Peter Caputi

BA (Hons) (UOW), Dip Math (UOW), PhD (Melb)

Position:

• Associate Professor

Research Interests:

• Quantitative Psychology
• Psychometrics
• Psychological factors determining adoption of new technology
• Personal construct psychology - theory and measurement

Research Groups:

• Illawarra Institute for Mental Health

Research Labs:

• Personal Construct Psychology Analysis and Research Lab

Recent Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Caputi, P. Foster, H & Viney, L. L. (appearing 2006). Personal Construct Psychology: New Ideas. Wiley Press.

Viney, L. L. & Caputi, P (2005). The Origin and Pawn, Positive Affect, Psychosocial Maturity and Cognitive Anxiety Content Analysis Scales: Using Them in Counselling Research. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 38(2).

Spence, G., Oades, L., & Caputi, P. (2004). Emotional intelligence and goal self-integration: Important predictors of emotional well-being? Personality and Individual Differences, 37(3), 449-461.

Smith, B & Caputi, P. (2004). The development of the Attitudes Towards Computerized Assessment Scale. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 31(4), 407-422.

Ciarrochi, J. V., Caputi, P., & Mayer, J. D. (2003). The distinctiveness and utility of a measure of trait emotional awareness. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 1477-1490.

Andresen, R., Oades, L, & Caputi, P. (2003). The Experience of Recovery from Schizophrenia: Towards an Empirically-Validated Stage Model. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 37(5), 586-594

Balnaves, M., & Caputi, P. (2001). An introduction to quantitative research methods: An investigative approach. Sage Publications. London.

Ciarrochi, J. V, Chan, A., Caputi, P & Roberts, R (2001). Measuring emotional intelligence. In J.V Ciarrochi, Forgas, J & Meyer, J. D. (Ed). Emotional intelligence in everyday life: A scientific inquiry. Psychological Press N.Y.

Interests:

• Cooking, reading murder mysteries and watching films from the 30's and 40's

Email: peter_caputi@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 4221 3717
Office: B41.129