Ben J. Searle, Ph.D., has published over 50 works. Most of these are peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals describing his research on work and wellbeing.
This list is a brief sample of some of his publications.
Searle, B. J. (2025). Experiences of burnout 2025: Preliminary results report 1/2. [link to the report].
Raper, M., Searle, B. J., & Tuckey, M. R. (2024). Cognitive appraisal. In Cooper, C., Brough, P., & Anderson, V. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Occupational Health Psychology, pp. 21-23. Elgar. [link]
Searle, B. J., Tuckey, M. R., & Brough, P. (2022). Guest editorial: Are challenges hindering us? Limitations of models that categorize work stressors. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 37, 397-403. [link]
Delle, E., & Searle, B. J. (2022). Career adaptability: The role of developmental leadership and career optimism. Journal of Career Development, 49(2), 269-281. [link]
Jansen, A. E., & Searle, B. J. (2021). Diverse effects of team diversity: a review and framework of surface and deep-level diversity. Personnel Review, 50(9), 1838-1853. [link]
Espedido, A., & Searle, B. J. (2021). Proactivity, stress appraisals, and problem-solving: A cross-level moderated mediation model. Work and Stress, 35(2), 132-152. [link]
Espedido, A., Searle, B. J., & Griffin, B. (2020). Peers, proactivity, and problem-solving: A multilevel study of team impacts on stress appraisals of problem-solving demands. Work and Stress, 34, 219-237. [link]
Espedido, A., & Searle, B. J. (2020). Daily proactive problem-solving and next day stress appraisals: The moderating role of behavioral activation. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 33(4), 416-428.
Crane, M., Searle, B. J., & Kangas, M. (2019). How resilience is strengthened by exposure to stressors: The systematic self-reflection model of strengthening resilience. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 32, 1-17.
Espedido, A., & Searle, B. J. (2018). Goal difficulty and creative performance: The mediating role of stress appraisal. Human Performance, 31, 179-196. [link]
Searle, B. J. (2017). How work design can enhance or erode employee resilience. In M. F. Crane (Ed) Managing for Resilience, pp. 103-116. Taylor & Francis.
Searle, B. J., & Tuckey, M. R. (2017). Differentiating challenge, hindrance, and threat in the stress process. In M. P. Leiter & C. L. Cooper (Eds) Routledge Companion to Wellbeing at Work (pp. 25-36). New York, NY: Routledge.
Crane, M., & Searle, B. J. (2016). Building resilience through exposure to stressors: The effects of challenges versus hindrances. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 21, 468-479.
Searle, B. J., & Auton, J. C. (2015). The merits of measuring challenge and hindrance appraisals. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 28, 121-143.
Tuckey, M. R., Searle, B. J., Boyd, C. M., Winefield, A. H., & Winefield, H. R. (2015). Hindrances are not threats: Advancing the multi-dimensionality of work stress. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 20, 131-147.
Searle, B. J., & Lee, L. (2015). Proactive coping as a personal resource in the expanded Job Demands-Resources Model. International Journal of Stress Management, 22, 46-69.
Searle, B. J., & Parker, S. K. (2013). Work design and happiness: An active, reciprocal perspective. In S. A. David, I. Boniwell, & A. Conley Ayers (Eds) Oxford Handbook of Happiness, pp. 711-732. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Searle, B. J., & Rooney, J. (2013). Proactivity at work: A path to organisational sustainability. In G. Avery & B. Hughes (Eds), Fresh Thoughts in Sustainable Leadership, pp. 84-96. Melbourne: Tilde University Press.
Searle, B. J. (2013). Motivation and job design. In A. Sarris (Ed), Organisational Psychology: Research and Professional Practice, pp. 192-218. Melbourne: Tilde University Press.
Searle, B. J. (2012). Detachment from work in airport hotels: Issues for pilot recovery. Aviation Psychology & Applied Human Factors, 2, 20-24.
Searle, B. J. (2008). Does personal initiative training work as a stress management intervention? Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 13, 259-270.