get to know us
Lab Members
Linda Sultana
[Graduate Student]
My research interest revolves around understanding how different mental health conditions affect the academic journey and overall adjustment of adolescents, with a particular emphasis on the social component.
Mmesoma Asiegbu
[Graduate Student ]
My research interest is on perfectionism, decision making, anxiety, and motivation. I am particularly interested in understanding the challenges individuals face with these variables and providing coping strategies to enhance well-being and performance.
Addison Helsper
[Graduate Student]
I have several areas of research culminating in how adolescents cope with their stressors, and particularly how social media can act as the medium for those stressors or the stressor itself. My work has explored the varying motivations and changes in motivation between the online and real world, methodologies employed to measure the multifaceted nature of coping, and the interaction of motivational profiles, social media, and adolescent's well-being.
Collaborators
Dr. Cen Audrey Wang
[Lab Alumna; 2008-2012]
Dr. Cen (Audrey) Wang is a registered psychologist in Australia working in private practice and an adjunct senior research fellow in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia".
Dr. Chia-Chen Yang
[Collaborator]
Dr. Chia-chen Yang is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on young people's psychosocial development in the digital age. Specifically, she studies how adolescents and emerging adults use communication technologies, and how the use of digital media is associated with young people’s identity development, social relationships, and socio-emotional well-being.
Dr. Yoonjung Cho
[Collaborator]
Dr. Yoonjung Cho is a professor at Sungshin Women's University in South Korea. Her program of research centers around self-regulated learning, community of learners,
achievement motivation and emotion. She is currently serving as an associate editor for the journal, Learning and Instruction
Dr. Hyunju Lee
[Collaborator]
Dr. Hyunju Lee is a professor in the Department of Science Education at Ewha Womans University in South Korea. She has been conducting research on teaching socioscientific issues (SSI), especially development of SSI curriculum and programs, teacher professional development for teaching SSI, and analysis of students’ informal reasoning on SSI.
Dr. Kyongboon Kwon
[Collaborator]
Dr. Kyongboon Kwon is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She studies children’s socialization in the peer group as it relates to social, emotional, and academic development. In recent years, her research has focused on peers and classroom as a context for children's emotion and emotion regulation. Dr. Kwon is an associate editor for The Journal of Early Adolescence.
Dr. Boreum Kim
[Collaborator]
Dr. Boreum Kim is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Ball State University. Her research expertise lies in the domains of motivation. She is particularly interested in academic achievement and social-emotional skills of students and the motivational beliefs of parents. Currently, she is investigating motivation within online learning environments.
