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UPLIFT Health Lab

UPLIFT Health Lab
Our research is focused on understanding psychosocial well-being and biobehavioural mechanisms underlying healthy aging.
Daily positive events promote health
Our work demonstrates that daily positive experiences are associated with lower inflammation, adaptive cortisol profiles, and better health behaviours.
Positive experiences and stress processes
We have found that maintaining positive emotions in the face of stress is important for health.

We are conducting the Daily Experiences and Health Study remotely through Zoom. Please contact us at uplift@psych.ubc.ca if you are interested in enrolling!

Welcome to the UPLIFT Health Lab website!

We are interested in Understanding Pathways Linking Inter- and Intraindividual Factors To Health.

Our areas of interest include:

Biological and behavioural mechanisms linking daily experiences to long-term health and aging
The roles of positive experiences in stress and coping processes
Day-to-day dynamics of psychosocial well-being, sleep, and health behaviours
Biopsychosocial determinants of risk and outcomes for cardiovascular disease

We acknowledge that our learning takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. We make this acknowledgement with the recognition that our relationships to land and place, the lifelong development of identity, and our understanding of our place in the world are essential to the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. To find out which Indigenous lands you live on, visit native-land.ca.

Study Reveals Older Adults Coping with Pandemic Best The latest newsletter for the Gerontological Society of America featured our research on age differences in daily life experiences during the pandemic, led by PhD student Patrick Klaiber.

PURC Congrats to Honours student Jamile De Medeiros e Silva, who gave a fantastic presentation on sleep variability and affect at the UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference!

APS Jin Wen presented his research on self-control and cortisol stress reactivity at the American Psychosomatic Society conference (March 2019). Dr. Sin gave a talk on emotional vulnerability to short sleep and long-term functional limitations, and she was a roundtable facilitator on the topic of “Data for the Masses” (thank you to the Emerging Leaders SIG!). […]

Gerontological Society of America Dr. Sin presented 2 talks at the GSA conference in Boston, entitled “Characterizing the co-occurrence of positive events and stressors in daily life” and “Daily positive events are associated with more favourable perceptions of same-day stressors.”

Canadian Association on Gerontology Congrats to Jin Wen, Kevin Chi, and Sonali Sharma on their recent presentations at the Canadian Association on Gerontology conference! Jin was winner of the CIHR Institute of Aging Student Poster Competition (Master’s Category)!

More news.

The UPLIFT Health Lab at UBC is exploring how daily experiences contribute to emotional well-being and health among adults in our community. Please visit the Daily Experiences and Health website for more details.

Email: uplift[at]psych.ubc.ca
Phone: 604 827 2241
Location:
UPLIFT Health Lab
Kenny Building, Room 2102
2136 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
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