Position Title
Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota
- M.A., Psychology, California State University, Fullerton
- B.A., Psychology, California State University, Fullerton
About
In addition to her academic appointment, Shelley Blozis is an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Mind and Brain. From 2016-2022 she served as the Senior Statistical Editor and Senior Associate Editor of Health Psychology and consulting editor for Psychological Methods. She served as an associate editor of the Dictionary of Statistics and Research Methods in Psychology for the American Psychological Association. She is currently Chair of the UC Davis Olive Center.
Research Focus
Professor Blozis carries out research on the extensions and applications of statistical methods for clustered, repeated measures and longitudinal data. In addition to methodological work, she has developed a program of research based on health and social psychology. This has generated a line of research in collaboration with colleagues working in areas such as adolescent health, well-being, chronic illness, well as health education and preventative medicine, health psychology, animal behavior and nursing.
Lab
Longitudinal and Missing Data Methods
Publications
Harrison, T. C., Blozis, S. A., Becker, H. A., & Stuifbergen, A. M. (2023). The impact of gender, aging and multiple sclerosis diagnosis on function: A longitudinal study. Nursing Research, 72(4), 281-291. DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000656
Blozis, S. A., & Harring, J. R. (2016). On the estimation of nonlinear mixed-effects models and latent curve models for longitudinal data. Structural Equation Modeling, 23(6), 904-920.
Teaching
Professor Blozis teaches courses in multilevel modeling and methods for analyzing longitudinal data and handling missing data.
Awards
Professor Blozis has received a number of awards throughout her career. In 2004, she received Faculty Travel Awards from the University of California, Davis, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1999, she won the Faculty Research Award from the University Research Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and a Travel Award from the Institute for Science Education in Kiel, Germany. She has also been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institutes of Health.