• Mental health of people living with HIV
• Environmental psychology
• Digital mental health interventions

Selected Publications

• Liem, A., Garabiles, M. R.,Pakingan, K. A., Chen, W., Lam, A. I. F., Burchert, S., & Hall, B. J.(2020). A digital mental health intervention to reduce depressive symptoms amongoverseasFilipino workers: protocol for a pilot hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial.Implementation sciencecommunications,1, 1-16
• Simon, P. D.,Pakingan, K. A., & Aruta, J. J. B. R. (2022). Measurement of climate changeanxiety and its mediating effect between experience of climate change andmitigation actions of Filipino youth.Educational and DevelopmentalPsychologist,39(1), 17-27.
• Liem, A.,Pakingan, K. A., Garabiles, M. R., Sit, H. F., Burchert, S., Lam, A. I., & Hall,B. J.(2022). Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health App for Overseas FilipinoWorkers in Macao China: A Mixed-Methods Study of Stakeholders’Perspectives.Frontiers in Psychiatry,13, 836156.
• Aruta, J. J. B. R., Salanga, M. G. C.,Pakingan, K.A.,& Mateo, N. J. (2022). Blessed are thepoor, they shall be more persistent: Meaning in life and persistence amongadolescents from low-and high-income regions in the Philippines.PsychologicalStudies,67(3), 294-303.
• Aruta, J. J. B. R., &Pakingan, K. A.(2022). Validating nature relatedness scale in thePhilippines: Social responsibility as a cultural driver on why nature relatednesspromotes green purchase intention.International Social Science Journal,72(245),635-654