Gallagher, Stephen; Phillips, Anna C; Carroll, Douglas(Oxford University Press, 2009)
Objective This study examined the psychosocial predictors of poor sleep quality in parents caring for children with developmental disabilities. Methods Sixty-seven parents of children with developmental disabilities and ...
Gallagher, Stephen; Povey, Rachel(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Background Despite many government initiatives, uptake of the trivalent influenza vaccine among the older adult population still remains suboptimal. If immunization rates are to be optimized, new approaches for identifying ...
Background: Older caregivers of patients with mental heath difficulties report poor physical health. This study examined whether younger parental caregivers of children with developmental disabilities would also report ...
Background: Research suggests that perceived Social Evaluative Threat (SET) activates the hypothalamus-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis resulting in the release of cortisol into the bloodstream which, if experienced frequently, ...
Msetfi, Rachel, M.; Murphy, Robin, A.; Kornbrot, Diana, E.(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Depressed mood states affect subjective perceptions of time but it is not clear whether this is due to changes in the underlying timing mechanisms, such as the speed of the internal clock. In order to study depression ...
Msetfi, Rachel, M.; Murphy, Robin, A.; Kornbrot, Diana, E.(FrontiersIn.Org, 2012)
A controversial finding in the field of causal learning is that mood contributes to the accuracy of perceptions of uncorrelated relationships. When asked to report the degree of control between an action and its outcome, ...
The perception of the effectiveness of instrumental actions is influenced by depressed mood. Depressive realism (DR) is the claim that depressed people are particularly accurate in evaluating instrumentality. In two ...
Msetfi, Rachel, M.; Murphy, Robin, A.; Simpson, Jane(Psychology Press, 2007)
In three experiments we tested how the spacing of trials during acquisition of zero, positive, and negative event–outcome contingencies differentially affected depressed and nondepressed students’ judgements. Experiment 1 ...
van Tilburg, Wijnand A.P.(University of Limerick, 2011)
This thesis by publication documents the results of a three year PhD research
project investigating boredom. Even though boredom is a common experience that has
been suggested to hold major implications for life and ...
Kinsella, Elaine Louise(University of Limerick, 2012)
This thesis documents a PhD research project, conducted over three years, that
investigates the important features and functions associated with heroes. This
programme of research was designed to add to the scant literature ...