Meta-analyses and Systematic Reviews
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
Health Behaviour Motivation and Change
Current Projects
Child and Family Health
- Investigating the social psychological predictors of social distancing behaviours among adolescents
- 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 psycho-social mediators and moderators and the role of counter intentional habits
- Investigating parental behaviour for childhood oral health; supported by Australian Government Research Training Program and Colgate
- Investigating explicit and implicit health cognitions in young children; supported by Australian Government Research Training Program
- 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
- Examining implicit and explicit attitudes for health behaviours
- 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; supported by Australian Government Research Training Program
- 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
- Investigating workplace physical activity habits; supported by Australian Government Research Training Program
- 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
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 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
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
- 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)
Learning and Teaching Innovations
Current Projects
- Assessing graduate employability in final year psychology undergraduate students
- Testing a planning intervention to improve student engagement in online learning
