Welcome!
Learn more about the three main themes of our different researches.
Sleep
Spirituality
Human Flourishing
Sleep
Our aim is to understand the impact of sleep on a wide array of human functioning, from physical health, neurocognitive affective functions, social relationships, to personality formation and character development. We also investigate how our daytime behaviours and environmental factors may in turn affect our night-time sleep. Our studies are conducted cross-sectionally as well as across multiple time points. We do so using sleep diary, actigraphy, ambulatory and laboratory polysomnogram (PSG) recordings, eye-tracking, resting-state EEG recordings, event-related potentials, cognitive testing, clinical interviews and behavioural methods in both patient groups and healthy volunteers.
Spirituality
Most past research findings suggest that a person’s religiosity/spirituality is often associated with better quality of life and wellbeing. This can be due to a stronger social network, which in turn may facilitate social support. There is also evidence that certain experiences deemed religious heighten vertical faith maturity, motivate more religious practices, predict better sleep quality at a later time, and perhaps improve quality of life. Perhaps different facets of religiosity/spirituality may have different impacts on a person. Using a prospective longitudinal approach, we examine if certain aspects of religiosity/spirituality (e.g., being converted, adopting a prosperity-gospel belief, exiting faith, etc.) would bring about specific changes in psychological characteristics such as personal values, psychological symptoms, and personality. We also evaluate some measures of religiosity. With this methodological advancement and the initial findings on nuanced effects of religiosity/spirituality, we hope to inspire future research for a more complete understanding of the construct.
Flourishing
We aim to study the processes and outcome variables pertaining to human flourishing, including physical and mental wellbeing, life satisfaction and happiness, meaning and purpose, character and virtues, and social functioning. We do so using online surveys, laboratory-based cognitive testing, actigraphy, clinical interviews and neurobehavioural methods with longitudinal cross lagged panel design and latent growth modelling approach. Ultimately, our goal is to understand the pathway to human flourishing, and to inform interventions and public policies that may foster an individual’s ability to flourish.
