About this episode

Lisa Woodruff shares her dissertation findings on prospective memory and invisible family load in women after completing her PhD.

I did it! We did it! Did you hear in the intro when I introduced myself as DOCTOR Lisa Woodruff? I have completed the dissertation for my PhD in Applied Psychology and feel compelled to share it with all of you. I cannot say Thank You enough for all the emails, suggestions, and encouragement. The Dissertation Here is the dissertation I delivered celebrating the work I have completed. I proposed the question "How do prospective memory and invisible family load interact with worry in women?" Prospective memory is remembering anything that you need to do in the future. I had three hypotheses to dissect this question further. There were 379 panelists. In this episode, I shared what my hypothesis was and the results. The future I just see everyone so overwhelmed with either poor systems or no systems to support the invisible load of the household manager. At work and school there are systems in place that keep those organizations running smoothly. I wanted to get this PhD to have a seat at the academic table and do more research to create systems for the household manager that will live long beyond my presence on Earth. This study was a great starting point. Just like other studies…

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Woodruff

Topics covered

• dissertation
• applied psychology
• prospective memory
• household management
• research
• women's issues

Keywords

• dissertation
• PhD
• prospective memory
• invisible family load
• household manager
• research
• women
• worry

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lisa's Dissertation Presentation, PhD in Applied Psychology

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