Resume

• 2009

  Member

  Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

  International/Cross-Cultural section: Student representative

  Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

  French

  English

  Yiddish

  Doctoral Fellowship

  FRQSC - Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture

  Post Doctoral Fellowship

  FRQSC - Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture

  Doctoral Fellowship

  SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

• 2008

  Member

  International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

  Member

  Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

• 2007

  Marianopolis College

  PhD

  Social and Cultural Psychology Research

• 2003

  Art of Living

  Université du Québec à Montréal

  K.I.D.S. daycares and daycamp

  Université Laval

  In collaboration with Dr. Richard Lalonde

  my post-doctoral research examines multicultural identification in the context of intercultural romantic relationships.

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  York University

  I teach Art of Living courses

  organize and facilitate YES!+ courses

  Art of Living

  Université du Québec à Montréal

  Under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Amiot at UQAM

  my dissertation research is comprised of 3 large-scale projects using qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the experience of identifying with multiple cultural groups

  and how this identification process is related to our social context

  and to our well-being. In addition to my dissertation work

  I am developing an innovative acculturation measure in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Ryder at Concordia University. I have also been a research assistant

  a lecturer

  a teaching assistant

  and a co-supervisor for an honours thesis student.

  PhD student

  Social psychology

  Montreal

  Canada Area

  Concordia University

  Université Laval

  Assistant Professor

  Quebec

  Canada

  Université Laval

  Yoga instructor

  I taught yoga to children ranging from 2 to 16 years old.

  K.I.D.S. daycares and daycamp

• 2002

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  First Class Honours Psychology

  Concordia University

• I have been volunteering to organize programs

  events

  and courses with the Art of Living Foundation since 2000 (e.g.

  Yogathon). I was also one of the coordinators of Montreal's Art of Living centre from 2011 to 2013.

  The Art of Living

  Yoga

  Experimental Design

  French

  Teaching

  Social Psychology

  Scientific Writing

  Research

  Data Analysis

  Statistics

  Cultural Psychology

  University Teaching

  SPSS

  Public Speaking

  Social science research

  Report Writing

  Science

  Social Sciences

  Quantitative Research

  Psychology

  Meditation

  Priming self-determined and non self-determined group identification: Effects on well-being and ingroup bias.

  Catherine E. Amiot

  Social identity is considered a key social psychological variable to understand intergroup behaviors. Given that social identity has been associated with divergent outcomes (e.g.

  individual well-being

  helping behaviors

  ingroup bias)

  we investigated which dimensions of social identification yield these divergent consequences. To this aim

  the present study applied self-determination theory to capture how group members’ motivation for identifying with their ingroup may predict these different intergroup and individual outcomes. The research also tested the interplay between these motivations to identify and participants’ chronic levels of social identification. Motivation to identify was experimentally manipulated using a priming methodology to activate the implicit motives underlying identification with groups. Québécois undergraduate students took part in the study (N=113). As expected

  results from moderated multiple regression analyses revealed that identification with Québec was significantly related to more ingroup bias among participants who were primed with a non self-determined motivation to identify. Well-being was significantly predicted by degree of identification but not by primed motivation. Results are interpreted in light of social identity theory and self-determination theory.

  Priming self-determined and non self-determined group identification: Effects on well-being and ingroup bias.

  The Role of Spirituality in Coping with Visual Impairment

  Olga Overbury

  Gail Webb

  Spirituality and coping behaviors were measured in 85 individuals with visual impairments aged 23 to 97. A regression analysis indicated that the religious well-being subscale of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale is a significant predictor of adaptive coping behaviors

  indicating that higher religious well-being facilitates adaptive coping.

  The Role of Spirituality in Coping with Visual Impairment

  Roxane de la Sablonnière

  Catherine E. Amiot

  Understanding the experiences of multicultural individuals is vital in our diverse populations. Multicultural people often need to navigate the different norms and values associated with their multiple cultural identities. Recent research on multicultural identification has focused on how individuals with multiple cultural groups manage these different identities within the self

  and how this process predicts well-being.The current study built on this research by using a qualitative method to examine the process of configuring one’s identities within the self. The present study employed three of the four different multiple identity configurations in Amiot et al (2007) cognitive-developmental model of social identity integration: categorization

  where people identify with one of their cultural groups over others; compartmentalization

  where individuals maintain multiple

  separate identities within themselves; and integration

  where people link their multiple cultural identities. Life narratives were used to investigate the relationship between each of these configurations and well-being

  as indicated by narrative coherence. It was expected that individuals with integrated cultural identities would report greater narrative coherence than individuals who compartmentalized and categorized their cultural identities. For all twenty-two participants

  identity integration was significantly and positively related to narrative coherence

  while compartmentalization was significantly and negatively related to narrative coherence. ANOVAs revealed that integrated and categorized participants reported significantly greater narrative coherence than compartmentalized participants. These findings are discussed in light of previous research on multicultural identity integration.

  Multicultural identity integration and well-being: A qualitative exploration of variations in narrative coherence and multicultural identification

  Rusi Jaspal (first author)

  This study explores how a group of young Israeli Jews understood and defined their ethno-national identities

  focusing upon the role of social representations of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish Israeli identity. Eleven individuals were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Transcripts were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. The analysis was informed by identity process theory and social representations theory. Three superordinate themes are reported

  entitled: (i) ‘perceptions of the Holocaust as a personal and shared loss’; (ii) ‘re-conceptualising the Holocaust and its impact upon intra-/intergroup relations’; and (iii) ‘the Holocaust as a heuristic lens for understanding the Israeli-Arab conflict’. The data suggest that awareness of social representations of the Holocaust may enhance the belonging and continuity principles of identity

  in particular. It is argued that the maintenance of national ingroup security constitutes a source of (group) continuity. Implications for psychological well-being are discussed.

  Social representations of the Holocaust and Jewish Israeli identity construction: insights from identity process theory

  CIEL stands for Culture and Identity Explored Longitudinally. It is a longitudinal project examining newly arrived international students' well-being and their identity changes in Montreal.

  Amelie Beaupré

  Marina Doucerian

  Dr. Catherine Amiot

  Honour's Thesis: LGB Multicultural Identity & Well-being

  Yampolsky

  PhD

  Concordia University

  York University