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Asst. Prof. Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Ph.D.

ผู้ช่วยศาสตราจารย์ ดร.วัชราภรณ์ บุญญศิริวัฒน์

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Contact Information

E-mail : watcharaporn.p@chula.ac.th

Phone: (662) 218-1187

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Social Psychology (University of Utah)

  • M.S. in Social Psychology (University of Utah)

  • M.A. in Social Psychology (Chulalongkorn University)

  • B.A. in Mass Communication (Chulalongkorn University)

Field of Expertise

  1. Personality and social psychology

  2. Health and well-being promotion

Research Interest Area

  1. Attitudes and persuasion to promote health-promoting and pro-environmental behaviors

  2. Positive psychology including dispositional optimism and positive moods (e.g., vigor at work)

  3. Intergroup relation context by examining prejudice and discriminations of Thais toward minorities

  4. Attitudes and persuasion to promote health-promoting and pro-environmental behaviors

  5. Positive psychology including dispositional optimism and positive moods (e.g., vigor at work)

  6. Intergroup relation context by examining prejudice and discriminations of Thais toward minorities

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles (Example) :

  • Steffen, L. E., Boucher, K. M., Damron, B. H., Pappas, L. M., Walters, S. T., Flores, K. G., … Kinney, A. Y. (2015). Efficacy of a Telehealth Intervention on Colonoscopy Uptake When Cost Is a Barrier: The Family CARE Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 24(9), 1311–1318. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0150 (SCOPUS)

  • Simmons, R. G., Walters, S. T., Pappas, L. M., Boucher, K. M., Boonyasiriwat, W., Gammon, A., … Kinney, A. Y. (2014). Implementation of Best Practices Regarding Treatment Fidelity in the Family Colorectal Cancer Awareness and Risk Education Randomized Controlled Trial. SAGE Open, 4(4). doi:10.1177/2158244014559021 (SCOPUS)

  • Kinney, A. Y., Boonyasiriwat, W., Walters, S. T., Pappas, L. M., Stroup, A. M., Schwartz, M. D., … Higginbotham, J. C. (2014). Telehealth Personalized Cancer Risk Communication to Motivate Colonoscopy in Relatives of Patients With Colorectal Cancer: The Family CARE Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 32(7), 654–662. doi:10.1200/jco.2013.51.6765 (SCOPUS)

  • Boonyasiriwat, W., Hung, M., Hon, S. D., Tang, P., Pappas, L. M., Burt, R. W., … Kinney, A. Y. (2013). Intention to Undergo Colonoscopy Screening Among Relatives of Colorectal Cancer Cases: a Theory-Based Model. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 47(3), 280–291. doi:10.1007/s12160-013-9562-y (SCOPUS)

  • Aspinwall, L.G., & Boonyasiriwat, W. (2012). Positive Psychology. In M.D. Gellman & J. R. Turner (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. New York: Springer.

  • Pengchit, W., Scott, T. W., Rebecca, G. S., Kohlman, W., Burt, R. W., Schwartz, M. D., & Kinney, A. Y.(2012). Motivation-based intervention to promote colonoscopy screening: An integration of a fear management model and motivational interviewing. Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 1187-1197.(SCOPUS)

  • Sritangratanakul, K., & Boonyasiriwat, W. (2015). Relationship Between Vigor and Job Performance: The Mediating Effects of Cognitive Flexibility, Coworker Support, Task Persistence, and Difficulty of Self-Set Goals. Journal of Behavioral Science for Development, 7 (1),  27-42. (TCI)

 

Presentations (Example) :

  • Pengchit, W., & Aspinwall, L. (2011, January). Not too scared to think carefully: Optimism fosters processing of persuasive messages regarding health risk. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

  • Boortz, L., Pengchit, W., Rebecca, G. S., Scott, T. W., Pappas, L., Boucher, K. M.,…Kinney, A. Y. (2010, December). Enhancing intervention fidelity in a randomized cancer risk counseling trial: Preliminary assessment of treatment integrity and behavior change counseling. Poster presented at the 4th National Conference on Genomics and Public Health, Bethesda, MD.

  • Pengchit, W. & White, P. H., (2009, January). The influences of message framing, dispositional optimism, and issue involvement on promoting cholesterol screening. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

  • Taephant, N., & Pengchit, W. (2004, December). Attachment styles, materialistic value, and attitudes toward students sexual behaviors of university students in Bangkok. Research presented at the 2004 Conference of East West Psychological Science Research Center, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

 

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