Douglas MacDonald
School: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Bio:
Douglas MacDonald received his Ph.D.in Clinical Psychology from the University of Windsor.
Dr. MacDonald is a full-time faculty member at the University of Detroit Mercy and a licensed professional psychologist in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Areas of research and teaching interest include transpersonal psychology; the conceptualization and measurement of spirituality and exploration of its relation to psychological, physical, and social functioning; non-ordinary states of consciousness and their use in facilitating health; personality theory; clinical assessment, psychometrics and testing, research methods, psychotherapy, history and systems of psychology and developmental psychology. Some of his recent publications include the following:
Affeldt, D. L. & MacDonald, D. A. (2010). The relationship of spirituality to work and organizational attitudes and behaviors in a sample of employees from a health care system. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 42(2), 192-208.
Gauci, M. A., & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 21, 321-330.
Huber, J. T. & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). An investigation of the relation between altruism, empathy, and spirituality. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 52(2), 206-221.
Kassab, V., & MacDonald, D. A. (2011). Examination of the psychometric properties of the Spiritual Fitness Assessment. Journal of Religion and Health. 50(4), 975-985. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-010-9325-z
MacDonald, D. A. (2009). Identity and Spirituality: Conventional and transpersonal perspectives. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 28, 86-106.
MacDonald, D. A. (2011). Spiritual identity: Individual approaches. In S. J. Schwartz, K. Luyckx, & V. L. Vignoles, (Eds).Handbook of Identity Theory and Research, Vol. 2- Domains and Categories (pp. 531-544). New York: Springer.
MacDonald, D. A. (2011). Studying spirituality scientifically: Reflections, considerations, and recommendations. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 8(3) 195-210.
MacDonald, D. A., & Friedman, H. L. (2009). Measures of spiritual and transpersonal constructs for use in yoga research. International Journal of Yoga, 2(1), 2-12
Mendez, D. M, & MacDonald, D. A. (in press, 2012). Spirituality and the MMPI-2 Restructured
Clinical Scales. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies.
Migdal, L., & MacDonald, D. A. (in press, 2012). Clarifying the relation between spirituality and well-being. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Sheridan, B., MacDonald, D. A., Donlon, M., Kuhn, B., Friedman, H., & McGovern, K. (2011). Evaluation of a social learning theory based social skills program implemented in a school setting. Psychological Reports, 108(2), 420-436.
Ventimiglia, M., & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). An examination of the factorial dimensionality of the Marlowe Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Personality and Individual Differences 52, 487-491.
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