Youth Risk and Resilience Lab Members
2012-2013
Thesis/Dissertation Students
Sarah Rogers is a 5th year doctoral student from Greensboro, North Carolina. Her research interests include social support, interpersonal vulnerability to depression, and peer influence. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys bike riding, estate sale bargain hunting, and sharing meals with friends.
Rachel Posthuma is a 4th year doctoral student from Pella, Iowa. Her research interests include protective factors to depression in adolescence, including self-esteem and attributional style for positive events. When she has free time, she loves spending time with friends and dancing.
Miranda Meadows is a 4th year doctoral student and Research Assistant in YouRR Lab from Laurel, Mississippi. Her research interests include adolescent substance use, optimism and hope, Native Americans, and motives to drink or not drink. When not writing her dissertation, Miranda enjoys decorating anything that stands still long enough, as well as using operant conditioning to train her dog, Lady Darcy of Pemberley.
Andrea Kirby is a 3rd year doctoral student from Cary, North Carolina. Her research interests include risk and resilience factors for the development of depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. Current projects include a psychometric study on a measure of learned helplessness and an exploration of a cognitive vulnerability model for the development of depressive symptoms that includes learned helplessness. Whether in or outside of the lab, Andrea enjoys a good cup of coffee and music that is "karaoke worthy."
Elissa Wu is a 3rd year doctoral student from Schaumburg, Illinois. Her research interests include Asian American adolescents, ethnic differences in attributional style, and generational differences in immigrant families. When not doing research, Elissa enjoys basking in sunshine, frolicking in nature, eating steak and lobster, and laughing with friends.
Anjelica Jackson is a 3rd year doctoral student from Bowie, Maryland. Her research interests include African-American adolescents and families, social support, resilience, community-based interventions, and the psychology of spirituality. When not doing research, Anjelica enjoys watching sports, relaxing on the beach, and sharpening her napping skills.
Hyung Joon "Joon" Choe is a 4th year Masters Student and Research Assistant in YouRR Lab from Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests include adolescent psychopathology, development and psychometric evaluation of psychological tests for adolescents, and most of all "goofing around" with fellow lab members.
Undergraduate Lab Members
Andrew Baur is an undergraduate student from Glennallen, Alaska who recently graduated this December. His research interests include child and adolescent development, attributional style and parenting methods. Now that he has graduated, he is looking forward to having some free time to rediscover what his interests are.
Michelle Lindsey is a junior undergraduate from Massachusetts. Her research interests include stressful life events and transitions, depression, and attributional style. In her spare time, she enjoys working out, acting, playing viola, and mostly baking!
Lia Smith is a senior undergraduate from West Chicago and is graduating in May. Her research interests include stressful life events and transitions, social support/resources, and family systems. In her spare time, she enjoys laughing, learning to be a better listener, and getting to know the wonderful aspects of creation that are so often passed by in a busy life-style.
Research Assistants and Research Volunteers
Quiana Daniel is a 2nd year doctoral student originally from the beautiful state of Connecticut. Currently, she serves as a Research Assistant for YouRR Lab and works on projects such as the Adolescent Moving On Study. Her research interests include urban populations, low social economic status, children and adolescents, and complex trauma. On her days off, Quiana enjoys planning social gatherings, laughing, and just having FUN! :)
Chase Aycock is a 1st year doctoral student from Lorenzo, Texas. He is a Research Assistant for and member of YouRR Lab. His research interests are currently rather broad, including substance use, health psychology, anxiety disorders, resilience, and prevention. In his free time, Chase enjoys exercising, camping, playing volleyball, watching movies, and going to the lake.
Jungin Hyun is a 2nd year Master's student from Seoul, Korea. As a Research Assistant, she has helped with research focused on alcohol use among Asians/Asian Americans and health disparities for Asian American youth. These tasks overlap with her own research interests, which include early childhood psychopathology, parental support to children, and parenting. When not doing research, Jungin loves to COOK!
Kristen Rabe is a graduate of the Psychology bachelors program at Northern Illinois University, but has been volunteering at Wheaton College since the summer of 2010. After taking a few years off of school to build her CV, she hopes to attend a Clinical Child Psychology PhD program. Her research interests include internalizing disorders, social support, and cultural differences. In her free time she enjoys playing the flute, reading, and spending time with her dog, Coco.
Audrey Wilson is a junior at Northern Illinois University where she is majoring in Psychology. She is volunteering in the lab for a semester, with research interests in Positive Psychology and Spiritual Psychology. In her spare time, she enjoys practicing yoga, playing with her labradoodle, and spending time with friends and family.
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