Social Development Lab, University of Waterloo

Social Development Lab (SDL) is a developmental psychology lab housed in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada. I had worked as a research assistant for the SDL from December 2023 to August 2024. These are some projects I had been part of:

Validation of WRBS-Middle

The Waterloo Region Belonging Survey - Middle Childhood Version (WRBS-Middle) is designed to measure children’s (aged 8-13) sense of belonging in non-school contexts. As a directed studies student, I led the validation of the survey by

• Examining the internal consistency, validity, and factor structure of the WRBS-Middle

• Writing a formal report on the validation processes and results

Data Cleaning of WRBS-Early

The Waterloo Region Belonging Survey - Early Childhood Version (WRBS-Early) is designed to measure children’s (aged 3-7) sense of belonging in non-school contexts. As a research assistant, I was in charge of

• Cleaning and merging children’s data with their parents’ data using R