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The occupational stress inventory-revised: Confirmatory factor analysis of the original inter-correlation data set and model (with Mark Bahr and Daisure Fujiwara), Personality and individual differences (2009)

Stress levels are said to be rising in many different occupations but one problem for...

 

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My next client: Understanding the Big Five and positive personality dispositions of those seeking psychosocial support interventions. (with Karen D. Klockner), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine whether individuals who sought out psychosocial...

 

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Identifying patients with asthma whose beliefs and attitudes may place them at risk: the development and initial validation of the Asthma Navigator, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2001)

Asthma prevalence appears to be increasing in Australia and elsewhere and any methods that can...

 

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The psychological impacts of long-term unemployment, sex differences and activity: a case study analysis (with Juanita Muller, Brian Delahaye, and Sharon Winocur), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1996)

There is renewed interest in the use of qualitative methods in the unemployment research arena...

 

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Personality characteristics of human services students and the selection of adult applicants for professional training (with Glen Guy), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)

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In 1990, the School of Social Science at the Queensland University of Technology introduced an...

 

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Measurement approaches in assessing critical thinking for professional practice and management (with Gregory Southey), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)

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There has been a growing emphasis placed on competencies and their assessment in the management...

 

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Developing teamwork skills inside and outside the classroom (with Andrew Leicester), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1995)

In many professional and managerial areas interpersonal and teamwork skilIs are essential competencies which help...

 

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Gender differnces in the psychological effects of personal development training in the long-term unemployed, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1994)

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Increased psychological well-being has been found for long-term unemployed women and unemployed female sole parents...

 

Book Chapters

Item formats and social desirability in personality assessment: A review of the place of forced-choice items, Personality down under: Perspectives from Australia (2008)

Impression management is an issue in recruitment and selection and in other areas in the...

 

Low emotional intelligence and maladaptive perfectionism (with Mark Jackson), Personality down under: Perspectives from Australia (2008)

Emotional intelligence (EI) and maladaptive perfectionism have direct links to the development of psychopathology, but...

 

Perfectionism, occupational stress and depression among Australian university students (with Margaret Christopoulos), Personality down under: Perspectives from Australia (2008)

The present study examined the role perfectionism plays in University students by investigating its relationship...

 

The Big Five in predicting leadership styles of university students (with Justine L. Ebenreuter), Personality down under: Perspectives from Australia (2008)

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which the Five-Factor model...

 

Conference Papers

Work motivation and desirable and undesirable personality traits according to Indian students and employees (with Trishita Mathew and Mark Bahr), 27th international congress of applied psychology (2010)

The last few years have seen a salient increase in trade relations between Australia and...

 

Goal setting, feedback, and task performance: A laboratory experiment (with Trishita Mathew), 7th Australian conference on personality & individual differences (2008)

The present study investigated the effects of goal setting and feedback on task performance among...

 

Family history of breast cancer, health beliefs and knowledge in the practice of breast self-examination (with Jennifer Stephan), 43rd Australian Psychological Society's (APS) Annual Conference (2008)

The present study investigated the relationship between frequency of breast self-examination (BSE), family history of...

 

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Can work preferences (personality based) differentiate between employees scoring high or low in general mental health? (with Genevieve V. Colling), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference 2007 (2007)

Objectives – The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personal work...

 

Do smoking cues make you want to smoke? And is it your parents’ fault? (with S. Thorpe), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference 2007 (2007)
 

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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised among Australian teachers (with Daisure Fujiwara and Mark Bahr), ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference 2006 (2006)

Assessing teacher stress has been a difficult and complex process, especially when comparisons across different...

 

Adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism in a sample of 34 unemployed people: potential implications for further study, and for policy and equity (with Belinda Seib), The Constraints to Full Employment or WorkChoices and Welfare-to-Work Conference 2006 (2006)

No current research exists on the impact of the attitudes of perfectionism on the unemployed,...