Kate Dupré
Professor
- PhD (Queen’s)
- Email Kate Dupré
Research Interests
I am an organizational and occupational health psychologist interested in how people’s experiences with organizations, whether as employees, students, or members of the public, shape their well-being and their ability to thrive in their roles. I am particularly interested in groups whose experiences are often overlooked, and my research has examined students and young adults with disabilities and chronic illness, older workers, working mothers, and employees in demanding occupations such as policing. Across these groups, I am interested in what helps people feel supported and able to speak up, and how their experiences carry into their lives more broadly, including family relationships and parenting. Leadership is woven through this work. Leaders play a central role in creating organizations where people feel supported, and I am interested both in how leaders affect the well-being of those around them and in how the role affects leaders’ own psychological health. I look at both sides of people’s experiences with organizations: what can get in the way, such as incivility and exclusion, and what helps people thrive, such as support, mentorship, and having a voice. My lab uses a range of methods, including multi-wave surveys, dyadic studies with families, experiments, and qualitative interviews. Students in my lab are involved in all stages of the research process, from study design and data collection to analysis and writing, and work on questions with direct implications for how organizations can better support the people within them.
Sample Publications
Dionisi, A. M., Dupré, K. E., & Hodgins, A. (2026). “Oh my gosh, you’re too young to be sick!”: Unpacking the consequences of workplace mistreatment for young adults with disabilities. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000443
Sears, G. J., Han, Y., Martone, P., & Dupré, K. E. (2026). Exploring the nexus of leader dominance and prestige, trust and employee counterproductive work behaviors. Personnel Review, 55(2), 643–664. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2024-0960
Dionisi, A. M., Smith, C. J., & Dupré, K. E. (2023). Weathering the storm alone or together: Examining the impact of COVID-19 on sole and partnered working mothers. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(6), 2408–2429. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22829
Dionisi, A. M., & Dupré, K. E. (2023). Disrespectful colleagues, dysfunctional parenting: The effect of workplace incivility on parental attitudes, well-being and behaviours. Stress and Health, 39(4), 912–926. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3220
Smith, C. J., Dupré, K. E., & Dionisi, A. M. (2023). Sexual misconduct reporting: The silencing effects of hegemonic masculinity. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 42(3), 398–415. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-07-2022-0179
Lyubykh, Z., Dupré, K. E., Barling, J., & Turner, N. (2022). Retaliating against abusive supervision with aggression and violence: The moderating role of organizational intolerance of aggression. Work & Stress, 36(2), 164–182. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2021.1969478
Smith, C. J., Han, Y., Dupré, K. E., & Sears, G. J. (2022). Perceived organizational support and its interaction with voice on police officers’ organizational cynicism, stress and emotional exhaustion. Policing: An International Journal, 45(2), 200–217. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2021-0093
Tulk, C., Mantler, J., & Dupré, K. E. (2021). The impact of job accommodations on stereotyping and emotional responses to coworkers with anxiety or depression. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 53(2), 138–151. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000224