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Steven Mock Research Biography

Steven E. Mock

BA (Waterloo), MA, PhD (Cornell)

Assistant Professor

Cross-Appointed to Public Health and Health Systems

Office: BMH 2209
E-mail: smock@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: (519) 888-4567, ext. 38796

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Research interests:

  • Lifespan Development
  • Sexual Minority Development
  • Social Nature of Coping and Decision-making
  • Retirement Planning

Courses taught:

Selected publications:

  • Mock, S. E., & Arai, S. M. (in press).  Childhood trauma and chronic illness in adulthood: Mental health and socioeconomic status as explanatory factors and buffers. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology.

  • Mock, S. E., Shaw, S. M., Hummel, E. M., & Bakker, C. (in press). Leisure and diversity in later life: Ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. In H. Gibson and J. Singleton (Eds.), Leisure, ageing, and well-being. Windsor, ON: Human Kinetics.


  • Eibach, R. P., & Mock, S. E. (in press). Idealizing parenthood to rationalize parental investments. Psychological Science.

  • Mock, S. E., Sedlovskaya, A., & Purdie-Vaughns, V. (2011). Gay and bisexual men’s disclosure of sexual orientation in the workplace: Associations with retirement planning. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 30, 123-132.

  • Eibach, R. P., Mock, S. E., & Courtney, E. (2010). Having a "senior moment": Induced aging phenomenology, subjective age, and susceptibility to ageist stereotypes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 643-649.

  • Mock, S. E., & Boerner, K. (2010). Sense making and benefit finding among patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and their primary caregivers. Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 115-121.

  • Mock, S. E., Fraser, C., Knutson, S., & Prier, A. (2010). Physical leisure participation and the well-being of adults with rheumatoid arthritis: The role of sense of belonging. Activities, Adaptation, & Aging, 34, 292-302.