- Associate Professor
Degrees
- Clinical Psychologist/Counselor Practitioner License (Health & Care Professions Council, UK)
- Clinical Supervision Certificate in Applied Psychology (British Psychological Society, UK)
- PhD and MSc Educational Psychology, Cornell University, USA
- MEd in Counseling, MEd in Special Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
- MEd Teacher Education, BA Education, Dip Education, University of Zambia, Zambia
Teaching areas in SHBIE
- Educational psychology
- Psychotherapy
- Counseling
- Special/inclusive education
- Statistics
- Quantitative research.
Interests, expertise and current research areas
Psychometrics, psychological assessment, educational measurement and evaluation, child and adolescent mental health, criminology, community counseling and psychotherapy, adult mental health issues
Interested in supervising and assessing students in the following areas
- Educational psychology
- Psychotherapy
- Counseling
- Special/inclusive education
- Quantitative research
- Psychometrics
- Psychological assessment
- Educational measurement and evaluation
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Criminology
- Community counseling and psychotherapy
- Adult mental health issues (e.g. coping with distress).
Sample publications and other links
Mundia, L., & Halimaturadia, M. (2019). Exploring factors that improve mathematics achievement in Brunei. Studies in Educational Evaluation, Volume 60, Pages 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2018.10.003
Mundia, L. (2019). Satisfaction with work-related achievements in Brunei public and private sector employees. Cogent Management & Business, Volume 6 Issue 1, Article No. 1664191. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2019.1664191
Mundia, L. (2019). Interpersonal Trust in Brunei Public and Private Sector Employees. In: Farazmand, A. (ed) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5
Mundia, L., & Shahrill, M. (2018). Coping and Help-Seeking Strategies Used by Students on the Intensive Foundation Program at the University of Brunei Darussalam. Sage Open, 8(2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018769957
Mundia, L., & Salleh, S. M. (2017). Coping styles of failing Brunei vocational students. Education + Training, 59(4), 389 – 405. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-05-2016-0087
Mundia, L. (2017). How Brunei trainee teachers cope with distress: Counseling implications. BMC Research Notes, 10:596. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-2922-0
Mundia, L., Matzin, R., Mahalle, M., Hamid, M. H. S., & Osman, R. S. (2017). Roles of Psychopathic Personality, Mental Health, and Recidivism in Criminal Behavior: Survey of Brunei Inmates. Asian Journal of Criminology, 12(4), 255–280.DOI: 10.1007/s11417-017-9249-6
Mundia, L., Mahalle, S., Matzin, R., Zakaria., G. A. N., Abdullah, N. Z. M., & Latif, S. N. A. (2017). Prediction of employer–employee relationships from sociodemographic variables and social values in Brunei public and private sector workers. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 10: 257–269. http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S136479
Mundia, L, Shahrill, M., Jaidin, J. H., Jawawi, R., & Mahadi, M. A (2016). Brunei’s teacher education programs: insights into students’ coping and help-seeking strategies to challenges. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10(1), Article No. 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0091-5
Mundia, L., Mahalle, S., Matzin, R., Zakaria, G. A. N., & Abdullah, N. Z. M. (2017). Sociodemographic variables and social values: relationship with work-attendance problems in Brunei public- and private-sector employees. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 13: 2307–2319. https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S135418
Mundia, L., Matzin, R., Mahalle, S., Hamid, M. H., & Osman, R. S (2016). Contributions of sociodemographic factors to criminal behavior. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 9, 147-156. DOI: 10.2147/PRBM.S95270
Google scholar profile link https://www2.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8721944800
Scopus profile link https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oQkimqIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Further details:
Dr Mundia obtained his doctoral degree in psychology at Cornell as a Fulbright scholar. He is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics & its Applications (FIMA). He previously taught at the University of Zambia and the University of Swaziland (Africa) and at the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Goroka (South Pacific). Currently, he is an Associate Professor of educational psychology, counselling and inclusive/special education in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.