Peter Butterworth

Datos Biográficos

ID266950
NOMBREPeter Butterworth
NOMBRESPeter
APELLIDOButterworth
FIRMABUTTERWORTH P
AFILIACIONESAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0002-1531-3881
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS174
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2004
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Change in the association between financial hardship and mental health before and during the cost-of-living crisis in Australia

    Open AccessLay San Too, Yamna Taouk et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    There is growing concern that the current cost-of-living (COL) crisis may have exacerbated the adverse experience of financial hardship and its effect on mental health, but no study has provided evidence on this using longitudinal data. We aimed to address this knowledge gap to inform policy responses. We analysed 13 annual waves (2012‒24) of nationally representative data from the longitudinal Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (…

  • Revisiting the Factor Structure of the Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF)

    Open AccessRichard A Burns, Dimity A Crisp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2025

  • Prospective associations between stressful life course events and clusters of lifestyle behaviours

    Open AccessRaymond Vooi Khong Siew, Susan J Torres et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our findings revealed an association between exposure to stressful life events and clustering of being physically inactive, low fruit and vegetable intake, poor sleep quality and smoking. Consequently, implementing health promotion strategies to target multiple lifestyle behaviours may be beneficial in reducing the cumulative impact of stress on health

  • Analysis of Internet Access in Australia

    Open AccessD Nambiar, Lloyd Leach et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2025Referencias: 26

    Digital mental health (MH) services can improve treatment accessibility, but people with poor MH often have lower internet access (IA) due to socioeconomic factors. As IA becomes essential, we examine if poor MH and socioeconomic status still hinder IA over 12 years in Australia. The HILDA survey collects annual data on demographics, health (including MH via the Mental Health Inventory‐5), IA, employment and financial circumstances from a nationa…

  • Longitudinal gambling risk transitions

    Open AccessAino Suomi, Miranda R Chilver et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2024

    Aims: Problem gambling has downstream consequences on individuals, families and the community. While a strong research base now exists on predictors and outcomes of problem gambling risk and severity, few studies have examined the transitions in gambling risk status over time, and factors associated with these transitions. Methods: The current study addresses this knowledge gap by examining gambling transitions using two waves of longitudinal, po…

  • Is unemployment benefit stigma related to poverty, payment receipt, or lack of employment? A vignette experiment about Australian views

    Open AccessAino Suomi, Timothy P Schofield et al.ARTICLEAnalyses of Social Issues and…2022

    The present study sought to better understand the extent to which negative perceptions of people who receive unemployment benefits is due to their poverty status, their unemployment, and/or their receipt of income support payments. We sought to differentiate these three factors in a vignette‐based experiment drawing on a large Australian general population sample ( N = 778). Participants rated the personality and capability of two fictional chara…

  • The protective effects of wellbeing and flourishing on long-term mental health risk

    Open AccessRichard A Burns, Tim D Windsor et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2022

    Personal wellbeing reflects individuals’ experiences of positive mental health and those with high wellbeing can be described as flourishing. Increasingly, wellbeing and flourishing are informing public health policy and clinical practice. However, the long-term benefit of wellbeing and flourishing on negative mental health outcomes over the life course is not widely explored. Data were from the Personality and Total Health Through Life study, ba…

  • Unencumbered and still unequal? Work hour - Health tipping points and gender inequality among older, employed Australian couples

    Open AccessTinh Doan, Christine Labond et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Could working into older age offer women an opportunity to ‘catch up’ their careers and redress their financial disadvantage in retirement? This is a period of relative ‘unencumbrance’ from childrearing, potentially freeing women's time for more paid work. Here, we examine whether women aged 50 to 70 are able to increase their workhours, and what happens to their mental health, vitality and wealth. We used a representative household-based panel o…

  • Trajectories of psychological distress over multiple Covid-19 lockdowns in Australia

    Open AccessFerdi Botha, Richard W Morris et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, including the indirect effect of policy responses, on psychological distress has been the subject of much research. However, there has been little consideration of how the prevalence of psychological distress changed with the duration and repetition of lockdowns, or the rate of resolution of psychological distress once lockdowns ended. This study describes the trajectories of psychological distress over…

  • Evaluating How Mental Health Changed in Australia through the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessFerdi Botha, Peter Butterworth et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health at the level of the population. The current study adds to the evidence base by examining how the prevalence of psychological distress changed in Australia during the pandemic. The study also assesses the psychometric properties of a new single-item measure of mental distress included in a survey program conducted regularly throughout the pandemic. Data are from 1158 respondents i…

  • A New Measure of the Revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory

    Daniela A Espinoza Oyarce, Richard A Burns et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology2022Referencias: 2

    The reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) proposes that neurobiological systems mediate behavior and their functioning can be associated with personality. The functions and associations of RST systems were revised into fight–flight–freeze system (FFFS), behavioral approach/activation system (rBAS), and behavioral inhibition system (rBIS); however, there is limited study of the revised systems due to lack of validated measures. We investigated sc…

  • News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power

    Open AccessSonia Martin, Timothy P Schofield et al.ARTICLECritical Social Policy2022Citada por: 5Referencias: 33

    People receiving working-age income support payments are often stigmatised as morally and/or behaviourally deficient. We consider the role of the media, as a potential source of structural stigma, in perpetuating negative characterisations of people in receipt of either the Disability Support Pension (DSP) or unemployment benefits (Newstart) during a major period of welfare reform in Australia. Newspaper articles (N = 8290) that appeared in Austr…

  • Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress

    Open AccessFerdi Botha, Peter Butterworth et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 5Referencias: 17

  • Young‐adult compared to adolescent onset of regular cannabis use

    Open AccessGary Chan, Denise Becker et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2021

  • Recurring pain, mental health problems and sick leave in Australia

    Open AccessTea Lallukka, Aapo Hiilamo et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2021

    A substantial proportion of Australians report recurring pain and mental health problems, but their separate and joint contributions to sick leave use has not been examined. This study examines the interaction of pain and mental health problems with sick leave usage and the extent to which unobservable time-invariant factors contribute to these conditions and the propensity to take sick leave. Longitudinal data on self-reported paid sick leave da…

  • How does working nonstandard hours impact psychological resources important for parental functioning? Evidence from an Australian longitudinal cohort study

    Open AccessYixuan Zhao, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2021

    This study investigates the link between nonstandard schedules and three psychological resources salient to working parents' parental functioning (psychological distress, work-family conflict and relationship quality). Data from fathers and mothers are analysed separately, using a nationally representative sample of dual-earner parents (6190 observations from 1915 couples) drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). The LSAC …

  • Employment and retirement impacts on health and wellbeing among a sample of rural Australians

    Open AccessTonelle Handley, Thomas J Lewin et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    While retirement is a significant life transition that may affect multiple facets of an individual's life, the direction and magnitude of these effects vary depending on the retirement context, namely the pre-retirement and concurrent circumstances within which an individual is retiring. Personal perceptions of status changes may also contribute to an individual's wellbeing more so than objective factors such as income. Policies that promote rura…

  • One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients

    Open AccessTimothy P Schofield, Aino Suomi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2021Citada por: 4Referencias: 15

    The stereotype content model (SCM) provides a basis to investigate stereotypes of different social groups. Previous SCM research has shown that the “welfare recipients” are stereotyped negatively, with low warmth and low competence. However, prior research has not considered different categories of income support recipients who may be stereotyped differently. Using the SCM, we investigated the stereotypes held by the Australian general population…

  • Parents' Shift Work in Connection with Work-Family Conflict and Mental Health

    Open AccessYixuan Zhao, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2021Citada por: 4Referencias: 55

    Shift work might aggravate work-family conflict and mental health. The current study used moderated-mediation analyses to investigate the association between shift work and mental health, whether work-family conflict explained this association, and whether the pathways differed between genders. The sample included 756 mothers and 452 fathers participating in the 'Families at Work' survey, an online nationwide community-based survey of employed pa…

  • Trends in the Prevalence of Psychological Distress Over Time

    Open AccessPeter Butterworth, Nicole Watson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Background: While there is discussion of increasing rates of mental disorders, epidemiological research finds little evidence of change over time. This research generally compares cross-sectional surveys conducted at different times. Declining response rates to representative surveys may mask increases in mental disorders and psychological distress. Methods: Analysis of data from two large nationally representative surveys: repeated cross-section…

  • Workplace Bullying and Suicidal Ideation

    Open AccessLiana Leach, Liana S Leach et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Workplace bullying adversely affects mental health, yet little is known about the outcomes for suicidal ideation. The current study used Australian population-based data to investigate the association between workplace bullying and suicidal ideation. The sample included 1488 employed participants aged 52-58 from wave 4 of the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Study. Workplace bullying was measured in two ways: (a) a single item ask…

  • Testing Age Differences in the Links Between Recent Financial Difficulties and Cognitive Deficits

    Open AccessKim M Kiely, Kaarin J Anstey et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    This study provides important new evidence that financial difficulties in later life are potent stressors associated with occasion-specific deficits in cognitive performance

  • Are Negative Community Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients Associated With Unemployment? Evidence From an Australian Cross-Sectional Sample and Longitudinal Cohort

    Open AccessTimothy P Schofield, Peter ButterworthARTICLESocial Psychological and…2018

    Negative stereotyping and stigmatization of welfare recipients may account for the negative outcomes they experience. Much is known about the impact of stigma on welfare take-up, whereas much is hypothesized about the stigma–unemployment association. In two representative Australian samples, we show that individuals previously exposed to unemployment benefits held negative attitudes to welfare recipients only when these reflected those of their c…

  • Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men

    Open AccessJane Pirkis, Dianne Currier et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    People in low socio-economic positions are over-represented in suicide statistics and are at heightened risk for non-fatal suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Few studies have tried to tease out the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position, however. We used data from Ten to Men (the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health) to investigate the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic…

  • Psychological distress and ischaemic heart disease

    Jennifer Welsh, Rosemary J Korda et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2017Referencias: 34

    BACKGROUND: Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) incidence is elevated in people reporting psychological distress. The extent to which this relationship is causal or related to reverse causality-that is, undiagnosed disease causing distress-is unclear. We quantified the relationship between psychological distress and IHD, with consideration of confounding and undiagnosed disease. METHODS: Questionnaire data (2006-2009) from 151 811 cardiovascular diseas…