This page highlights the current events, achievements, and current activities of our lab members:
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The PTG Lab welcomes Velinka, our newest lab member.Velinka is currently a sophomore at Oakland University majoring in psychology. She became interested in joining the lab because she finds the construct of posttraumatic growth encouraging and full of potential. During her time in the lab, she hopes to study a number of different aspects of PTG,…
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The second week of November, the PTG Lab visited Dallas, Texas to present their research at the 32nd Annual Meeting of ISTSS (International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies). Whitney Dominck, Leah McDiarmid (Easter Michigan University), Maggie Britton (University of Houston) and Dr. Taku presented their posters and symposium. In addition, lab members were able to…
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Lab member, Kyle, presented an empirical article,“Judeo-Christian clergy and personal crisis: Religion, posttraumatic growth and well being”. Presenting an article to the lab gives first semester lab members a chance to improve their research skills and present their research interests. The purpose of this study was to look at the relationships between religious coping, rumination,…
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Lauren, Geena, Shelby, and Aundreah’s study has been published in the Meeting of Minds Journal of Undergraduate Research! Harrison, L., Osowski, G., Seyburn, S., & Walenski, A. (2016). Wrongdoers and instigators: Stress and posttraumatic growth in a sample of high school students. Meeting of Minds Journal of Undergraduate Research, 18. PTG is discussed in the…
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First semester graduate student, Matt, presented his master’s thesis research proposal entitled The Effects of Relational Mobility on the Reporting of Posttraumatic Growth in Japanese and American Samples. The purpose of this study is (1) to examine whether sociocultural and socioecological differences impact an individual’s reporting of posttrumatic growth, (2) to examine whether individuals in a society…
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Lab member, Shelby, presented her research proposal on resilience, social support, and self-esteem at our last lab meeting. The purpose of this study is to examine how social support relates to resilience in adolescents, to examine the predictive ability of social support and self-esteem to resilience, and to indicate if the relationship between resilience and…
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Dr. Taku and lab member, Kyle, presented at this year’s Research Assistant Workshop hosted by Psi Chi. The presentation began with a brief overview of what it is like being a research assistant and what is required of the position. A number of faculty’s research interests were presented and guest speakers were included as well.…
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Lab member, Geena presented a study, Associations among religious coping, daily hassles, and resilience by Laura McIntire and Renae Duncan. After presenting the article to the lab, she presented potential hypotheses based on the article’s findings and started a discussion about them. The main purpose of this study was to to examine the relationships among…
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Lab member, Lauren, presented a study, Stress and affective experiences: The importance of dark personality features, and two hypotheses. Second semester research assistants present an article to other members of the lab and discuss potential hypotheses based on the article’s findings. The main purpose of this study was to determine if the Dark Triad personalities were…
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Graduate student, Whitney, presented her master’s thesis research presentation, entitled Animal Assisted Therapy, Perceived Social Support, and Posttramatic Growth in Traumatized Youth, at our last meeting. The purpose of this study is to investigate (1) whether animals increase posttraumatic growth, (2) whether animals decrease posttraumatic stress symptoms, (3) whether AAT increases social support and, (4) whether…
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