Lydia is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Health Psychology program under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Sin. She received her Master’s in Health Psychology from UBC in 2022 and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Chapman University in 2020. Her research covers daily stress processes and affective experiences in adulthood and aging, with a focus on subjective views of aging. She primarily employs daily diary/ecological momentary assessment methods to answer questions regarding individual differences in daily processes as well as changes within persons.

Stress, views of aging, positive events, affect, daily diary

Wolk, M.W., Ong, L.Q., Burrow, A.L., Sin, N.L., & Hill, P.L. (in press). Discrimination in daily life: Effects on sense of purpose and derailment. Current Psychology.

Hammond, D., Ong, L.Q., Morstead, T., DeLongis, A., Sin, N.L., & Klaiber, P. (2025). Optimism and depressive symptoms in an adult lifespan sample: Evaluating coping in daily life as a mechanism. Psychology and Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2505909

Jenkins, B.N., Ong, L.Q., Ong, A.D., Lee, H., & Boehm, J.K. (2024). Mean affect moderates the association between affect variability and mental health. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00238-0

Jenkins, B.N., Ong, L.Q., Lee, H., Ong, A.D., & Boehm, J.K. (2023). Affect variability and physical health: The moderating role of mean affect. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12459

Ong, L.Q., Klaiber, P., DeLongis, A.D., & Sin, N.L. (2022). Everyday discrimination, daily affect, and physical symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001242

Sin, N.L., & Ong, L.Q. (2022). Considerations for advancing the conceptualization of well-being. Affective Science. DOI: 10.1007/s42761-022-00149-y

Frederick, D.A., Schaefer, L.M., Hazzard, V., Rodgers, R., Ong, L.Q., … Murray, S.B. (2022). Racial identity differences in pathways from sociocultural and objectification constructs to body satisfaction: The U.S. Body Project I. Body Image. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.01.019

Berardi, V., Bostean, G., Ong, L.Q., Wong, B., & Hovell, M.C. (2021). The role of ethnicity and nativity in the correspondence between subjective reports and objective measures of in-home smoking. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01307-3

Ong, L.Q., Bellettiere, J., Alvarado, C., Chavez, P., & Berardi, V. (2021). Cannabis use, sedentary behavior, and physical activity in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Harm Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00496-2

• Mitacs Accelerate (2024)
• Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (2022)
• Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award – Master’s Level (2022)
• Northern Telecom Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2021)
• Jean MacDonald Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2021)
• Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, University of British Columbia (2020)
• Best Use of Statistics Award, American Statistical Association (2020)
• Outstanding Senior Award, Chapman University, Department of Psychology (2020)