introductory General Music Course, Journal of Technology in Music Learning (peer reviewed) - 2006
Collaborator: Thomas Smialek, Author

Ph D, Lifespan Developmental Psychology, West Virginia University

December 12, 2020

Posters and Oral Presentations
Jonesing for a Facebook fix: Men, Women, & the link between social stress & Facebook addiction
International Conference on Social Sciences and Arts
Online virtual conference

Collaborator: Pamela Black, Author and Presenter

October, 2019

Posters
Investigation of complex links among social anxiety, self-efficacy, and adjustment to college
Meeting of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adults
Toronto, ON, Canada

College students are in a period of transition, learning to live more independently. They need to adapt thinking processes and ways of interacting with others. The confidence these students bring to their new environment and the extent to which they are socially anxious are factors that could affect how well this transition goes.

November, 2017

Posters
Sense of Belonging and Adjustment to College: Comparisons of Residential and Commuter Students
Meeting of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adults
Washington DC

Collaborators: Karen Sofranko, Author; Tammy Spevak, Author

March 5, 2016

Posters
Attachment, Feelings of Connectedness, & Adjustment to College
87th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association
New York, NY

Collaborators: Karen Sofranko, Other; Tammy Spevak, Other

Attachment style and feelings of connectedness due to components of a new student orientation program were examined in relation to adjustment among first-semester college students. Results confirmed our hypotheses in that lesser feelings of connectedness related to poorer adjustment to college, and students with greater insecure attachment reported lesser feelings of connectedness and poorer adjustment to college.

February 8, 2016

Oral Presentations
Making connections during the transition into college
HN Campus Faculty Talk Series
Hazleton campus

March 7, 2015

Posters
The relationship between social anxiety and college students’ feelings of connectedness
86th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association
Philadelphia, PA

Collaborators: Karen Sofranko, Other; Tammy Spevak, Other; Tracy Garnick, Other

we focused on how social anxiety related to students’ feelings of connectedness during components of the orientation programming for new students, expecting a negative association. Participants were 206 first-year college students who completed a questionnaire about the “move-in-weekend” orientation program, and a social anxiety questionnaire. Results confirmed our hypothesis and supported previous literature, allowing us to better understand how social anxiety can impact students during their transition to college.

2014

Posters
The relationship between social anxiety and college students’ feelings of connectedness
86th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association
Philadelphia, PA

Collaborators: Karen Sofranko, Other; Tammy Spevak, Other; Tracy Garnick, Other

we focused on how social anxiety related to students’ feelings of connectedness during components of the orientation programming for new students, expecting a negative association. Participants were 206 first-year college students who completed a questionnaire about the “move-in-weekend” orientation program, and a social anxiety questionnaire. Results confirmed our hypothesis and supported previous literature, allowing us to better understand how social anxiety can impact students during their transition to college.

October 29, 2009

Oral Presentations
The effects of peer attachment and social anxiety on United States college students' friendships
4th Conference on Emerging Adulthood
Atlanta, GA

Collaborators: Alicia Nordstrom, Other; Marnie Hiester, Other

New friendships formed in college can affect adjustment, achievement, and retention, thus difficulties with friendships can have serious implications. Research shows that greater social anxiety and insecure attachment styles are associated with lower quality friendships. In our study, first-year college students completed measures of peer attachment, social anxiety, and friendship quality. Closer attachment relationships were associated with lesser social anxiety. Social anxiety at the beginning of the first semester related to the quality of new friendships. Females experienced greater friendship quality, but also greater social anxiety, although their social anxiety reduced from the beginning to the end of the semester. Our results suggest we should monitor insecure or socially anxious students to prevent possible problems with friendship formation and, consequently adjustment to college.

March 25, 2009

Oral Presentations
The transition into college: How we can help our students
HN campus Enrollment Management Committee meeting
Hazleton campus

February 26, 2009

Oral Presentations
The transition into college: How we can help our students
HN Campus Faculty Talk Series
Hazleton campus

May 24, 2008

Parental attachement and intrusiveness predict psychological health and adjustment for college freshman
Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association
Chicago

Collaborators:

March 9, 2008

Effects of social anxiety and self-esteem on the transition to college
Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence
Chicago

Collaborators:

March 9, 2008

Linking social and cognitive development among first-year college students
Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)
Chicago

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March 8, 2008

Friendship quality and adjustment during the transition to college
Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)
Chicago

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2007

Predictors of college retention, adjustment, and academic performance in first-year undergraduates

November 03, 2007

Conference presentations accepted

February 15, 2007

Examining parental correlates of college adjustment: Parental attachment, intrusiveness, and adjustment (Poster accepted but did not attend conference due to snow storm)

February 15, 2007

Examining parental correlates of college adjustment: Parental attachment, intrusiveness, and adjustment (Poster accepted but did not attend conference due to snow storm)
3rd Conference on Emerging Adulthood
Tucson, AZ

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January 01, 2007

Friendship quality and adjustment during the transition to college (Poster accepted but unable to travel due to snow storm)
3rd Conference on Emerging Adulthood
Tucson, AZ

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2006

Predictors of college retention, adjustment, and academic performance in first-year undergraduates

April 10, 2005

Attended research conference for the Society for Research in Child Development

2004

Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence