Jaidyn Charlton

Jaidyn began her PhD in Clinical Psychology in September 2024. Prior to this, she completed her HBA in 2021 and MA in 2024, all supervised by Dr. Mushquash at Lakehead University. Jaidyn’s dissertation is a multimethod examination of how emerging adults use social media to cope with daily stressors. This doctoral research is currently supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – Doctoral Fellowship and a SSHRC Insight Grant. She has previously been supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She has research experience examining the Dark Triad personality traits (for her MA), emotion regulation, the JoyPop app, Indigenous mental health, and more. Outside of academia, Jaidyn is an avid reader and writer, enjoys alternative and hard rock, and her clinical interests are in forensics/corrections, trauma, and psychosis.