Blake Rodgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 133620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blake Rodgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blake |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodgers |
| SIGNATURE | RODGERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2863-3737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Relationships of Experiencing Workplace Bullying with Mental Health, Affective Commitment, and Job Satisfaction: Application of the Job Demands Control Model
There have been very few theoretical models published to understand the relationship between workplace bullying and different outcome variables. Applying the Job Demands Control (JDC) model, this study analyzed workplace bullying alongside 'traditional' job stressors of role overload and low job control to determine the relative associations of each with mental health and wellbeing. These relative associations have not been well documented. Data …
Elucidating knowledge and beliefs about obesity and eating disorders among key stakeholders: Paving the way for an integrated approach to health promotion
The findings indicate areas where the EDs and obesity fields have common ground and can work together in developing integrated health promotion programs
Health and Well-Being of International University Students, and Comparison with Domestic Students, in Tasmania, Australia
International students comprise an increasingly larger proportion of higher education students globally. Empirical evidence about the health and well-being of these students is, however, limited. We sought to examine the health and well-being of international students, primarily from Asian countries, attending the University of Tasmania, Australia, using domestic students as a comparison group. Ethics approval was given to invite (via email) all …
Consistency and Continuity in Material and Psychosocial Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
The Australian child support reforms: A critical evaluation
The Australian Child Support Scheme aims to ensure that children continue to be supported financially should their parents separate or never live together. Sweeping changes to the Australian Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a dramatically different system for the calculation of child support and a more rigorous enforcement regime. The reforms were intended to respond to ongoing concerns about equity, and to ch…
Can child support compliance be improved by the introduction of a ‘fairer’ child support formula and more rigorous enforcement? The recent Australian experience
Child support compliance continues to be a thorny policy issue. In Australia, major changes to the Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a markedly different and purportedly ‘fairer’ system for the calculation of child support. Extra resources were also provided to the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure that child support is paid in full and on time. Did these initiatives lead to greater compliance by payers with…
Quality of life impairment associated with body dissatisfaction in a general population sample of women
In women, BD is associated with marked impairment in aspects of quality of life relating to mental health and psycho-social functioning and at least some aspects of physical health, independent of its association with body weight and eating disorder symptoms. Greater attention may need to be given to BD as a public health problem. The fact that BD is "normative" should not be taken to infer that it is benign
Combining work and family: Rewards or risks for children's mental health
Negative intraoral pressure in German: Evidence from an exploratory study
Phonemic clicks are geographically limited to the African continent, but non-phonemic clicks can also occur in languages spoken elsewhere. One of the phonetic peculiarities of clicks is that they involve negative intraoral pressure. The current study is a survey of instances of negative intraoral pressure excursions in German, a European language which is known to show instances of weak clicks in consonant sequences. Data of spontaneous speech in…
Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Post-separation patterns of children's overnight stays with each parent: A detailed snapshot
Post-separation patterns of children’s overnight stays with each parent: A detailed snapshot
Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation over the past decade - especially in shared-time arrangements - few studies have explored the detail of post-separation parenting time schedules. This article: (a) provides a detailed snapshot of children's overnight stays with each parent among a national random sample of 408 separated parents registered with the Australian Child Support Agency (CSA); and (b) develops a typolo…
The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: Results from a longitudinal national household panel survey
OBJECTIVES: Although employment is associated with health benefits over unemployment, the psychosocial characteristics of work also influence health. We used longitudinal data to investigate whether the benefits of having a job depend on its psychosocial quality (levels of control, demands and complexity, job insecurity, and unfair pay), and whether poor quality jobs are associated with better mental health than unemployment. METHOD: Analysis of …
Mental health impairment in underweight women: Do body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behavior play a role
The findings suggest that mental health impairment in underweight women, where this occurs, is unlikely to be due to higher levels of body dissatisfaction or eating-disordered behaviour. Rather, lower levels of body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behaviour among underweight women may counterbalance, to some extent, impairment due to other factors
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
How intraoral pressure shapes the voicing contrast in American English and German
This study examines intraoral pressure for English and German stops in bilabial and alveolar place of articulation. Our subjects are two speakers of American English and three speakers of German. VOICING is the main phonological contrast under evaluation in both word initial and word final position. For initial stops, a few of the pressure characteristics showed differences between English and German, but on the whole the results point to similar…
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion
This evidence underlines the difficulty of moving from unemployment into good quality work and highlights the need for social inclusion policies to consider people's pre-existing health conditions and promote job quality
Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression: Results from the Path Through Life Survey
Volunteering and Psychological Well-Being Among Young-Old Adults: How Much Is Too Much?
PURPOSE: Research concerned with the relationship between volunteer activity and psychological well-being has typically reported higher levels of well-being among older adult volunteers relative to nonvolunteers. However, few studies have examined nonlinear associations between frequency of volunteer activity and well-being. We examined nonlinear associations between hours spent volunteering and psychological well-being, controlling for employmen…
Mental health problems among single and partnered mothers: The role of financial hardship and social support
Mental Health Literacy and Eating-Disordered Behavior: Beliefs of Adolescent Girls Concerning the Treatment of and Treatment-Seeking for Bulimia Nervosa
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community
Weekly Alcohol Consumption, Brain Atrophy, and White Matter Hyperintensities in a Community-Based Sample Aged 60 to 64 Years
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the association between weekly alcohol consumption and brain atrophy in adults aged 60 to 64 years. Methods: Brain magnetic resonance imaging scans from 385 adults recruited through a community survey were analyzed. Automated segmentation and manual tracing methods were used to obtain brain subvolumes and automated methods were used to obtain quantification and localization of white matter h…
Retirement and mental health: Analysis of the Australian national survey of mental health and well-being
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Does financial hardship account for elevated psychological distress in lone mothers
Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression: Results from the Path Through Life Survey
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Retirement and mental health: Analysis of the Australian national survey of mental health and well-being
Combining work and family: Rewards or risks for children's mental health
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community
Health, cognitive, and psychosocial factors as predictors of mortality in an elderly community sample
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine whether cognitive and psychosocial factors predict mortality once physical health is controlled. DESIGN: A prospective study of community dwelling elderly. Mortality was assessed over a period of 3-4 years after the baseline assessment of predictors. The data were analysed using the Cox proportional hazards model. SETTING: Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A sample of 897 people aged 70 or over and livi…
Loss and representativeness in a 43 year follow up of a national birth cohort
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to describe rates of loss and assessment of representativeness during 43 years of a national birth cohort study. DESIGN--The study population is a class stratified random sample of all single, legitimate births that occurred during one single week in 1946; it has been studied at regular intervals, so far to 1989. MAIN RESULTS--Losses through death and emigration were comparable to those in the national population of t…
Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife
Social and psychological wellbeing of children from divorced families: Australian research findings
Several commentators have proposed that overseas research on the adverse sequelae of parental divorce is not applicable to Australia. Arguments supporting this are critically assessed and rejected. Australian studies show that parental divorce is associated with many problems in adolescence and adulthood: poor academic achievement, low self-esteem, psychological distress, delinquency, recidivism, substance use, sexual precocity, adult criminal of…
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Post-separation patterns of children’s overnight stays with each parent: A detailed snapshot
Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation over the past decade - especially in shared-time arrangements - few studies have explored the detail of post-separation parenting time schedules. This article: (a) provides a detailed snapshot of children's overnight stays with each parent among a national random sample of 408 separated parents registered with the Australian Child Support Agency (CSA); and (b) develops a typolo…
Re-thinking the Analysis of Intergenerational Social Mobility: A Comment on John W. Fox's 'Social Class, Mental Ilness, and Social Mobility
The method of analyzing social mobility described by Fox (1990) is flawed in its adjustment for between-group differences in destination status when estimating the extent of the mentally ill's mobility as compared with the general population. Use of the recommended model with hypothetical data sets resulted in a significant finding when no overall upward or downward mobility occurred, and a non-significant result when the downward mobility of a p…
Can child support compliance be improved by the introduction of a ‘fairer’ child support formula and more rigorous enforcement? The recent Australian experience
Child support compliance continues to be a thorny policy issue. In Australia, major changes to the Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a markedly different and purportedly ‘fairer’ system for the calculation of child support. Extra resources were also provided to the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure that child support is paid in full and on time. Did these initiatives lead to greater compliance by payers with…
Negative intraoral pressure in German: Evidence from an exploratory study
Phonemic clicks are geographically limited to the African continent, but non-phonemic clicks can also occur in languages spoken elsewhere. One of the phonetic peculiarities of clicks is that they involve negative intraoral pressure. The current study is a survey of instances of negative intraoral pressure excursions in German, a European language which is known to show instances of weak clicks in consonant sequences. Data of spontaneous speech in…
Development of a scale to measure symptoms of anxiety and depression in the general UK population: The psychiatric symptom frequency scale
OBJECTIVES: The psychiatric symptom frequency (PSF) scale was developed to assess symptoms of anxiety and depression (i.e. affective symptoms) experienced over the past year in the general population. This study aimed to examine the distribution of PSF scores, internal consistency, and factor structure and to investigate relationships between total scores for this scale and other indicators of poor mental health. PARTICIPANTS: The Medical Researc…
The Identification and Prevalence of Specific Reading Retardation
S ummary . The existence of a hump at the tail of the distribution of under‐/over‐achievement in reading is generally accepted, yet the evidence in support of this is far from conclusive. In a national sample of 8,836 10‐year‐olds, part of the Child Health and Education Study, the over‐representation of children with severe under‐achievement, i.e. specific reading retardation, could not be confirmed. The implications are that specific reading ret…
Mental Health Literacy and Eating-Disordered Behavior: Beliefs of Adolescent Girls Concerning the Treatment of and Treatment-Seeking for Bulimia Nervosa
Mental Health and the Family Law System
Mental health issues permeate the family law system – at least according to anecdote. Yet such issues are rarely mentioned in family-law research, policy, and practice. This article aims to stimulate discussion about the sometimes close and complex links between mental health issues and family law, and suggests a framework for how the family-law system might provide better emotional support to families in transition
Mud box—filled with stone: The wreck of the scow schooner Dan Hayes
Scow Schooners are an important yet largely unstudied vessel type that operated on the North American Great Lakes. At their zenith in the later 19th century scow schooners worked between the many small harbours and the larger nexus ports such as Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee. These vessels are virtually undocumented either historically or archaeologically. A project by East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program and the State Historical…
Leisure and Recreation
Leisure and Recreation
The Identification and Prevalence of Specific Reading Retardation
S ummary . The existence of a hump at the tail of the distribution of under‐/over‐achievement in reading is generally accepted, yet the evidence in support of this is far from conclusive. In a national sample of 8,836 10‐year‐olds, part of the Child Health and Education Study, the over‐representation of children with severe under‐achievement, i.e. specific reading retardation, could not be confirmed. The implications are that specific reading ret…
Loss and representativeness in a 43 year follow up of a national birth cohort
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to describe rates of loss and assessment of representativeness during 43 years of a national birth cohort study. DESIGN--The study population is a class stratified random sample of all single, legitimate births that occurred during one single week in 1946; it has been studied at regular intervals, so far to 1989. MAIN RESULTS--Losses through death and emigration were comparable to those in the national population of t…
Re-thinking the Analysis of Intergenerational Social Mobility: A Comment on John W. Fox's 'Social Class, Mental Ilness, and Social Mobility
The method of analyzing social mobility described by Fox (1990) is flawed in its adjustment for between-group differences in destination status when estimating the extent of the mentally ill's mobility as compared with the general population. Use of the recommended model with hypothetical data sets resulted in a significant finding when no overall upward or downward mobility occurred, and a non-significant result when the downward mobility of a p…
Social and psychological wellbeing of children from divorced families: Australian research findings
Several commentators have proposed that overseas research on the adverse sequelae of parental divorce is not applicable to Australia. Arguments supporting this are critically assessed and rejected. Australian studies show that parental divorce is associated with many problems in adolescence and adulthood: poor academic achievement, low self-esteem, psychological distress, delinquency, recidivism, substance use, sexual precocity, adult criminal of…
“Mental health literacy”: A survey of the public's ability to recognise mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment
OBJECTIVES: To assess the public's recognition of mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of various treatments ("mental health literacy"). DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey, in 1995, with structured interviews using vignettes of a person with either depression or schizophrenia. PARTICIPANTS: A representative national sample of 2031 individuals aged 18-74 years; 1010 participants were questioned about the depression vignette and…
Children and parental divorce: The meaning of small effects — A reply
The commentary on my earlier review of Australian studies of parental divorce raises a number of important points. One of these is the evaluation of strength of association. I argue that the effect sizes found for the association between parental divorce and several social and psychological outcomes have been understated and can be shown to be equal to those of other important early-life and contemporary risk factors for mental health problems. A…
Development of a scale to measure symptoms of anxiety and depression in the general UK population: The psychiatric symptom frequency scale
OBJECTIVES: The psychiatric symptom frequency (PSF) scale was developed to assess symptoms of anxiety and depression (i.e. affective symptoms) experienced over the past year in the general population. This study aimed to examine the distribution of PSF scores, internal consistency, and factor structure and to investigate relationships between total scores for this scale and other indicators of poor mental health. PARTICIPANTS: The Medical Researc…
Validity of the Malaise Inventory in general population samples
A short form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule: Evaluation of factorial validity and invariance across demographic variables in a community sample
Health, cognitive, and psychosocial factors as predictors of mortality in an elderly community sample
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine whether cognitive and psychosocial factors predict mortality once physical health is controlled. DESIGN: A prospective study of community dwelling elderly. Mortality was assessed over a period of 3-4 years after the baseline assessment of predictors. The data were analysed using the Cox proportional hazards model. SETTING: Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A sample of 897 people aged 70 or over and livi…
Does financial hardship account for elevated psychological distress in lone mothers
Sexual orientation and mental health: Results from a community survey of young and middle – aged adults
BACKGROUND: Community surveys have reported a higher rate of mental health problems in combined groups of homosexual and bisexual participants, but have not separated these two groups. AIMS: To assess separately the mental health of homosexual and bisexual groups compared with heterosexuals. METHOD: A community survey of 4824 adults was carried out in Canberra, Australia. Measures covered anxiety, depression, suicidality, alcohol misuse, positive…
Shipwreck in a swamp: The Burroughs site at Edenton, N. Carolina, USA
This preliminary site analysis of a suspected 18th-century shipwreck located in Edenton, North Carolina, USA, helps call to question the roll of abandonment in the examination of ships as artefacts. Abandonments often provide an easily accessed and inexpensive means of fleshing out knowledge of ship construction in the past. Abandonments are typically located near historically well-used commercial ports and harbours and may now be hidden by shall…
Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife
Mud box—filled with stone: The wreck of the scow schooner Dan Hayes
Scow Schooners are an important yet largely unstudied vessel type that operated on the North American Great Lakes. At their zenith in the later 19th century scow schooners worked between the many small harbours and the larger nexus ports such as Chicago, Detroit, and Milwaukee. These vessels are virtually undocumented either historically or archaeologically. A project by East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program and the State Historical…
Gender differences in factors affecting use of health services: An analysis of a community study of middle-aged and older Australians
Mental Health and the Family Law System
Mental health issues permeate the family law system – at least according to anecdote. Yet such issues are rarely mentioned in family-law research, policy, and practice. This article aims to stimulate discussion about the sometimes close and complex links between mental health issues and family law, and suggests a framework for how the family-law system might provide better emotional support to families in transition
Assessing quality of life in eating disorder patients
Weekly Alcohol Consumption, Brain Atrophy, and White Matter Hyperintensities in a Community-Based Sample Aged 60 to 64 Years
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the association between weekly alcohol consumption and brain atrophy in adults aged 60 to 64 years. Methods: Brain magnetic resonance imaging scans from 385 adults recruited through a community survey were analyzed. Automated segmentation and manual tracing methods were used to obtain brain subvolumes and automated methods were used to obtain quantification and localization of white matter h…
Retirement and mental health: Analysis of the Australian national survey of mental health and well-being
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Mental health problems among single and partnered mothers: The role of financial hardship and social support
Mental Health Literacy and Eating-Disordered Behavior: Beliefs of Adolescent Girls Concerning the Treatment of and Treatment-Seeking for Bulimia Nervosa
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community
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