Meta-analyses and Systematic Reviews
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
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
- 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
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
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
Learning and Teaching Innovations
Current Projects
- Testing a planning intervention to improve student engagement in online learning