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Current Projects
The Facial Affect and Concordance of Emotion Study (FACES)
Status: Data collection is ongoing through Spring 2024
Funding: This project is supported by funding awarded to Jessica P. Lougheed from the UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
This is an in-lab behavioural observation study. Participants complete a series of questionnaires about demographics, emotion tendencies, and mental health and well being. Then, comfortable stickers are attached to two finger tips and three locations on the torso for the measurement of physiological responses. Next, there will be two brief resting tasks followed by two brief verbal tasks. Before and after these tasks, participants complete questionnaires about their emotions.
Exploring Fatherly Perspectives of Parenting Adolescents
Status: Data collection is ongoing
Funding: This project was supported by funding awarded to Jessica P. Lougheed from the UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the the Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award.
The overarching aim of this project is to address the lack of research on fathers’ perspectives in parenting, especially fathers of adolescents. Despite fathers’ significant influence on their adolescent’s development, their views are often neglected in the research literature. The project involves two studies: Study 1 will involve an online questionnaire delivered to 130-150 fathers of adolescents located throughout British Columbia to understand their perspectives on their roles as fathers, how it affects their parenting practices, and how demographic factors may influence their views. Study 2 will address the same research questions by conducting in-depth remote interviews with 20 fathers of adolescents who participated in Study 1.
The Conflicts in Caregivers and Teens Study (CCATS)
Status: Data collection complete (Summer 2023), data analysis is ongoing.
Funding: This project was supported by funding awarded to Jessica P. Lougheed from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Development Grant), the Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award, and from the UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
We want to learn about daily interactions between primary caregivers and their adolescents, and how they are related to things like well-being and both caregivers’ and adolescents’ development. Participants are primary caregivers and their adolescents aged 13-17 years old in British Columbia.
The Daily Reactions, Experiences, and Mood Study (DREAMS)
Status: Data collection complete (Spring 2023), data analysis is ongoing.
Funding: This project was supported by funding awarded to Jessica P. Lougheed from the UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
This study is an exploration of individuals’ daily moods and exposure to different stressor types (e.g., relationship, health, academic, financial). The overarching goal of this research study is to examine students’ daily stressor exposures and emotions, to identify the “landscape” of stressful experiences and individual differences that predict student well-being despite exposure to daily stressors. This study had two parts. In Part 1, participants filled out a one-time series of questionnaires regarding demographics, mental health symptoms, stressful experiences, emotional tendencies, and well-being. In Part 2, participants completed a daily diary survey via a mobile app, once per day for 14 days, that involved responding to brief questions about daily experiences (exposure to stressors and positive events, emotions).
The Variability in Emotion Regulation Strategies in University Students (VERSUS) Study
Status: Data collection complete (Spring 2023), data analysis is ongoing.
Funding: This project was supported by funding awarded to Jessica P. Lougheed from the UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
This study is an exploration of undergraduate students’ regulation strategies of positive and negative emotions. The overarching goal of this research study is to intensively examine students’ emotions and emotion regulation strategies when experiencing any stressors or positive events during the day. This study was conducted in two parts. In Part 1, participants filled out a one-time series of questionnaires regarding demographics, psychosocial adjustment, and well-being. In Part 2, participants completed a short survey on emotional experiences via the Expiwell mobile app, six times per day between 9 am and midnight for 8 days.
The Daily Stressors and Emotions Study
Status: Data collection complete (Spring 2022), data analysis is ongoing.
Funding: This project was supported by funding awarded to Jessica P. Lougheed from the UBCO Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
This study is an exploration of undergraduate students’ daily moods and exposure to different stressor types (e.g., relationship, health, academic, financial). Data collection occurred during different phases of the transition out of provincially-mandated COVID-19 restrictions. The overarching goal of this research study is to intensively examine students’ daily stressor exposures and emotions, to identify the “landscape” of stressful experiences and individual differences that predict student well-being despite exposure to daily stressors. This study was conducted in two parts. In Part 1, participants filled out a one-time series of questionnaires regarding demographics, mental health symptoms, emotional tendencies, and well-being. In Part 2, participants completed a daily diary survey via a mobile app, once per day for 14 days, that involves responding to brief questions about daily experiences (exposure to stressors and positive events, emotions).
Publications from this project:
- Truong, A. K., Keskin, G., & Lougheed, J. P. (In press). Within- and between-person associations between social interactions and loneliness: Students’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cognition and Emotion. Pre-print available here.
- Forster, K., & Lougheed, J. P. (In press). Associations between emodiversity and mental health in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology. Pre-print available here.
- Lougheed, J. P., Keskin, G., & Morgan, S. (2023). The hazards of daily stressors: Comparing experiences of sexual and gender minority young adults to cisgender heterosexual young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 73649. doi: 10.1525/collabra.73649