{"id":751,"date":"2022-04-12T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=751"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:29:40","slug":"alicia-mcvarnock","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/people\/alicia-mcvarnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia McVarnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Alicia McVarnock is a Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology. She studies social-emotional development, with a focus on experiences of solitude during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Alicia is specifically interested in looking beyond time alone to consider how the \u201c<em>what\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(i.e., solitary activities), \u201c<em>why\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(i.e., internal motivations), and \u201c<em>where\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(i.e., environmental context) of solitude interact to predict well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a secondary line of research, Alicia studies how community-based interventions can be leveraged to enhance ecological resilience in violence-affected youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keywords:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>solitude, affinity for aloneness, social-emotional development, resilience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3184,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Alicia","cu_people_last_name":"McVarnock","cu_people_initials":"AM","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[24],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-751","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-students"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Ph.D. Student","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/751\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}