Selected Publications

2025

Meaning making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of purpose in life, positive reframing, acceptance, and event appraisal

Daria Karbainova, Shichen Fang & Erin T. Barker
Journal of Applied Developmental Science

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More Than Academics: Time Use and Friendship Stress Also Covary with Canadian University Students’ Mental Health Symptoms Across the Academic Year

Ayse Turkoglu, Shichen Fang, Erin T. Barker, Gaya Arasaratnam, Victoria Lane, Roisin M. O’Connor, Alexandra Panaccio, Marina M. Doucerain, Debora Rabinovich & Cat Tuong Nguyen

Journal of College Student Mental Health

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2024

Curbing the Campus Mental Health Crisis: The Role of Extracurricular Activity Participation Extracurricular Activity Participation

Rosanne Villemaire-Krajden, Erin Barker

Journal of Youth Development Journal of Youth Development

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2023

Moderators of the Association Between Co-Rumination and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adult Friendships

Lori Hazel, Erin Barker, Kalee De France, & Dale Stack

Emerging Adulthood

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2022

The Transition From University to Work: The Positive Influence of Purpose in Life and Social Support

Daria Karbainova & Erin Barker

Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Charting a Course, Weathering Storms, and Making Lemonade: A Person-Centered Mixed Methods Analysis of Emotional Wellbeing and Dispositional Strengths Following University Graduation

Sarah Newcomb-Anjo, Kathryn Mulvihill, Daria Karbainova, & Erin Barker

Journal of Adult Development

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First-Year University Students' Mental Health Trajectories Were Disrupted at the Onset of COVID-19, but Disruptions Were Not Linked to Housing and Financial Vulnerabilities: A Registered Report

Andrea Howard, Kendra Carnrite, & Erin Barker

Emerging Adulthood

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2021

Effects of Goal Appraisals and Goal Motivation on Dimensions of Identity Development: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Analysis of European American Emerging Adults

Kathryn Mulvihill, Gaelle Hortop, Maude Guilmette, Erin Barker, Diane Putnick, & Marc Bornstein

Journal of Adult Development

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Mental health of students living with food insecurity during the transition to university.

Andrea Howard & Erin Barker

Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research

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 2020

Brief report: Contextualizing university students’ depressive symptoms: History, continuity, stability, and risk.

Erin Barker & Jesse Renaud

Journal of College Student Psychotherapy

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2019

Past and present participation in extracurricular activities is associated with adaptive self-regulation of goals, academic success, and emotional wellbeing among university students.

Maude Guilmette, Kathryn Mulvihill, Rosanne Villemaire-Krajden, & Erin Barker

Learning and Individual Differences

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The rise and fall of depressive symptoms and academic stress in two samples of university students.

Maude Guilmette, Kathryn Mulvihill, Rosanne Villemaire-Krajden, & Erin Barker

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

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The developmental origins and future implications of dispositional optimism in the transition to adulthood.

Jesse Renaud, Erin Barker, Charlene Hendricks, Diane L Putnick, & Marc H Bornstein

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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2018

Athletes’ self-regulatory responses to unattainable athletic goals: effects of need-supportive vs. need-thwarting coaching and athletes’ motivation.

Kathryn Mulvihill, Maude Guilmette, Erin Barker, & Theresa Bianco

International Journal of Sport Psychology

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2017

A person-centered analysis of risk factors that compromise wellbeing in emerging adulthood.

Sarah Newcomb-Anjo, Erin Barker, & Andrea Howard

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

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2016

Tracking affect and academic success across university: Happy students benefit from bouts of negative mood.

Erin Barker, Andrea Howard, Nancy Galambos, & Carsten Wrosch

Developmental Psychology

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