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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mental health of students living with food insecurity during the transition to university.
Andrea Howard & Erin Barker
Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
2020
Brief report: Contextualizing university students’ depressive symptoms: History, continuity, stability, and risk.
Erin Barker & Jesse Renaud
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy
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
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
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
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
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
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