Liana S Leach

Biographic Data

ID303427
NAMELiana S Leach
GIVEN NAMESLiana S
FAMILY NAMELeach
SIGNATURELEACH L S
AFFILIATIONSNational Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), Research School of Population Health, the Australian National University, Australia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS46
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Longitudinal associations between parents' job characteristics, parenting, and adolescent academic outcomes

    Open AccessKate McCredie, Stacey Hokke et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2025

  • Bushfire Smoke in Our Eyes

    Open AccessR Williamson, Cathy Banwell et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    The 2019–20 bushfires that raged in eastern Australia were an overwhelming natural disaster leading to lives lost or upended, and communities destroyed. For almost a month, Canberra, Australia's capital city in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), was obscured by smoke from fires which threatened the outer suburbs. While smoke itself is experientially different from many natural disasters, it nevertheless poses a significant public health thre…

  • I didn’t feel safe inside’

    Open AccessR Williamson, Cathy Banwell et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2022

    Bushfires, and resulting bushfire smoke, were major environmental, social and health crises in Australia in the summer of 2019–20. In Australia’s national capital the smoke pollution index topped global charts, and public health communications were rapidly developed that advised people to stay indoors to avoid smoke exposure. Drawing on interviews with a diverse range of housed residents, we explore people’s experiences of navigating public healt…

  • Parents' Shift Work in Connection with Work-Family Conflict and Mental Health

    Open AccessYixuan Zhao, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2021Cited by: 4References: 55

    Shift work might aggravate work-family conflict and mental health. The current study used moderated-mediation analyses to investigate the association between shift work and mental health, whether work-family conflict explained this association, and whether the pathways differed between genders. The sample included 756 mothers and 452 fathers participating in the 'Families at Work' survey, an online nationwide community-based survey of employed pa…

  • Workplace Bullying and Suicidal Ideation

    Open AccessLiana Leach, Liana S Leach et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Workplace bullying adversely affects mental health, yet little is known about the outcomes for suicidal ideation. The current study used Australian population-based data to investigate the association between workplace bullying and suicidal ideation. The sample included 1488 employed participants aged 52-58 from wave 4 of the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Study. Workplace bullying was measured in two ways: (a) a single item ask…

  • Parents' transitions into and out of work-family conflict and children's mental health

    Open AccessHuong Dinh, Amanda Cooklin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Cited by: 21References: 44

  • What matters for working fathers? Job characteristics, work-family conflict and enrichment, and fathers' postpartum mental health in an Australian cohort

    Open AccessAmanda Cooklin, Amanda R Cooklin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Cited by: 19References: 64

  • Mental health affects future employment as job loss affects mental health

    Open AccessSarah C Olesen, Peter Butterworth et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychiatry2013

    BACKGROUND: Workforce participation is a key feature of public mental health and social inclusion policies across the globe, and often a therapeutic goal in treatment settings. Understanding the reciprocal relationship between participation and mental health has been limited by inadequate research methods. This is the first study to simultaneously examine and contrast the relative effects of unemployment on mental health and mental health on empl…

  • Psychosocial adversities at work are associated with poorer quality marriage-like relationships

    Open AccessLiana Leach, Liana S Leach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2012Cited by: 2References: 8

  • The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion

    Open AccessLiana Leach, Liana S Leach et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    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