Thursday, December 20, 2012

Research Group Publications


Below are the peer-reviewed publications from the members of our new research group in Stirling over the last five years that hopefully give an indication of the type of work we will be pursuing throughout the next few years. 

2013
Angott, A. M., Comerford, D. A. & Ubel, P. A. (in press). Imagining life with an ostomy: Does a video intervention improve quality of life predictions for a medical condition that may elicit disgust? Patient Education and Counseling.

Boyce, C. J., Wood, A. M., & Powdthavee, N. (in press). Is personality fixed? Personality changes as much as "variable" economic factors and more strongly predicts changes to life satisfaction.  Social Indicators Research.

Daly, M., & Delaney, L. (in press). The scarring effect of unemployment throughout adulthood on psychological distress at age 50: Estimates controlling for early adulthood distress and childhood psychological factors.  Social Science and Medicine.

Daly, M., Baumeister, R., Delaney, L., & MacLachlan, M. (in press). Self-control and its relation to emotions and psychobiology: evidence from a day reconstruction method study. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Daly, M. (in press). The relationship of C-reactive protein to obesity-related depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study. Obesity.

Delaney, L., Harmon, C., & Ryan, M., (in press). The role of noncognitive traits in undergraduate study behaviours, Economics of Education Review.

Johnson, J., Gooding, P. A., Wood, A. M., Fair, K. L., & Tarrier, N. (in press). A therapeutic tool for boosting mood: The broad-minded affective coping procedure (BMAC). Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Kelly, R., Wood, A. M., & Mansell, W. (in press). Flexible and tenacious goal pursuit lead to improving well-being in an aging population: A ten year cohort study. International Psychogeriatrics.

Maltby, J., Day, L., Wood, A. M., Pinto, D. G., & Hogan, R. A. (in press). Beliefs in being unlucky and deficits in executive functioning. Consciousness and Cognition.

Maltby, J., Wood, A. M., Vlaev, I., Taylor, M. J., & Brown, G. D. A. (in press). Contextual effects on the perceived health benefits of exercise: The exercise rank hypothesis.  Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology.

Melrose, K., Brown, G. D. A., & Wood, A. M. (in press). Am I abnormal? Relative rank and social norm effects in judgments of anxiety and depression symptom severity.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Taylor, P. J., & Wood, A. M. (in press). Discrepancies in parental and self-appraisals of prosocial characteristics predict emotional problems in adolescents. British Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Wood, A. M. (in press). Gratitude. In A. Michalos [ed.], Encyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research. New York: Springer.

Wood, A. M., & Boyce, C. J. (in press). Personality.In A. Michalos [ed.], Encyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research. New York: Springer.

Brown, G. D. A., Wood, A. M., & Chater, N. (2012).Sources of variation within the individual. In P. Hammerstein and J. R. Stevens [Eds],  Evolution and Mechanisms of Decision Making (pp. 227-241). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

2012
Daly, M. (2012). Are momentary measures of positive affect better predictors of mortality than recalled feelings? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (letters), May 1, 2012 vol. 109 no. 18 E1049

Daly, M. (2012). Childhood trauma may combine synergistically with stimulant use rather than cannabis use to predict psychosis. Psychological Medicine, 42, 445-446.

Daly, M. (2012). Importance of accurately measuring spatial abilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (letters), vol. 109 no. 10 E584.

Daly, M. (2012). The midlife peak in distress amongst the disadvantaged and existing ideas about mental health inequalities over the lifespan. Psychological Medicine, 42, 215-216.

Delaney, L., & Smith, J. (2012). Childhood health: Trends and consequences over the life course. The Future of Children, 22,  43-63.

Delaney, L., & Doyle, O. (2012).  Socioeconomic differences in early childhood time preferences,  Journal of Economic Psychology, 33, 237-247.

Joseph, S., Maltby, J., Wood, A. M., Stockton, H., Hunt, N., & Regal, S. (2012). The psychological well-being post-trauma changes questionnaire (PWB-PTCQ): Reliability and validity. Psychological Trauma, 4, 420-428.

Kelly, R., Mansell, W., Sadhnani, V., & Wood, A. M. (2012). Positive and negative appraisals of the consequences of activated states uniquely relate to symptoms of hypomania and depression. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 899-906.

Kelly, R., Wood, A. M., Shearman, K., Phillips, S., & Mansell, W. (2012). Encouraging acceptance of ambivalence using the expressive writing paradigm. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 85, 220-228.

Maltby, J., Wood, A. M., Day, L., & Pinto, D. G. (2012). The position of authenticity within extant models of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 269-273.

McAllister, M., Wood. A. M., Dunn, G., Shiloh, S., & Todd, C. (2012). The Perceived Personal Control (PPC) Questionnaire: Reliability and validity in a UK sample. American Journal of Medical Genetics: Part A, 158A, 367-372.

Pinto, D. G., Maltby, J, & Wood, A. M., & Day, L. (2012). A behavioural test of Horney's linkage between authenticity and aggression: People living authentically are less-likely to respond aggressively in unfair situations. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 41-44.

Wood, A. M., Boyce, C. J., Moore, S. C., & Brown, G. D. A. (2012). An evolutionary based social rank explanation of why low income predicts mental distress: A 17 year cohort study of 30,000 people. Journal of Affective Disorders, 136, 882-888.

Wood, A. M., Brown, G. D. A., & Maltby, J. (2012). Social norm influences on evaluations of the risks associated with alcohol consumption: Applying the rank based Decision by Sampling model to health judgments. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47, 57-62.

Wood, A. M., Brown, G. D. A., Maltby, J., & Watkinson, P. (2012). How are personality judgments made? A cognitive model of reference group effects, personality scale responses, and behavioral reactions. Journal of Personality, 80, 1275-1311.

2011
Boyce, C. J., & Oswald, A. J. (2011). Do people become healthier after being promoted? Health Economics, 21, 580-596.

Boyce, C. J., & Wood, A. M. (2011). Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 78, 183-191.

Boyce, C. J., & Wood, A. M. (2011). Personality prior to disability determines adaptation: Agreeable individuals recover lost life satisfaction faster and more completely. Psychological Science, 22,1397-1402.

Comerford, D. A. (2011). Attenuating focalism in affective forecasts of the commuting experience: Implications for economic decisions and policy. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32, 691-699.

Daly, M. (2011). Childhood psychotic symptoms: link between non-consensual sex and later psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 199, 251-252.

Daly, M. (2011). Intelligence differences may explain the link between childhood psychological problems and adult socioeconomic status. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (letters), 108, vol. 108 no. 27 E251

Daly, M. (2011). Letter to the Editor: Poor childhood mental health may explain linkages between trauma, cannabis use and later psychotic experiences. Psychological Medicine, 41, 2012-2014.

Daly, M. (2011). Physical health differences may provide a general explanation for why happy people live longer: A Letter to the Editor regarding Wiest et al (2011). Health Psychology.

Daly, M., Delaney, L., Doran, P., & MacLachlan, M. (2011). The role of awakening cortisol and psychological distress in diurnal variations in affect: A day reconstruction study. Emotion, 11,, 524-32.

Daly, M., Hevey, D., & Regan, C. (2011). The role of perceived risk in general practitioners’ decisions to inform partners of HIV-infected patients. British Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 273-287.

Daly, M., & MacLachlan, M. (2011). Heredity links natural hazards and human health: Apolipoprotein E gene moderates the health of earthquake survivors. Health Psychology, 30,  228-235.

Delaney, L., McGovern, M., & Smith, J. P. (2011). From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early life conditions and adult health in Ireland. Journal of Health Economics, 30,  1-10.

Delaney, L., Kapteyn, A., & Smith, J. P. (2011). Family, historical and regional effects on students’ alcohol consumption and subjective normative thresholds.  Review of the Economics of the Household., September 2011, Page 1-27.

Delaney, L., Harmon, C., & Redmond, C. (2011). Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students, Economics of Education Review, 30, 1136–1152.

Higginson, S., Mansell, W., & Wood, A. M. (2011). An integrative mechanistic account of psychological distress, therapeutic change and recovery: The perceptual control theory approach. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 249-259.

Johnson, J., Gooding, P., Wood, A. M., & Tarrier, N. (2011). Trait reappraisal amplifies subjective defeat, sadness and negative affect in response to failure versus success in non-clinical and psychosis populations. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 922-934.

Johnson, J., Wood, A. M., Gooding, P., & Tarrier, N. (2011). Resilience to suicidality: The buffering hypothesis. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 563-591.

Kelly, R., Mansell, W., & Wood, A. M. (2011). Goal conflict and ambivalence interact to predict depression. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 531-534.

Kelly, R., Mansell, W., Wood, A. M., Alatiq, Y., Dodd, A., & Searson, R. (2011). Extreme positive and negative appraisals of activated states interact to discriminate bipolar disorder from unipolar depression and non-clinical controls. Journal of Affective Disorders, 134, 438-444.

McAllister, M., Wood, A. M., Dunn, G, Shiloh, S., & Todd, C. (2011). The Genetic Counseling Outcome Scale: A new patient reported outcome measure for clinical genetics services. Clinical Genetics, 79, 413-424.

Pinto, D. G., Maltby, J., & Wood, A. M. (2011). Exploring the tripartite model of authenticity within Gray's approach and inhibition systems and Cloninger's bio-social model of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 194-197.

Proctor, C., Tsukayama, E., Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., Eades, F., & Linley, P. A. (2011). Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescent students. Journal of Positive Psychology, 6, 377-388.

Taylor, P. J., Gooding, P., Wood, A. M., & Tarrier, N. (2011). The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicide. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 391-420.

Taylor, P. J., Wood, A. M, Gooding, P. A., & Tarrier, N. (2011). Prospective predictors of suicidality: Defeat and entrapment lead to changes in suicidal ideation over time. Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour, 41, 297-306.

Van Soest, A., Delaney, L., Harmon, C., Kapteyn, A., & Smith, J. (2011). Validating the use of anchoring vignettes for the correction of response scale differences in subjective questions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A, 174, 575-595.

Wood, A. M., Brown, G. D. A., & Maltby, J. (2011). Thanks, but I'm used to better: A relative rank model of gratitude. Emotion, 11, 175-180.

Wood, A. M., Linley, P. A., Maltby, J., Kashdan, T. B., & Hurling, R. (2011). Using personal and psychological strengths leads to increases in well-being over time: A longitudinal study and the development of the Strengths Use Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 15-19.

2010
Boyce, C. J. (2010). Understanding fixed effects in human well-being. Journal of Economic Psychology, 31, 1-16.

Boyce, C. J., Brown, G. D. A., & Moore, S. C. (2010). Money and happiness: Rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 21, 471-475.

Boyce, C. J., & Wood, A. M. (2010). Money or mental health: The cost of alleviating psychological distress with monetary compensation versus psychological therapy. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 5, 509-516.

Boyce, C. J., & Wood, A., M., & Brown, G. D. A. (2010). The dark side of conscientiousness: Conscientious people experience greater drops in life satisfaction following unemployment. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 535-539.

Comerford, D., Delaney, L., & Harmon, C., (2010). Experimental tests of survey responses to expenditure questions. Fiscal Studies, 30,  419-433.

Daly, M., Delaney, L., Doran, P., Harmon, C., & MacLachLan, M., (2010). Naturalistic monitoring of the affect-heart rate relationship: A day reconstruction study. Health Psychology, 29, 186-195.

Day, L., Hanson, K., Maltby, J., Proctor, C. L., & Wood, A. M. (2010). Hope uniquely predicts objective academic achievement above intelligence, personality, and previous academic achievement. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 550-553.

Geraghty, A. W. A., Wood, A. M., & Hyland, M. E. (2010). Attrition from self-directed interventions: Investigating the relationship between psychological predictors, intervention content and dropout from a body dissatisfaction intervention. Social Science & Medicine, 71, 31-37.

Geraghty, A. W. A., Wood, A. M., & Hyland, M. E. (2010). Dissociating the facets of hope: Agency and pathways predict dropout from unguided self-help therapy in opposite directions. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 155-158.

Johnson, J., Gooding, P. A., Wood, A. M., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Resilience as positive coping appraisals: Testing the schematic appraisals model of suicide. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 179-186. 

Johnson, J., Gooding, P. A., Wood, A. M., Taylor, P. J., Pratt, D., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Resilience to suicidal ideation in psychosis: Positive self-appraisals buffer the impact of hopelessness. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 883-889.

Joseph, S., & Wood, A. M. (2010). Assessment of positive functioning in clinical psychology: Theoretical and practical issues. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 830-838.

Kellaghan, T., & Daly, M. (2010). Opinions of the Irish public on the availability of information about schools. Irish Journal of Education, 38, 43-72.

Kennedy, J., Delaney, L., Hudson, E., McGloin, A., and Wall, P. (2010). Public perceptions of the dioxin incident in Irish pork. Journal of Risk Research, 13, 937-949.

Smallman, R., Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., Barkus, E., Lewis, S., & Rushe, T. (2010). Invariance testing of the 4-factor solution of schizotypal personality questionnaire across age, sex and ethnicity. Schizophrenia Research, 117, 431.

Taylor, P. J., Awenat, Y., Gooding, P. A., Johnson, J., Pratt, D., Wood, A. M., & Tarrier, N. (2010). The subjective experience of participation in schizophrenia research: A practical and ethical issue. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198, 343-348.

Taylor, P. J., Gooding, P. A., Wood, A. M., Johnson, J., Pratt, D., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Defeat and entrapment in schizophrenia: The relationship with suicidal ideation and positive psychotic symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 178, 244-248.

Taylor, P. J., Gooding, P. A., Wood, A. M., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Memory specificity as a risk-factor for suicidality in non-affective psychosis: The ability to recall specific autobiographical memories is related to greater suicidality. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 1047-1052.

Taylor, P. J, Wood, A. M., Gooding, T., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Appraisals and suicidality: The mediating role of defeat and entrapment. Archives of Suicide Research, 14, 236-247.

Walshe, C., Boner, K., Bourke, J., Hone, R., Lynch, M., Delaney, L. & Phelan, D. (2010). Catheter-related blood stream infection (CRBSI) in TPN patients: Benefit of an educational programme and multimodal expression of CRBSI incidence. Clinical Governance: An International Journal, 15, 292-301.

Wood, A. M., Froh, J. J, & Geraghty, A. W. A. (2010). Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 890-905.

Wood, A. M., & Joseph, S. (2010). An agenda for the next decade of psychotherapy research and practice. Psychological Medicine, 40, 1055-1056.

Wood, A. M., & Joseph S. (2010). The absence of positive psychological (eudemonic) well-being as a risk factor for depression: A ten year cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 122, 213-217.

Wood, A. M., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Positive Clinical Psychology: A new vision and strategy for integrated research and practice. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 819-829.

Wood, A. M., Taylor, P. T., & Joseph, S. (2010). Does the CES-D measure a continuum from depression to happiness? Comparing substantive and artifactual models. Psychiatry Research, 177, 120-123.

2009
Amjad, N., & Wood, A. M. (2009). Identifying and changing the normative beliefs about aggression which lead young Muslim adults to join extremist anti-Semitic groups in Pakistan. Aggressive Behavior, 35, 514-519.

Colley, A., Maltby, J., Mulhern, G., & Wood, A. M. (2009). The Short Form BSRI: Structure among a United Kingdom sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 384-387.

Daly, M., Harmon, C., & Delaney, L. (2009). Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference. Journal of the European Economic Association, 7, 659-669.

Delaney, L. (2009). Well-being under conditions of abundance: Ireland 1990-2007. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Volume 38, pp 205-220.

Delaney, L., Doyle, O., McKenzie, K., & Wall, P. (2009). The distribution of well-being in Ireland.  Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 26(3): 119-126.

Linley, P. A, Joseph S., Maltby J., Harrington S., & Wood, A. M. (2009). Positive psychology applications. In S. Lopez [Ed], Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (pp. 35-49). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Linley, P. A, Maltby, J., Wood, A. M., Osborne, G., & Hurling, R. (2009). Measuring happiness: The higher order factor structure of subjective and psychological well-being measures. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 878-884.

McGloin, A., Delaney, L., Hudson, E., & Wall, P. (2009). Nutrition communication: the challenge of effective food risk communication. Symposium on ‘The challenge of translating nutrition research into public health nutrition’. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 68, 135-141.

Quoidbach, J., Wood, A. M., & Hansenne, M. (2009). Back to the future: The effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety. Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 349-355.

Sweeney, L., Quinlivan, L., Malone, K., O’Loughlin, E., & Delaney, L., (2009). Suicide Research in Ireland. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 26(3), 104-106.

Taylor, P., Wood, A. M., Johnson, J., Gooding, P. A., & Tarrier, N. (2009). Are defeat and entrapment best defined as a single construct? Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 795-797.

Wood, A. M., Joseph, S., Lloyd, J., & Atkins, S. (2009). Gratitude influences sleep through the mechanism of pre-sleep cognitions. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 66, 43-48.

Wood, A. M., Joseph, S., & Maltby, J. (2009). Gratitude predicts psychological well-being above the Big Five facets. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 443-447.

2008
Delaney, L., Harmon C., & Wall, P. (2008).Behavioural economics and Irish drinking: Evidence from a college study. Economic Inquiry, 46, 29-36.

Delaney, L., & O’Toole, F. (2008).Individual, household and gender preferences for social transfers. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29, 348-359.

Delaney, L., & O’Toole, F. (2008) Preferences for specific social welfare expenditures in Ireland. Applied Economics Letters, 15, 985-989.

Maltby, J., Day, L., Gill, P., Colley, A., & Wood, A. M. (2008). Beliefs around luck: Confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 655-660.

Maltby, J., Wood, A. M., Day, L., Kon, T. W. H, Colley, A., & Linley, P. A. (2008). Personality predictors of levels of forgiveness two and a half years after the transgression. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1088-1094.

Newman, C., Delaney, L., & Nolan, B., (2008). A dynamic model of the relationship between income and financial satisfaction: Evidence from Ireland. Economic and Social Review, 39, 105-130.

Wood, A. M., Joseph, S., & Maltby, J. (2008). Gratitude uniquely predicts satisfaction with life: Incremental validity above the domains and facets of the five factor model. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 49-54.

Wood, A. M., Linley, P. A., Maltby, J., Baliousis, M., & Joseph, S. (2008). The authentic personality: A theoretical and empirical conceptualization, and the development of the Authenticity Scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55, 385-399.

Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., Gillett, R., Linley, P. A., & Joseph, S. (2008). The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression: Two longitudinal studies. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 854-871.

Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., Stewart, N., Joseph, S. (2008). Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 619-630.

Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., Stewart, N., Linley, P. A., & Joseph, S. (2008). A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude. Emotion, 8, 281-290.

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