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69This study's aim was to determine whether there exists a relationship between extracurricular participation and burnout. This study used multiple scales: Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and an involvement survey. We found these variables accounted for 35.3% of the variance for MBI scores, F(3, 38) = 6.91, p < .001, R2 = .35. Our study revealed depression is a strong predictor of burnout, while anxiety and extracurricular engagement were not.POSTER 70\ STATE OF MIND:\STATE POLITICS ON INDIVIDUAL'S VIEWSKATIE KEIL (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY) This study uses data from the 2020 American National Election Studies (ANES) Time Series Study to explore the influence of state-level political climates on individual political views. My findings suggest that public policy responsiveness and matching playsignificant roles in mediating the relationship between state political culture and individual ideological views.POSTER 71\ PRESSURE:\SUBSTANCE USE IN COLLEGE STUDENTSVICTORIA BLOUCH (PENN STATE HARRISBURG A CAMPUS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY), GIULIA CANTELLA (PENN STATE HARRISBURG), JUSTIN NALERIO (PENN STATE HARRISBURG), %u00d6VG%u00dc KAYNAK (PENN STATE HARRISBURG), CHRISTOPHER WHIPPLE (PENN STATE HARRISBURG) Substance use is prevalent among college students across the United States, often leading to damaging effects on mental health and negatively impacting academic performance. This study examined the relation between perceived stress and substance use (i.e., tobacco use, alcohol use, cannabis use), mediated by anxiety, in a sample of 340 college students. Mediation analyses revealed an indirect association between stress and cannabis use, through anxiety. However, this effect was not found for other substances.POSTER 72AGONIZINGLY AIMLESS: DO BOREDOM PRONENESS AND MEANING IN LIFE PREDICT DEPRESSION?ELIJAH PACHECO-BLOCH (OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY), NADIA COLON (OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY), TAYLOR FORD (OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY), AMEER ALMUAYBID (OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY) We examined if boredom proneness and meaning in life collectively predict depression. The regression model showed a positive significant association supporting our hypothesis with only boredom proneness being a significant contributor. When replacing meaning in life with its sub-scale presence of meaning, the model yielded similar results and presence of meaning was a significant contributor. The sub-scale search for meaning was not a significant contributor when used although the model overall also yielded similar results.POSTER 73BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING TO ENHANCE EMOTION RECOGNITION IN ADULTS WITH AUTISMLUKE STANTON (RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK), LYRA STEIN (RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY -NEW BRUNSWICK), COURTNEY BUTLER (RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK), SUNGWOO KAHNG (RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK) This pilot study explores the efficacy of Behavioral Skills Training (BST) on emotion recognition in adults on the autism spectrum. We hypothesized that BST would improve performance on a realistic video-based affect detection task. Pre- and post-intervention results showed significant gains in recognizing simple and complex emotions, highlighting BST's potential in this domain. These findings suggest the need for future study on BST's efficacy in improving emotion recognition in adults with ASD.POSTER 74BRIDGING THE GAP: THE IMPACT OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION ON PARENT-EMERGING ADULT RELATIONSHIPSAMANDA FAHERTY (ITHACA COLLEGE), KELLY CIAN (ITHACA COLLEGE), BELLA HART (ITHACA COLLEGE), JASON GERTZMAN (ITHACA COLLEGE), ETHAN KILADA (ITHACA COLLEGE) Family communication during emerging adulthood has been found to be beneficial to psychological well-being, the facilitation of parent-child boundaries, and balance between independence and dependence. This current study aims to look at how family communication may affect the relationship quality of the parent and child, as well as understanding more about the amount of communication, frequency, familial closeness, emerging adult well-being, and parental preference. 69Friday, March 7