Ann Macaskill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Macaskill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Macaskill |
| SIGNATURE | MACASKILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9972-8699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence
Developing the Foundations for a Learning-Based Humanistic Therapy
This study addressed the possibility of integrating learning theory into humanistic counseling. We consider that such an approach may enable client self-counseling either between sessions or after therapy has finished. Carl Rogers was a keen advocate of person-centered learning facilitation in the classroom and his principles of learning provide a natural start-point for a humanistic therapy based on learning theory. A variety of other learning p…
Future time perspective, positive emotions and student engagement: A Longitudinal Study
Student engagement is a key prognosticator of success, retention and perseverance in higher education. This study used structural equation modelling to evaluate a gain cycle of future time perspective (FTP), positive emotion and student engagement, derived from the broaden-and-build theory (BBT). A further objective was to examine changes within study variables over time. Participants were 217 UK undergraduates sampled at the beginning of the aca…
Stress and Subjective Well-Being Among First Year UK Undergraduate Students
Stress, resilience and leisure coping among university students: Applying the broaden-and-build theory
Evidence suggests that leisure coping is affiliated with resilience, and that both predict stress-coping and well-being. However, a theoretical explanation of how resilience is associated with the stress-reducing properties of leisure coping is lacking. Using the broaden-and-build theory, a model was developed proposing that resilient individuals proactively use leisure coping to cultivate positive emotions and in turn enhance well-being. Leisure…
Building resilience to stress through leisure activities: A qualitative analysis
Stress is prevalent in modern society and coping strategies largely determine well-being. A qualitative investigation of leisure as a positive coping response to stress was undertaken using a resilience-based perspective. This approach enabled a focus on competencies and strengths in the stress-leisure-coping process, contributing to the sparse literature in this area. In-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of eight participants. From a…
The mental health of university students in the United Kingdom
There are increasing concerns globally about the mental health of students. In the UK, the actual incidence of mental disturbance is unknown, although university counselling services report increased referrals. This study assesses the levels of mental illness in undergraduate students to examine whether widening participation in education has resulted in increases as hypothesised by the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists. Patterns of disturbance a…
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of stress and coping in first year undergraduates
In the UK , changes to the higher education system have increased the range of stressors experienced by students above those traditionally associated with the transition to university. Despite this, there is little qualitative research examining how students experience and cope with the adjustment to university. The experience of the transition was investigated in depth amongst 10 first year UK undergraduates. Purposive sampling resulted in a gro…
Developing autonomous learning in first year university students using perspectives from positive psychology
Autonomous learning is a commonly occurring learning outcome from university study, and it is argued that students require confidence in their own abilities to achieve this. Using approaches from positive psychology, this study aimed to develop confidence in first-year university students to facilitate autonomous learning. Psychological character strengths were assessed in 214 students on day one at university. Two weeks later their top three str…
The development of a brief measure of learner autonomy in university students
A great deal of attention is paid to the requirement for university students to become autonomous learners. A review of the literature revealed a lack of relatively short psychometrically sound measures of autonomous learning despite its purported importance. This study aimed to develop a brief, psychometrically sound, measure of autonomous learning to facilitate empirical research in this area. Items for the scale were selected from reviewing th…
Exploring religious involvement, forgiveness, trust, and cynicism
Forgiveness is a core value within Christianity and many other religions, but it is unclear whether valuing forgiveness results in individuals being more forgiving. This study examines the effect of Christian religious belief on forgiveness; tests the theoretical speculation that trust fosters forgiveness; explores the effect of cynicism, and examines age effects on forgiveness with a British sample. Christian clergy (N = 209), general population…
Defining Forgiveness: Christian Clergy and General Population Perspectives
The lack of any consensual definition of forgiveness is a serious weakness in the research literature ( McCullough, Pargament, & Thoresen, 2000 ). As forgiveness is at the core of Christianity, this study returns to the Christian source of the concept to explore the meaning of forgiveness for practicing Christian clergy. Comparisons are made with a general population sample and social science definitions of forgiveness to ensure that a shared mea…
Differentiating normal and problem gambling: A grounded theory approach
A previous study (Ricketts, T. and Macaskill, A. Gambling as emotion management: developing a grounded theory of problem gambling. Addiction Research and Theory 11(6).) delineated a theory of problem gambling based on the experiences of treatment seeking male gamblers and allowed predictions to be made regarding the processes that differentiate between normal and problem gamblers. These predictions are the focus of the present study, which also u…
Gambling as emotion management: Developing a grounded theory of problem gambling
The numbers of individuals developing problems with gambling is on the increase. This study explored the nature of problem gambling through an analysis of the reported experiences of problem gamblers. A grounded theory approach involving the analysis of material from 14 male treatment seeking gamblers resulted in the identification of three main categories. These were emotion, control and costs of gambling. Central to the experience of all partic…
Attitudes Towards Mental Health in an Urban Pakistani Community in the United Kingdom
The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Pakistani families living in an urban area of the United Kingdom, towards mental health issues, to identify the emic models used and compare them with the etic model, predominant in Western medicine. This would allow the exploration of some of the inconsistencies in the research literature relating to the incidence of mental illness in this cultural group. The second aim was to explore the…
Failure To Diagnose Depression in Patients Referred for Psychotherapy
Depression is a common psychiatric disorder with a 10 % 12-month prevalence (Kessler et al. 1994; Wilkinson, 1989). It is associated with substantial costs to health services, the economy and affected individuals. In the USA the annual economic costs of not treating affective illness measured in terms of loss of life and reduced productivity has been
Social Interests and Eysenck's Personality Dimensions
The relationship between Adler's concept of social interest and Eysenck's personality dimensions was investigated among 224 English undergraduates (85 men and 139 women). The present study links Adlerian and Eysenckian theories by finding that scores on the Social Interest Scale are significantly negatively associated with scores on Psychoticism and Neuroticism
Relationship between Belief in Good Luck and General Health
62 undergraduate university students were administered the 12-item Belief in Good Luck Scale of Darke and Freedman and the General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg and Williams. Scores on belief in good luck showed a significant correlation of -.29 with anxiety and -.35 with depression but correlations were not significant for somatic symptoms (.15) and social dysfunction (.15)
DSM-III in the Training of British Psychiatrists: A National Survey
All 223 psychiatric clinical tutors in the UK were surveyed on their use of DSM-111 in their postgraduate training programmes. Results indicate that DSM-III is widely used in clinical training to some extent in the majority of schemes (73%) and in the schemes where it is used it is rated as moderately useful by nearly everyone (93%). DSM-III is generally perceived to have positive effects on learning basic elements of psychopathology and in offer…
The Use of the Term 'Borderline Patient' By Scottish Psychiatrists: Ii Conceptual and Descriptive Analysis
A descriptive and conceptual analysis of the use of the term 'borderline patient' by Scottish psychiatrists revealed that they view borderline patients as being near the psychotic end of the illness spectrum, with a marked propensity towards brief, reactive, reversible, paranoid or schizophrenic reactions. There is clear evidence that the term is not used to refer to patients who in the United States would be labelled borderline schizophrenic. In…
Egocentricity in the child and its effect on the child's comprehension of kin terms
Piaget suggested that language acquisition is dependent on cognitive development and this paper presents data which are examined in terms of this hypothesis. As a result of a normative study on the comprehension of kin terms, the author suggested that kin terms could be divided into two categories, child‐centred terms and other‐centred terms. It was hypothesized that the decline of egocentricity in the child was a necessary development for the co…
Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development in the Acquisition of Kinship Terms
S ummary . This paper presents normative data on the comprehension of kin terms by children, which is then examined in terms of the Piagetian hypothesis that language acquisition is dependent on cognitive development in the child. The order in which kin terms were comprehended followed a definite pattern in terms of the sorts of relationships which were involved, the number of relational components in the terms and the cognitive demands that the …
Building resilience to stress through leisure activities: A qualitative analysis
Stress is prevalent in modern society and coping strategies largely determine well-being. A qualitative investigation of leisure as a positive coping response to stress was undertaken using a resilience-based perspective. This approach enabled a focus on competencies and strengths in the stress-leisure-coping process, contributing to the sparse literature in this area. In-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of eight participants. From a…
Stress, resilience and leisure coping among university students: Applying the broaden-and-build theory
Evidence suggests that leisure coping is affiliated with resilience, and that both predict stress-coping and well-being. However, a theoretical explanation of how resilience is associated with the stress-reducing properties of leisure coping is lacking. Using the broaden-and-build theory, a model was developed proposing that resilient individuals proactively use leisure coping to cultivate positive emotions and in turn enhance well-being. Leisure…
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of stress and coping in first year undergraduates
In the UK , changes to the higher education system have increased the range of stressors experienced by students above those traditionally associated with the transition to university. Despite this, there is little qualitative research examining how students experience and cope with the adjustment to university. The experience of the transition was investigated in depth amongst 10 first year UK undergraduates. Purposive sampling resulted in a gro…
Developing autonomous learning in first year university students using perspectives from positive psychology
Autonomous learning is a commonly occurring learning outcome from university study, and it is argued that students require confidence in their own abilities to achieve this. Using approaches from positive psychology, this study aimed to develop confidence in first-year university students to facilitate autonomous learning. Psychological character strengths were assessed in 214 students on day one at university. Two weeks later their top three str…
The development of a brief measure of learner autonomy in university students
A great deal of attention is paid to the requirement for university students to become autonomous learners. A review of the literature revealed a lack of relatively short psychometrically sound measures of autonomous learning despite its purported importance. This study aimed to develop a brief, psychometrically sound, measure of autonomous learning to facilitate empirical research in this area. Items for the scale were selected from reviewing th…
Future time perspective, positive emotions and student engagement: A Longitudinal Study
Student engagement is a key prognosticator of success, retention and perseverance in higher education. This study used structural equation modelling to evaluate a gain cycle of future time perspective (FTP), positive emotion and student engagement, derived from the broaden-and-build theory (BBT). A further objective was to examine changes within study variables over time. Participants were 217 UK undergraduates sampled at the beginning of the aca…
Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development in the Acquisition of Kinship Terms
S ummary . This paper presents normative data on the comprehension of kin terms by children, which is then examined in terms of the Piagetian hypothesis that language acquisition is dependent on cognitive development in the child. The order in which kin terms were comprehended followed a definite pattern in terms of the sorts of relationships which were involved, the number of relational components in the terms and the cognitive demands that the …
Egocentricity in the child and its effect on the child's comprehension of kin terms
Piaget suggested that language acquisition is dependent on cognitive development and this paper presents data which are examined in terms of this hypothesis. As a result of a normative study on the comprehension of kin terms, the author suggested that kin terms could be divided into two categories, child‐centred terms and other‐centred terms. It was hypothesized that the decline of egocentricity in the child was a necessary development for the co…
The Use of the Term 'Borderline Patient' By Scottish Psychiatrists: Ii Conceptual and Descriptive Analysis
A descriptive and conceptual analysis of the use of the term 'borderline patient' by Scottish psychiatrists revealed that they view borderline patients as being near the psychotic end of the illness spectrum, with a marked propensity towards brief, reactive, reversible, paranoid or schizophrenic reactions. There is clear evidence that the term is not used to refer to patients who in the United States would be labelled borderline schizophrenic. In…
DSM-III in the Training of British Psychiatrists: A National Survey
All 223 psychiatric clinical tutors in the UK were surveyed on their use of DSM-111 in their postgraduate training programmes. Results indicate that DSM-III is widely used in clinical training to some extent in the majority of schemes (73%) and in the schemes where it is used it is rated as moderately useful by nearly everyone (93%). DSM-III is generally perceived to have positive effects on learning basic elements of psychopathology and in offer…
Failure To Diagnose Depression in Patients Referred for Psychotherapy
Depression is a common psychiatric disorder with a 10 % 12-month prevalence (Kessler et al. 1994; Wilkinson, 1989). It is associated with substantial costs to health services, the economy and affected individuals. In the USA the annual economic costs of not treating affective illness measured in terms of loss of life and reduced productivity has been
Social Interests and Eysenck's Personality Dimensions
The relationship between Adler's concept of social interest and Eysenck's personality dimensions was investigated among 224 English undergraduates (85 men and 139 women). The present study links Adlerian and Eysenckian theories by finding that scores on the Social Interest Scale are significantly negatively associated with scores on Psychoticism and Neuroticism
Relationship between Belief in Good Luck and General Health
62 undergraduate university students were administered the 12-item Belief in Good Luck Scale of Darke and Freedman and the General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg and Williams. Scores on belief in good luck showed a significant correlation of -.29 with anxiety and -.35 with depression but correlations were not significant for somatic symptoms (.15) and social dysfunction (.15)
Attitudes Towards Mental Health in an Urban Pakistani Community in the United Kingdom
The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Pakistani families living in an urban area of the United Kingdom, towards mental health issues, to identify the emic models used and compare them with the etic model, predominant in Western medicine. This would allow the exploration of some of the inconsistencies in the research literature relating to the incidence of mental illness in this cultural group. The second aim was to explore the…
Gambling as emotion management: Developing a grounded theory of problem gambling
The numbers of individuals developing problems with gambling is on the increase. This study explored the nature of problem gambling through an analysis of the reported experiences of problem gamblers. A grounded theory approach involving the analysis of material from 14 male treatment seeking gamblers resulted in the identification of three main categories. These were emotion, control and costs of gambling. Central to the experience of all partic…
Differentiating normal and problem gambling: A grounded theory approach
A previous study (Ricketts, T. and Macaskill, A. Gambling as emotion management: developing a grounded theory of problem gambling. Addiction Research and Theory 11(6).) delineated a theory of problem gambling based on the experiences of treatment seeking male gamblers and allowed predictions to be made regarding the processes that differentiate between normal and problem gamblers. These predictions are the focus of the present study, which also u…
Defining Forgiveness: Christian Clergy and General Population Perspectives
The lack of any consensual definition of forgiveness is a serious weakness in the research literature ( McCullough, Pargament, & Thoresen, 2000 ). As forgiveness is at the core of Christianity, this study returns to the Christian source of the concept to explore the meaning of forgiveness for practicing Christian clergy. Comparisons are made with a general population sample and social science definitions of forgiveness to ensure that a shared mea…
Exploring religious involvement, forgiveness, trust, and cynicism
Forgiveness is a core value within Christianity and many other religions, but it is unclear whether valuing forgiveness results in individuals being more forgiving. This study examines the effect of Christian religious belief on forgiveness; tests the theoretical speculation that trust fosters forgiveness; explores the effect of cynicism, and examines age effects on forgiveness with a British sample. Christian clergy (N = 209), general population…
The development of a brief measure of learner autonomy in university students
A great deal of attention is paid to the requirement for university students to become autonomous learners. A review of the literature revealed a lack of relatively short psychometrically sound measures of autonomous learning despite its purported importance. This study aimed to develop a brief, psychometrically sound, measure of autonomous learning to facilitate empirical research in this area. Items for the scale were selected from reviewing th…
The mental health of university students in the United Kingdom
There are increasing concerns globally about the mental health of students. In the UK, the actual incidence of mental disturbance is unknown, although university counselling services report increased referrals. This study assesses the levels of mental illness in undergraduate students to examine whether widening participation in education has resulted in increases as hypothesised by the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists. Patterns of disturbance a…
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of stress and coping in first year undergraduates
In the UK , changes to the higher education system have increased the range of stressors experienced by students above those traditionally associated with the transition to university. Despite this, there is little qualitative research examining how students experience and cope with the adjustment to university. The experience of the transition was investigated in depth amongst 10 first year UK undergraduates. Purposive sampling resulted in a gro…
Developing autonomous learning in first year university students using perspectives from positive psychology
Autonomous learning is a commonly occurring learning outcome from university study, and it is argued that students require confidence in their own abilities to achieve this. Using approaches from positive psychology, this study aimed to develop confidence in first-year university students to facilitate autonomous learning. Psychological character strengths were assessed in 214 students on day one at university. Two weeks later their top three str…
Building resilience to stress through leisure activities: A qualitative analysis
Stress is prevalent in modern society and coping strategies largely determine well-being. A qualitative investigation of leisure as a positive coping response to stress was undertaken using a resilience-based perspective. This approach enabled a focus on competencies and strengths in the stress-leisure-coping process, contributing to the sparse literature in this area. In-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of eight participants. From a…
Stress and Subjective Well-Being Among First Year UK Undergraduate Students
Stress, resilience and leisure coping among university students: Applying the broaden-and-build theory
Evidence suggests that leisure coping is affiliated with resilience, and that both predict stress-coping and well-being. However, a theoretical explanation of how resilience is associated with the stress-reducing properties of leisure coping is lacking. Using the broaden-and-build theory, a model was developed proposing that resilient individuals proactively use leisure coping to cultivate positive emotions and in turn enhance well-being. Leisure…
Future time perspective, positive emotions and student engagement: A Longitudinal Study
Student engagement is a key prognosticator of success, retention and perseverance in higher education. This study used structural equation modelling to evaluate a gain cycle of future time perspective (FTP), positive emotion and student engagement, derived from the broaden-and-build theory (BBT). A further objective was to examine changes within study variables over time. Participants were 217 UK undergraduates sampled at the beginning of the aca…
Developing the Foundations for a Learning-Based Humanistic Therapy
This study addressed the possibility of integrating learning theory into humanistic counseling. We consider that such an approach may enable client self-counseling either between sessions or after therapy has finished. Carl Rogers was a keen advocate of person-centered learning facilitation in the classroom and his principles of learning provide a natural start-point for a humanistic therapy based on learning theory. A variety of other learning p…
Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence
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