Regional Representatives
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Central and South AfricaAlmon Shumba, PhD., Zimbabwe, Term: 2010-2014 Dr. Shumba is Research Professor at the Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa. He specializes in Educational Psychology, and has research interests in child abuse, child rights, corporal punishment, child acceptance-rejection by parents and teachers, sexuality education, HIV/AIDS, brain drain, self-concept, poverty, school violence, and career counseling. He has published one book and over 48 articles and chapters in accredited journals and books. He is currently Consulting Editor of the Journal of Psychology in Africa, and The Nigerian Journal of Guidance and Counseling. In addition to serving as ISIPAR's Regional Representative for Central and South Africa, he is a member of several professional associations, including: The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN); the Southern African Society for Education (SASE); Kenya Association of Educational Administration and Management (KAEAM); International Association for Cognitive Eudcation in Southern Africa (IACESA); and the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology (IACEP). ashumba@cut.ac.za |
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East AsiaYun-Joo Chyung, Ph.D., South Korea, Term: 2010-2014 Dr. Chyung is Assistant Professor of Child Studies at the University of Incheon, Incheon, Korea. She serves as Regional representative of East Asia for the International Society of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. Her interests center on parental influences on psychological adjustment among children and adolescents. ychyung@incheon.ac.kr |
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EuropeTiia Tulviste, Ph.D., Estonia, Term: 2010-2014 Dr. Tulviste is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Tartu. Her main research interest is family and peer socialization in a comparative perspective. She is leading a cross-cultural research project dealing with family and peer interactions in Estonia, Germany, and Sweden. tiia.tulviste@sh.se |
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Insular Pacific and AustraliaRapson Gomez, Ph.D., Australia, Term: 2008-2012 Dr. Gomez is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Clinical Training in the School of Psychology at the University of Tasmania. His research and teaching interests include developmnental psychopathology, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, applications of structural equation models and item response theory models in construct validation of childhood psychological disorders, biological theories of personality (especially Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory) and their applications in psychopathology, social cognitions in children with and without psychopathology as well as infant attachment. rapson.gomez@utas.edu.au |
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Mexico, Central America, & The CaribbeanClaudia Alvarez, Ph.D., Puerto Rico,Term: 2008-2012 Dr. Alvarez is an Adjunct Professor currently teaching in the Department of Education in the Master's Program for Research and Evaluation in Education at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. Her research interests focus on interpersonal acceptance-rejection among partners as well as on instrument development and after-school programs. claualv@hotmail.com |
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North Africa & The Middle EastRamadan Ahmed, Ph.D., Kuwait, Term: 2008-2012 Dr. Ahmed is Professor of Psychology in the College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait. He has been interested in research on parental acceptance-rejection since 1985. He has conducted and supervised studies on the relation between perceived parental acceptance-rejection and variables such as development of moral judgment, phobias, identity disorders, critical thinking, perceptions of corporal (physical) punishment, neuroticism and aesthetic feelings, and the perceptions of teachers' acceptance-rejection. He has conducted a study on the reliability of the short and standard forms of the Arabic language versions of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire. Finally, he also investigated relations among best friends' acceptance, siblings' acceptance and teachers' acceptance in relation to personality disposition of Kuwaiti children. Dr. Ahmed received Egypt's State Incentive Award for Social Sciences (Psychology) in 1994, and in 2008 he was awarded the American Psychological Association's Outstanding International Psychologist Award for researchers outside the USA. ramadan-a-ahmed@hotmail.com |
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North AmericaWilliam Divale, Ph.D., U.S.A., Term: 2010-2014 Dr. Divale received his Doctorate from SUNY Buffalo in 1974. He is now professor of Anthropology at York College and the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program. He is also the current Past President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. Formerly, he was publisher of the journal World Cultures, and has held several NIH grants. His previous cross-cultural survey research has been on warfare, population control, and matrilocal residence. He and his students have conducted research on parental acceptance-rejection for the past 15 years in countries such as Finland, Romania, Colombia, Spain, and currently in Moldova among both the mentally ill and the general population. DivaleBill@aol.com |
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South AmericaKaren Ripoll-Núñez, Ph.D., Colombia, Term: 2010-2012 Dr. Ripoll-Núñez is Associate Professor at the University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia, South America. Her research interests include intimate adult relationships and corporal punishment in cross-cultural perspective. ripoll@uniandes.edu.co |
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South AsiaMah Nazir Riaz, Ph.D., Pakistan, Term: 2010-2014 Dr. Riaz is Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences, Frontier Women University Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Riaz received her Doctorate in Psychometrics from University of Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan (1979). Her academic career spans 40 years of University teaching. She has published more than 60 articles in national and international journals, is author of three textbooks, and has contributed chapters to edited books published in Pakistan and the USA. Dr. Riaz has conducted several studies on parental acceptance-rejection. Currently she is working as a team member of the International Father Acceptance-Rejection Project. mahnazir_riaz@hotmail.com |
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Southeast AsiaShamsul Haque, Ph.D., Malaysia, Term: 2008-2012 Dr. Haque is a Associate Professor and Director of Psychology at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, in Malaysia. He is a Cognitive Psychologist who earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Bristol, UK. He subsequently accepted two fellowships, one from Ford Asia Fellows Program and another from Asian Scholarhip Founation. These fellowships enabled him to conduct cross-cultural research on autobiographical memory and reminiscence effect in China, Malaysia, and the UK. His research in cognitive psychology includes the retrieval processes of autobiographical memory, cognitive determininants of self-harm, social rejection and mental performances, and the neuropsychology of autobiographical memory. He is currently running projects on the positivity effect in autobiographical memory, life-scripts for emotional events, and cognitive impairments following laboratory manipulated social rejection. shamsul@med.monash.edu.my |