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Catrina Notari

  • Position: Assistant Professor
  • Department: Psychology
  • Office Location: Building 41 | Office 214
  • cnotari@uwf.edu
  • Campus: 850.474.2363

Biography

Dr. Catrina Notari, assistant professor, teaches experimental and correlational statistics, personnel selection and appraisal, research design in psychology, organizational change and development, and industrial and organizational psychology, and plans to add a psychometrics course.

Notari is a researcher in the psychology department who studies job attitudes and their measurement in workplace settings, with a focus on improving how constructs such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and employee engagement are defined and assessed.

Her interest in this area developed during her graduate studies at Montclair State University, where she identified substantial conceptual and measurement overlap among job attitude constructs. Since then, Notari has conducted item-level analyses, factor analyses, and comparative meta-analyses to better distinguish these constructs. More recently, she has expanded this work to include the use of large language models (LLMs) and other advanced methods to analyze large-scale data and support the development of new, more precise measurement tools.

In addition to her work on job attitudes, Notari studies shared leadership and burnout, particularly in high-stress occupations. Her research on shared leadership examines perceptions of territoriality and role ownership, while her work on burnout focuses on employee well-being in demanding environments, including post-pandemic contexts.

Before joining UWF, she was an assistant professor of psychology at Elmhurst University, where she also directed a student-led consulting group that partnered with organizations on applied research and data-driven projects.

She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rutgers University. She holds a master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology and a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from Montclair State University.