Research expertise: sleep; psychological well-being; social/interpersonal adjustment; adolescent development; emerging adulthood. Director of the Sleep and Psychosocial Adjustment (S.P.A.) Lab.

Royette Tavernier Dubar is a developmental psychologist, whose research program examines the link between sleep and psychosocial adjustment. Professor Dubar uses both subjective (e.g., self-report) and objective (e.g., actigraphy) assessments to measure sleep characteristics, such as sleep duration, sleep onset latency, sleep efficiency, and sleep quality. Her interest in psychosocial adjustment spans a wide range of indices, including  psychological well-being, emotion regulation, interpersonal relationships, and social media use. Some of the statistical tools used in her research include auto-regressive cross-lagged analysis, latent profile analysis, and hierarchical linear modeling. Her interest in sleep and psychosocial adjustment extends to both short term (i.e., day-to-day) and longer term (over months and years) associations, with a particular emphasis on the emerging adulthood years (i.e., 18 - 29).

A second line of research uses qualitative designs to examine the role of life story narratives in identity development and psychosocial well-being among adolescents and emerging adults.

Dubar enjoys cooking, dancing to Caribbean music (soca, bouyon, dancehall, reggae), and spending time with her husband, two sons, and their cat.