Meta-analyses and Systematic Reviews
Current Projects
- 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 preventive behaviours for respiratory infections: Meta-analysis and test of a process model
- 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: A systematic literature review
- Digital behaviour change interventions after stroke: A systematic literature review
- Social cognition correlates of self-management behaviors in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: A meta-analytic review
- Illness and treatment beliefs and health outcomes in chronic pain: A meta-analysis
- Social cognitive predictors of oral hygiene behaviour in pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Capturing stress processes using mobile phone-based intensive longitudinal methods: A scoping review
- Towards an understanding of health behaviour maintenance in complex behaviours: A scoping review
Health Behaviour Motivation and Change
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
- Autonomous motivation for physical activity in secondary school students in physical education and in out-of-school context
- Investigating pregnant women’s oral hygiene behaviours and associated social psychological factors
- Investigating children’s explicit and implicit health cognitions in varied health behaviours
- Developing and delivering a physical activity intervention for sedentary parent-child dyads
Adult and Ageing Health
- The role of motivational (e.g., intention, attitude), volitional (e.g., planning, self-monitoring), and implicit (e.g., implicit beliefs, habit, cue consistency) processes on multiple health behaviours and in varied populations
- Mindsets, individual differences, coping, and health
- Investigating the effects of incarceration on prisoner self-control
- The role of health literacy on health behaviours
- Using virtual reality to enhance performance and improve health behaviour engagement
- The mediating role of socio-structural and dispositional factors on behaviour
- Investigating socio-structural and social cognition factors on health behaviours including: e-cigarette use, risky e-scooter behaviours, online gambling, alcohol use, physical activity, healthy eating, sleep
Health in Workplaces
- The role of habits in improving movement throughout the workday among sedentary officer workers
- Predicting intrinsic motivation in professionals operating in commanding and pressuring environments
- Using existing workplace 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
Accident and Injury Prevention
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
- Using virtual reality and eye tracking to examine people’s decisions to drive into floodwater
Stress and Health
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
- Establishing the temporal sequence of a stress beliefs model: A longitudinal mixed methods study
Learning and Teaching Innovations
Current Projects
- Investigating the role of planning and self-monitoring to improve student engagement in online learning