PULSE: Personal Understanding of Life and Social Experiences

Overview

The Personal Understanding of Life and Social Experiences (PULSE) project aims to examine psychosocial and health factors that may affect adults’ abilities to self-regulate health and social goals over time.  The project is a collaborative research study conducted by faculty and graduate students in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences in the College of Health and Human Sciences, under the guidance of Dr. Karen Hooker, and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the College of Engineering, under the guidance of Dr. Ronald Metoyer.  Knowledge from this study will benefit people, health researchers, and policy makers who want to understand how people work on and maintain (or fail to maintain) health and social goals.  Understanding these processes could lead to more effective programs aimed at health behavior changes, which could impact health in later life.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Hooker, K., Choun, S., Mejía, S., Pham, T., & Metoyer, R. (2013). A Microlongitudinal Study of the Linkages Among Personality Traits, Self-Regulation, and Stress in Older Adults. Research in Human Development, 10(1), 26-46.

Pham, T., Mejía, S., Metoyer, R., & Hooker, K. (2012). The Effects of Visualization Feedback on Promoting Health Goal Progress in Older Adults. In EuroVis-Short Papers (pp. 91-95). The Eurographics Association. [paper] [supplemental document]

Mejía, S., Choun, S., Pham, T., Metoyer, R., Hooker, K. (2012).  Personality and the benefits of close relationships: Daily perceived stress, affect, and contact satisfaction. Presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Hooker, K., Mejía, S., Pham, T., Metoyer, R. (2012). Burst vs. daily measurement: Issues in capturing intraindividual variability. Presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Ko, H., Mejía, S., Choun, S., Pham, T., Metoyer, R., Hooker, K. (2012). Consistency in daily goal progress: Possible selves in action. Presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Allen, P., Mejía, S., Hooker, K., Ko. H., Choun, S., Pham, T., Metoyer, R. (2012). The Role of Trait Neuroticism, Self-Perceptions of Aging, and Daily Perceptions of Usefulness for Perceived Stress.  Presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Choun, S., Mejía, S., Pham T., Metoyer, R., & Hooker, K. (2012). Dynamic Linkages of Personality and Health.  Presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Mejía, S., Pham, T., Choun, S., Metoyer, R., & Hooker, K. (2011).  The PULSE project: Capturing 100 days of self-regulation. Presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.

Ko, H., Mejía, S., Choun, S., Pham, T., Metoyer, R., & Hooker, K. (2011).  Possible selves in action: Promoting social goal progress for older adults.  Presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.

Choun, S., Mejía, S., Pham, T., Metoyer, R., & Hooker, K. (2010). The effect of traits and states in predicting health goal progress.  Presented at the 63rd Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA.