Inbal Nahum-Shani, University of Michigan

Research Interests

Research Interests: My research is an integration of Occupational Health Psychology and Quantitative Psychology. I focus on developing technology-based supportive interventions for reducing stress and preventing problem behaviors among young adults and employed individuals. I am specifically Interested in conceptual and methodological aspects relating to the development of adaptive interventions that are delivered via mobile devices and that provide support in real-time to people as they go about their daily lives.

Key words: Social Support, Work Stress, Employee Health and Well-Being, Adaptive Interventions, Just In Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs).

Publications

Collins, L., Nahum-Shani, I., & Almirall, D. (in press). Optimization of behavioral dynamic treatment regimens based on the sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART). Clinical Trials.
Almirall D., Nahum-Shani, I., Sherwood, N.E., & Murphy S.A. (in press). Introduction to SMART Designs for the Development of Adaptive Interventions: With Application to Weight Loss Research. Translational Behavioral Medicine.
Nahum-Shani, I., Henderson, M.M., Lim, S., & Vinokur, A.V. (2014) Supervisor support: Does it buffer or exacerbate the adverse effects of supervisor undermining? Journal of Applied Psychology,99(3), 484-503.
Nahum-Shani, I., Qian, M., Almirall, D., Pelham, W.E., Gnagy, B., Fabiano, G., Waxmonsky, J., Yu, J., & Murphy, S. (2012). Q-Learning: A Secondary Data Analysis Method for Developing Adaptive Interventions. Psychological Methods, 17(4), 478.
Nahum-Shani, I., Qian, M., Almirall, D., Pelham, W.E., Gnagy, B., Fabiano, G., Waxmonsky, J., Yu, J., & Murphy, S. (2012). Experimental Design and Primary Data Analysis for Developing Adaptive Interventions. Psychological Methods, 17(4), 457.
Dziak, J., Nahum-Shani, I., & Collins, L. (2012) Multilevel Factorial Experiments: Power and Conceptual Considerations. Psychological Methods, 17(2), 153 *equal contribution of authors.
Lei, H., Nahum-Shani, I., Lynch, K., Oslin, D., & Murphy, S.A. (2012). Using Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART) Designs to Build Individualized Treatment Sequences. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 8, 21-48.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Bamberger, P.A. (2011). The Buffering Effect of Social Support on Stressor-Strain Relations: The Conditioning Effects of Perceived Reciprocity Patterns. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 114, 49-63.
Nahum-Shani, I., Bamberger, P.A., & Bacharach, S.B. (2011). Social Support and Well-Being among Blue Collar Workers: The Conditioning Effects of Perceived Patterns of Supportive Exchange. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 52, 123-139.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Somech, A. (2011). Leadership, OCB and Individual Differences: Idiocentrism and Allocentrism as Moderators of the Relationship between Transformational and Transactional Leadership and OCB. Leadership Quarterly, 22, 353-366.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Bamberger, P.A. (2011). Work Hours, Retirement and Supportive Relations among Older Adults. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32, 345-369.
Cohen, A. Nahum-Shani, I., & Doveh, E. (2010). Further Insight and Additional Inference Methods for Polynomial Regression Applied to the Analysis of Congruence. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 45, 828-852.
Cohen. A., Doveh, E., & Nahum-Shani, I. (2009). Testing agreement for multi-item scales with indices rwg(J) and ADM(J). Organizational Research Methods, 12, 148-164.
Bamberger, P., Kohn, E., & Nahum-Shani, I. (2008). Aversive Workplace Conditions and Employee Grievance Filing: The Moderating Effects of Gender and Ethnicity. Industrial Relations, 47, 229-260.

Book Chapters

Qian, M., Nahum-Shani, I., & Murphy, S. (2013). Dynamic treatment regimes, In Modern Clinical Trial Analysis , edited by X. Tu and W. Tang, Springer Science (pp. 127-148).
Nahum-Shani, I., Xi, L., Henderson, M.M., & Murphy, S.A. (2012) Innovative experimental design for developing effective technology-supported help-seeking interventions. Book chapter to appear in S.A. Karabenick and M. Puustinen (Eds). Advances in Help Seeking Research and Applications: The Role of Information and Communication Technologies.
Dallery, J., Riley, W.T., & Nahum-Shani, I. Research Designs to Develop and Evaluate Technology-Based Health Behavior Interventions. Book Chapter to appear in: Lisa Marsch, Sarah Lord, and Jesse Dallery (Eds). Leveraging Technology to Transform Behavioral Healthcare. Oxford University Press

Manuscripts under Review or In Progress

Nahum-Shani, I., Bamberger, P.A., Bacharach, S.B., & Doveh, E. Explaining the varying effects of retirement on alcohol consumption: The role of unit-level drinking norms and stress climate.
Nahum-Shani, I., Dziak, J.J., Collins, L.M. Multi-level factorial designs: When clustering is generated by experimental conditions.
Vinokur, A.D., Nahum-Shani, I., & Shirom, A. Job involvement and organizational commitment as moderators of the relationship between job burnout and depressive symptoms.
Nahum-Shani, I., Vinokur, A.D., & Howe, G. Social undermining and reemployment: The buffering and exacerbating effects of patterns of supportive exchanges.
Nahum-Shani, I., Bamberger, P.A., Bacharach, S.B., & Doveh, E. When the honeymoon is over: Retirement and changes in psychological distress and supportive relations.

Presentations

Nahum-Shani, I., Bamberger, P.A., Bacharach, S.B., & Doveh, E. Explaining the Varying Effects of Retirement on Alcohol Consumption: The Role of Unit-level Drinking Norms and Stress Climate. Presented as part of the symposium on work transitions and mental health throughout the work life course. Work, Stress, and Health Meeting: Protecting and Promoting Total Worker Health, May 2013; Los Angeles, CA.
Nahum-Shani, I., Henderson, M.M., Lim, S., & Vinokur, A.D. Supervisor Support: Does it buffer or exacerbate the adverse effect of supervisor undermining. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL; August 2013.
Nahum-Shani, I. Designing work-based brief interventions for at-risk drinking: The SMART way. Research project presented at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; February 2013.
Nahum-Shani, I. Supervisor support: Does it buffer or exacerbate the adverse effects of supervisor undermining? Seminar presented at the Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech; January, 2013.
Nahum-Shani, I. Supervisor support: Does it buffer or exacerbate the adverse effects of supervisor undermining? Paper presented at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI; November 2012.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Bamberger, P.A., Bacharach, S.B., & Doveh, E. Explaining the varying effects of retirement on alcohol consumption: The role of unit-level drinking norms and stress climate. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2012.
Dziak, J., Nahum-Shani, I., & Collins, L. Multilevel Factorial Experiments: Power and Conceptual Considerations. Paper presented at the Society for Prevention Research 20th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, May 2012.
Nahum-Shani, I. Adaptive Interventions Utilizing Mobile Health Technologies. Whitepaper accepted to the mHealth Evidence Workshop, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD, August 2011.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Somech, A. Leadership, OCB and Individual Differences: Idiocentrism and Allocentrism as Moderators. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2010.
Nahum-Shani, I., Qian, M., Pelham, W.E., Gnagy, B., Fabiano, G., Waxmonsky, J., Yu, J., & Murphy, S.A. Q-Learning: A Data Analysis Method for Constructing Adaptive Interventions. Paper presented at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2010.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Bamberger, P.A. Work Hours, Retirement and Supportive Relations among Older Adults. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2009.
Nahum-Shani, I. Dissertation Award winners session: Invited talk at the HR Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 2008.
Nahum-Shani, I. Hours worked and their positioning during the day: Effects on support availability from work, family and non-work friends. Invited talk, HR Dissertation award winners' paper session, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 2008.
Nahum-Shani, I., & Bamberger, P.A., Temporal workplace demands and the Buffering Effect of Social Support: The Conditioning role of perceived reciprocity patterns". Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 2008.
Nahum-Shani, I., Doveh, E., Bamberger, P.A., & Bacharach, S.B. Moderated mediation in multilevel models: The case of involvement in traumatic events. Poster presentation at the 4th conference of the EMR - International Biometric Society. January, 2007.
Bacharach, S.B., Bamberger, P.A., & Nahum-Shani, I. Hours, shifts and supportive relations: Resource mobilization and the link between temporal workplace demands and social support. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2007.

Teaching/Training/Workshops

2014 Summer Institute on Innovative Methods
Experimental Design and Analysis Methods for Developing Adaptive Interventions: Getting SMART, Instructor
The overarching goals of this two-day workshop are to
(a) provide an introduction to adaptive interventions;
(b) help participants gain the background needed to plan a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART);
(c) help participants learn how to implement data analytic methods with SMART study data to construct adaptive interventions.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI June 19-20 2014
Funded by NIH/NIDA, The Methodology Center at PSU

Methods for Just In Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs), Instructor
Workshop for discussing conceptual and methodological issues in optimizing JITAIs
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI August 16 2013
Funded by SRC/ISR, NIH/NIDA, Mcubed

Quantitative Methodology Program Seminar, Coordinator/Instructor
Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Advanced Regression Analysis workshop, Organizer/Speaker
The international summer workshop series in advanced research methods
Recanati School of Business, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Part of CARMA: Research Methods Education for the Global Classroom

Experimental Designs for Developing mHealth Interventions. Speaker
NIH/OBSSR online mHealth training.
July 2014

From SMART to Just In Time Adaptive Interventions. Speaker
NIH Workshop on Innovative Study Designs and Methods for Developing, Testing and Implementing Behavioral Interventions.
Bethesda, MD; April 2014

Pre-Meeting Conference Workshop on the Design and Conduct of Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials. Speaker
Society for Clinical Trials Meeting
Philadelphia, PA; May 2014

mHealth Research methods and Design.. Instructor
NIH/OBSSR brief mHealth training (online)
Bethesda, MD; March 2014

Research Methodology for mHealth. Instructor
NIH/OBSSR mHealth training workshop
Washington DC; December 2013

On MOST, SMART and Factorial Designs. Speaker
Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Dartmouth College, November 2013

On MOST, SMART and Factorial Designs. Speaker
NIH/NIDA Division of Clinical Neuroscience & Behavioral Research (DCNBR)
Meeting on Overcoming Barriers and Making Adolescent Drug Abuse Treatment More Community
Bethesda, MD, June 2013

Being SMART about adapting interventions: An introduction to Adaptive Interventions and SMART designs. Speaker
Pre-conference workshop on Tobacco Use Treatment Development: Challenges, Opportunities, & New Methods
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco's Annual Meeting
March, 2013

Optimizing technology-based interventions: The SMART experimental approach. Presenter
Stanford Prevention Research Center Seminar
Stanford University School of Medicine
January 2013

Q-learning: A data analysis method for developing behavioral interventions. Presenter
Department of Psychology Seminar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dec, 2012

MHealth research and experimental designs: Beyond randomized control trials. Instructor
NIH/mHealth 2012 training
Washington DC; November 2012

Experimental Designs for Intervention Development. Speaker
National Strategic Summit on creating a roadmap for physical activity, lifestyle and comparative effectiveness research
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ, October 2012

Experimental Designs for Intervention Development. Speaker
NIH SOBC: Meeting on Use-Inspired Basic Research
Bethesda, MD, October 2012