About Me
I
am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological
Sciences at
Kent State University. I'm primarily affiliated with the social-health psychology
graduate program and I'm also one of the faculty in the Quantitative
Concentration program in the department (I teach Structural Equation
Modeling). Prior to my position at Kent State, I was a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Healthy
Aging at The Pennsylvania State University. I completed my PhD at
the University of Toronto in social-personality psychology where my
doctoral
research was supported
by a
doctoral fellowship awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, the main granting agency for social science research
in Canada.
Research Approach
In
my research, I use multiple methods to test my hypotheses and, as a
result, have developed an expertise in research design and analysis. I
have conducted dyadic studies, longitudinal studies, studies using
intensive measurement designs such as experience sampling and daily
diaries, and some experimental studies. The vast majority of my studies are
dyadic and include a daily diary component. To analyze my data, I use
advanced
statistical techniques, such as structural equation modeling,
multilevel modeling, and the combination of both, such as multilevel
path models.