Rory C O''Connor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1659364 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rory C O''Connor |
| PRENOMES | Rory C |
| SOBRENOME | O''Connor |
| ASSINATURA | CONNOR R C O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3650-4994 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Exploring Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Interventions for Schools
Background Among teenagers and young adults, suicide represents a significant public health challenge. Schools are critical for suicide prevention due to the significant time adolescents spend there. Gatekeeper training (GKT) has shown promise in increasing awareness and knowledge, but its implementation‐relevant characteristics and contextual fit in school settings require further investigation. Aim The aim of this review was to describe the pro…
Effects of childhood trauma on sleep quality and stress-related variables in adulthood
Childhood trauma has been found to have serious negative consequences for mental and physical health.However, the precise mechanisms through which trauma influences health outcomes are unclear.Childhood trauma-related disruptions to sleep in adulthood represent an important potential mechanism.Two 7-day multilevel studies investigated the effects of childhood trauma on daily sleep outcomes and stress-related variables and whether the effects of t…
Exploring Childhood Challenges and Male Suicide Risk
In this study, we address the limited understanding of the potential relationship between male suicide risk and challenges in childhood. To this end, 2660 men completed a global cross-sectional survey examining associations between suicidal history and measures of childhood traumas, parental styles, and bullying. Results from multinomial logistic regression analyses indicated that higher levels of bullying, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and…
I still think there’s like a huge stigma”
The present study aimed to understand the experiences of those with a history of suicidal thoughts versus suicide attempts with regards to suicide-related stigma and whether there were differences between these groups. Thirty participants aged 18 to 71 years (70% female) took part in one-to-one interviews about their experiences of suicide-related stigma, 50% had a history of suicidal thoughts, and 50% had a history of suicide attempts. Five main…
“Male suicide and barriers to accessing professional support
Male suicide rates represent a public health crisis. In almost every country, more men die by suicide than women and suicide is a leading cause of death for men in the United States and the United Kingdom. Evidence suggests that men are less likely than women to access professional support for suicidal distress. Ensuring more men access support is a critical component of suicide prevention. This study explores responses from 725 men, worldwide, w…
Psychosocial Factors Distinguishing Men Who Have Attempted Suicide From Men With Suicidal Ideation and Non-suicidal Men
This study addresses our limited understanding of male suicide risk psychology. 2763 men participated in a global survey examining associations between suicidal history and measures of emotions, psychological pain, feelings towards self, and interpersonal connections. Results from multinomial logistic regression analyses indicated that higher levels of loneliness and mental health diagnosis increased the odds of being in the suicidal ideation gro…
Does refining an intervention based on participant feedback increase acceptability? An experimental approach
The null effects reported here imply that participants found both the original and modified versions of the intervention equally acceptable, and that our process of refining an intervention based on participant feedback did not impact on acceptability. Nevertheless, we have operationalised a robust approach for examining whether participant feedback impacts on the acceptability of an intervention. Further research is required to understand better…
Male suicide risk and recovery factors
Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery
This study uses the Delphi expert consensus method to work with lived-experience experts and establish research priorities to advance our understanding of male suicide risk and recovery. Items for the Delphi were generated via findings from two recent quantitative and qualitative systematic reviews on male suicide, a comprehensive gray literature search, responses to a global survey on male suicide, and feedback from a panel of 10 international a…
The feasibility of using smartphone apps as treatment components for depressed suicidal outpatients
Mental health smartphone apps could increase the safety and self-management of patients at risk of suicide, but it is still unclear whether it is feasible to integrate such apps into routine mental healthcare. This study reports on the feasibility of using a safety planning app (BackUp) and a self-monitoring app (mEMA) as components of the routine treatment of depressed outpatients with suicidal ideation. Clinicians were trained in working with b…
Study Protocol for an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Suicide prevention is an important public mental health issue that can be significantly brought forward by recent advances in psychological research methods and assessment. The project "TempRes" aims to harness the power of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to investigate the transdiagnostic risk and resilience factors associated with suicidal ideation drawn from the most recent research in suicide prevention and personality assessment. Parti…
A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences and Perceptions of Interpersonal Relationships Prior to Attempting Suicide in Young Adults
Suicide is a leading public health concern. Research studies have identified significant associations between loneliness and suicidal ideation/behaviour both cross-sectionally and prospectively. Despite this, research specifically focusing on identifying the nature of loneliness experienced prior to suicide, and the role it has in association with other preceding factors, has not been fully explored. The current study recruited ten participants w…
Am I really alive
Mental health and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the population's mental health and well-being are likely to be profound and long lasting. Aims To investigate the trajectory of mental health and well-being during the first 6 weeks of lockdown in adults in the UK. Method A quota survey design and a sampling frame that permitted recruitment of a national sample was employed. Findings for waves 1 (31 March to 9 April 2020), 2 (10 Apr…
Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic
Predicting and understanding seasonal influenza vaccination behaviour among forensic mental health inpatients
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify demographic and psychological predictors of seasonal influenza vaccination intentions and behaviour among a sample of inpatients in a secure forensic mental health service. It also sought to explore patient experiences about being offered the vaccine. DESIGN: This study used a mixed-methods design. The quantitative element employed a prospective design using a questionnaire; both cross-sectional and prospe…
Looking Back to Move Forward
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the swift response of mental health research funders and institutions, service providers, and academics enabled progress toward understanding the mental health consequences. Nevertheless, there remains an urgent need to understand the true extent of the short- and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, necessitating ongoing research. Although the speed with which mental health researcher…
The Male Experience of Suicide Attempts and Recovery
Suicidal behaviour is a complex phenomenon-its aetiology spans biological, psychological, environmental, social and cultural facets. Men's deaths by suicide outnumber women in every country in the world. This study explored the male experience of suicide attempts and recovery as well as factors which may be protective for men. Men (n = 12) participated in semi-structured face-to-face interviews which were subjected to Interpretative Phenomenologi…
A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men
Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic
Loneliness as a predictor of suicidal ideation and behaviour
Multidisciplinary research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic
Suicide prevention is everyone's business
Suicide and suicide risk
Predictors of future suicide attempt among adolescents with suicidal thoughts or non-suicidal self-harm
BACKGROUND: Suicidal thoughts and non-suicidal self-harm are common in adolescents and are strongly associated with suicide attempts. We aimed to identify predictors of future suicide attempts in these high-risk groups. METHODS: Participants were from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a population-based birth cohort study in the UK. The sample included 456 adolescents who reported suicidal thoughts and 569 who reported non-suic…
Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Distress
The current study aimed to draw on two theoretical models to examine the relationship between perceived ethnic discrimination and psychological distress in a sample of ethnic minority young people (n = 154). Analysis provided no support for the hypothesis derived from the self-esteem theory of depression that self-esteem (personal and ethnic) moderates the discrimination-distress relationship. There was, however, partial support for a mediating r…
Am I really alive
Intentions to use hormonal male contraception
Two studies are reported. Study one (N = 104) explored the extent to which male hormonal contraception is perceived as risky compared to other prevention behaviours. Study two examined the effects of message framing on intentions to use hormonal male contraception and investigated whether attitude moderates message framing effects. Three hundred and four participants read either a loss frame or gain frame message and then completed questionnaires…
Suicide prevention is everyone's business
Alcohol and Contingent Drunkenness in Central Australia
Problems arising from alcohol consumption in the Aboriginal fringe camps and settlements of Central Australia have commanded medical and other professional attention for several decades. To date a real breakthrough in combating this problem has not been forthcoming. This paper suggests that the point of view of Western professionals in this field, absorbed as they seemingly are in the concept of alcoholism as individual pathology, obscures the re…
Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery
This study uses the Delphi expert consensus method to work with lived-experience experts and establish research priorities to advance our understanding of male suicide risk and recovery. Items for the Delphi were generated via findings from two recent quantitative and qualitative systematic reviews on male suicide, a comprehensive gray literature search, responses to a global survey on male suicide, and feedback from a panel of 10 international a…
Associations between experiences of disrupted attachments and suicidal thoughts and behaviours
Perceived Discrimination Among Ethnic Minority Young People
Because of difficulties in objectively determining discrimination, attention has turned to individual differences in perceptions of discrimination. This study aimed to build on such work by investigating the role of psychological variables in predicting perceived discrimination (PD) in a UK sample of ethnic minority young people (n= 154). A series of multiple regression analyses yielded 3 pathways leading to PD. There was a direct effect of gende…
The role of rumination, attentional biases and stress in psychological distress
This experimental study examines the relationship between rumination and attentional bias. Additionally, the study aims to determine, within a diathesis‐stress framework, whether rumination or attentional bias (or both) can prospectively predict psychological distress. Eighty‐one participants completed selected measures of rumination and psychological distress at time one, in addition to experimental manipulations of rumination and mood, and meas…
Factors Influencing Anticipated Decisions about Sunscreen Use
The present study examined influences on the decision-making processes relevant to sun-damage preventive behaviour, namely sunscreen use. Participants were randomly assigned to a positive, a negative or a control group and underwent two successive experimental manipulations: (1) information and (2) focus.They made pre-experimental, post-information and post-focus ratings of likelihood of using sunscreen and susceptibility to skin cancer.The resul…
Alcohol and Contingent Drunkenness in Central Australia
Problems arising from alcohol consumption in the Aboriginal fringe camps and settlements of Central Australia have commanded medical and other professional attention for several decades. To date a real breakthrough in combating this problem has not been forthcoming. This paper suggests that the point of view of Western professionals in this field, absorbed as they seemingly are in the concept of alcoholism as individual pathology, obscures the re…
Suicide and gender
There has been an alarming increase in suicide, especially among the young. This study sought to profile suicide in Northern Ireland and investigate gender differences. It is argued that the identification of such differences is essential for more adequate intervention. Suicides ( n =142) drawn from catchment areas in Northern Ireland are described according to selected demographic, clinical and psychosocial factors. Females were significantly mo…
Sex, Social Class, and Estimating IQ
153 sociology students specified parental occupation and job status before estimating their own and their parents' overall IQ. Male subjects, as predicted, gave a higher mean self-estimated score to themselves than did female subjects (113 vs 106). Fathers were awarded higher IQ scores than mothers (114 vs 107). Male subjects who had mothers in a higher social class gave themselves the highest mean score
Subjective experience and the attentional lapse
The consequences of encoding information on the maintenance of internally generated images and thoughts
Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Distress
The current study aimed to draw on two theoretical models to examine the relationship between perceived ethnic discrimination and psychological distress in a sample of ethnic minority young people (n = 154). Analysis provided no support for the hypothesis derived from the self-esteem theory of depression that self-esteem (personal and ethnic) moderates the discrimination-distress relationship. There was, however, partial support for a mediating r…
Perceived Discrimination Among Ethnic Minority Young People
Because of difficulties in objectively determining discrimination, attention has turned to individual differences in perceptions of discrimination. This study aimed to build on such work by investigating the role of psychological variables in predicting perceived discrimination (PD) in a UK sample of ethnic minority young people (n= 154). A series of multiple regression analyses yielded 3 pathways leading to PD. There was a direct effect of gende…
Intentions to use hormonal male contraception
Two studies are reported. Study one (N = 104) explored the extent to which male hormonal contraception is perceived as risky compared to other prevention behaviours. Study two examined the effects of message framing on intentions to use hormonal male contraception and investigated whether attitude moderates message framing effects. Three hundred and four participants read either a loss frame or gain frame message and then completed questionnaires…
Factors Influencing Anticipated Decisions about Sunscreen Use
The present study examined influences on the decision-making processes relevant to sun-damage preventive behaviour, namely sunscreen use. Participants were randomly assigned to a positive, a negative or a control group and underwent two successive experimental manipulations: (1) information and (2) focus.They made pre-experimental, post-information and post-focus ratings of likelihood of using sunscreen and susceptibility to skin cancer.The resul…
The role of rumination, attentional biases and stress in psychological distress
This experimental study examines the relationship between rumination and attentional bias. Additionally, the study aims to determine, within a diathesis‐stress framework, whether rumination or attentional bias (or both) can prospectively predict psychological distress. Eighty‐one participants completed selected measures of rumination and psychological distress at time one, in addition to experimental manipulations of rumination and mood, and meas…
When is your head at? An exploration of the factors associated with the temporal focus of the wandering mind
A Taxometric Analysis of Type-D Personality
OBJECTIVE: To test the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, to assess if Type-D personality is taxonic or dimensional. Type-D personality is treated as a categorical variable and caseness has been shown to be a risk factor for poor prognosis in coronary heart disease. However, at present, there is no direct evidence to support the assumption that Type D is categorical and able to differentiate true cases from noncase…
Healthy ageing, perceived motor‐efficacy, and performance on cognitively demanding action tasks
Current measures assessing older adults' functional ability detect existing limitations on essential tasks rather than changes in other aspects of functioning that could indicate future limitations. The perceived motor‐efficacy scale was developed to measure capability beliefs of healthy older adults across a range of daily action tasks. Subscales were developed through interviews with older volunteers and academics, then administered to particip…
Towards an Integrated Motivational–Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour
This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Introduction Towards an Integrated Perspective: The Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour Conclusions References
The Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behavior
First paragraph: The integrated motivational-volitional model of suicidal behavior (IMV; O'Connor, 2011) attempts to synthesize, distill, and extend our knowledge and understanding of why people die by suicide, with a particular focus on the psychology of the suicidal mind. Ever since the mid-1990s, when I embarked on my PhD research, I was driven by the desire to see the world through the eyes of those who are suicidal, to understand something o…
Self-harm and suicide in adolescents
Developing social capital in implementing a complex intervention
Exploring the role of advisory groups and the meaning of participation for these participants revealed some key areas for best practice in implementation: careful planning of the composition of the advisory group to access target groups; the importance of establishing common goals; the importance of acknowledging and complementing existing experience and activity; and facilitating an equivalence of benefit from network participation
The psychology of suicidal behaviour
Exploring synergistic interactions and catalysts in complex interventions
The QuaSIC approach enabled us to develop and refine our definition of synergistic interactions and add the innovative concept of catalytic effects. This represents a novel approach to the evaluation of complex interventions. By exploring synergies and catalytic interactions related to a complex intervention or programme, we reveal the added value to planned activities and how they might be maximised
The integrated motivational–volitional model of suicidal behaviour
Suicide is a major public health concern accounting for 800 000 deaths globally each year. Although there have been many advances in understanding suicide risk in recent decades, our ability to predict suicide is no better now than it was 50 years ago. There are many potential explanations for this lack of progress, but the absence, until recently, of comprehensive theoretical models that predict the emergence of suicidal ideation distinct from t…
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Hospital-Treated Self-Harm
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been implicated in a range of negative health outcomes in adulthood, including increased suicide mortality. In this study, we explored the relationship between ACEs and hospital-treated self-harm. Specifically, we investigated whether those who had a history of repeat self-harm reported more ACEs than those who had self-harmed for the first time. Patients ( n = 189) admitted to two hospitals in Glasgow (U…
Suicide and suicide risk
Predictors of future suicide attempt among adolescents with suicidal thoughts or non-suicidal self-harm
BACKGROUND: Suicidal thoughts and non-suicidal self-harm are common in adolescents and are strongly associated with suicide attempts. We aimed to identify predictors of future suicide attempts in these high-risk groups. METHODS: Participants were from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a population-based birth cohort study in the UK. The sample included 456 adolescents who reported suicidal thoughts and 569 who reported non-suic…
Associations between experiences of disrupted attachments and suicidal thoughts and behaviours
Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic
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