Sharon Horwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1662769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Horwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Horwood |
| SIGNATURE | HORWOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1943-643X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Children's engagement with digital technology in educational spaces
Children's engagement in play and learning is becoming increasingly complex as educational spaces integrate digital experiences. While engagement is often seen as a multifaceted construct, there is often no clear and generally accepted definition or understanding of what is meant when the term ‘engagement’ is used. This scoping review synthesised the ways in which engagement has been conceptualised within young children's digital experiences in e…
Effects of Persuasive App Design and Self‐Regulation on Young Children’s Digital Disengagement
Despite the vast array of app choices available to children and evidence of a high prevalence of persuasive design features (e.g., rewards, character pressure, and aesthetic manipulation) within these apps, little is known about how, and to what extent, these design elements influence children’s digital app play. The current study investigated the effects of app persuasive design and children’s self‐regulation, and their interaction, on children’…
Exploring children’s meaning-making as they interact with digital artworks through play at a museum exhibition
Many museums have begun to integrate digital technologies as a way of providing opportunities for children to play, explore, and make meaning of artworks. However, little is known about the specific ways children interact with digital artworks in museum spaces. This paper presents findings from a study that explored young children’s interactions with digital artworks at the Beings by Universal Everything exhibition, held at ACMI (formerly known a…
Digital technology use and well-being in young children
Nuances of balance; parental perspectives around screen use and nature exposure in middle childhood
Findings provide a more integrated and nuanced understanding of how children's screen use and engagement with nature interact within the family paradigm. This research may help generate evidence-based alternatives and practical approaches to help parents navigate some of the challenges associated with childhood screen use
The Hexaco Personality Space Before and After Re-Rotation to Approximate the Big Five Dimensions
We re-oriented the HEXACO personality dimensions to approximate the Big Five, using two measures of the Big Five as targets in a derivation sample and then in cross-validation samples. The HEXACO approximations of Big Five Agreeableness represented blends of HEXACO Agreeableness, Emotionality, and Honesty-Humility. The HEXACO approximations of Big Five Neuroticism represented blends of Emotionality with low Agreeableness and low Extraversion. The…
Less Evaluative Measures of Personality in Job Applicant Contexts
Researchers have long sought to mitigate the detrimental effects of socially desirable responding on personality assessments in high-stakes contexts. This study investigated the effect of reducing the social desirability of personality items on response distortion and criterion validity in a job applicant context. Using a 2 × 2 repeated measures design, participants (n = 584) completed standard (International Personality Item Pool) and less evalu…
Types and contexts of child mobile screen use and associations with early childhood behavior
Persuasive design-related motivators, ability factors and prompts in early childhood apps
You’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t”
Overall, the findings demonstrated that parents experienced cognitive dissonance between their attitudes and behaviour, primarily from perceived behavioural control and subjective norms negating the influence of attitudes on their motives to provide a device. These insights offer important avenues for public health messaging and resources to better involve and support parents in decision-making relating to mobile screens in everyday lives of youn…
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors
Personality and intelligence
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the associations of personality and intelligence. It presents a meta-analysis (N = 162,636, k = 272) of domain, facet, and item-level correlations between personality and intelligence (general, fluid, and crystallized) for the major Big Five and HEXACO hierarchical frameworks of personality: NEO Personality Inventory–Revised, Big Five Aspect Scales, Big Five Inventory–2, and HEXACO Personality Inv…
Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use
Emotion regulation has been proposed as a mechanism for the development of problematic smartphone use. In addition to examining the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use, the current study sought to be the first to examine the relationship between subscales of emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use. It also sought to determine whether emotion regulation difficulties provide inc…
Self and other ratings of problematic smartphone use
Problematic smartphone use in a large nationally representative sample
Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being
The current study assessed the effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB) and whether the pandemic moderated the effect of personality on well-being. Measures of Big Five personality, SWB (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect), and PWB (positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance) were obtained fro…
Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality
This study reports the most comprehensive assessment to date of the relations that the domains and facets of Big Five and HEXACO personality have with self-reported subjective well-being (SWB: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) and psychological well-being (PWB: positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, self-acceptance, and personal growth). It presents a meta-analysis (n = 334,567, k = 462) of th…
Problematic smartphone usage and subjective and psychological well-being
Examining the Prevalence of Type‐D Personality in an Australian Population
ObjectiveType‐D personality is a construct that describes a tendency to simultaneously experience negative emotions and inhibit self‐expression for fear of negative social judgement. The link between type‐D and poor health outcomes may be partly mediated by two prominent psychosocial mechanisms, poor‐quality health‐related behaviour and poor perceived‐social support.MethodThe present study replicated and extended a 2008 UK and Irish prevalence st…
Child temperament and maternal predictors of preschool children’s eating and body mass index. A prospective study
Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality
This study reports the most comprehensive assessment to date of the relations that the domains and facets of Big Five and HEXACO personality have with self-reported subjective well-being (SWB: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) and psychological well-being (PWB: positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, self-acceptance, and personal growth). It presents a meta-analysis (n = 334,567, k = 462) of th…
Personality and intelligence
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the associations of personality and intelligence. It presents a meta-analysis (N = 162,636, k = 272) of domain, facet, and item-level correlations between personality and intelligence (general, fluid, and crystallized) for the major Big Five and HEXACO hierarchical frameworks of personality: NEO Personality Inventory–Revised, Big Five Aspect Scales, Big Five Inventory–2, and HEXACO Personality Inv…
Child temperament and maternal predictors of preschool children’s eating and body mass index. A prospective study
Child temperament and maternal predictors of preschool children’s eating and body mass index. A prospective study
Examining the Prevalence of Type‐D Personality in an Australian Population
ObjectiveType‐D personality is a construct that describes a tendency to simultaneously experience negative emotions and inhibit self‐expression for fear of negative social judgement. The link between type‐D and poor health outcomes may be partly mediated by two prominent psychosocial mechanisms, poor‐quality health‐related behaviour and poor perceived‐social support.MethodThe present study replicated and extended a 2008 UK and Irish prevalence st…
Problematic smartphone usage and subjective and psychological well-being
Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality
This study reports the most comprehensive assessment to date of the relations that the domains and facets of Big Five and HEXACO personality have with self-reported subjective well-being (SWB: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) and psychological well-being (PWB: positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, self-acceptance, and personal growth). It presents a meta-analysis (n = 334,567, k = 462) of th…
Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use
Emotion regulation has been proposed as a mechanism for the development of problematic smartphone use. In addition to examining the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use, the current study sought to be the first to examine the relationship between subscales of emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use. It also sought to determine whether emotion regulation difficulties provide inc…
Self and other ratings of problematic smartphone use
Problematic smartphone use in a large nationally representative sample
Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being
The current study assessed the effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB) and whether the pandemic moderated the effect of personality on well-being. Measures of Big Five personality, SWB (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect), and PWB (positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance) were obtained fro…
You’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t”
Overall, the findings demonstrated that parents experienced cognitive dissonance between their attitudes and behaviour, primarily from perceived behavioural control and subjective norms negating the influence of attitudes on their motives to provide a device. These insights offer important avenues for public health messaging and resources to better involve and support parents in decision-making relating to mobile screens in everyday lives of youn…
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors
Personality and intelligence
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the associations of personality and intelligence. It presents a meta-analysis (N = 162,636, k = 272) of domain, facet, and item-level correlations between personality and intelligence (general, fluid, and crystallized) for the major Big Five and HEXACO hierarchical frameworks of personality: NEO Personality Inventory–Revised, Big Five Aspect Scales, Big Five Inventory–2, and HEXACO Personality Inv…
Persuasive design-related motivators, ability factors and prompts in early childhood apps
The Hexaco Personality Space Before and After Re-Rotation to Approximate the Big Five Dimensions
We re-oriented the HEXACO personality dimensions to approximate the Big Five, using two measures of the Big Five as targets in a derivation sample and then in cross-validation samples. The HEXACO approximations of Big Five Agreeableness represented blends of HEXACO Agreeableness, Emotionality, and Honesty-Humility. The HEXACO approximations of Big Five Neuroticism represented blends of Emotionality with low Agreeableness and low Extraversion. The…
Less Evaluative Measures of Personality in Job Applicant Contexts
Researchers have long sought to mitigate the detrimental effects of socially desirable responding on personality assessments in high-stakes contexts. This study investigated the effect of reducing the social desirability of personality items on response distortion and criterion validity in a job applicant context. Using a 2 × 2 repeated measures design, participants (n = 584) completed standard (International Personality Item Pool) and less evalu…
Types and contexts of child mobile screen use and associations with early childhood behavior
Effects of Persuasive App Design and Self‐Regulation on Young Children’s Digital Disengagement
Despite the vast array of app choices available to children and evidence of a high prevalence of persuasive design features (e.g., rewards, character pressure, and aesthetic manipulation) within these apps, little is known about how, and to what extent, these design elements influence children’s digital app play. The current study investigated the effects of app persuasive design and children’s self‐regulation, and their interaction, on children’…
Exploring children’s meaning-making as they interact with digital artworks through play at a museum exhibition
Many museums have begun to integrate digital technologies as a way of providing opportunities for children to play, explore, and make meaning of artworks. However, little is known about the specific ways children interact with digital artworks in museum spaces. This paper presents findings from a study that explored young children’s interactions with digital artworks at the Beings by Universal Everything exhibition, held at ACMI (formerly known a…
Digital technology use and well-being in young children
Nuances of balance; parental perspectives around screen use and nature exposure in middle childhood
Findings provide a more integrated and nuanced understanding of how children's screen use and engagement with nature interact within the family paradigm. This research may help generate evidence-based alternatives and practical approaches to help parents navigate some of the challenges associated with childhood screen use
Children's engagement with digital technology in educational spaces
Children's engagement in play and learning is becoming increasingly complex as educational spaces integrate digital experiences. While engagement is often seen as a multifaceted construct, there is often no clear and generally accepted definition or understanding of what is meant when the term ‘engagement’ is used. This scoping review synthesised the ways in which engagement has been conceptualised within young children's digital experiences in e…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (10 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (9 works) · Personality (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Big Five personality traits (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Extraversion and introversion (6 works)