Ongoing Research Projects
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Stress Management & Decision MakingThis study examines how mindfulness based stress management strategies may alter emerging adults’ responses to psychosocial stressors. The study utilizes social stress tasks and random assignment to investigate the intervention effects on young adults’ subjective psychological distress, decision making ability, and state mindfulness. Additionally, the study aims to elucidate the pathways through which intervention effects take place. The study also investigates how individual stress reactivity and response to stress management interventions are influenced by pre-existing psychological factors and self-regulation abilities.
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Child Self-Regulation and Parenting in Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes TreatmentThis longitudinal study aims to further elucidate the interactive and time-dependent patterns of parent and child contributions to the treatment of pediatric type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes treatment involves a demanding daily regimen of blood glucose monitoring, insulin administration, and supervised food intake and exercise. Youth patients particularly struggle with treatment adherence due to their developing self-regulation abilities and require parental support. The study assesses various domains of parent and child functioning to examine whether their main and interactive effects on treatment outcomes (i.e., adherence and glycemic control) vary by child age and across time. The findings may provide evidence to design and implement developmentally informed, individualized psychosocial interventions to address adherence difficulties.
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Mindfulness Intervention for Preschool Children
This study test the effects of a classroom-wide mindfulness-based intervention designed to enhance children's executive functioning (EF) skills (e.g. attention and cognitive flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control) and social-emotional development during pre-kindergarten. Children from Head Start pre-kindergarten classrooms are participating in this study.
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Stress, Parenting, & Resilience
This study investigates how parenting behaviors and stressful childhood experiences or trauma may influence executive functioning (EF) development in preschool age children. Certain parenting strategies such as scaffolding may promote autonomy in children and may also facilitate the development of child EF skills. This study explores if these parenting behaviors can also protect against EF deficits and act as protective factors against any negative effects resulting from stressful life experiences.
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