0:00:01so i stress researcher basically what i study a are the weights that source or
0:00:06stress or personal stress or influence not how emotional outcomes but i've been interested with
0:00:13my research is
0:00:15a tendency stress research generally focus on individual level stress errors
0:00:20and so i'm more interested in stressed or is that are socially based
0:00:25like the experience of discrimination and stigmata things that come out of interaction and social
0:00:30environment specifically i've been working with the team university of chicago studying the effects of
0:00:36the great perception
0:00:38all i and people's on people's mental health and drinking outcomes and specifically so there
0:00:45is a tendency and work focuses on economic downturns and this is really historically based
0:00:51and work on the great depression for people to focus on unemployment
0:00:57so that people think of something like recession depression economic downturn were to leave thing
0:01:03and plane
0:01:05so what's unique about this study is that it is much more interested in all
0:01:09of the lecture consequences of an economic downturn so having to live at home when
0:01:14you don't once you
0:01:16and other things like that sells of all the way that people have to doubt
0:01:20their lives as a consequence of the recession and then never looking this study over
0:01:25time that contain you consequence
0:01:28i'm excited because i recently
0:01:31learn how to do structural equation modelling so this is one of the first projects
0:01:36were unable to put my q o which statistical charts to work
0:01:41so that's been exciting
0:01:42well they're allowed things that you can really only to the structural we like for
0:01:47example let's that you might look at multiple
0:01:50that's something you can easily do you want structural equation modelling or to consider that
0:01:55multiple outcomes might be related to one another in to give an example from project
0:02:00i'm currently working on i'm study
0:02:04the project is looking at frankie behaviors problematic drinking as well as this is motivated
0:02:09frames of drinking sort of as a coping mechanism
0:02:13well it's completely intuitive that all of these things are related
0:02:18but if you use traditional regression at this you yet model that so this is
0:02:22something that's really nice about using an structural equation model is that it some more
0:02:26precise estimate of how different factors might actually be correlated most my work to date
0:02:32has been focusing on a gender differences i don't how
0:02:38men and women
0:02:40respond almost surely to the experience of these macro level structures and this is based
0:02:45in this literature showing the advantage that extra wise mental health symptoms or just stress
0:02:52so with manner distress there's more a tendency to drink words women are more likely
0:02:58to internalise experience things like depression meetings are defined just that but one of the
0:03:04things that has been used for a
0:03:07and i think theoretically interesting to elaborate on that this is something using structural equation
0:03:13modelling in more sophisticated techniques allow for is to consider well
0:03:18i happen
0:03:20it's a what we really that looking at is this tension reduction which is that
0:03:25it's not that men don't internalise things but is that they were drinking as a
0:03:29way of colby and so that specifically what we model that while men are more
0:03:35likely to drink it's
0:03:37this drinking as an alternative half role in the past that makes a