E Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 23646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1512-4471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Evidencing the relational and situated aspects of complex social systems affecting health
Existing strategies for assessing adolescent mental health overlook the complex social and emotional contexts that young people navigate. Traditional methods focus on individuals, with less consideration of social and environmental factors. This paper presents a novel approach to understand relational and situated aspects of social systems and their influence on adolescent wellbeing. We developed and applied an integrated mixed methods approach t…
“No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way”
INTRODUCTION: Young adulthood (ages 18-25) is a high-risk period for loneliness, particularly during educational transitions. Loneliness has negative consequences for mental health, physical health, and educational achievement. Psychologists conceptualize loneliness as emerging from a discrepancy between expected and experienced social connection, but this has been under-explored during young adulthood. METHOD: Drawing on thematic analysis of eig…
Healthy ageing in place
Age-friendly communities are designed to support older adults in staying healthy, active, and engaged in society as they age. While the built environment plays an important role in their wellbeing, little is known about what shapes older adults’ views of community age-friendliness. This study explored how mid-to-older aged adults perceive community age-friendliness, and how these perceptions influence ageing in place. Semi-structured interviews (…
Methods for interventions using networks to improve health
The methods used to study and intervene in networks have evolved over the past 90 years. Network research has gained strength from being an interdisciplinary field, but this has also meant that the innovations occurring within some disciplinary communities may not have disseminated to others. Disciplines focussing on health improvement may not have adopted innovations coming from other disciplines relevant to network science. Through a review of …
Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing
Adolescent health-related behaviours and outcomes are shaped by their peers through various social processes. Research using network data on friendship ties has uncovered evidence for processes such as peer influence and imitation. Much less is known about how the structure of small groups within a network, network communities that represents its meso level, affect individuals. The structure and composition of peer groups could play an important …
Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people's walking
Past engagement in physical activity and walking for pleasure are strong predictors of walking behaviour in older people, underscoring the importance of implementing and sustaining walking interventions across the lifespan to ensure continued engagement in later years and the associated health benefits. However, poor health significantly impedes walking in this demographic, emphasising the need for interventions that offer both physical assistanc…
Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools
BACKGROUND: Adolescent loneliness and poor mental health represent dual public health concerns. Yet, associations between loneliness and mental health, and critically, how these associations vary in school settings are less understood. AIMS: Framed by social-ecological theory, we aimed to identify key predictors of adolescent mental health and examine school-level variation in the relationship between loneliness and mental health. SAMPLE: Cross-s…
Loneliness and personal well‐being in young people
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness is prevalent among young people. But, there is little work exploring the association between loneliness with well-being among this age group. Framed by social-ecological theory, we examined demographic, interpersonal, and community factors associated with personal wellbeing and, critically, identified malleable moderators of the relationship between loneliness and well-being that could be targeted in intervention efforts.…
Improvement in Veterans' Openness to Seeking Professional Psychological Help After Participating in Therapeutic Adventure Trips
Despite high rates of mental illness among veterans, many do not receive sufficient mental health treatment. Thus, mental health interventions that do not look like treatment, but look more like outdoor recreation, may be helpful in addressing veterans' resistance to mental treatment and help-seeking. The present study sought to answer the question: Does participation in a therapeutic adventure program correlate with veterans' help-seeking for me…
Cross-Country and Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Population-Level Declines in Adolescent Life Satisfaction
Adolescent subjective well-being, including life satisfaction, has shown declines at national level across many countries in recent years. Although several possible explanatory factors have been identified, there is a lack of research on whether these may be similar or different across countries. Using data on 15-year-old adolescents from the Programme for International Student Assessment study in Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the U…
Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health
This essay examines key aspects of social relationships that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses explicitly on relational mechanisms of health and brings together theory and emerging evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to make recommendations for future public health policy and recovery. We first provide an overview of the pandemic in the UK context, outlining the nature of the public health response. We then introduc…
Appraising the Implementation of Complexity Approaches Within the Public Health Sector in Scotland. An Assessment Framework for Pre-Implementation Policy Evaluation
Complexity approaches have gained international attention as potentially effective strategies to address population health challenges. In light of this, the Scottish government (Scot. Gov.) set the implementation of these approaches as the recommended practice for its public health sector organizations. This study evaluates the opportunity and feasibility of implementing complexity approaches in public health Scotland employees' everyday routine …
School Climate, Peer Relationships, and Adolescent Mental Health
The current study investigated peer relationship and school climate factors associated with adolescent mental health. Cross-sectional data from 2,571 fifteen-year old students in 22 Scottish secondary schools was used. Multilevel models tested for school differences in mental health, and nested linear regression models estimated peer and school effects. Results demonstrated no significant between-school variation in mental health. Peer victimizat…
A Global Decline in Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being
There is a growing body of research that demonstrates declines in subjective well-being and increases in mental health problems among children and young people in recent decades. However, there is little comparative research examining changes in adolescents' life satisfaction (LS) across a large number of countries, and critically, how this differs across sociodemographic groups. This study addresses this question by investigating changes in the …
Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships
The Dynamic Relationship between Unhealthy Weight Control and Adolescent Friendships
Scientists and Spirituality
We ask how scientists understand spirituality and its relation to religion and to science. Analyses are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 top U.S. research uni-versities who were part of the Religion among Academic Scientists survey. We find that this subset of scientists have several distinct conceptual or categorical strategies for framing the connection spiri-tuality has with science. Such distinct frami…
The Australian Social Inclusion Agenda
The Social Inclusion Agenda (‘SIA’) was introduced by the Australian Labor Party (‘ALP’) in the lead up to the 2007 federal election. The rhetoric was hopeful, proposing to reframe the government's approach to disadvantage. Rhetoric aside, what the then opposition meant when it talked of building social inclusion (‘SI’) was less clear than may have immediately met the eye. This paper offers an introductory analysis and review of the SIA. It first…
Context and closure in children’s friendships
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
The Reproduction of Mothering
Nancy Chodorow. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1978. 263 pages. $12.95 cloth; $4.95 paper
Psychoanalysis and Feminism
Juliet Mitchell's new book is important, exciting, and, I think, profoundly wrong. Its importance lies in her rejection of theories about women's oppression that assume as easy malleability of human social and cultural institutions. In so doing, she forces us to recognize what has become increasingly apparent in the years following the first joyous discovery of solidarity that marked the emergence of the recent women's movement: that the problem …
Federal Regulatory Action and Control
An Introduction to Dorset Church Architecture
The Church Screens of Dorset
Scientists and Spirituality
We ask how scientists understand spirituality and its relation to religion and to science. Analyses are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 top U.S. research uni-versities who were part of the Religion among Academic Scientists survey. We find that this subset of scientists have several distinct conceptual or categorical strategies for framing the connection spiri-tuality has with science. Such distinct frami…
A Global Decline in Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being
There is a growing body of research that demonstrates declines in subjective well-being and increases in mental health problems among children and young people in recent decades. However, there is little comparative research examining changes in adolescents' life satisfaction (LS) across a large number of countries, and critically, how this differs across sociodemographic groups. This study addresses this question by investigating changes in the …
Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships
Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health
This essay examines key aspects of social relationships that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses explicitly on relational mechanisms of health and brings together theory and emerging evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to make recommendations for future public health policy and recovery. We first provide an overview of the pandemic in the UK context, outlining the nature of the public health response. We then introduc…
School Climate, Peer Relationships, and Adolescent Mental Health
The current study investigated peer relationship and school climate factors associated with adolescent mental health. Cross-sectional data from 2,571 fifteen-year old students in 22 Scottish secondary schools was used. Multilevel models tested for school differences in mental health, and nested linear regression models estimated peer and school effects. Results demonstrated no significant between-school variation in mental health. Peer victimizat…
Context and closure in children’s friendships
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
Psychoanalysis and Feminism
Juliet Mitchell's new book is important, exciting, and, I think, profoundly wrong. Its importance lies in her rejection of theories about women's oppression that assume as easy malleability of human social and cultural institutions. In so doing, she forces us to recognize what has become increasingly apparent in the years following the first joyous discovery of solidarity that marked the emergence of the recent women's movement: that the problem …
Cross-Country and Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Population-Level Declines in Adolescent Life Satisfaction
Adolescent subjective well-being, including life satisfaction, has shown declines at national level across many countries in recent years. Although several possible explanatory factors have been identified, there is a lack of research on whether these may be similar or different across countries. Using data on 15-year-old adolescents from the Programme for International Student Assessment study in Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the U…
Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing
Adolescent health-related behaviours and outcomes are shaped by their peers through various social processes. Research using network data on friendship ties has uncovered evidence for processes such as peer influence and imitation. Much less is known about how the structure of small groups within a network, network communities that represents its meso level, affect individuals. The structure and composition of peer groups could play an important …
The Dynamic Relationship between Unhealthy Weight Control and Adolescent Friendships
The Australian Social Inclusion Agenda
The Social Inclusion Agenda (‘SIA’) was introduced by the Australian Labor Party (‘ALP’) in the lead up to the 2007 federal election. The rhetoric was hopeful, proposing to reframe the government's approach to disadvantage. Rhetoric aside, what the then opposition meant when it talked of building social inclusion (‘SI’) was less clear than may have immediately met the eye. This paper offers an introductory analysis and review of the SIA. It first…
Methods for interventions using networks to improve health
The methods used to study and intervene in networks have evolved over the past 90 years. Network research has gained strength from being an interdisciplinary field, but this has also meant that the innovations occurring within some disciplinary communities may not have disseminated to others. Disciplines focussing on health improvement may not have adopted innovations coming from other disciplines relevant to network science. Through a review of …
Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people's walking
Past engagement in physical activity and walking for pleasure are strong predictors of walking behaviour in older people, underscoring the importance of implementing and sustaining walking interventions across the lifespan to ensure continued engagement in later years and the associated health benefits. However, poor health significantly impedes walking in this demographic, emphasising the need for interventions that offer both physical assistanc…
The Church Screens of Dorset
An Introduction to Dorset Church Architecture
Federal Regulatory Action and Control
Psychoanalysis and Feminism
Juliet Mitchell's new book is important, exciting, and, I think, profoundly wrong. Its importance lies in her rejection of theories about women's oppression that assume as easy malleability of human social and cultural institutions. In so doing, she forces us to recognize what has become increasingly apparent in the years following the first joyous discovery of solidarity that marked the emergence of the recent women's movement: that the problem …
The Reproduction of Mothering
Nancy Chodorow. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1978. 263 pages. $12.95 cloth; $4.95 paper
Context and closure in children’s friendships
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
The Australian Social Inclusion Agenda
The Social Inclusion Agenda (‘SIA’) was introduced by the Australian Labor Party (‘ALP’) in the lead up to the 2007 federal election. The rhetoric was hopeful, proposing to reframe the government's approach to disadvantage. Rhetoric aside, what the then opposition meant when it talked of building social inclusion (‘SI’) was less clear than may have immediately met the eye. This paper offers an introductory analysis and review of the SIA. It first…
Scientists and Spirituality
We ask how scientists understand spirituality and its relation to religion and to science. Analyses are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists at 21 top U.S. research uni-versities who were part of the Religion among Academic Scientists survey. We find that this subset of scientists have several distinct conceptual or categorical strategies for framing the connection spiri-tuality has with science. Such distinct frami…
The Dynamic Relationship between Unhealthy Weight Control and Adolescent Friendships
A Global Decline in Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being
There is a growing body of research that demonstrates declines in subjective well-being and increases in mental health problems among children and young people in recent decades. However, there is little comparative research examining changes in adolescents' life satisfaction (LS) across a large number of countries, and critically, how this differs across sociodemographic groups. This study addresses this question by investigating changes in the …
Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships
Appraising the Implementation of Complexity Approaches Within the Public Health Sector in Scotland. An Assessment Framework for Pre-Implementation Policy Evaluation
Complexity approaches have gained international attention as potentially effective strategies to address population health challenges. In light of this, the Scottish government (Scot. Gov.) set the implementation of these approaches as the recommended practice for its public health sector organizations. This study evaluates the opportunity and feasibility of implementing complexity approaches in public health Scotland employees' everyday routine …
School Climate, Peer Relationships, and Adolescent Mental Health
The current study investigated peer relationship and school climate factors associated with adolescent mental health. Cross-sectional data from 2,571 fifteen-year old students in 22 Scottish secondary schools was used. Multilevel models tested for school differences in mental health, and nested linear regression models estimated peer and school effects. Results demonstrated no significant between-school variation in mental health. Peer victimizat…
Loneliness and personal well‐being in young people
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness is prevalent among young people. But, there is little work exploring the association between loneliness with well-being among this age group. Framed by social-ecological theory, we examined demographic, interpersonal, and community factors associated with personal wellbeing and, critically, identified malleable moderators of the relationship between loneliness and well-being that could be targeted in intervention efforts.…
Improvement in Veterans' Openness to Seeking Professional Psychological Help After Participating in Therapeutic Adventure Trips
Despite high rates of mental illness among veterans, many do not receive sufficient mental health treatment. Thus, mental health interventions that do not look like treatment, but look more like outdoor recreation, may be helpful in addressing veterans' resistance to mental treatment and help-seeking. The present study sought to answer the question: Does participation in a therapeutic adventure program correlate with veterans' help-seeking for me…
Cross-Country and Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Population-Level Declines in Adolescent Life Satisfaction
Adolescent subjective well-being, including life satisfaction, has shown declines at national level across many countries in recent years. Although several possible explanatory factors have been identified, there is a lack of research on whether these may be similar or different across countries. Using data on 15-year-old adolescents from the Programme for International Student Assessment study in Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the U…
Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health
This essay examines key aspects of social relationships that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses explicitly on relational mechanisms of health and brings together theory and emerging evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to make recommendations for future public health policy and recovery. We first provide an overview of the pandemic in the UK context, outlining the nature of the public health response. We then introduc…
Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools
BACKGROUND: Adolescent loneliness and poor mental health represent dual public health concerns. Yet, associations between loneliness and mental health, and critically, how these associations vary in school settings are less understood. AIMS: Framed by social-ecological theory, we aimed to identify key predictors of adolescent mental health and examine school-level variation in the relationship between loneliness and mental health. SAMPLE: Cross-s…
Cross-sectional social network study of adolescent peer group variation in substance use and mental wellbeing
Adolescent health-related behaviours and outcomes are shaped by their peers through various social processes. Research using network data on friendship ties has uncovered evidence for processes such as peer influence and imitation. Much less is known about how the structure of small groups within a network, network communities that represents its meso level, affect individuals. The structure and composition of peer groups could play an important …
Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people's walking
Past engagement in physical activity and walking for pleasure are strong predictors of walking behaviour in older people, underscoring the importance of implementing and sustaining walking interventions across the lifespan to ensure continued engagement in later years and the associated health benefits. However, poor health significantly impedes walking in this demographic, emphasising the need for interventions that offer both physical assistanc…
“No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way”
INTRODUCTION: Young adulthood (ages 18-25) is a high-risk period for loneliness, particularly during educational transitions. Loneliness has negative consequences for mental health, physical health, and educational achievement. Psychologists conceptualize loneliness as emerging from a discrepancy between expected and experienced social connection, but this has been under-explored during young adulthood. METHOD: Drawing on thematic analysis of eig…
Healthy ageing in place
Age-friendly communities are designed to support older adults in staying healthy, active, and engaged in society as they age. While the built environment plays an important role in their wellbeing, little is known about what shapes older adults’ views of community age-friendliness. This study explored how mid-to-older aged adults perceive community age-friendliness, and how these perceptions influence ageing in place. Semi-structured interviews (…
Methods for interventions using networks to improve health
The methods used to study and intervene in networks have evolved over the past 90 years. Network research has gained strength from being an interdisciplinary field, but this has also meant that the innovations occurring within some disciplinary communities may not have disseminated to others. Disciplines focussing on health improvement may not have adopted innovations coming from other disciplines relevant to network science. Through a review of …
Evidencing the relational and situated aspects of complex social systems affecting health
Existing strategies for assessing adolescent mental health overlook the complex social and emotional contexts that young people navigate. Traditional methods focus on individuals, with less consideration of social and environmental factors. This paper presents a novel approach to understand relational and situated aspects of social systems and their influence on adolescent wellbeing. We developed and applied an integrated mixed methods approach t…
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