Kendall Soucie

University of Windsor · Department of Psychology

As environmental issues continually increase in our world, no research has studied how moral identity (defined as moral values and motivation) relates to an individual's tendency towards environmental involvement. We conducted two studies to examine this relationship. In Study I, 164 university students filled out a questionnaire to assess their mo...

Call for Papers: Storytelling and narrative-based approaches in psychology research and practice Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Impact Factor = 3.7 Editors: Dr. Fanli Jia & Dr. Kendall Soucie https://www.nature.com/collections/fejajadbbe Humans instinctively develop and organise knowledge, experience, memories, intentions, asp...

Science students face specific challenges associated with their field of study. The purpose of this study was to assess science students’ use of support services and programs, identify barriers to use and group differences, determine professors’ and staff’s familiarity with programs and solicit ideas from all participants about what programming cha...

Civic engagement during emerging adulthood plays a pivotal role in fostering a sense of community responsibility, providing a sense of societal purpose, and contributes to improved psychological adjustment. In this mixed-method longitudinal study, we further explored how civic engagement and psychological adjustment codevelop across emerging adulth...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic illness that affects 10 million individuals worldwide; however, Canada has the highest rates of IBD per capita in the world. Presently, 0.7% of Canadians are diagnosed with IBD, which is expected to rise to 1% by 2030. Disease onset is typically between the ages of 15-45 years old. This is a crucial per...

In the present study, we employed a multi-method approach to study the process by which mothers of preschool-aged children actively socialize complex emotions. Within the context of a dynamic systems framework, we examined the associations between maternal meta-emotion philosophies, via an interview-based assessment (the Meta-Emotion Interview, MEI...

Aim To follow up on the experiences of Registered Nurses (RNs) working after 1 year of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Canadian and American hospitals. Design Semi‐structured interviews were conducted, and transcripts were analysed through a reflexive thematic analysis (RTA). Methods RNs (n = 19) first interviewed in the spring of 2020 were re‐interview...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine syndrome, with symptoms falling into three specific clusters: reproductive, metabolic/endocrine, and mental health. These symptoms may cause feelings of rejection, shame and stigma which impacts relationships, avenues for disclosure and social support. The purpose of this study was to ex...

Gaps in health-care services for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are not isolated incidents. They are systemic and disadvantage women. In this study, we explored the juxtaposition of power and agency in diagnosis narratives collected from 72 Canadian women diagnosed with PCOS. Using Braun and Clarke’s inductive codebook thematic analysi...

Background The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the personal and professional lives of frontline nurses. Purpose The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of Canadian Registered Nurses (RNs) working in Ontario or United States hospitals during the first wave of the COVID-19...

Therapist effects are well-established in the literature, but their presence in the earliest stages of a therapist’s career (i.e., training) is under-studied. The present study involved the investigation of between-therapist effects—differences between therapists’ average effectiveness (i.e., outcome ratings) across all patients in their caseloads—...

Due to the unique set of stressors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers in acute care settings may be facing elevated rates of mental health symptomatology. The purpose of this study was to assess levels of depression, anxiety, and stress in a sample of healthcare employees working in hospitals and their use of formal and infor...

Psychological symptoms are nested within autobiographical narratives. The narrative emotion process coding system (NEPCS) describes how people tell stories, identifying problematic narratives: Same Old Story, Empty Story, Unstoried Emotion, and Superficial Story. These markers refer to observable narrative features rather than a story’s content. Al...

The purpose of this study was to explore the experience and management of stress in science students and to evaluate concordance with faculty/staff members’ appraisal of student stress. A survey was completed by 308 students and by 40 staff and faculty members. Students’ stress levels were high but there were no differences based on demographic gro...

Purpose: Nurses working during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have reported elevated levels of anxiety, burnout and sleep disruption. Hospital administrators are in a unique position to mitigate or exacerbate stressful working conditions. The goal of this study was to capture the recommendations of nurses providing frontline care...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects 8 to 13% of reproductive-aged women, is a highly gendered disorder whose symptoms disrupt Western conceptions of femininity. This may be especially debilitating for young women, who are targeted by societal discourses governing how they “should” be. We interviewed 10 young Canadian women, aged 18 to 2...

Citation: Jia, F.; Soucie, K.; Matsuba, M.K. A Spotlight on Environmental Psychology and Sustainability with Dr. Susan Clayton. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5830. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115830

Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common endocrine disorder among women aged from 18 to 40 years. Its debilitating menstrual/obesity-related symptoms challenge conceptions of femininity. To date, age-related differences in women’s body esteem and physicians’ symptom management recommendations have not been investigated. Age moderated the relati...

Although the positive outcomes of human-environment interactions have been established , research examining the motivation between engagement in pro-environmental activities and psychological well-being is limited. In this mixed-methods study, the relationship between pro-environmental engagement, meaning in life, and well-being, including loneline...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine syndrome that disproportionally affects women of childbearing age (~8% to 13% of women worldwide). If unmanaged, it can lead to chronic, lifelong complications. Over the past decade, improvements in diagnostic guidelines have not produced an expected reduction in the diagnostic timeframe...

Using a longitudinal mixed-methods research design, the present study examined the development of multicultural competence and skills among 14 doctoral-level clinical trainees across three cohort groups, through providing counseling and therapy to refugees within a multicultural psychotherapy practicum. The results show that trainees reported signi...

Do you study environmentalism? Interested in contributing to a special issue? Kendall Soucie, Kyle Matsuba and I are excited to announce that we are now accepting papers that will be included as part of a special issue on the topic: "Exploring Global Environmentalism: Environmental Identity, Belief, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors" in Sustainabilit...

In this longitudinal Canadian study, we investigated the relationship between the developmental trajec-tories of community involvement and generative concern measured at ages 23, 26, and 32. Participants completed a questionnaire on youth involvement, the Youth Involvement Inventory (YII), and the Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS) at all 3 ages. A la...

The term, false memory, describes outcomes to various procedures and techniques, such as coming to believe that suggested false events occurred, acceptance of post-event misinformation, and recognition of critical lures in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure. The literature to date indicates that these memory errors inter-correlate poorly,...

W hile culture's effect on the coping process has long been acknowledged in the stress-coping literature conceptually, empirical evidence and attempts to discern the specific relationship between culture and coping remain very scarce. Against this backdrop, the present study applied the Cultural Transactional Theory (Chun, Moos, & Cronkite, 2006) t...

In this longitudinal study, we examined the relationship between the trajectory of generative concern measured at ages 23, 26 and 32 and environmental narrative identity at age 32. Canadian participants completed a questionnaire on generative concern at ages 23, 26 and 32 and were then interviewed about their personal experiences with the environme...

In a mixed-methods longitudinal study, we examined the relationship between Erikson’s construct of generativity, measured at ages 23 and 26, and environmentalism at age 32. Over a hundred Canadian youth completed a questionnaire that measured generative concerns. Environmentalism was assessed by questionnaires on involvement, identity, and attitude...

Age-related and individual differences in adolescents' and emerging adults' stories of real-life empathic and nonempathic experiences were examined. A total of 29 adolescents (M = 15.28, SD =.99) and 31 emerging adults (M = 18.23, SD =.56) told stories of empathic and nonempathic life events and completed measures of authoritative parenting and dis...