Katerina Rnic

Project Description

Katerina Rnic, Ph.D., R. Psych., received her Honours B.A. from Queen's University and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. She completed her clinical residency at the Calgary Clinical Psychology Residency. Dr. Rnic's research focuses on factors, such as cognitive control, associated with biological, emotional, and cognitive responses to stress in the context of major depression. She is also interested in how cognitive vulnerability, personality, and emotion regulation strategies predispose individuals to generate stress, and how this process causes, maintains, or exacerbates depression.

Research Classification

  • Clinical psychology

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Control
  • Cognitive Vulnerability
  • Stress Reactivity
  • Stress Generation
  • Inflammation
  • Cortisol
  • Emotion Regulation

Research Methodology

  • Ecological Momentary Assessment
  • Structural Equation Modelling
  • Multilevel modeling
  • Cognitive Assessment

Faculty

Faculty of Arts