Psychology (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Plotting the intertwining psychological and biological pathways linking stress and health
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)The ability to maintain psychological well-being in the face of exposure to stressors is a crucial capacity that has implications for human health. How a person responds to adverse conditions is contingent on a multitude ... -
Second Level Education and Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Exploration of Peer, Parent and Teacher Experiences
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are extensively reported to find the experience of secondary school challenging. Few studies have informed on this in detail, particularly considering social and behavioural ... -
Dissemination of evidence-based practice to frontline staff working in the field of intellectual disability: An evaluation of training protocols, intervention compliance, and generalisation.
Individuals with intellectual disabilities have the right to the highest standard of service provision. However, reports indicate that the practice of hiring personnel without suitable professional qualifications, is a ... -
Cognitive reserve : an investigation of construct validity and relationships with cognitive function in generally healthy older adults
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)This thesis evaluated the construct validity of a multiple-indicator, latent variable model of cognitive reserve (CR), and investigated relationships between this construct and age-related cognitive outcomes in a cohort ... -
Comparing and contrasting the effects of aerobic exercise and the exercise mimetic, resveratrol, on neurocognitive function
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2013)Excerpt from introduction: Although taken out of context from their use in the opening line of Juvenal’s poem, Satire X, from the late 1st century, these words have often been repeated to promote the belief that only a ... -
Investigating accuracy of trade-off and its neural correlates, how well can we trade apples for oranges?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)As humans, we perform trade-off of incommensurable concepts on daily basis. For example, many of purchase decisions, especially those involving complex products with multiple incommensurable attributes, require us to trade ... -
Dual information processing of cardiovascular disease risk perception : an examination of the Extended Parallel Process Model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)The overall objective of this thesis was to examine dual information processing of CVD risk communications through empirical manipulations of both information processing modes (cognitive and affective), and to examine the ... -
A social media-based intervention to support the management of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)Chapter 1 described diabetes, its incidence rate and the difference between Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), with a focus on T1DM. Management of T1DM is very demanding process that places ... -
Neurocognitive and electrophysiological indices of cognitive performance in ageing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)Combining neuropsychological and electrophysiological methodologies this thesis investigates differential cognitive performance in ageing and attempts to identify neurocognitive and electrophysiological markers with the ... -
Maintaining wellness in fibromyalgia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue and multiple tender points. It is a common, multidimensional disorder that is associated with complex symptomatology and ... -
Congitive Processes in Moral Judgement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Psychological theories of morality tend to agree that automatic processes in the mind influence moral judgments, but they disagree about the role of effortful cognition. These theories also focus primarily on how people ... -
Prefrontal Contributions to Attention in Ageing and Stroke: Implications for Cognitive Reserve
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2017)Abstract M?adhbh B. Brosnan Prefrontal contributions to attention in ageing and stroke: implications for cognitive reserve. Global life expectancy is increasing dramatically with a corresponding rise in the prevalence ... -
Supervisee transfer of learning in psychotherapy supervision.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2017)Aim: Clinical supervision is a well established means of facilitating supervisee learning and transfer of learning is explicitly linked to learning. Within the clinical supervision literature, there is an absence of research ... -
Investigating recognition and preferences for self-voice on speech generating devices in autism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)A substantial number of children with autism cannot communicate by voice (Eigsti, de Marchena, Schuh, & Kelley, 2011; Kjelgaard & Tager-Flusberg, 2001). Voice enabled Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices, ... -
Application of Emotion-focused Therapy as a treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder : analysis of eight case studies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)The aim of the current study is to develop an effective variant of Emotion- focused Therapy (EFT) for Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), which can be delivered within the same time-frame as currently accepted, empirically ... -
Sensory cue interactions in person perception : insights from ageing and developmental prosopagnosia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)A large body of behavioural and neuropsychological research, using static images of faces, has informed our understanding of the mechanisms underlying identity processing. Indeed, pioneering studies revealed dedicated ... -
Risk perception as a function of age - a psychological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2015)This thesis explored how older drivers' perception of risk differs from that of younger age groups. Its aim was to enhance knowledge that can inform the development of measures to maintain the driving safety of older drivers ... -
A study of the acculturation and health of the Irish in Britain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)Ireland has had a relatively high rate of emigration for centuries. This has been traditionally out-migration from the island although with an uptum in the economy, in the 1970s, and also in the 1990s, - the latter due ... -
Therapeutic recreation camping programmes for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Within the healthcare system, camping programmes providing a form of therapeutic recreation service are emerging as a form of intervention for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings. In numerous instances, ... -
Prismatic adaptation effects on non-spatial and spatial processes in the healthy adult
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)The structure of the thesis is broadly based on the hierarchical division of attention into two domains – intensity and selectivity components of attention (Sturm, 1996; Van Zomeren & Brouwer, 1994). The intensity components ...
