Margaret Nauta
Professor
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
PSY 110.003 Fundamentals Of Psychology
PSY 290.031 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
PSY 291.031 Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching
PSY 465.001 Vocational Counseling
Teaching Interests & Areas
Fundamentals of Psychology; Vocational Counseling; Group Psychotherapy and Counseling
Research Interests & Areas
Social and Cognitive Influences on Career Choice and Development; Academic and Professional Role Model Influences; Women's Career Development
Ph D Psychology (Counseling)
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
MS Psychology
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
BS Liberal Arts and Sciences (Psychology)
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Outstanding University Teacher Award
Illinois State University
2009
Outstanding College Teacher Award (social sciences)
Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences
2007
Teaching Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2002
Teaching Excellence Award
Iowa State University Graduate College
1997
Book Review
Review of John L. Holland’s Autobiography
Margaret Nauta.
(2022), Essays Celebrating John L. Holland’s Autobiography and Contributions to Career Theory, Research, and Practice: A Festschrift, Florida State Open Publishing
Book, Chapter
Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice and Adjustment
Margaret M. Nauta.
(2020), 61-93, Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work, Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Holland's Theory of Career Choice: Matching Personalities and Environments
Margaret Nauta.
(2019), 261-269, Career Theory and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice, CERIC
Holland's theory of vocational choice and adjustment
Margaret Nauta.
(2013), 55-88, Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work, Wiley
Career Planning survey
Margaret Nauta.
(2009), 107-111, A counselor's guide to career assessment instruments, National Career Development Association
Presentations
Affect Frequency and Intensity as Determinants of Academic Major Satisfaction
Margaret Nauta, Cory A. Tyler.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2025
Trait and Situational Affect as Determinants of Academic Major Satisfaction
Margaret Nauta.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2024
Affect and Outcome Expectations as Determinants of Academic Major Satisfaction
Margaret Nauta, Kathryn L Skoog, Audrey J Strain, Karolina Wierzbicka.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 22, 2023
Associations Among Career Exploration Self-Efficacy, Exploratory Actions, and Decisional Outcomes
Margaret Nauta.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 23, 2022
A Diathesis-Stress Model Predicting Student Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
Namah Vyakarnam, Margaret M. Nauta.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 23, 2021
Interpersonal influences and major nontraditionality as predictors of women's leadership aspirations
Jennifer L. Yeoward, Margaret Nauta.
127th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2019
Career Indecision Profile-65 Scores’ Measurement Equivalence in College and Non-College Samples
Margaret Nauta, Casey J. Zobell, Matthew Hesson-McInnis.
Great Lakes Regional Counseling Psychology Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, April 13, 2018
College students' health, work volition, and short-term career outcomes
Lauren M. Bouchard, Margaret Nauta.
125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August 4, 2017
The Association of Health Symptoms and Cognitions with Work Volition
Lauren M. Bouchard, Margaret Nauta.
125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August 3, 2017
Evaluating the Efficacy of the Missouri Occupational Card Sort
Margaret Nauta.
American Psychological Association, Denver, CO, August 4, 2016
CIP-65 scores: Psychometric properties and relationship to maximizing tendency
Casey J Zobell, Margaret Nauta.
29th Annual Great Lakes Regional Counseling Psychology Conference, Bloomington, IN, April 9, 2016
Factors influencing the major satisfaction and leadership aspirations of men and women in traditional and nontraditional fields
Jennifer L Yeoward, Margaret Nauta.
85th Annual Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference, Anderson, IN, October 12, 2014
Leadership aspirations among students in traditional and non-traditional fields
Margaret Nauta, Ashley K Niemczyk.
122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 15, 2014
Co-worker conflict in cross-cultural settings: The moderating effect of harmony
Cong Liu, Raja S Kainth, S T Gebhardt, Liu-Qin Yang, Margaret Nauta, Paul E spector.
29th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, Honolulu, HI, May 15, 2014
The associations between religious or Greek organization membership and college students' self-perceptions of loneliness, connectedness, and purpose
Gina M Paxon, Margaret Nauta.
6th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology preconference on Psychology of Religion-Spirituality, Austin, TX, February 15, 2014
Be mindful of what you impose on your colleagues: Social burden in the workplace
Liu-Qin Yang, Cong Liu, Margaret Nauta, David E Caughlin, Paul E Spector.
Biannual Conference of Work, Stress, and Health, Los Angeles, CA, May 15, 2013
Role models, self-efficacy, and women's entrepreneurial interests
Margaret Nauta, Michelle J Austin.
120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL, August 15, 2012
Sexism as a predictor of attitudes toward women in combat
Lauren M Young, Margaret Nauta, Mark Swerdlik.
120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL, August 15, 2012
Core self-evaluation and the relations between workplace conflict and withdrawal
N Pfeiffer, Cong Liu, Margaret Nauta, J Fan.
27th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA, April 15, 2012
The relation between procedural injustice and conflict with supervisor
Cong Liu, Liu-Qin Yang, Margaret Nauta, S I Khan, C Shahani-Denning.
27th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA, April 15, 2012