Psychology (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Variations in adolescents' motivational characteristics across gender and physical activity patterns: A latent class analysis approach.
(2017)Background: Neglecting to take account of the underlying context or type of physical activity (PA) that underpins overall involvement has resulted in a limited understanding of adolescents’ PA participation. The purpose ... -
An exploratory study of the effects of Mindfulness on perceived levels of stress among school-children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
(2014)Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are at increased risk of experiencing stress and associated social-emotional difficulties and behavioural problems, which can undermine academic performance and lead to school ... -
"Be here now" – service users' experiences of a mindfulness group intervention
(2018)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore service users’ experiences of a mindfulness group intervention. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 15 participants with a diagnosis of a mild or moderate intellectual ... -
Childhood sexual abuse: sibling perspectives
(2018)Despite a recent focus highlighting the systemic impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), the needs of nonabused siblings have been largely overlooked. This interpretative phenomenological analysis study explored the lived ... -
Children's Naive Concepts of OCD and How They Are Affected by Biomedical Versus Cognitive Behavioural Psychoeducation
(2018)Background: How we conceptualize mental health conditions is important as it impacts on a wide range of mediators of treatment outcome. We do not know how children intuitively conceptualize obsessive-compulsive disorder ... -
Exploring the impact of choral singing on mindfulness
(2018)A wealth of academic research demonstrates an empirical link between choral singing and well-being. This study investigated the construct of state mindfulness as a potential generative mechanism by which this link exists. ... -
Do ADHD-impulsivity and BMI have shared polygenic and neural correlates?
(2019)There is an extensive body of literature linking ADHD to overweight and obesity. Research indicates that impulsivity features of ADHD account for a degree of this overlap. The neural and polygenic correlates of this ... -
Appreciative Inquiry, a LightHouse on a Foggy Path: Healthcare Teams Share Success Stories
(2019)As a psychologist I believed I had a good understanding of group dynamics and organisational change principles. As my project began, I was optimistic about being able to support multidisciplinary colleagues and act as a ... -
Place Cells: Knowing Where You Are Depends on Knowing Where You're Heading
(2017)Knowing where you are and knowing where you are heading are both necessary for navigation. Does knowing where you are depend on knowing where you are heading, or is it the other way around? A new study suggests that knowing ... -
The captive brain: Torture and the neuroscience of humane interrogation
(Oxford University Press, 2018)Despite it being abhorrent and illegal, torture is sometimes employed for information gathering. However, the extreme stressors employed during torture force the brain away from the relatively narrow, adaptive range of ... -
Assessing the efficacy and acceptability of an internet-delivered intervention for resilience among college students: A pilot randomised control trial protocol
(2019)Background: Exposure to new stressors places college students at increased risk for developing mental health problems. Preventive interventions aimed at enhancing resilience have the potential to improve mental health and ... -
Wellbeing in Aviation Summit
(2019)Understanding pilot wellbeing, and its impact on flight safety: identifying self-management strategies to promote the bio-psycho-social pillars of wellbeing. -
Adolescent binge drinking disrupts normal trajectories of brain functional organization and personality maturation
(2019)Adolescent binge drinking has been associated with higher risks for the development of many health problems throughout the lifespan. Adolescents undergo multiple changes that involve the co-development processes of brain, ... -
Decisions, Decisions: Machine Learning as a Tool to Identify Alcohol-use Disorder Treatment Seekers
(Elsevier, 2019)Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are very common in the developed world [1], yet only a minority of individuals with AUD seek treatment. Several factors influence the choice to seek treatment, including demographic, psychological ... -
Predicting development of adolescent drinking behaviour from whole brain structure at 14 years of age
(eLife Sciences Publications, 2019)Adolescence is a common time for initiation of alcohol use and development of alcohol use disorders. The present study investigates neuroanatomical predictors for trajectories of future alcohol use based on a novel voxel-wise ... -
Commentary on Afzali et al. (2019): Two data sets are better than one
(Society for the Study of Addiction, 2019)The use of large data sets in addiction research iswelcome, because statistical power is increased. Whenapplied to large data sets, machine learning can help withinterpreting variable importance and with ... -
Pubertal maturation and sex effects on the default-mode network connectivity implicated in mood dysregulation
(2019)This study examines the effects of puberty and sex on the intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) of brain networks, with a focus on the default-mode network (DMN). Consistently implicated in depressive disorders, the DMN’s ... -
Mapping adolescent reward anticipation, receipt, and prediction error during the monetary incentive delay task.
(2019)The functional neuroanatomy and connectivity of reward processing in adults are well documented, with relatively less research on adolescents, a notable gap given this developmental period’s association with altered reward ... -
Dissociable psychosocial profiles of adolescent substance users
(Public Library of Science, 2018)Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use in adolescence is associated with adverse outcomes. Characterizing adolescent substance misusers, however, is difficult due to the wide range of risk and protective factors linked to ...
