The TAYA Lab conducts research to understand interpersonal and sociocultural influences on adolescent mental health and wellbeing. Our research focuses on adolescents and emerging adults, aged roughly 11-29.
Research Projects
Resource Index
ASMC Scale
The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale is available for use by researchers at the button below. It was first published in an open-access paper available here (Choukas-Bradley et al., 2020). A paper reporting its psychometric properties for use with young adults was published in 2022 and is available here (Maheux et al., 2022).
Publications
To see a full list of TAYA Lab publications, including manuscripts that are currently in preparation and under review, please see Dr. Choukas-Bradley's CV.
Lab Openings
Thank you for your interest in the TAYA Lab! We are currently full and will not be accepting applications from prospective graduate students during the 2025-2026 admissions cycle. In the interim, this page has professional development resources for prospective graduate students. As of Spring 2025, we also do not currently have any openings for paid or unpaid positions for undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate student, or post-doctoral trainees. For questions about lab openings, please write to our lab manager, Emily Gotkiewicz, at EMG196@pitt.edu.
April 8, 2025
TAYA doctoral student Savannah Roberts awarded P.E.O. Scholar Award!
Clinical–Developmental student Savannah Roberts was selected for a P.E.O. Scholar Award! This is a merit-based international fellowship awarded to a select group of women doctoral students across any field in the U.S. or Canada, which supplements a student's existing financial support from their university. Savannah was simultaneously awarded an Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh! Congratulations, Savannah!
March 1, 2025
Choukas-Bradley becomes Consulting Editor at Child Development and Journal of Research on Adolescence
Choukas-Bradley has joined the editorial boards of Child Development and Journal of Research on Adolescence as a Consulting Editor. She continues to serve on the Editorial Board of Body Image (since 2022).