Keith Nicholls
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Nicholls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholls |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLLS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1121-6435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rationalising a spectrum of problematic exercise: A qualitative study
Whilst a substantial body of evidence supports the benefits of exercise for physical and mental health, the overfocus on the benefits of exercise could result in harmful behaviours in some individuals. Conceptualised as a behavioural addiction, research often dichotomises the behaviour through a medical diagnostic model. The present qualitative study explored the meaning of problematic behaviour from the exerciser's perspective. Nineteen UK-based…
Medical, subjective and objective forms of exercise dependence and the role of learning, cognitive and emotional biases
Despite numerous benefits of regular exercise, research has demonstrated some people develop problematic exercise behaviour, with ongoing debates regarding the definition. This study defined three approaches: a traditional medical model including for example withdrawal symptoms; a subjective approach whereby individuals identify their own problematic exercise; and an objective perspective involving persistent exercise despite negative consequence…
Prospective associations among self-concept clarity, appearance comparisons, and thin-ideal internalization
Thinking false and slow: Implausible beliefs and the Cognitive Reflection Test
Why do people believe implausible claims like conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and fake news? Past studies using the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) suggest that implausible beliefs may result from an unwillingness to effortfully process information (i.e., cognitive miserliness). Our analysis (N = 664) tests this account by comparing CRT performance (total score, number and proportion of incorrect intuitive responses, and completion time) for …
Testing the Identity Disruption Model among Adolescents: Pathways Connecting Adverse Childhood Experiences to Body Dissatisfaction
The Identity Disruption Model posits that early adversity is associated with lower self-concept clarity, which in turn increases vulnerability to sociocultural appearance factors and body dissatisfaction, but this model has not previously been tested among adolescents. Testing the model during adolescence is critical because this is a key point of development of both identity and body dissatisfaction. This paper presents two studies with adolesce…
The issues that divide us: Three recent books
This essay reviews three recent books that address a range of policy issues currently affecting politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dominic O’Sullivan’s Sharing the Sovereign illustrates how treaties between states and Indigenous peoples can provide the basis for power-sharing arrangements across various spheres of public policy. Paul Spoonley’s The New New Zealand outlines the profound immigration-driven demographic changes experienced in recent d…
They Don't Think Like Us: Exploring Attitudes of Non-Transgender Students Toward Transgender People Using Discourse Analysis
Literature concerned with attitudes toward transgender (TG) individuals has been found to be lacking. Predominant research is quantitative and the few qualitative studies either investigated TG experience or attitudes of those with personal experience of TG people.This study investigated this topic using a qualitative approach employing semi-structured interviews exploring beliefs, understanding, and experience of TG people. Foucauldian Discourse…
Economic outcomes in New Zealand: A Varieties of Capitalism Lens
This article situates New Zealand in the Varieties of Capitalism literature and then uses this theoretical framework to provide a critical analysis of the country’s recent economic under-performance. It argues that while New Zealand is rightly assumed to reflect a near pure example of a free-market Liberal Market Economy, its historical trajectory has been rather more mixed. This has led some analysts to assume that a shift from a ‘Coordinated’ t…
Fifteen years of studying local government in New Zealand
Environmental Stress and Health
The Utility of Community Health Workers in Disaster Preparedness, Recovery, and Resiliency
Lay Health Workers can play a pivotal role in improving disaster response and recovery because of their potential effectiveness in enhancing the overall health of their communities, increasing disaster preparedness, supplementing the efforts of disaster responders, and building relationships of trust among all interested parties. Such activities build social capital and significantly enhance community resiliency in anticipation of future disaster…
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The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Trust in Government
Objectives To explore the impact Hurricane Katrina on citizens’ trust in government. Of primary interest is the relationship between poor governmental performance in the aftermath of the storm and low levels of political trust. In addition, levels of trust are related to respondents’ predictions regarding the time it will take their communities to recover. Methods Relationships are investigated through an analysis of data from a survey of residen…
Responses to Labor Market Challenges: Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, 1990–2008
Using Affective Attitudes to Identify Christian Fundamentalism: The Ten Commandments Judge and Alabama Politics
This article develops a new and useful indicator to aid in identifying Christian fundamentalism. “Affect” measures individuals' affective attitudes toward the role of Christian fundamentalists in Alabama politics. We demonstrate the analytic utility of this indicator by quantitatively comparing it to other more traditional and direct measures of fundamentalism, such as belief in the Bible as the literal word of God, self-identification as a funda…
Why social partnership matters: Irish policies for work – life balance
Since 1987 the Republic of Ireland has experimented with new forms of policy consultation and formulation that have been credited with turning the country into the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy of the 1990s. One of the most important of these new forms is a series of social partnership agreements that have become increasingly broad in scope over the past decade and a half. This article illustrates how the process of social partnership pact-making is abl…
Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay
Police crime analysis: A Survey of us police departments with 100 or more sworn personnel
The quality of police service is a function of the organization's capacity to effectively collect, collate, analyze and disseminate relevant data. Our understanding about the general state of police crime analysis in the USA is limited. We have some data from the LEMAS survey and a good deal of anecdotal information about crime analysis operations. To date, researchers have not engaged in systematic, rigorous efforts to develop a comprehensive se…
Labour Politics and Democratic Transition in South Korea and Taiwan
Labour Politics and Democratisation in South Korea and TaiwanThe article explores the evolution of labour politics during the transition from authoritarian to electoral rule in South Korea and Taiwan during the last decade and a half. It argues that labour politics is a crucial aspect of democratic consolidation because it facilitates the reproduction of contingent mass consent to the new regime. To this end, organized labour must be re-positione…
Why was there no General Strike in 1991? Corporatism, Pluralism and Neoliberal Labour Relations in New Zealand
This article explores the ideology and practical strategies of organised labour in New Zealand over two decades in order to assess its influence on the pattern of market-oriented policy implementation experienced there since 1984. Through the concept of 'partial regime', changes in the nature of labour relations under successive governments are reviewed and contrasted with the country's longstanding democratic corporatist model. The corporatist t…
Ideological aspects of hegemonic projects: Latin American civil society and cultural values in comparative perspective
A hegemonic project can be seen as the implementation of a particular social vision that links cultural beliefs and practices with the real experiences of mass society in the economic, social and political spheres.1 The original version of this paper was presented at the AILASA99 (Australasian Iberian and Latin American Studies Association) Conference in Melbourne, 8–10 September 1999. Thank you to conference participants for their comments, and …
To Leave or Not to Leave: A Logit Model of Turnover in the Presidential Cabinet
This work takes a fresh conceptual and theoretical approach to the issue of job stability at the highest level of the federal bureaucracy—the presidential cabinet. Joseph A. Schlesinger's ambition theory provides the theoretical base for a systematic analysis of the turnover of cabinet appointees from the administrations of George Washington through Ronald Reagan. Findings support the contention that turnover (changing incumbents) provides a rele…
The Dynamics of National Executive Service: Ambition Theory and the Careers of Presidential Cabinet Members
n 1966, Joseph A. Schlesinger claimed that the wellspring of politics is ambition and that the political behavior of politicians is shaped by the interplay between ambition and opportunity. Once an individual's ambition has been stirred by opportunities, subsequent behavior is designed to enhance the fulfillment of that ambition. While Schlesinger's work (and that of myriad other researchers in this area) is focused on public sector ambitions and…
Presidential Cabinets: The Politics of Selection from Washington to Reagan
This article reports the results of an investigation into the political opportunities and constraints which confront a President when deciding who will serve in his cabinet. The primary focus is on the reasons offered for presidential selections of individuals to serve. This has been accomplished with a newly collected set of data on the initial appointments of first-term Presidents, from Washington to Reagan. Representation theory has proven use…
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Trust in Government
Objectives To explore the impact Hurricane Katrina on citizens’ trust in government. Of primary interest is the relationship between poor governmental performance in the aftermath of the storm and low levels of political trust. In addition, levels of trust are related to respondents’ predictions regarding the time it will take their communities to recover. Methods Relationships are investigated through an analysis of data from a survey of residen…
Labour Politics and Democratic Transition in South Korea and Taiwan
Labour Politics and Democratisation in South Korea and TaiwanThe article explores the evolution of labour politics during the transition from authoritarian to electoral rule in South Korea and Taiwan during the last decade and a half. It argues that labour politics is a crucial aspect of democratic consolidation because it facilitates the reproduction of contingent mass consent to the new regime. To this end, organized labour must be re-positione…
The Dynamics of National Executive Service: Ambition Theory and the Careers of Presidential Cabinet Members
n 1966, Joseph A. Schlesinger claimed that the wellspring of politics is ambition and that the political behavior of politicians is shaped by the interplay between ambition and opportunity. Once an individual's ambition has been stirred by opportunities, subsequent behavior is designed to enhance the fulfillment of that ambition. While Schlesinger's work (and that of myriad other researchers in this area) is focused on public sector ambitions and…
Why social partnership matters: Irish policies for work – life balance
Since 1987 the Republic of Ireland has experimented with new forms of policy consultation and formulation that have been credited with turning the country into the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy of the 1990s. One of the most important of these new forms is a series of social partnership agreements that have become increasingly broad in scope over the past decade and a half. This article illustrates how the process of social partnership pact-making is abl…
Why was there no General Strike in 1991? Corporatism, Pluralism and Neoliberal Labour Relations in New Zealand
This article explores the ideology and practical strategies of organised labour in New Zealand over two decades in order to assess its influence on the pattern of market-oriented policy implementation experienced there since 1984. Through the concept of 'partial regime', changes in the nature of labour relations under successive governments are reviewed and contrasted with the country's longstanding democratic corporatist model. The corporatist t…
Rationalising a spectrum of problematic exercise: A qualitative study
Whilst a substantial body of evidence supports the benefits of exercise for physical and mental health, the overfocus on the benefits of exercise could result in harmful behaviours in some individuals. Conceptualised as a behavioural addiction, research often dichotomises the behaviour through a medical diagnostic model. The present qualitative study explored the meaning of problematic behaviour from the exerciser's perspective. Nineteen UK-based…
They Don't Think Like Us: Exploring Attitudes of Non-Transgender Students Toward Transgender People Using Discourse Analysis
Literature concerned with attitudes toward transgender (TG) individuals has been found to be lacking. Predominant research is quantitative and the few qualitative studies either investigated TG experience or attitudes of those with personal experience of TG people.This study investigated this topic using a qualitative approach employing semi-structured interviews exploring beliefs, understanding, and experience of TG people. Foucauldian Discourse…
Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay
Presidential Cabinets: The Politics of Selection from Washington to Reagan
This article reports the results of an investigation into the political opportunities and constraints which confront a President when deciding who will serve in his cabinet. The primary focus is on the reasons offered for presidential selections of individuals to serve. This has been accomplished with a newly collected set of data on the initial appointments of first-term Presidents, from Washington to Reagan. Representation theory has proven use…
The Dynamics of National Executive Service: Ambition Theory and the Careers of Presidential Cabinet Members
n 1966, Joseph A. Schlesinger claimed that the wellspring of politics is ambition and that the political behavior of politicians is shaped by the interplay between ambition and opportunity. Once an individual's ambition has been stirred by opportunities, subsequent behavior is designed to enhance the fulfillment of that ambition. While Schlesinger's work (and that of myriad other researchers in this area) is focused on public sector ambitions and…
To Leave or Not to Leave: A Logit Model of Turnover in the Presidential Cabinet
This work takes a fresh conceptual and theoretical approach to the issue of job stability at the highest level of the federal bureaucracy—the presidential cabinet. Joseph A. Schlesinger's ambition theory provides the theoretical base for a systematic analysis of the turnover of cabinet appointees from the administrations of George Washington through Ronald Reagan. Findings support the contention that turnover (changing incumbents) provides a rele…
Ideological aspects of hegemonic projects: Latin American civil society and cultural values in comparative perspective
A hegemonic project can be seen as the implementation of a particular social vision that links cultural beliefs and practices with the real experiences of mass society in the economic, social and political spheres.1 The original version of this paper was presented at the AILASA99 (Australasian Iberian and Latin American Studies Association) Conference in Melbourne, 8–10 September 1999. Thank you to conference participants for their comments, and …
Why was there no General Strike in 1991? Corporatism, Pluralism and Neoliberal Labour Relations in New Zealand
This article explores the ideology and practical strategies of organised labour in New Zealand over two decades in order to assess its influence on the pattern of market-oriented policy implementation experienced there since 1984. Through the concept of 'partial regime', changes in the nature of labour relations under successive governments are reviewed and contrasted with the country's longstanding democratic corporatist model. The corporatist t…
Police crime analysis: A Survey of us police departments with 100 or more sworn personnel
The quality of police service is a function of the organization's capacity to effectively collect, collate, analyze and disseminate relevant data. Our understanding about the general state of police crime analysis in the USA is limited. We have some data from the LEMAS survey and a good deal of anecdotal information about crime analysis operations. To date, researchers have not engaged in systematic, rigorous efforts to develop a comprehensive se…
Labour Politics and Democratic Transition in South Korea and Taiwan
Labour Politics and Democratisation in South Korea and TaiwanThe article explores the evolution of labour politics during the transition from authoritarian to electoral rule in South Korea and Taiwan during the last decade and a half. It argues that labour politics is a crucial aspect of democratic consolidation because it facilitates the reproduction of contingent mass consent to the new regime. To this end, organized labour must be re-positione…
Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay
Why social partnership matters: Irish policies for work – life balance
Since 1987 the Republic of Ireland has experimented with new forms of policy consultation and formulation that have been credited with turning the country into the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy of the 1990s. One of the most important of these new forms is a series of social partnership agreements that have become increasingly broad in scope over the past decade and a half. This article illustrates how the process of social partnership pact-making is abl…
Using Affective Attitudes to Identify Christian Fundamentalism: The Ten Commandments Judge and Alabama Politics
This article develops a new and useful indicator to aid in identifying Christian fundamentalism. “Affect” measures individuals' affective attitudes toward the role of Christian fundamentalists in Alabama politics. We demonstrate the analytic utility of this indicator by quantitatively comparing it to other more traditional and direct measures of fundamentalism, such as belief in the Bible as the literal word of God, self-identification as a funda…
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Trust in Government
Objectives To explore the impact Hurricane Katrina on citizens’ trust in government. Of primary interest is the relationship between poor governmental performance in the aftermath of the storm and low levels of political trust. In addition, levels of trust are related to respondents’ predictions regarding the time it will take their communities to recover. Methods Relationships are investigated through an analysis of data from a survey of residen…
Responses to Labor Market Challenges: Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, 1990–2008
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An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Environmental Stress and Health
The Utility of Community Health Workers in Disaster Preparedness, Recovery, and Resiliency
Lay Health Workers can play a pivotal role in improving disaster response and recovery because of their potential effectiveness in enhancing the overall health of their communities, increasing disaster preparedness, supplementing the efforts of disaster responders, and building relationships of trust among all interested parties. Such activities build social capital and significantly enhance community resiliency in anticipation of future disaster…
Fifteen years of studying local government in New Zealand
Economic outcomes in New Zealand: A Varieties of Capitalism Lens
This article situates New Zealand in the Varieties of Capitalism literature and then uses this theoretical framework to provide a critical analysis of the country’s recent economic under-performance. It argues that while New Zealand is rightly assumed to reflect a near pure example of a free-market Liberal Market Economy, its historical trajectory has been rather more mixed. This has led some analysts to assume that a shift from a ‘Coordinated’ t…
They Don't Think Like Us: Exploring Attitudes of Non-Transgender Students Toward Transgender People Using Discourse Analysis
Literature concerned with attitudes toward transgender (TG) individuals has been found to be lacking. Predominant research is quantitative and the few qualitative studies either investigated TG experience or attitudes of those with personal experience of TG people.This study investigated this topic using a qualitative approach employing semi-structured interviews exploring beliefs, understanding, and experience of TG people. Foucauldian Discourse…
The issues that divide us: Three recent books
This essay reviews three recent books that address a range of policy issues currently affecting politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dominic O’Sullivan’s Sharing the Sovereign illustrates how treaties between states and Indigenous peoples can provide the basis for power-sharing arrangements across various spheres of public policy. Paul Spoonley’s The New New Zealand outlines the profound immigration-driven demographic changes experienced in recent d…
Thinking false and slow: Implausible beliefs and the Cognitive Reflection Test
Why do people believe implausible claims like conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and fake news? Past studies using the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) suggest that implausible beliefs may result from an unwillingness to effortfully process information (i.e., cognitive miserliness). Our analysis (N = 664) tests this account by comparing CRT performance (total score, number and proportion of incorrect intuitive responses, and completion time) for …
Testing the Identity Disruption Model among Adolescents: Pathways Connecting Adverse Childhood Experiences to Body Dissatisfaction
The Identity Disruption Model posits that early adversity is associated with lower self-concept clarity, which in turn increases vulnerability to sociocultural appearance factors and body dissatisfaction, but this model has not previously been tested among adolescents. Testing the model during adolescence is critical because this is a key point of development of both identity and body dissatisfaction. This paper presents two studies with adolesce…
Prospective associations among self-concept clarity, appearance comparisons, and thin-ideal internalization
Rationalising a spectrum of problematic exercise: A qualitative study
Whilst a substantial body of evidence supports the benefits of exercise for physical and mental health, the overfocus on the benefits of exercise could result in harmful behaviours in some individuals. Conceptualised as a behavioural addiction, research often dichotomises the behaviour through a medical diagnostic model. The present qualitative study explored the meaning of problematic behaviour from the exerciser's perspective. Nineteen UK-based…
Medical, subjective and objective forms of exercise dependence and the role of learning, cognitive and emotional biases
Despite numerous benefits of regular exercise, research has demonstrated some people develop problematic exercise behaviour, with ongoing debates regarding the definition. This study defined three approaches: a traditional medical model including for example withdrawal symptoms; a subjective approach whereby individuals identify their own problematic exercise; and an objective perspective involving persistent exercise despite negative consequence…
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