so i stress researcher basically what i study a are the weights that source or
stress or personal stress or influence not how emotional outcomes but i've been interested with
my research is
a tendency stress research generally focus on individual level stress errors
and so i'm more interested in stressed or is that are socially based
like the experience of discrimination and stigmata things that come out of interaction and social
environment specifically i've been working with the team university of chicago studying the effects of
the great perception
all i and people's on people's mental health and drinking outcomes and specifically so there
is a tendency and work focuses on economic downturns and this is really historically based
and work on the great depression for people to focus on unemployment
so that people think of something like recession depression economic downturn were to leave thing
and plane
so what's unique about this study is that it is much more interested in all
of the lecture consequences of an economic downturn so having to live at home when
you don't once you
and other things like that sells of all the way that people have to doubt
their lives as a consequence of the recession and then never looking this study over
time that contain you consequence
i'm excited because i recently
learn how to do structural equation modelling so this is one of the first projects
were unable to put my q o which statistical charts to work
so that's been exciting
well they're allowed things that you can really only to the structural we like for
example let's that you might look at multiple
that's something you can easily do you want structural equation modelling or to consider that
multiple outcomes might be related to one another in to give an example from project
i'm currently working on i'm study
the project is looking at frankie behaviors problematic drinking as well as this is motivated
frames of drinking sort of as a coping mechanism
well it's completely intuitive that all of these things are related
but if you use traditional regression at this you yet model that so this is
something that's really nice about using an structural equation model is that it some more
precise estimate of how different factors might actually be correlated most my work to date
has been focusing on a gender differences i don't how
men and women
respond almost surely to the experience of these macro level structures and this is based
in this literature showing the advantage that extra wise mental health symptoms or just stress
so with manner distress there's more a tendency to drink words women are more likely
to internalise experience things like depression meetings are defined just that but one of the
things that has been used for a
and i think theoretically interesting to elaborate on that this is something using structural equation
modelling in more sophisticated techniques allow for is to consider well
i happen
it's a what we really that looking at is this tension reduction which is that
it's not that men don't internalise things but is that they were drinking as a
way of colby and so that specifically what we model that while men are more
likely to drink it's
this drinking as an alternative half role in the past that makes a