Current Projects
Dissertation Project:
Voice disorders and personality: Advancing our understanding through contemporary quantitative personality science
My dissertation project seeks to advance our understanding of the psychological factors relevant to developing and maintaining certain voice disorders by leveraging contemporary theories and analytic frameworks used in personality science.
In my time with the Helou Laboratory for Vocal Systems Anatomy and Physiology Research, I have been involved with numerous research projects. Below are some of the projects in the lab that I am currently working on as the primary data analyst.
Ongoing Projects:
Characterizing communicative dysphoria in a large, gender-diverse sample
We asked a large sample of individuals to tell us about their experiences with communicative dysphoria. To our knowledge, this project represents the most thorough attempt to understand communicative dysphoria in both cisgender and transgender individuals.
Investigating the test-retest reliability of communicative congruence and dysphoria
Previously we asked people to report their experience of communicative congruence. We followed up with a subset of these individuals and asked them to report their sense of communicative congruence over the course of a few weeks to better understand the test-retest reliability of these measures.
Examining the factor structure and validity of the Voice Disability Coping Questionnaire in individuals with laryngeal dystonia
A previous study developed the Voice Disability Coping Questionnaire and validated in a sample of patients with laryngeal dystonia. We administered this scale to a separate, larger sample of people diagnosed with laryngeal dystonia to examine the validity of the scale's factor structure.
Examining experiences of somatic symptoms in patients diagnosed with voice disorders
Muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) meets the diagnostic criteria of a somatic disorder. We asked a large sample of patients seeking treatment for a voice disorder about how stress manifests itself in their body to see if patients with MTD report more somatic complaints compared to other voice disorders.