Amy D Lykins
Biographic Data
| ID | 158447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy D Lykins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lykins |
| SIGNATURE | LYKINS A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2930-3964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
An Exploratory Analysis of Minority Stress Experiences and Mental Ill-Health in Bisexual Adults
Despite an increase in research examining sexual minority groups, there remains comparatively less targeted research with bisexual people, as they are often absorbed into lesbian and gay samples in research or disregarded entirely. Given the existing data suggesting that bisexual people have higher rates of mental health issues than lesbian women and gay men, it is critical that this group's mental health, and risk factors of mental ill-health, b…
Barriers and drivers to adopting a plant-rich Mediterranean diet in a high-income country: A qualitative study
Eating a plant-rich diet is considered essential for human and planetary health and the Mediterranean diet offers a realistic way to increase this. Gaining greater knowledge of the barriers and drivers to consuming the Mediterranean diet in residents of high-income countries was the aim of the current study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 adults residing in Australia who ate either an omnivore or plant-rich diet. Using reflexiv…
Mental ill-health in rural and metropolitan dwelling Australian youth during the first Covid-19 wave
Mental ill-health in rural and metropolitan dwelling Australian youth during the first COVID-19 wave
Detecting and classifying eco-anxiety: Development of clinical cut-off scores for the climate change anxiety scale
The proposed cut-offs can feasibly be used to identify those with elevated climate change anxiety. Use of these cut-off scores can inform research as well as be used to guide screening, assessment, and inform clinical practice. Results also highlight a high rate of climate change anxiety in young adults
Visual Attention to Evolutionarily Relevant Information by Heterosexual Men and Women While Viewing Mock Online Dating Profiles
The way people create social connections and access information has been altered greatly by technology in recent decades. Online browsing of visual profiles has become a common means for seeking potential partners for both short- and long-term relationships. Little is known, however, about how people prioritize mate quality information while viewing online profiles. Using eye-tracking methods and self-report, this study investigated how people ev…
Purchasing products with sustainable palm oil: Designing and evaluating an online intervention for Australian consumers
Widespread tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia due to the oil palm industry can be addressed by encouraging consumers to purchase sustainable palm oil (SPO). An online experiment was conducted to assess whether addressing barriers relating to education, motivation and product availability would increase purchasing of SPO. Australian adults ( n = 628) were randomly assigned to either: (1) a newly developed interactive ed…
Australian Youth Mental Health and Climate Change Concern After the Black Summer Bushfires
Climate change and its effects present notable challenges for mental health, particularly for vulnerable populations, including young people. Immediately following the unprecedented Black Summer bushfire season of 2019/2020, 746 Australians (aged 16–25 years) completed measures of mental health and perceptions of climate change. Results indicated greater presentations of depression, anxiety, stress, adjustment disorder symptoms, substance abuse, …
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death
The death of a companion animal can cause severe grief, yet previous research investigating factors predicting grief has been hampered by limitations. We explored how attachment styles, continuing bonds, and time since loss interacted to predict grief severity in a large sample of individuals grieving the loss of a variety of companion animals. Participants ( n = 496) aged between18 and 79 years ( M age = 41.60, SD = 13.62) who had lost a compani…
A Love-Hate Relationship with What I Do: Protecting the Mental Health of Animal Care Workers
Mental ill-health associated with animal care work, coupled with a current shortage of animal care workers (ACWs), highlights the need to support this population's wellbeing. Guided by the Job Demands-Resources model of burnout and the principles of positive occupational health psychology, we aimed to explore mental ill-health in ACWs and identify potential risks and protective factors for their wellbeing. ACWs (n = 217) completed an anonymous on…
Cultural worldviews and the perception of natural hazard risk in Australia
The cultural theory of risk proposes that risk perception is biased by sociality and the maintenance of four ways or life, or cultural worldviews: hierarchism, egalitarianism, individualism or communitarianism. This study examined whether cultural worldviews influenced the perception of the risk of bushfire, flood, storm and earthquake in Australia. A sample of 503 participants completed two questionnaires: cultural worldviews and natural hazard …
Voted yes—What else can I do?”: Coping with stigma-related stress during the Australian marriage equality debate
There is limited empirical evidence on how LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer/Questioning) people cope with stigma-related stress associated with marriage amendment processes. The current study explored coping during the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey during which stigma-related stress was significantly associated with increased psychological distress of LGBTIQ people. Data collected during the voting and …
Acceptability and feasibility of telehealth as a training modality for trainee psychologist placements: A Covid-19 response study
Objective This study examined the extent to which telehealth placements are feasible for developing perceived competence as a psychologist and are an acceptable training modality for provisional psychologists. Method Fifteen provisional psychologists who undertook a postgraduate placement using telehealth completed an online survey. Acceptability and attitudes towards future telehealth service provision were assessed via Likert scales and open-en…
To Vaccinate or Not: The Relative Impact of Attitudes toward Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Ability to Interpret Scientific Information on Vaccination Decisions
Factors other than scientific literacy seem to contribute towards children's MMR vaccine status such as attitudes towards MMR. However, these are preliminary findings and need to be interpreted with caution
Confronting the palm oil crisis: Identifying behaviours for targeted interventions
Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals
Hypersexuality: A Critical Review and Introduction to the “Sexhavior Cycle”
Response to Commentaries: Recognizing Hypersexuality as a Psychosexual Behavioral Problem and Advancing the Sexhavior Cycle of Hypersexuality
An Online Assessment of Personality, Psychological, and Sexuality Trait Variables Associated with Self-Reported Hypersexual Behavior
Beyond Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual: A Diversity in Sexual Identity Expression
Sexual Arousal and Sexual Activity Frequency: Implications for Understanding Hypersexuality
Bridging the gap: The Effect of Gender Normativity on Differences in Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
Self-report measures of empathy and emotional intelligence have frequently revealed significant gender differences, with females typically scoring higher than males on these dimensions. In this study, we investigated whether, in line with a social identity approach, manipulating the gender normativity of empathy and emotional intelligence would ameliorate typically observed differences. Male and female participants (N = 330) were randomly assigne…
Effects of Gender Group Norms on the Endorsement of Same-Sex Attraction, Behavior, and Identity
This study contends that social influences (including the perception that same-sex sexual attraction is not gender normative) as well as prejudice toward bisexual persons (biphobia), may help explain this discrepancy. In this study, the authors tested whether, in line with a social identity approach, manipulating social factors regarding the gender normativity of bisexuality influenced participants’ self-perceptions of their sexualities and expre…
Minor Physical Anomalies as a Window into the Prenatal Origins of Pedophilia
Predictors of Intentions to Have Pelvic Examinations Among a UK Sample of Young Asian and non-Asian Women
Objectives: Women delay gynecological care for various reasons, including practical difficulties and self-consciousness about having health professionals view their genitals. Methods: Experiences of and intentions to have pelvic examinations, attitudes toward female genitals, and genital self-image were investigated in young Asian and non-Asian women. Results: Past experience of having had pelvic screening and fears about screening were the stron…
Australian Trans Men: Development, Sexuality, and Mental Health
The aim of the study reported in this article was to gain an understanding of the experiences, developmental trajectories, and mental health status of Australian trans men. Participants were 279 trans men. The majority preferred to identify as “male”; from an early age, they had experienced their gender identity as different from that normatively expected of their natally assigned sex and had undertaken practices so as to facilitate their present…
Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and the DSM-V
The relationship between negative mood and sexuality in heterosexual college women and men
Negative mood states, such as depression and anxiety, are typically associated with decreased sexual interest and arousal. However, there is also some evidence that depressed or anxious mood may increase sexual interest or arousal in some individuals. In this study, 663 female college students (mean age = 18.9 years, SD = 1.21) answered questions regarding the effects of anxious and depressed mood on sexual interest and arousal and completed trai…
Sex Differences in Visual Attention to Erotic and Non-Erotic Stimuli
Detection of Differential Viewing Patterns to Erotic and Non-Erotic Stimuli Using Eye-Tracking Methodology
A Treatment-Oriented Typology of Self-Identified Hypersexuality Referrals
Men and women have been seeking professional assistance to help control hypersexual urges and behaviors since the nineteenth century. Despite that the literature emphasizes that cases of hypersexuality are highly diverse with regard to clinical presentation and comorbid features, the major models for understanding and treating hypersexuality employ a “one size fits all” approach. That is, rather than identify which problematic behaviors might res…
Effect of Normative Masculinity on Males’ Dysfunctional Sexual Beliefs, Sexual Attitudes, and Perceptions of Sexual Functioning
Male sexual dysfunction is a prevalent and distressing condition, which may be exacerbated by the sufferer's perceptions of masculinity and normative sexual behavior. This study sought to investigate the effect of social context on males' beliefs regarding sexual behavior. The research examined the effect of male role modeling and masculine cues on males' dysfunctional sexual beliefs, sexual attitudes, and self-perceptions of sexual functioning. …
An Online Assessment of Personality, Psychological, and Sexuality Trait Variables Associated with Self-Reported Hypersexual Behavior
Beyond Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual: A Diversity in Sexual Identity Expression
Visual Attention to Erotic Images in Women Reporting Pain with Intercourse
The coupling of sex and pain creates an interesting theoretical conundrum of clinical significance: Are women with dyspareunia distracted from sexual stimuli, or are they hypervigilant to sexual stimuli because these stimuli elicit thoughts and expectations of pain? This study measured attention to sexual stimuli in women reporting persistent pain with intercourse, women reporting low sexual desire, and women reporting no sexual problems. Partici…
Sexual Arousal and Sexual Activity Frequency: Implications for Understanding Hypersexuality
Minor Physical Anomalies as a Window into the Prenatal Origins of Pedophilia
Negative Affect and Somatically Focused Anxiety in Young Women Reporting Pain With Intercourse
After a long history of privileging psychosexual etiological factors over pain and physiological processes, dyspareunia has enjoyed 1 decade of pointed research focused on the presenting problem of pain. Although it is generally acknowledged that certain affective and cognitive styles may play a role in an individual's experience of pain in general, investigations into these questions specifically as they pertain to pain that occurs during sex ar…
Australian Trans Men: Development, Sexuality, and Mental Health
The aim of the study reported in this article was to gain an understanding of the experiences, developmental trajectories, and mental health status of Australian trans men. Participants were 279 trans men. The majority preferred to identify as “male”; from an early age, they had experienced their gender identity as different from that normatively expected of their natally assigned sex and had undertaken practices so as to facilitate their present…
Observational Stance as a Predictor of Subjective and Genital Sexual Arousal in Men and Women
Observational stance refers to the perspective a person takes while viewing a sexual stimulus, either as a passive observer (observer stance) or an active participant (participant stance). The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between observational stance and sexual arousal (subjective and genital) across a range of sexual stimuli that do or do not correspond with a participant's sexual attraction (preferred or nonpre…
Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals
Response to Commentaries: Recognizing Hypersexuality as a Psychosexual Behavioral Problem and Advancing the Sexhavior Cycle of Hypersexuality
Bridging the gap: The Effect of Gender Normativity on Differences in Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
Self-report measures of empathy and emotional intelligence have frequently revealed significant gender differences, with females typically scoring higher than males on these dimensions. In this study, we investigated whether, in line with a social identity approach, manipulating the gender normativity of empathy and emotional intelligence would ameliorate typically observed differences. Male and female participants (N = 330) were randomly assigne…
Effects of Gender Group Norms on the Endorsement of Same-Sex Attraction, Behavior, and Identity
This study contends that social influences (including the perception that same-sex sexual attraction is not gender normative) as well as prejudice toward bisexual persons (biphobia), may help explain this discrepancy. In this study, the authors tested whether, in line with a social identity approach, manipulating social factors regarding the gender normativity of bisexuality influenced participants’ self-perceptions of their sexualities and expre…
An Exploratory Analysis of Minority Stress Experiences and Mental Ill-Health in Bisexual Adults
Despite an increase in research examining sexual minority groups, there remains comparatively less targeted research with bisexual people, as they are often absorbed into lesbian and gay samples in research or disregarded entirely. Given the existing data suggesting that bisexual people have higher rates of mental health issues than lesbian women and gay men, it is critical that this group's mental health, and risk factors of mental ill-health, b…
Visual Attention to Evolutionarily Relevant Information by Heterosexual Men and Women While Viewing Mock Online Dating Profiles
The way people create social connections and access information has been altered greatly by technology in recent decades. Online browsing of visual profiles has become a common means for seeking potential partners for both short- and long-term relationships. Little is known, however, about how people prioritize mate quality information while viewing online profiles. Using eye-tracking methods and self-report, this study investigated how people ev…
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death
The death of a companion animal can cause severe grief, yet previous research investigating factors predicting grief has been hampered by limitations. We explored how attachment styles, continuing bonds, and time since loss interacted to predict grief severity in a large sample of individuals grieving the loss of a variety of companion animals. Participants ( n = 496) aged between18 and 79 years ( M age = 41.60, SD = 13.62) who had lost a compani…
Cultural worldviews and the perception of natural hazard risk in Australia
The cultural theory of risk proposes that risk perception is biased by sociality and the maintenance of four ways or life, or cultural worldviews: hierarchism, egalitarianism, individualism or communitarianism. This study examined whether cultural worldviews influenced the perception of the risk of bushfire, flood, storm and earthquake in Australia. A sample of 503 participants completed two questionnaires: cultural worldviews and natural hazard …
Acceptability and feasibility of telehealth as a training modality for trainee psychologist placements: A Covid-19 response study
Objective This study examined the extent to which telehealth placements are feasible for developing perceived competence as a psychologist and are an acceptable training modality for provisional psychologists. Method Fifteen provisional psychologists who undertook a postgraduate placement using telehealth completed an online survey. Acceptability and attitudes towards future telehealth service provision were assessed via Likert scales and open-en…
Confronting the palm oil crisis: Identifying behaviours for targeted interventions
Vorarephilia: A Case Study in Masochism and Erotic Consumption
The relationship between negative mood and sexuality in heterosexual college women and men
Negative mood states, such as depression and anxiety, are typically associated with decreased sexual interest and arousal. However, there is also some evidence that depressed or anxious mood may increase sexual interest or arousal in some individuals. In this study, 663 female college students (mean age = 18.9 years, SD = 1.21) answered questions regarding the effects of anxious and depressed mood on sexual interest and arousal and completed trai…
Detection of Differential Viewing Patterns to Erotic and Non-Erotic Stimuli Using Eye-Tracking Methodology
Sex Differences in Visual Attention to Erotic and Non-Erotic Stimuli
Negative Affect and Somatically Focused Anxiety in Young Women Reporting Pain With Intercourse
After a long history of privileging psychosexual etiological factors over pain and physiological processes, dyspareunia has enjoyed 1 decade of pointed research focused on the presenting problem of pain. Although it is generally acknowledged that certain affective and cognitive styles may play a role in an individual's experience of pain in general, investigations into these questions specifically as they pertain to pain that occurs during sex ar…
Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and the DSM-V
Visual Attention to Erotic Images in Women Reporting Pain with Intercourse
The coupling of sex and pain creates an interesting theoretical conundrum of clinical significance: Are women with dyspareunia distracted from sexual stimuli, or are they hypervigilant to sexual stimuli because these stimuli elicit thoughts and expectations of pain? This study measured attention to sexual stimuli in women reporting persistent pain with intercourse, women reporting low sexual desire, and women reporting no sexual problems. Partici…
Observational Stance as a Predictor of Subjective and Genital Sexual Arousal in Men and Women
Observational stance refers to the perspective a person takes while viewing a sexual stimulus, either as a passive observer (observer stance) or an active participant (participant stance). The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between observational stance and sexual arousal (subjective and genital) across a range of sexual stimuli that do or do not correspond with a participant's sexual attraction (preferred or nonpre…
A Treatment-Oriented Typology of Self-Identified Hypersexuality Referrals
Men and women have been seeking professional assistance to help control hypersexual urges and behaviors since the nineteenth century. Despite that the literature emphasizes that cases of hypersexuality are highly diverse with regard to clinical presentation and comorbid features, the major models for understanding and treating hypersexuality employ a “one size fits all” approach. That is, rather than identify which problematic behaviors might res…
Predictors of Intentions to Have Pelvic Examinations Among a UK Sample of Young Asian and non-Asian Women
Objectives: Women delay gynecological care for various reasons, including practical difficulties and self-consciousness about having health professionals view their genitals. Methods: Experiences of and intentions to have pelvic examinations, attitudes toward female genitals, and genital self-image were investigated in young Asian and non-Asian women. Results: Past experience of having had pelvic screening and fears about screening were the stron…
Australian Trans Men: Development, Sexuality, and Mental Health
The aim of the study reported in this article was to gain an understanding of the experiences, developmental trajectories, and mental health status of Australian trans men. Participants were 279 trans men. The majority preferred to identify as “male”; from an early age, they had experienced their gender identity as different from that normatively expected of their natally assigned sex and had undertaken practices so as to facilitate their present…
Effect of Normative Masculinity on Males’ Dysfunctional Sexual Beliefs, Sexual Attitudes, and Perceptions of Sexual Functioning
Male sexual dysfunction is a prevalent and distressing condition, which may be exacerbated by the sufferer's perceptions of masculinity and normative sexual behavior. This study sought to investigate the effect of social context on males' beliefs regarding sexual behavior. The research examined the effect of male role modeling and masculine cues on males' dysfunctional sexual beliefs, sexual attitudes, and self-perceptions of sexual functioning. …
Vorarephilia: A Case Study in Masochism and Erotic Consumption
Arousal, Working Memory Capacity, and Sexual Decision-Making in Men
Effects of Gender Group Norms on the Endorsement of Same-Sex Attraction, Behavior, and Identity
This study contends that social influences (including the perception that same-sex sexual attraction is not gender normative) as well as prejudice toward bisexual persons (biphobia), may help explain this discrepancy. In this study, the authors tested whether, in line with a social identity approach, manipulating social factors regarding the gender normativity of bisexuality influenced participants’ self-perceptions of their sexualities and expre…
Minor Physical Anomalies as a Window into the Prenatal Origins of Pedophilia
Beyond Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual: A Diversity in Sexual Identity Expression
Sexual Arousal and Sexual Activity Frequency: Implications for Understanding Hypersexuality
Bridging the gap: The Effect of Gender Normativity on Differences in Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
Self-report measures of empathy and emotional intelligence have frequently revealed significant gender differences, with females typically scoring higher than males on these dimensions. In this study, we investigated whether, in line with a social identity approach, manipulating the gender normativity of empathy and emotional intelligence would ameliorate typically observed differences. Male and female participants (N = 330) were randomly assigne…
Hypersexuality: A Critical Review and Introduction to the “Sexhavior Cycle”
Response to Commentaries: Recognizing Hypersexuality as a Psychosexual Behavioral Problem and Advancing the Sexhavior Cycle of Hypersexuality
An Online Assessment of Personality, Psychological, and Sexuality Trait Variables Associated with Self-Reported Hypersexual Behavior
Confronting the palm oil crisis: Identifying behaviours for targeted interventions
Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals
To Vaccinate or Not: The Relative Impact of Attitudes toward Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Ability to Interpret Scientific Information on Vaccination Decisions
Factors other than scientific literacy seem to contribute towards children's MMR vaccine status such as attitudes towards MMR. However, these are preliminary findings and need to be interpreted with caution
Voted yes—What else can I do?”: Coping with stigma-related stress during the Australian marriage equality debate
There is limited empirical evidence on how LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer/Questioning) people cope with stigma-related stress associated with marriage amendment processes. The current study explored coping during the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey during which stigma-related stress was significantly associated with increased psychological distress of LGBTIQ people. Data collected during the voting and …
Psychology (34 works) · Clinical Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Sexual behavior (12 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works)