Projects

The HOPE research lab has been involved in the following research topics/projects and collaborations (projects are listed by overarching themes):

Conceptualization of Family Experiences

• Family Activity Model (FAM)
• Ecology of Family Experiences (EFE)
  • Creation of Military Family Experiences

Operationalization of Family Experiences

• Family Leisure Activity Profile
  • FLAP; revised scaling procedure
• Physiological Responses to Leisure
  • Oxytocin
• Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
• Sociometric Badges

Family Leisure Experience Outcomes

• Adolescent & Family Travel
• Happiness & Types of Family Leisure
• Oxytocin Response in Couple Leisure
• Military Family Leisure (PI: Jasmine Townsend)
• Adol. Resilience Outcomes from Family Leisure (PI: Camilla Hodge & Kelly Chandler)

Intentional Family (co-PI: Nicole McAninch)

• Intentional.Family online intervention
• Intentional Family Model
• Propensity to Plan & Quality of Family Life
• Intentional Family Capacity (IF-Cap) Instrument

Adolescent/Parent Health Outcomes

• Adol. Health Literacy (co-PI: Liz Perry-Caldwell)
• ENGAGE: Positive Parenting Program Evaluation
• RED: Teen Risky-Driving Evaluation  (co-PI: Beth Lanning)
  • Adolescent Results-Manuscript
  • Parent Results- Manuscript

*unless otherwise noted, the Principal Investigator is Karen Melton