Dr Jack Gebart-Eaglemont completed his Masters degree in 1975 (Warsaw University, Poland) in the areas of Clinical and Social Psychology. His Master's thesis resulted from reasearch on social-psychological aspects of students' achievement motivations. The results indicated strong effects of social comparisons and competence modelling on the structure of achievement motivations among tertiary students.
In Poland, Dr Gebart-Eaglemont worked mainly as clinical and counselling psychologist (1975-1981), specializing in clinical psychological diagnostics (Rorschach and other projective methods), as well as in structured and goal-oriented psychotherapy (art therapy, problem solving therapy, dynamic group methods, music therapy, psychodrama, therapeutic community methods).
In Australia, he conducted research on social-psychological aspects of creativity, resulting in a PhD degree in Psychology (La Trobe University, Australia). The thesis concentrated on aspects of social perception of creative individuals by their peers. The results highlighted some of the reasons of the adaptational difficulties encountered by exceptionally creative and talented children.
Dr Gebart-Eaglemont also conducted research in the areas of psychological measurement, especially in the field of personality measurement, resulting in many publications in Buros' Mental Measurement Yearbook.
Since 1985 he worked at several Australian universities as lecturer.
His other interests included various aspects of adaptation of immigrants, phenomena related to ethnic discrimination and prejudice, acculturation and stress, and other aspects of cross-cultural social psychology (see the Crossroads link above).
Dr Gebart-Eaglemont retired in 2001, after having been targeted by repeated racist and ethnically motivated attacks agressively perpetrated against him by the administration of one of the Australian "universities of technology" during 1998-2001.
These experiences stimulated his interest in the psychological aspects of workplace bullying and institutionalized victimization.