Julianne M. Griffith, M.S.

Motivated by a desire to understand the ways in the ways in which risk for emotional dysfunction unfolds across the adolescent transition, I first became involved in developmental psychopathology research as an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. Following the completion of my B.S. in Psychology and Sociology in 2015, I accepted a full-time research position during which time I continued to refine my specific research interests and developed skills in the design and execution of independent research projects. Since joining the Clinical-Community Psychology program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017, I have pursued a research program aimed at understanding the ways in which disruptions in youth positive affect transact with aspects of youth social environment to contribute to risk for depression and other, related internalizing disorders. In 2018, I was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship to support work using experience sampling methods implemented in a dyadic, longitudinal design to examine the ways in which adolescent youth and their parents engage with youth positive emotions in daily life.