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 10-29.
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 or 2026-2027 admissions cycles. In the interim, this page has professional development resources for prospective graduate students.
For questions about other lab openings: [Lab manager transition underway; please email PI in meantime at scb.1@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).