UBC Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Lab

Congratulations to the DAS Lab for presenting at the UBC Women’s Health Undergraduate Research Conference (WHURC) in March! 🌷

⭐️Shayna presented: “Exploring Whether Gender Influences the Association between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Social Identity Among First-Year University Students”

⭐️Villanelle presented: “Do Coping Styles Mediate the Association Between Gender and Loneliness During COVID-19?”

Head to our website to find out more about each poster!💻🔗

🚨New Research Recap: What is the Multidimensional Adolescent Anhedonia Scale (MAAS) and how does it help us better understand adolescent anhedonia?

🔎 The DAS Lab has developed the Multidimensional Adolescence Anhedonia Scale (MAAS), a novel measure designed to assess not only consummatory and anticipatory, but also recall anhedonia in adolescents. 💭 Swipe through this recap to learn about the about the DAS Lab’s very own MAAS scale! 🌧️

Read the full paper from the publications list on our website (link in our bio)!🔗💻

🚨New Research Recap: How do loneliness and stress influence each other over time?🌀

🔎 The DAS Lab had the chance to collaborate with the Centre for Health and Coping Studies (PI: Dr. Anita DeLongis) and the UPLIFT Health Lab (PI: Dr. Nancy L. Sin) on this new study! Swipe through this recap to learn more about the direction of the relationship between loneliness and stress. ↔️

Read the full paper from the publications list on our website (link in our bio)!🔗💻

The Internet Use and Mental Health Study is now live on HSP!🤳✨

In this project we are interested in exploring how different ways we use the internet and interact with online platforms (e.g. social media, AI chatbots, streaming, etc) might uniquely relate to student mental health. 💻🎭

Please note that this study addresses sensitive topics like suicidal ideation and emotional distress. This study includes a survey that takes up to 1 hour, for which you will receive 1 HSP credit. All students are eligible for this phase of the study, and you can do it in your own time from home A subset of students will be asked to participate in a follow-up interview that takes up to 1 hour, and will be over Zoom. For the interview, you will be awarded an additional 1.5 HSP credits.

Interested in helping out with our research? Find us on HSP! Search for “Internet Use and Mental Health Study” 📱

[Please Note: By engaging with this post through likes or comments, you may make your account identifiable and associated with the study. Please engage mindfully.]

Congratulations to the DAS Lab for presenting at the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) Annual Meeting back in October! 💙

⭐️Seon presented: “Acculturative Stress, Anxiety, and the Role of Parenting Among Chinese Heritage University Students”

⭐️Yash presented: “Does Internalized Stigma Improve Across Standardized Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?”

⭐️Taylyn presented: “Dimensions of Early Life Adversity & Daily Emotion Regulation in Youth”

Head to our website to find out more about each poster!💻🔗

Congratulations to the CONTROL study for running its 200th participant yesterday! We are so grateful & excited to have over 200 active participants currently involved in this study! 💙✨⭐️

💻 If you are interested in participating, please visit the UBC Human Subject Pool (HSP).

🚨New DAS Lab article alert!

Congratulations to Dr. LeMoult and DAS Lab graduate students Taylyn, Seon, and Yash for their publication in Anxiety Canada’s journal, Visions: BC’s Mental Health and Substance Use Journal! 🎉

Visions is a quarterly magazine that brings together many views on mental health and substance use, serving as a place to explore different aspects of wellness.

In their article “Not Always Linear: Treatment for co-occurring mental and physical health disorders in young people”, the DAS Lab shares steps which can be taken by youth who experience more than one mental or physical health difficulty in order to maximize the effectiveness of their treatment and lead to better outcomes. 🩺

Check out the full article on our website (link in our bio)!🔗💻

🚨New Research Recap: Does childhood adversity affect associative memory for emotional content?

The DAS Lab had the opportunity to collaborate with Victoria Wardell and researchers at the Memory and Imagination Lab & the Anxiety Stress and Autism Program (ASAP) Lab on this study!👩🏻‍💻Swipe through this recap to learn more about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how they might affect associative memory for emotional content 🚸🎭

Read the full paper from the publications list on our website (link in our bio)!🔗💻