Projects

Current Projects

Social cognition determinants of preventive behaviors 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: A 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: A meta-analysis (view study registration)
Moderation effects in the Theory of Planned Behavior in health behaviors: A pre-registered analysis of existing data sets (view study registration) (view study materials)
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: A meta-analysis (view study registration)
Habit and past behavior in theories of social cognition: A meta-analysis

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 sugar sweetened beverages and fruit and vegetable intake among children and young adults: The role of social psychological mediators and moderators and the role of counter intentional habits
Investigating parental behaviour and social psychological factors for childhood oral health and nutrition behaviours
Investigating explicit and implicit health cognitions across the lifespan
Developing and delivering a parent-child healthy eating habits intervention

Adult Health

“The best laid plan”: Do individual differences in planfulness influence the effectiveness of planning interventions
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: An investigation among Australian and Hong Kong university students
The ENHANCE (Exercise aNd beHaviour chANge CounsElling) program for arthroplasty patients
Multiple health behaviours: Investigating the compensation effect
The role of cue frequency and cue consistency in health behaviour
Time perspective effects in persuasion and behaviour change
Using virtual reality to enhance performance and the positive psychological experience of exercise
Predicting motivations for attending bootcamps
Alcohol consumption and university students: what changes over time
The role of personality and individual factors on health behaviour

Ageing Health

Neighbour environment, risk of falling, and fall prevention among Hong Kong older adults: a qualitative investigation; funded by Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant

Health in Workplaces

The role of habits in improving sedentary officer workers movement throughout their workday
Investigating sleep hygiene behaviours and work engagement in Australian and Hong Kong university students
Predicting intrinsic motivation in professionals operating in commanding and pressuring environments
Using existing networks to deliver brief health behaviour change interventions

Environmental Heath

Identifying the social psychological predictors of green purchase behaviours among adolescents
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 the knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of Australia learner drivers toward driving into floodwater
Alcohol and aquatic activities: Program evaluation of “Don’t let your mates drink and drown”
Understanding risk taking behaviours in young males around water: A qualitative analysis
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
Investigating protective factors against burnout in police officers
Development and validation of a state-based measure of coping
Promoting perinatal mental health and wellbeing: Development and evaluation of screening and intervention programs for both parents, using the Internet and text messages (SMSs)

Current Projects

Assessing graduate employability in final year psychology undergraduate students
Testing a planning intervention to improve student engagement in online learning