Israel Sánchez-Cardona
Israel Sánchez-Cardona earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Puerto
Rico, Río Piedras Campus (San Juan, PR) and a Ph.D. in work and organizational psychology
from the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón de la Plana, Spain). His research interests
are in the domain of occupational health psychology and well-being applied to organizational
and academic contexts. In his research, Dr. Sánchez-Cardona has explored how job resources
and personal resources are linked to workers' mental health and well-being (e.g.,
stress, work engagement, job boredom, positive affect). Dr. Sánchez-Cardona is particularly
interested in identifying antecedents and mechanisms, such as psychological capital,
meaning, strength use, engagement, job crafting, and resilience, to design and implement
intervention activities. He was associate editor of the Revista Puertorriqueña de
Psicología [Puerto Rican Journal of Psychology] (2015-2020) and serves on various
editorial boards. In 2019, he was awarded the Mentor of the Year award by the Puerto
Rico Psychological Association. Before joining KSU, Dr. Sánchez-Cardona worked as
an assistant professor at the I/O psychology graduate program at the University of
Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, associate professor at the Ph.D. Clinical Psychology
Program at Albizu University (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and post-doctoral research fellow
at Universitat Jaume I (Spain).