Fiona Maccallum
Biographic Data
| ID | 322107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Maccallum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Maccallum |
| SIGNATURE | MACCALLUM F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7751-1090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The moral of the story
Journalists are frequently exposed to morally challenging events and circumstances that can give rise to self-discrepancy, the sense that one has acted in a way that is inconsistent with one’s beliefs and values. This self-discrepancy may contribute to moral injury, a potentially debilitating psychological condition characterized by guilt, shame, anger, demoralization, self-condemnation, social alienation, and difficulties with trust and forgiven…
Moral injury front and center
These findings indicate that the extent to which a potentially morally injurious event dominates an individual's self-identity is important to moral injury outcomes, and shed light on features that distinguish moral injury from PTSD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Negotiating Caring and Education
This article reports on findings from a pilot study with eight young carers, aged 15–21, in the Midlands region of England. The study looked at the impact of caring responsibilities on young carers' life worlds as they negotiated transitions towards independence and adulthood. It explored the aspirations and future plans of five younger members of the group (15–18) who were on the cusp of adulthood and post compulsory schooling and three slightly…
Maternal Ambivalence and Mothers’ Mental Health
A challenge to identity
Moral injury is a potentially deleterious mental health outcome that can result from exposure to morally challenging events. Treatment of moral injury is currently hindered by incomplete understanding of its underlying mechanisms. Theories of adaptation posit that maintaining a coherent sense of self while realigning one's sense of self with reality aids in adaptation following a disruptive life event. Differences in identity processing style are…
Relational dynamite
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
First-year domestic and international university students’ knowledge and use of mental health services and self-care practices in Australia
Parenting of Adolescent Single Children
Globally, the average number of children per household is expected to drop to 1.0 by 2020. Single-child families are increasingly the norm, with nearly half of British families classified as single-child. Despite this, research on only-children and their families is scant. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, this study explores parenting of adolescents in British single-child families. Single-child (31 adolescents, 47 mothers, 25 fathers) an…
When carers end foster placements
While foster carers experience the rewards and challenges of parenting vulnerable and complex adolescents, some of these placements break down. Compared to research into the impact of placement breakdown on looked after children, there are relatively limited reports on how foster carers are affected. The aim of the present study was to provide an exploratory account of foster carers’ lived experience of ending adolescent foster placements. Nine p…
Children raised in fatherless families from infancy
Background: An increasing number of lesbian women and single heterosexual women are bringing up children with no male involvement. This study follows up to adolescence a sample of children raised in fatherless families from birth or early infancy. Methods: Twenty‐five lesbian mother families and 38 families headed by a single heterosexual mother were compared with 38 two‐parent heterosexual families. The quality of parenting by the mother, and th…
Superstitious Beliefs in Gambling Among Problem and Non-Problem Gamblers
Families Created Through Surrogacy Arrangements
Findings are presented of a study of families created through surrogacy arrangements. Forty-two surrogacy families were compared with 51 egg-donation families and 80 natural-conception families on standardized interview and questionnaire measures of the psychological well-being of the parents, the quality of parent-child relationships, and infant temperament. The differences that were identified between the surrogacy families and the other family…
Differences in Cognitive Distortions between Problem and Social Gamblers
The cognitive model of gambling argues that irrational beliefs and erroneous perceptions including illusions of control, superstitious beliefs, expectancies of winning, attributional biases, selective memory, and entrapment play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of impaired control over patterns of gambling behaviours. Assessment strategies using self-report, behavioural inferences, and verbalizations produced by 'thinking aloud' …
Families Created Through Surrogacy Arrangements
Findings are presented of a study of families created through surrogacy arrangements. Forty-two surrogacy families were compared with 51 egg-donation families and 80 natural-conception families on standardized interview and questionnaire measures of the psychological well-being of the parents, the quality of parent-child relationships, and infant temperament. The differences that were identified between the surrogacy families and the other family…
When carers end foster placements
While foster carers experience the rewards and challenges of parenting vulnerable and complex adolescents, some of these placements break down. Compared to research into the impact of placement breakdown on looked after children, there are relatively limited reports on how foster carers are affected. The aim of the present study was to provide an exploratory account of foster carers’ lived experience of ending adolescent foster placements. Nine p…
Parenting of Adolescent Single Children
Globally, the average number of children per household is expected to drop to 1.0 by 2020. Single-child families are increasingly the norm, with nearly half of British families classified as single-child. Despite this, research on only-children and their families is scant. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, this study explores parenting of adolescents in British single-child families. Single-child (31 adolescents, 47 mothers, 25 fathers) an…
Relational dynamite
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
Differences in Cognitive Distortions between Problem and Social Gamblers
The cognitive model of gambling argues that irrational beliefs and erroneous perceptions including illusions of control, superstitious beliefs, expectancies of winning, attributional biases, selective memory, and entrapment play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of impaired control over patterns of gambling behaviours. Assessment strategies using self-report, behavioural inferences, and verbalizations produced by 'thinking aloud' …
Children raised in fatherless families from infancy
Background: An increasing number of lesbian women and single heterosexual women are bringing up children with no male involvement. This study follows up to adolescence a sample of children raised in fatherless families from birth or early infancy. Methods: Twenty‐five lesbian mother families and 38 families headed by a single heterosexual mother were compared with 38 two‐parent heterosexual families. The quality of parenting by the mother, and th…
Superstitious Beliefs in Gambling Among Problem and Non-Problem Gamblers
Families Created Through Surrogacy Arrangements
Findings are presented of a study of families created through surrogacy arrangements. Forty-two surrogacy families were compared with 51 egg-donation families and 80 natural-conception families on standardized interview and questionnaire measures of the psychological well-being of the parents, the quality of parent-child relationships, and infant temperament. The differences that were identified between the surrogacy families and the other family…
When carers end foster placements
While foster carers experience the rewards and challenges of parenting vulnerable and complex adolescents, some of these placements break down. Compared to research into the impact of placement breakdown on looked after children, there are relatively limited reports on how foster carers are affected. The aim of the present study was to provide an exploratory account of foster carers’ lived experience of ending adolescent foster placements. Nine p…
Parenting of Adolescent Single Children
Globally, the average number of children per household is expected to drop to 1.0 by 2020. Single-child families are increasingly the norm, with nearly half of British families classified as single-child. Despite this, research on only-children and their families is scant. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, this study explores parenting of adolescents in British single-child families. Single-child (31 adolescents, 47 mothers, 25 fathers) an…
First-year domestic and international university students’ knowledge and use of mental health services and self-care practices in Australia
Moral injury front and center
These findings indicate that the extent to which a potentially morally injurious event dominates an individual's self-identity is important to moral injury outcomes, and shed light on features that distinguish moral injury from PTSD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Negotiating Caring and Education
This article reports on findings from a pilot study with eight young carers, aged 15–21, in the Midlands region of England. The study looked at the impact of caring responsibilities on young carers' life worlds as they negotiated transitions towards independence and adulthood. It explored the aspirations and future plans of five younger members of the group (15–18) who were on the cusp of adulthood and post compulsory schooling and three slightly…
Maternal Ambivalence and Mothers’ Mental Health
A challenge to identity
Moral injury is a potentially deleterious mental health outcome that can result from exposure to morally challenging events. Treatment of moral injury is currently hindered by incomplete understanding of its underlying mechanisms. Theories of adaptation posit that maintaining a coherent sense of self while realigning one's sense of self with reality aids in adaptation following a disruptive life event. Differences in identity processing style are…
Relational dynamite
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
The moral of the story
Journalists are frequently exposed to morally challenging events and circumstances that can give rise to self-discrepancy, the sense that one has acted in a way that is inconsistent with one’s beliefs and values. This self-discrepancy may contribute to moral injury, a potentially debilitating psychological condition characterized by guilt, shame, anger, demoralization, self-condemnation, social alienation, and difficulties with trust and forgiven…
Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works) · Family Support in Illness (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Moral injury (3 works)