Texas Tech University

Mozhgan Rezvani Shakib, PhD Student

Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant
Human Development and Family Sciences

Email: mozhgan.rezvani@ttu.edu

BIO: I am currently pursuing my PhD in Human Development and Family Sciences at Texas Tech University, focusing on partner relationships, long-term relationships, and disillusionment. With a solid academic foundation, including a B.S. in Psychology from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and an M.S. in Clinical Family Psychology from Shahid Beheshti University, I have refined my research on relationship stability, intimate relationships, and loneliness in close relationships. In addition to my research work, I serve as a Teaching Assistant at Texas Tech University, where I support undergraduate courses in Human Development and Family Sciences. I am a research assistant in the SMITTEN Lab, where I explore idealization and disillusionment in partner relationships. As a passionate researcher, I aim to contribute to the field by deepening our understanding of how relationship satisfaction evolves over time and the impact of disillusionment on long-term partnerships.

Advisor: Professor Sylvia Niehuis
MOZHGAN REZVANI SHAKIB, PHD STUDENT

Education

Doctorate (in progress), Human Development and Family Sciences, Texas Tech University, USA

M.S., Clinical Family Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

B.S., Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Research Interests

  • Close relationships
  • Intimate partner relationships
  • Long-term relationships and marriage
  • Disillusionment in relationships and divorce ideation
  • Marital satisfaction

Grant

Awarded TTU Scholarship Catalyst Program Grant [Niehuis, S. (PI), Reifman, A. (Co-PI), & Rezvani, M. (I). Disillusionment and brink of divorce qualitative study. TTU Scholarship Catalyst Program, Vice President of Research Office, Texas Tech University. Funded for FY 2025 at $4,000.]

Publications (published and in prep.)

Dover, C., Reifman, A., Rezvani Shakib, M., Pickett, A., Oldham, C. R., & Niehuis, S. (under review). Shortening the Relationship Disillusionment Scale to a three-item measure (RDS-3). Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences.

Rezvani Shakib, M., Niehuis, S., Willis-Grossmann, E. (in prep.). Married individuals’ lived experience of loneliness in intimate relationships: A phenomenological study.

Reifman, A., Niehuis, S., Dover, C., Rezvani Shakib, M., Gendron, S., & Willis-Grossmann, E. (in prep.). Studying responses to partners’ infidelity using a modified forgiveness inventory: Links to severity judgments, disaffection, distancing, and disillusionment.

Rezvani Shakib, M. (2024). Exploring the link between personality traits and relationship satisfaction. The First International Conference on New Researches in Management, Law, Humanities, and Entrepreneurship, Stockholm, Sweden. https://civilica.com/doc/2155318

Rezvani Shakib, M., & Abdekhodaei, Z. (2021). توصیف و مقایسه تجربه میان‌‌سالان از همه‌‌گیری کووید-۱۹ و شرایط قرنطینه در پیک نخست و دوم بیماری: یک مطالعه کیفی [Description and comparison of middle-aged people's experience of the COVID-19 epidemic and quarantine conditions in the first and second peaks of the disease: A qualitative study]. Research in Psychological Health, 14(4), 66-68. [In Persian]

Okati, N., Pishkari, N., Rezvani Shakib, M., & Abdekhodaei, Z. (2020). راهبردهای مقابله‌ای در دوران شیوع ویروس کووید-۱۹ در سه گروه نوجوانان، جوانان و میان‌سالان [Coping strategies during the outbreak of COVID-19 virus in three groups of adolescents, young, and middle-aged]. The First National Congress of University and COVID, Tehran, Iran. [In Persian]

Okati, N., Rezvani Shakib, M., Asghari Nekah, S. M., & Sadeghi Baygi, M. (2018). بررسی نقش خودکارآمدی و سبک فرزندپروری مادران به عنوان پیش‌بینی‌کننده اضطراب در کودکان پیش‌دبستانی [Investigating the role of self-efficacy and parenting style of mothers as predictors of anxiety in preschool children]. Journal of Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, 6(4), 57-64. [In Persian]