Jacob Levy

Research statement

My research program involves the study of practical applications of personality assessment with multicultural populations. One branch of this program involves in-depth analyses of the practical applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory in a university counseling center setting. The second branch of the program involves the assessment of “normal” personality traits utilizing the Five Factor Model of Personality. I am particularly interested in applications of this model to aid the prediction of performance related stress in various groups including musicians, athletes, and business people. My program is currently evolving to include studies of performance enhancement interventions with diverse gifted and talented populations. 

Honors

• 2004 Recipient of the Mensa Educational & Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research

Grants

• American Psychological Association CEMRRAT Grant for Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training (2004). [co-PI]
  

Selected Publications

Ferguson, T.M., Leach, M.M., Levy, J.J., Nicholson, B.C., & Johnson, J.D. (in press).
Influences on counselor race preferences: Distinguishing black racial attitudes from black racial identity. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.

Levy, J.J., & Plucker, J.A. (in press). A multicultural competence model for
counseling gifted and talented children. Journal of School Counseling.

Pseekos, A.C., Dahlen, E.R., Levy, J.J. (in press). Development of the Academic
Stereotype Threat Inventory. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development.

Leach, M.M., Levy, J.J., & Denton, L.C. (2007). Variant use of religious beliefs to
justify social attitudes. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 17, pp. 197-220.

Leong, F.T.L., Levy, J.J., Gee, C., & Johnson, J. (2007). Clinical assessment of ethnic
minority children and adolescents. In S.R. Smith, & L. Handler (Eds.) The clinical
assessment of children and adolescents: A practitioner’s handbook.. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc.

Levy, J.J. (2007). Personality Assessment Inventory. In N.J. Salkind (Ed.),
Encyclopedia of measurement & statistics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Levy, J.J. (2007). Personality tests. In N.J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of
measurement & statistics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lounsbury, J.W., Levy, J.J., Leong, F.T.L., & Gibson, L.W. (2007). Identity and
personality: The Big Five and narrow traits in relation to sense of identity. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 7, 51-70.

Levy, J.J. (2006). The SAT. In Y. Jackson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of multicultural
psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lounsbury, J.W., Levy, J.J., Saudargus, R.A., & Gibson, L.W. (2006). Big Five
personality traits and outcomes for first-year college students. Journal of College Orientation and Transition, 14, 62-70.

Levy, J.J., Thompson-Leonardelli, K., Smith, N.G., Coleman, M.N. (2005). Attrition
after intake at a university counseling center: Relationship among client race, presenting concern, and time on a waiting list. Journal of College Counseling, 8, 106-115.

Levy, J.J. (2004). Book Review: Acculturation: Advances in theory, measurement,
and applied research. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 17, 135-136.

Levy, J.J., & Plucker, J.A. (2003). Assessing the psychological presentation of gifted
and talented clients: A multicultural perspective. Counselling Psychology
Quarterly, 16, 229-247.

Plucker, J.A., & Levy, J.J. (2001). The downside to being talented [Comment]. American Psychologist, 56, 75-76.

Jacob Levy

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University (2002)

Email: jlevy4@utk.edu
Phone: 865-974-4866

Key words: Counseling Psychology, multicultural assessment