Daniel Mcdermott
Biographic Data
| ID | 145224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Mcdermott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdermott |
| SIGNATURE | MCDERMOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7005-6446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing and validating the ambivalent prejudice towards gay men scale (APGS)
This paper describes the development and initial validation of the ambivalent prejudice towards gay men scale (APGS) – a multidimensional 19-item measure of hostile and benevolent prejudice towards gay men – in two British samples. In Study 1 (N = 801), exploratory factor analysis produced a four-factor (repellent, romanticised, paternalistic, and adversarial) scale, with men scoring higher in repellent and adversarial prejudice and women scoring…
Gender, traditional gender ideology, gender essentialist beliefs, and masculinity threat as determinants of attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people in a U.K. sample
Previous research has shown that identifying as a man, endorsing traditional gender norms and holding gender essentialist beliefs are associated with more negative attitudes towards the Trans and Gender Diverse (TGD) community. Implicit cues relating to gender identity, such as a threat to masculinity, have also been associated with negative attitudes. Currently, no research has examined this combination of predictors nor the influence of implici…
‘Why are PrEP gays always like this … ’
Background: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a prescription-based drug used to prevent the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In the four nations of the United Kingdom, those with increased need for HIV prevention (e.g. some groups of men who have sex with men) are eligible for PrEP for free, provided by the National Health Service. However, the uptake of PrEP has faced several challenges and many still report barriers to accessing P…
The HIV Anxiety Scale (HAS)
Most research assessing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) anxiety relies on single-item measures or psychometric measures that are outdated in terms of concepts and language. There is a critical need for a robust, reliable, and contemporary measure to identify populations at risk of avoiding HIV testing, treatment, and prevention, thereby supporting global HIV eradication goals. Focus groups informed the initial development of the HIV Anxiety Sc…
PrEP acceptability and self-efficacy in men who have sex with men
This study investigates psychosocial and structural predictors of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) acceptability and self-efficacy, addressing the need for targeted interventions to improve PrEP uptake in the United Kingdom (UK). A cross-sectional, online survey was conducted among UK-based men who have sex with men not currently using PrEP (N = 246). Participants completed validated measures assessing identity resilience, LGBTQ+ connectedness, ou…
Depression, Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction in Gay and Bisexual Men in Lebanon
The Development and Application of the Qualitative Triangulation Framework (QTF) for Exploring Tension Within and Across Qualitative Data Sets
Global health and social research have advocated a requirement for community-engaged research methods to better address the needs of minoritised groups. However, conventional research practices, often influenced by positivist traditions, tend to prioritise convergence, overlooking critical tensions within and across data sets. Resultantly, changes within healthcare and policy have not been matched with parallel benefits for minoritised groups. Th…
Promoting community and competence
Specialized research training is a key component of graduate education, yet sexual and gender diverse (SGD) emerging scholars may not receive quality training and networking opportunities at their home institutions. International and interdisciplinary trainings by SGD scholars may develop research competence and academic networks, but few such extracurricular research training programs exist. This article presents the curriculum and mixed-method …
An evaluation of the role of social identity processes for enhancing health outcomes within UK ‐based social prescribing initiatives designed to increase social connection and reduce loneliness
The UK's National Health Service has introduced Social Prescribing initiatives to tackle loneliness and ill‐health, yet it lacks a theoretical foundation and evidence base for Social Prescribing's effectiveness. Recent research applies the Social Identity Approach to Health (SIAH) to explain Social Prescribing's health benefits, emphasising how social connection unlocks health‐enhancing psychological mechanisms. This systematic review therefore a…
Assessing Attitudes Toward Trans and Gender Diverse People
This study aimed to update the gender-based terminology of a measure used to assess attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people (the Transgender Attitudes and Beliefs Scale; TABS) in order to reflect appropriate and inclusive language standards and conventions while maintaining the psychometric integrity of the tool. The updated TABS was administered to 247 heterosexual, cisgender adults in the UK. Participants also completed the original TA…
The association of physical multimorbidity with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in England
BACKGROUND: Suicide is one of the most important causes of deaths in the United Kingdom, and the numbers are currently increasing. AIM: There are numerous identified determinants of suicidality, and physical multimorbidity is potentially important but is currently understudied. Thus, this study aims to investigate the association of physical multimorbidity with suicidality. METHODS: Cross-sectional data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey…
Mapping Operationalised Hunger and Appetite in the Literature
Changes in Health-Related Behaviours and Mental Health in a UK Public Sample during the First Set of Covid-19 Public Health Restrictions
Public health restrictions, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, have had potentially wide-ranging, unintended effects on health-related behaviours such as diet and physical activity and also affected mental health due to reduced social interactions. This study explored how health-related behaviours and mental health were impacted in a sample of the UK public during the first set of COVID-19 public health restrictions. Two online surveys were ad…
Building bridges and breaking down silos
Interdisciplinary collaboration fuels research innovation and funders are increasingly offering long-term grants prioritising partnerships. However, a gap remains regarding the effective development, evaluatation, and sustainment of research partnerships; particularly those supporting marginalised populations like sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY). There is a concomitant need to expand research internationally to cross-culturally conceptual…
(Hetero)sexist microaggressions in practice
Verbal microaggressions perpetuate inequalities and negatively impact wellbeing. Yet, there is little work on microaggressions in situ. We address this gap, connecting microaggressions research with scholarship concerning prejudice and discrimination in situated interaction, and focusing on (hetero)sexist microaggressions. Conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorisation analysis (MCA) are applied to excerpts of naturally-occurring and fo…
Alcohol use and mental health during Covid-19 lockdown
Spatial targeting of Screening + Eave tubes (SET), a house-based malaria control intervention, in Côte d’Ivoire
New malaria control tools and tailoring interventions to local contexts are needed to reduce the malaria burden and meet global goals. The housing modification, screening plus a targeted house-based insecticide delivery system called the In2Care® Eave Tubes, has been shown to reduce clinical malaria in a large cluster randomised controlled trial. However, the widescale suitability of this approach is unknown. We aimed to predict household suitabi…
Food Insecurity With Hunger and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents From 53 Countries
Objectives: To examine the relationship of food insecurity with sexual intercourse, multiple sexual partners and non-condom use. Methods: Data on food insecurity (hunger) and sexual behaviors from 205,296 adolescents from 53 countries. Associations were analyzed using meta-analysis. Results: Overall, 16.0% of the adolescents ever had sexual intercourse and the prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity was 44.9% and 6.2%, respectively. Mod…
Experiences and Interactions with the Healthcare System in Transgender and Non-Binary Patients in Austria
Medical care of transgender and non-binary (TNB) patients if often a complex interdisciplinary effort involving a variety of healthcare workers (HCWs) and services. Physicians not only act as gatekeepers to routine or transitioning therapies but are also HCWs with the most intimate and time-intensive patient interaction, which influences TNB patients' experiences and health behaviors and healthcare utilization. The aim of this study was to invest…
I Don’t Even Want to Come Out”
SGM individuals from contexts of poor acceptance tended to hide their identity in the workplace, while transgender and non-binary individuals were prone to experience force-disclosure and discrimination in all aspects of employment. There is a lack of resolute reaction from policy makers in managing problems faced by SGM people in workplaces. New laws improving the status of SGM people need to be further adopted, staff training should be implemen…
Why we are Hungry; Perceptions of hunger and eating
Correlates of symptoms of anxiety and depression and mental wellbeing associated with Covid-19
Health Care Providers’ Negative Implicit Attitudes and Stereotypes of American Indians
Hand-Washing Practices among Adolescents Aged 12–15 Years from 80 Countries
The objectives were to (1) assess the prevalence of hand-washing practices across 80 countries and (2) assess frequency of hand-washing practice by economic status (country income and severe food insecurity), in a global representative sample of adolescents. Cross-sectional data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey 2003-2017 were analyzed. Data on age, sex, hand-washing practices in the past 30 days, and severe food insecurity (i.e.…
Right-wing populism and safe identities
Recent events such as the US presidential campaign have polarised public opinion, particularly in terms of support for ‘populist’ political figures, e.g. Donald Trump, and the seemingly non-egalitarian ideologies that they promote. One might anticipate that disempowered social groups, such as women or sexual minorities, would reject ‘rightwing populism’, as it rarely appears to advocate their interests or facilitate their empowerment. Yet the exi…
What's it like on your side of the pond?’
The aim of the current study is to conduct a simultaneous cross-cultural assessment of modern and old-fashioned prejudice towards gay men and lesbian women. Data collected in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States were compared to assess whether any notable differences in prejudice occurred and whether specific predictors of homonegativity (i.e. age of participants, gender, level of self-reported religiosity, le…
Bi Now, Gay Later
To date, no assessment of explicit attitudes toward bisexual men and women has occurred in the Republic of Ireland. Further, there are no published studies examining implicit attitudes toward this group. The current research addressed these omissions by investigating bi-negativity, at explicit and implicit levels, within an Irish context. Various pen-and-paper measures were administered to 208 undergraduate students (170 females) enrolled in 2nd-…
Ambivalent Homoprejudice towards Gay Men
Myriad social groups are targets of hostile and benevolent (i.e., ambivalent) prejudice. However, prejudice toward gay men is typically conceptualized as hostile, despite the prevalence of benevolence toward gay men in popular media. This article aims to compare gay men with other targets of ambivalent prejudice (i.e., women and elderly people) and draw on the stereotype content and microaggressions literatures in order to develop a theory of amb…
Ameliorating transnegativity
We demonstrate that pedagogic interventions utilising mediated contact and the parasocial contact hypothesis provide an effective means of instantiating both an immediate and long-term reduction in prejudice towards transgender people. Through application of the parasocial contact hypothesis, our quasi-experiment demonstrates that exposure to the combined intervention of a panel presentation and a trans-themed film resulted in a significant reduc…
Experience of sexual self-esteem among men living with HIV
Much of the focus on sexual health for people living with HIV has been on promoting safe sex behaviours. However, also important for sexual health is a positive sexual self-esteem. This article reports on an interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with seven men about the impact that having HIV has had on their sense of sexual self. Five overarching themes were identified: the 'destruction' of a sexual self; feeling sexually hazard…
Age is in the Eye of the Beholder
Fair-Play Obligations
The fair-play theory of political obligation holds that citizens incur obligations to obey the law as a result of gaining important benefits from their political communities. In this essay, I argue that the fair-play theory fails in large part because it relies on a flawed understanding of the way in which free-riding is morally wrong. Starting with the assumption that those who benefit from the efforts of others have a moral reason to reciprocat…
I Want to Feel Like a Full Man”
Current understandings of sexual difficulties originate from a model that is based on the study of heterosexual men and women. Most research has focused on sexual difficulties experienced by heterosexual men incapable of engaging in vaginal penetration. To better understand men's perceptions and experiences of sexual difficulties, seven focus groups and 29 individual interviews were conducted with gay (n = 22), bisexual (n = 5), and heterosexual …
Assessing Attitudes Toward Trans and Gender Diverse People
This study aimed to update the gender-based terminology of a measure used to assess attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people (the Transgender Attitudes and Beliefs Scale; TABS) in order to reflect appropriate and inclusive language standards and conventions while maintaining the psychometric integrity of the tool. The updated TABS was administered to 247 heterosexual, cisgender adults in the UK. Participants also completed the original TA…
Right-wing populism and safe identities
Recent events such as the US presidential campaign have polarised public opinion, particularly in terms of support for ‘populist’ political figures, e.g. Donald Trump, and the seemingly non-egalitarian ideologies that they promote. One might anticipate that disempowered social groups, such as women or sexual minorities, would reject ‘rightwing populism’, as it rarely appears to advocate their interests or facilitate their empowerment. Yet the exi…
The Development and Application of the Qualitative Triangulation Framework (QTF) for Exploring Tension Within and Across Qualitative Data Sets
Global health and social research have advocated a requirement for community-engaged research methods to better address the needs of minoritised groups. However, conventional research practices, often influenced by positivist traditions, tend to prioritise convergence, overlooking critical tensions within and across data sets. Resultantly, changes within healthcare and policy have not been matched with parallel benefits for minoritised groups. Th…
I Don’t Even Want to Come Out”
SGM individuals from contexts of poor acceptance tended to hide their identity in the workplace, while transgender and non-binary individuals were prone to experience force-disclosure and discrimination in all aspects of employment. There is a lack of resolute reaction from policy makers in managing problems faced by SGM people in workplaces. New laws improving the status of SGM people need to be further adopted, staff training should be implemen…
Depression, Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction in Gay and Bisexual Men in Lebanon
Building bridges and breaking down silos
Interdisciplinary collaboration fuels research innovation and funders are increasingly offering long-term grants prioritising partnerships. However, a gap remains regarding the effective development, evaluatation, and sustainment of research partnerships; particularly those supporting marginalised populations like sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY). There is a concomitant need to expand research internationally to cross-culturally conceptual…
(Hetero)sexist microaggressions in practice
Verbal microaggressions perpetuate inequalities and negatively impact wellbeing. Yet, there is little work on microaggressions in situ. We address this gap, connecting microaggressions research with scholarship concerning prejudice and discrimination in situated interaction, and focusing on (hetero)sexist microaggressions. Conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorisation analysis (MCA) are applied to excerpts of naturally-occurring and fo…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychology
This article reports on a conversation between 12 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) psychologists at the first international LGBT Psychology Summer Institute at the University of Michigan in August 2009. Participants discuss how their work in LGBT psychology is affected by national policy, funding and academic contexts and the transnational influence of the US-based stigma model of LGBT psychology. The challenges and possibilities pos…
Report on hypnotherapy clinics and their function
A Retributivist Argument against Capital Punishment
Debts to Society
Fair-Play Obligations
The fair-play theory of political obligation holds that citizens incur obligations to obey the law as a result of gaining important benefits from their political communities. In this essay, I argue that the fair-play theory fails in large part because it relies on a flawed understanding of the way in which free-riding is morally wrong. Starting with the assumption that those who benefit from the efforts of others have a moral reason to reciprocat…
Analytical political philosophy
Analytical political philosophy is a complement to social science. Whereas social scientists aim to determine the empirical facts about human behaviour and institutions, political philosophers aim to determine what ought to be done in light of that information. How should states be organized? What kinds of projects should they pursue? Are there some actions that are impermissible? No set of empirical facts can dictate the answers to these kinds o…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychology
This article reports on a conversation between 12 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) psychologists at the first international LGBT Psychology Summer Institute at the University of Michigan in August 2009. Participants discuss how their work in LGBT psychology is affected by national policy, funding and academic contexts and the transnational influence of the US-based stigma model of LGBT psychology. The challenges and possibilities pos…
Bi Now, Gay Later
To date, no assessment of explicit attitudes toward bisexual men and women has occurred in the Republic of Ireland. Further, there are no published studies examining implicit attitudes toward this group. The current research addressed these omissions by investigating bi-negativity, at explicit and implicit levels, within an Irish context. Various pen-and-paper measures were administered to 208 undergraduate students (170 females) enrolled in 2nd-…
What's it like on your side of the pond?’
The aim of the current study is to conduct a simultaneous cross-cultural assessment of modern and old-fashioned prejudice towards gay men and lesbian women. Data collected in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States were compared to assess whether any notable differences in prejudice occurred and whether specific predictors of homonegativity (i.e. age of participants, gender, level of self-reported religiosity, le…
Age is in the Eye of the Beholder
I Want to Feel Like a Full Man”
Current understandings of sexual difficulties originate from a model that is based on the study of heterosexual men and women. Most research has focused on sexual difficulties experienced by heterosexual men incapable of engaging in vaginal penetration. To better understand men's perceptions and experiences of sexual difficulties, seven focus groups and 29 individual interviews were conducted with gay (n = 22), bisexual (n = 5), and heterosexual …
Experience of sexual self-esteem among men living with HIV
Much of the focus on sexual health for people living with HIV has been on promoting safe sex behaviours. However, also important for sexual health is a positive sexual self-esteem. This article reports on an interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with seven men about the impact that having HIV has had on their sense of sexual self. Five overarching themes were identified: the 'destruction' of a sexual self; feeling sexually hazard…
Ameliorating transnegativity
We demonstrate that pedagogic interventions utilising mediated contact and the parasocial contact hypothesis provide an effective means of instantiating both an immediate and long-term reduction in prejudice towards transgender people. Through application of the parasocial contact hypothesis, our quasi-experiment demonstrates that exposure to the combined intervention of a panel presentation and a trans-themed film resulted in a significant reduc…
Prospective associations between alcohol use, binge drinking and sexual activity in older adults
The present study aimed to investigate associations between alcohol consumption and sexual activity. Data were from 1,622 men and 2,195 women aged ≥50 years participating in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Adjusted multivariable logistic regression was used to assess associations between baseline frequency of alcohol use in the last year or binge drinking in the last week and sexual activity at 8-year follow-up. Regular alcohol consumpt…
Correlates of symptoms of anxiety and depression and mental wellbeing associated with Covid-19
Health Care Providers’ Negative Implicit Attitudes and Stereotypes of American Indians
Hand-Washing Practices among Adolescents Aged 12–15 Years from 80 Countries
The objectives were to (1) assess the prevalence of hand-washing practices across 80 countries and (2) assess frequency of hand-washing practice by economic status (country income and severe food insecurity), in a global representative sample of adolescents. Cross-sectional data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey 2003-2017 were analyzed. Data on age, sex, hand-washing practices in the past 30 days, and severe food insecurity (i.e.…
Right-wing populism and safe identities
Recent events such as the US presidential campaign have polarised public opinion, particularly in terms of support for ‘populist’ political figures, e.g. Donald Trump, and the seemingly non-egalitarian ideologies that they promote. One might anticipate that disempowered social groups, such as women or sexual minorities, would reject ‘rightwing populism’, as it rarely appears to advocate their interests or facilitate their empowerment. Yet the exi…
Ambivalent Homoprejudice towards Gay Men
Myriad social groups are targets of hostile and benevolent (i.e., ambivalent) prejudice. However, prejudice toward gay men is typically conceptualized as hostile, despite the prevalence of benevolence toward gay men in popular media. This article aims to compare gay men with other targets of ambivalent prejudice (i.e., women and elderly people) and draw on the stereotype content and microaggressions literatures in order to develop a theory of amb…
Alcohol use and mental health during Covid-19 lockdown
Spatial targeting of Screening + Eave tubes (SET), a house-based malaria control intervention, in Côte d’Ivoire
New malaria control tools and tailoring interventions to local contexts are needed to reduce the malaria burden and meet global goals. The housing modification, screening plus a targeted house-based insecticide delivery system called the In2Care® Eave Tubes, has been shown to reduce clinical malaria in a large cluster randomised controlled trial. However, the widescale suitability of this approach is unknown. We aimed to predict household suitabi…
Food Insecurity With Hunger and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents From 53 Countries
Objectives: To examine the relationship of food insecurity with sexual intercourse, multiple sexual partners and non-condom use. Methods: Data on food insecurity (hunger) and sexual behaviors from 205,296 adolescents from 53 countries. Associations were analyzed using meta-analysis. Results: Overall, 16.0% of the adolescents ever had sexual intercourse and the prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity was 44.9% and 6.2%, respectively. Mod…
Experiences and Interactions with the Healthcare System in Transgender and Non-Binary Patients in Austria
Medical care of transgender and non-binary (TNB) patients if often a complex interdisciplinary effort involving a variety of healthcare workers (HCWs) and services. Physicians not only act as gatekeepers to routine or transitioning therapies but are also HCWs with the most intimate and time-intensive patient interaction, which influences TNB patients' experiences and health behaviors and healthcare utilization. The aim of this study was to invest…
I Don’t Even Want to Come Out”
SGM individuals from contexts of poor acceptance tended to hide their identity in the workplace, while transgender and non-binary individuals were prone to experience force-disclosure and discrimination in all aspects of employment. There is a lack of resolute reaction from policy makers in managing problems faced by SGM people in workplaces. New laws improving the status of SGM people need to be further adopted, staff training should be implemen…
Why we are Hungry; Perceptions of hunger and eating
Changes in Health-Related Behaviours and Mental Health in a UK Public Sample during the First Set of Covid-19 Public Health Restrictions
Public health restrictions, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, have had potentially wide-ranging, unintended effects on health-related behaviours such as diet and physical activity and also affected mental health due to reduced social interactions. This study explored how health-related behaviours and mental health were impacted in a sample of the UK public during the first set of COVID-19 public health restrictions. Two online surveys were ad…
Psychology (29 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Environmental health (8 works)