Michael Chmielewski
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2012

TEL 214.768.3493
EMAILmchmielewski(add @smu.edu to all email addresses)
OFFICE 311B Hyer Hall
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My program of research broadly covers psychopathology and normal-range personality with an emphasis on structure and assessment in both domains. I am interested in how psychopathology and personality relate to each other as well as how to best conceptualize and classify both domains (e.g. is psychopathology dimensional or categorical in nature? How valid and reliable are DSM diagnosis?). As such, my research is based on a strong measurement foundation and the use of empirically based quantitative models, both of which I view as essential for the continued advancement of psychology as a science. One of the long term goals of my research is to expand recent quantitative models of psychopathology (i.e. the Internalizing/Externalizing model) incorporating excluded diagnoses and integrating them with normal-range personality traits.

Within this broad research framework I also have several specific lines of research in psychopathology (schizotypy, depression/anxiety, and personality disorders), assessment (e.g. scale and measure creation, measurement error), and personality (e.g. personality stability and change).

Stasik, S. M., Naragon-Gainey, K., Chmielewski, M., Watson, D. (in-press). Core OCD Symptoms: Exploration of specificity and relations with psychopathology. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

Chmielewski, M., Bagby, M. R., Quilty, L. C., Paxton, R., & McGee S. A. (2011). A (re)-evaluation of the symptom structure of borderline personality disorder. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56, 530-539.

Gamez, W., Chmielewski, M., Kotov, R., Ruggero, C., & Watson, D. (2011). Development of a measure of experiential avoidance: The multidimensional experiential avoidance questionnaire (MEAQ). Psychological Assessment, 23, 692-713.

Markon, K. E., Chmielewski, M., & Miller, C. J. (2011). The reliability and validity of discrete and continuous measures of psychopathology: A quantitative review. Psychological Bulletin. 137, 856-879.

Chmielewski, M., & Watson, D. (2009). What is being assessed and why it matters: The influence of transient error on trait research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 186-202.

Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Chmielewski, M. (2008). Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology: II. Further articulation of a comprehensive unified trait structure. Journal of Personality, 76, 1545-1586.

Watson, D., O’Hara, M. W., Chmielewski, M., McDade-Montez, E. A., Koffel, E., Naragon, K., & Stuart, S. (2008). Further validation of the IDAS: Evidence of convergent, discriminant, and criterion validity. Psychological Assessment, 20, 248-259.

Chmielewski, M., & Watson, D. (2008). The heterogeneous structure of schizotypal personality disorder: Item-level factors of the schizotypal personality questionnaire and their associations with OCD symptoms, dissociative tendencies, and normal personality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 364-376.

Watson, D., O’Hara, M. W., Simms, L. J., Kotov, R., Chmielewski, M., McDade-Montez, E. A., Gamez, W., & Stuart, S. (2007). Development and validation of the inventory of depression and anxiety symptoms (IDAS). Psychological Assessment, 19 (3), 253-268.