Projects

Current Projects

Social cognition determinants of preventive behaviours for respiratory infections: Meta-analysis and test of a process model
Effects of reappraising stress and anxiety-related arousal on wellbeing and performance outcomes: A meta-analysis and proposal of a new model (view study registration)
Implicit and explicit attitudes: Meta-analysis and test of a process model (view study registration)
Beliefs about treatment and illness: A meta-analysis (view study registration) (view study material)
Longitudinal tests of the Theory of Planned Behavior: Meta-analysis (view study registration)
Testing the replicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior: A large-scale multi-sample registered replication study (view study material)
Trait self-control and social cognitive predictors of health behavior: Meta-analysis (view study registration)
Social cognition determinants of drowning preventive behaviours: Meta-analysis
The role of personality on behaviour: Meta-analysis
Social cognition determinants of COVID-19 preventive behaviours: Meta-analysis and test of a process model
The longitudinal effects of incarceration on prisoner self-control and behaviours

Current Projects

Child and Family Health

Improving caregiver oral self-care and healthy dietary habits for young Indigenous children: Developing a culturally specific health promotion model
Understanding parents’ beliefs and behaviours towards managing their children’s chronic diseases and how management style influences parental health and well-being
Investigating the social psychological predictors of social distancing behaviours among adolescents in Iran
Autonomous motivation for physical activity in lower secondary school students in physical education and in out-of-school context
Investigating healthy eating behaviours among children and young adults: The role of social psychological mediators and moderators
Investigating pregnant women’s oral hygiene behaviours and associated social psychological factors
Investigating children and adolescent explicit and implicit health cognitions in varied health behaviours
Developing and delivering a parent-child healthy eating habits intervention

Adult Health

Investigating the effects of incarceration on prisoner self-control
Examining the role of implicit and explicit attitudes on multiple health behaviours and in multiple populations
Mindsets, individual differences, coping, and health
The role of cue consistency in health behaviour
Using virtual reality to enhance performance and the positive psychological experience of exercise
Predicting motivations for attending bootcamps
The role of socio-structural and dispositional factors on health behaviour

Ageing Health

The role neighbourhood, individual, and social factors on older adults health behaviours.

Health in Workplaces

The role of habits in improving sedentary officer workers movement throughout the workday
Predicting intrinsic motivation in professionals operating in commanding and pressuring environments
Using existing networks to deliver brief health behaviour change interventions

Environmental Heath

Exploring beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour change in response to the ban on single-use plastic bags in retail outlets in Queensland and Western Australia, Australia
Psychological effects of a container deposit scheme in Queensland, Australia

Current Projects

Identifying the psychological and environmental correlates of parents’ enrolment behaviours in learn to swim lessons for their young children
Understanding consumers’ knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward portable pool compliance and safety behaviours
Understanding risk taking behaviours in young males around water
Investigating the physical and mental health impacts of recues on the rescuer

Current Projects

Understanding how beliefs about stress (stress mindset) influence health and performance outcomes
Do you have a secret? Understanding the impact of silent stressors on health
Development and validation of a state-based measure of coping

Current Projects

Testing a planning intervention to improve student engagement in online learning