Jeffrey Pavlacic

Jeffrey Pavlacic is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Mississippi. His research interests include longitudinal data modeling, factor analysis, meta-analytic techniques, predictors of posttraumatic stress and resilience trajectories, positive psychology, and disaster mental health. Pavlacic's master's thesis utilized a daily diary design to examine fluctuations in factors that promote or inhibit valued living at the daily level, such as meaning in life, purpose in life, and experiential avoidance. Pavlacic has published meaning in life and resilience research utilizing longitudinal and meta-analytic methods and is pursuing a graduate minor in interdisciplinary statistics.