Congratulations to the DAS Lab for presenting at the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) Annual Meeting 2025!
Seon presented: “Acculturative Stress, Anxiety, and the Role of Parenting Among Chinese Heritage University Students”
Seon’s research examined whether parenting moderates the association between acculturative stress and anxiety symptoms among Chinese heritage undergraduate students. She found that the impact of acculturative stress on anxiety was buffered by parental autonomy support and warmth, but not involvement. These findings suggest that the emotional quality of parenting may be more protective against culturally related stress and anxiety than the level of parental involvement.
Yash presented: “Does Internalized Stigma Improve Across Standardized Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?”
Yash’s study investigated changes in internalized mental health stigma and symptom severity in a treatment-seeking anxiety disorder population that underwent 12-week standard group CBT, looking at the impact of age and gender on both symptom severity and stigma, at baseline and the change. Overall, he found that group CBT is effective at reducing symptom severity and internalized mental health stigma in an anxiety population, and that there may be baseline differences in internalized stigma by gender.
Taylyn presented: “Dimensions of Early Life Adversity & Daily Emotion Regulation in Youth”
Taylyn’s study investigated the associations of dimensions of early life adversity with daily adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategy use in youth. We found that greater threat-based, but not deprivation-based, early life adversity, predicted lower daily use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies in a population of 94 youth aged 11-13. These findings are consistent with the Dimensional Model of Adversity and Psychopathology (DMAP), suggesting that deprivation-based early life adversity does not predict emotion regulation strategy use in youth.
