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Traumatic events and physical health in a New Zealand community sample
(International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 2002)
Traumatic event exposure and physical health were examined in a community-residing sample of 1,500 New Zealand adults. Half (51%) reported past traumatic event exposure, 9% reported recent (past 12 months) trauma exposure, ...
Contribution to O’Donnell et al. (2017, in press). Registered replication report: Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg (1998).
(Association for Psychological Science, 2018)
Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998) reported that participants primed with a category associated with intelligence (“professor”) subsequently performed 13% better on a trivia test than participants primed with a category ...
Attitudinal differences towards mental health services between younger and older New Zealand adults
(New Zealand Psychological Society Inc., 2008)
This study aimed to explore attitudinal differences between young and older New Zealand adults to seeking professional mental health services, including effects of previous help, and the types of service preferred. A ...
A proposed hauora Māori clinical guide for psychologists: Using the hui process and Meihana model in clinical assessment and formulation
(New Zealand Psychological Society, 2017-11-01)
This paper documents a joint initiative of clinical practice educators from four tertiary institutions and their engagement in the design and development of a proposed Hauora Māori Clinical Guide for Psychologists, which ...
Polish adaptation of the driving and riding avoidance scale
(Versita, 2013)
Driving anxiety is a relatively undervalued topic of research, despite the fact that it can have a substantial detrimental impact on an individual’s life. The prevalence of driving anxiety in motor vehicle crash (MVC) ...
Errors, feedback, learning and performance
(Australian Academic Press, 2009)
The value of feedback about errors when learning a novel computer-based task was explored in two studies. The first study examined the optimal level of information to be provided in feedback about errors. The second study ...
Cultural considerations in using cognitive behaviour therapy with Chinese people: A case study of an elderly Chinese woman with generalised anxiety disorder
(New Zealand Psychological Society, 2006)
Occupational health and safety professionals strategies to improve working environment and their self-assessed impact
(IOS PRESS, 2012)
Research suggests that Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practitioners have difficulty influencing the decision-making process because they are placed on the sidelines in the organisation. This paper analyses the ...
Gender and ethnicity differences in the prevalence of traumatic events: Evidence from a New Zealand community sample
(John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 2004)
One thousand five hundred community residing New Zealand adults were assessed regarding their experience of traumatic events. Sixty-one per cent of those surveyed reported exposure to a traumatic event during their lifetime. ...