Current Team
Juana Rocoma
Doctoral Student (Psy.D.)
Doctoral Research Project
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My research focuses on the impacts of relational conflict with parents in adolescents and emerging adults on chronic stress as measured by hair cortisol concentration. More specifically, between 65 and 72% of interindividual variation in hair cortisol concentration is explained by genetic factors. Thus, I am interested in exploring the link between the level of conflict in the relationship with parents through adolescence and emerging adulthood and hair cortisol concentration at 19 years of age, while controlling for genetic influences on hair cortisol concentration through a twin difference design. In addition, I seek to investigate whether the role of genetic influences on hair cortisol concentration varies with the level of conflict in these relationships, suggesting a gene-environment (GxE) interaction effect, and to examine the moderating effect of sex.
Bursaries and Awards
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Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) Bourse de maitrise en recherche : 40 000$ entre mai 2023 et janvier 2025
Bourse d’excellence d’admission au doctorat : 5 000$ en avril 2023
Bourse Perspective Québec : 15 000$ entre janvier 2023 et mai 2025
Bourse de soutien universel au doctorat : 5 000$ entre novembre 2022 et avril 2023
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Conference Presentations
Rocoma, J., & Bonneville-Roussy, A. (2023, Mai). Les trajectoires de symptômes dépressifs chez les personnes âgées : l’influence de l’âge, du sexe, de l’IMC et du tabagisme. Communication par affiche 45e Congrès annuel de la Société Québécoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
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