Because we have broadened the scope of the organization in recent years, the STAR Board has appointed the following national representatives to acquaint colleagues in their respective countries with our organization. Please feel free to contact your national representative, the President or the Secretary if you have ideas on how to recruit new members into the organization. If your country does not have a national representative and you would like to suggest someone (including yourself), please contact the STAR President.
The term of a national representative is three years, renewable if agreed upon. The primary role of a national representative is to enhance STAR’s visibility through:
- Announcement of the “Call for papers” for the STAR annual meetings in Newsletters, Journals, etc.
- Recruitment of new members who are doing research in the areas of stress, anxiety and coping,
- Reporting on your activities as national representatives at the annual STAR conference,
- Distribution of STAR information materials.
National representatives receive multiple copies of the STAR brochure, membership application forms, and annual meeting pamphlets on a regular basis. However, due to budgetary limitations, STAR cannot reimburse national representatives for mailings, advertisements, etc. Hopefully, local universities will be willing to underwrite these expenses.
The current national representatives are
| Argentina | Nora B. Leibovich, University of Buenos Aires |
| Australia | Kate Moore, Federation University Australia |
| Austria | Anton Laireiter, Universität Salzburg |
| Belgium | Alexandre Heeren, Université Catholique de Louvain |
| Brasil | Claus Dieter Stobaus, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Canada | Esther Greenglass, York University |
| China | Jian Li, Kunming Medical University |
| Croatia | Nataša Jokić Begić University of Zagreb |
| Czech Republic | Iva Stuchlikova, University of South Bohemia |
| Denmark | Mette Bentzen |
| Dominican Republic | Cecil Hiraldo, Catholic University of Santo Domingo |
| Finland | Juhani Julkunen, University of Helsinki |
| France | Leon-Patrice Celestin, Dept. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, C.H.I. Hospital Poissy-Saint German |
| Germany | Sonja Rohrmann, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Petra Buchwald, Bergische Universität Wuppertal |
| Greece | Eleni Vasilaki, University of Crete |
| Hong Kong, SAR, China | Wai-Kai Hou, The Education University of Hong Kong |
| Hungary | Kornel Sipos, Semmelweis University Budapest |
| India | Krishnan Saraladevi, University of Madras |
| Ireland | Siobhán Howard, University of Limerick |
| Israel | Moshe Zeidner, University of Haifa |
| Italy | Anna Laura Comunian, Padova University CaterinaMesserschmidt–Grandi, Claudiana College of Healthcare Professions |
| Mexico | Emilia Lucio-Gomez, National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| New Zealand | Ian de Terte, Massey University, Wellington Linda Jones, Massey University, Wellington |
| Norway | Tuva Øktedalen , University of Oslo |
| Pakistan | Syed Ali Akbar Naqvi, Government Degree College Raiwind |
| Poland | Dorota Wlodarczyk, Medical University of Warsaw Aleksandra Kroemeke, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw |
| Portugal | Saul Neves de Jesus, University of Algarve, Faro |
| Puerto Rico | Sylvia Fernández Colorado, Carlos Albizu University |
| Romania | Eva Kallay, Babes-Bolyai University |
| Russia | Vladimir Kuznetsov, Northern State Medical University |
| Singapore | Vivian Ng, National University of Singapore |
| Slovakia | Ivan Sarmany Schuller, Slovak Academy of Science Bratislava |
| Spain | Albert Sesé, Balearic Island University |
| Switzerland | Pamela Rackow, University of Zurich; University of Stirling, UK |
| The Netherlands | Joost Meijer, University of Amsterdam |
| Turkey | Emine Erktin, Bogazici University of Istanbul |
| United Kingdom | Mike Rennie |
| United States of America | Brian Hall, New York University Shanghai, China David Manier, Lehman College – City University of New York |
| * if you are interested in becoming a National Representative for your country, please contact Paulina Landgrave. |