Royette Tavernier Dubar
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Judd Hall, 106860-685-2206
MS Brock University
PHD Brock University
Royette Tavernier Dubar
Research expertise: sleep; psychological well-being; social/interpersonal adjustment; adolescent development; emerging adulthood. Director of the Sleep and Psychosocial Adjustment (S.P.A.) Lab.
Royette Tavernier Dubar is a developmental psychologist, whose research program examines the link between sleep and psychosocial adjustment. Professor Dubar uses both subjective (e.g., self-report) and objective (e.g., actigraphy) assessments to measure several sleep characteristics, such as sleep duration, sleep latency, sleep efficiency, and sleep quality. Her interest in psychosocial adjustment spans a wide range of indices, including psychological wellbeing, emotion regulation, interpersonal relationships, and social media use. Some of the statistical tools used in her research include: auto-regressive cross-lagged analysis, growth curve modeling, latent class analysis, and hierarchical linear modeling. Her interest in sleep and psychosocial adjustment extends to both short term (i.e., day-to-day) as well as long term (over years) associations, with a particular emphasis on the emerging adulthood years (i.e., 18 - 29).
A second line of research uses qualitative designs to examine the role of life story narratives in psychosocial adjustment among emerging adults.
Dubar enjoys cooking, dancing to Caribbean music (soca, bouyon, dancehall, reggae), and spending time with her husband and two sons.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
SPRING 2024
Wednesday, 1:30PM - 3:30PM - CLICK here to schedule a "Let's Chat" session within this time frame.
Courses
Spring 2024
PSYC 214 - 01
Rsch Mthds in Sleep Research
PSYC 343 - 01
Sleep & Psychosoc Funct Youth
Fall 2024
PSYC 248 - 01
Adolescence & Emerg Adulthood
PSYC 386 - 01
Advanced Research in Sleep