Abstract. Evidence for the relationship between personality and dementia risk comes mainly from American samples. We tested whether personality-dementia links extend to populations from England and Australia. Data from the English Longitudinal Study of ...
Sport psychology in Australia: Research, practice, and trainingAbstract. Sport psychology as a scientific and profession a discipline is growing in Australia. The community continues to develop and engage in professional activities that connect the field ...
This paper first presents the author's impressions of the UK PhD in psychology, with respect to the author's experience of 9 years' teaching at the Universities of Oxford (1987-1989) and Manchester (1992-1999). In the second section of the paper, he ...
Background: We study the impact of suicide-exclusion periods, common in life insurance policies in Australia, on suicide and accidental death rates for life-insured individuals. If a life-insured individual dies by suicide during the period of suicide ...
This project sought to inform priority setting in Australian suicide prevention research, by empirically examining existing priorities and by seeking stakeholders views on where future priorities might lie. Existing priorities were examined via reviews ...
The 13th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB), entitled “Integrating Knowledge for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Suicidology and Suicide Prevention,” is taking place September 1–4, 2010, in Rome, Italy. The 13th ESSSB aims at ...
Background: Media reporting of suicide has attracted public health attention because of its potential to trigger “copycat” acts. Aims: To determine the factors associated with an individual suicide featuring in the media. Method: We identified from the ...
Abstract.Background: Indigenous Australians experience a suicide rate over twice that of the general population. With nonfatal deliberate self-harm (DSH) being the single most important risk factor for suicide, ...
Abstract.Background: Rates of hospital admission for suicide-related thoughts and behaviors (SRTBs) are elevated in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, especially by Aboriginal people, but very little is ...
Abstract:Background: In Australia, most state-based suicide registers now publicly release suicide mortality data alongside those the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases annually. Aims: This study compared ABS’s recorded ...
Statements of ethics and related guidelines have been developed in Australia over the period since 1968, covering psychological testing in general, and practices of individual, group, ‘blind' and computerized testing in particular. Guidelines on the ...
The use of scales to measure constructs in populations or contexts other than that in which they were established is highly controversial. Despite this, the use of scales without reference to “local” psychometric data is still widespread. In this study we ...
In this paper we examine intercultural relations from a three-way perspective (among immigrants/refugees, Anglo-Australians, and Indigenous Australians) through the lens of social cohesion and its dimensions (belonging, inclusion, participation, ...
Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic confronted teachers with unprecedented challenges to their well-being. Drawing on theories of teacher well-being and resilience, this qualitative study explores how teachers experience well-being in ...