Education
PhD (The Ohio State University)
Biography
Dr. Gouin, a clinical psychologist, a former Canada Research Chair in Chronic Stress and Health and the director of the Stress, Interpersonal Relationships, and Health Laboratory.
**I will be recruiting a new graduate student during the 2023-2024 application cycle. Students interested in dyadic health behaviour change intervention will be prioritized. Bilingualism English-French is an asset**
Research interests
Our research program investigates the impact of chronic stress on health and well-being. Specifically, we examine risk and resiliency psychosocial processes (rumination, interpersonal relationship quality & sleep quality) impacting the negative psychological (e.g. depression and anxiety), behavioural (e.g. poor diet and lack of physical activity) and physiological (e.g. chronic inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, low parasympathetic functioning) consequences of cumulative and chronic exposure to social and environmental stressors over the life course. In this context, we are particularly interested in dyadic coping, how spouse work together to deal with the stresses that both partners are facing and how spouses influence each other in terms of emotional responses, health behaviours, and physiology. Recent work also include couples-based health behaviour change interventions. We are also interested in identifying neurophysiological indicators of sensitivity to the social environment and vulnerability to stress, with a particular emphasis on oxytocin and heart rate variability. The overarching goal of these experimental, longitudinal and treatment studies is to develop and optimize psychosocial interventions to improve resilience to chronic stress.
Our work is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Quebec Network for Suicide, Mood Disorders and Related Disorders, the Canadian Lung Association, and the PERFORM Centre
Current studies examine:
-The moderating role of dyadic coping in the association between spousal control behaviour and changes in diet and physical activity among cohabiting couples. Funded by SSHRC.
-The impact of a couples-based lifestyle intervention on healthy eating, physical activity, and dyadic coping among older adults. Funded by the Institut de Gériatrie de Montréal and the PERFORM Centre.
-The impact of cognitive-behavioural treatment on stress-related inso
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