Renate Ysseldyk
Associate Professor
| Degrees: | PhD (Carleton) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 4428 |
| Email: | renate.ysseldyk@carleton.ca |
| Website: | Browse |
Primary Fields of Specialization:
Social and Health Psychology, Aging
Research Interests:
In broad terms, my research takes an interdisciplinary, mixed-method, and community-based approach to contribute toward understanding and promoting individuals’ mental health, and healthy societies more broadly, by focusing on three interconnected themes: 1) healthy aging, 2) (non)religious, ethnic, and gender-based social identities, and 3) coping with stress. My ongoing research program is thus grounded in a social identity theoretical framework for studying health among potentially vulnerable populations (e.g., older adults living with dementia, caregivers, individuals who have experienced stigma, discrimination, trauma, or illness) in order to transform understandings of psychosocial care and improve mental health outcomes.
Select publications:
View a complete list of publications on Google Scholar.