Stephen L Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen L Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lancashire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6142-0995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘I Don't Like Uncertainty, I Like to Know’
BACKGROUND: Technological advances have led to cancer prognostication that is increasingly accurate but often unalterable. However, a reliable prognosis of limited life expectancy can cause psychological distress. People should carefully consider offers of prognostication, but little is known about how and why they decide on prognostication. Using uveal melanoma (UM) patients, we aimed to identify (i) how and why do people with UM decide to accep…
What are the underlying reasons behind socioeconomic differences in doctor‐patient communication in head and neck oncology review clinics
OBJECTIVE: To explore socioeconomic status (SES) differences in patterns of doctor-patient communication within head and neck cancer clinics and why such differences exist. METHODS: Thirty-six head and neck cancer review appointments with five Physicians were observed and audio-taped, along with follow-up interviews involving 32 patients. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis, and compared by patient SES (education, occupation and Indices of…
Reconciling the theory and reality of shared decision‐making
Shared decision making ( SDM ) evolved to resolve tension between patients’ entitlement to make health‐care decisions and practitioners’ responsibility to protect patients’ interests. Implicitly assuming that patients are willing and able to make “good” decisions, SDM proponents suggest that patients and practitioners negotiate decisions. In practice, patients often do not wish to participate in decisions, or cannot make good decisions. Consequen…
Pre–Post Release Health in US Adult Male Convicts
This study sought to determine whether need for healthcare and reported health status among adult men (N = 1,113) in US Federal prisons (in 12 states) changed from pre-release to 15 months after release by analyzing data collected by the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI). Specifically, the study was guided by three questions: (1) were there changes in treatment for specific diseases; (2) were there changes in health status, …
Types of leisure, leisure motivation, and well-being in university students
This research aimed at investigating types of leisure motivation, leisure satisfaction, leisure patterns, health status, demographic backgrounds, and the relationship between these and current leisure. A cross-sectional study by recruiting 199 university students showed that intrinsic leisure motivation is the single greatest predictor for leisure satisfaction, even after controlling for elementary and high school leisure, extrinsic leisure motiv…
Family meals and adolescent perceptions of parent–child connectedness
Affirming parent–child interactions, leading to Parent–Child Connectedness (PCC), may provide protective factors that support positive adolescent behaviors and health outcomes; shared family meals are thought to reinforce these interactions. Eight hundred and fifty-five adolescents, ages 9–13, attending six health education centers in the US were surveyed regarding their attitudes about selected interactions they share with their parents. This st…
Do institutional logics predict interpretation of contract rules at the dental chair-side
Trajectories of loneliness during childhood and adolescence
The present study employed latent growth mixture modeling to discern distinct trajectories of loneliness using data collected at 2‐year intervals from age 7–17 years ( N = 586) and examine whether measures taken at age 5 years were good predictors of group membership. Four loneliness trajectory classes were identified: (1) low stable (37% of the sample), (2) moderate decliners (23%), (3) moderate increasers (18%), and (4) relatively high stable (…
Implicit alcohol‐aggression scripts and alcohol‐related aggression on a laboratory task in 11‐ to 14‐year‐old adolescents
Social scripts are commonly shared representations of behavior in social contexts, which are seen to be partly transmitted through social and cultural media. Research suggests that people hold scripts associated with alcohol‐related aggression, but, unlike general aggression scripts, there is little evidence of social transmission. To demonstrate social transmission of alcohol‐related aggression scripts, learning mechanisms based on personal expe…
Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms
Predictors of injurious assault committed during or after drinking alcohol
Studies of causal links between alcohol and aggression are often handicapped by threats to internal and external validity. Case–control methods employ an event‐level analysis that can reduce some of these validity threats by the use of within‐subject controls. This study used a case–control approach, asking 39 male inmates in a Young Offenders' Institution to compare drinking behaviour before incidents where they reported commission of an injurio…
Correlates of Resilience in the Face of Adversity for Korean Women Immigrating to the US
Anxiolytic effects of Lavandula angustifolia odour on the Mongolian gerbil elevated plus maze
Risk perception, fuzzy representations and comparative optimism
Rather than a unitary value, individuals may represent health risk as a fuzzy entity that permits them to make a number of specific possible estimates. Comparative optimism might be explained by people flexibly, using such a set to derive optimistic risk estimates. Student participants were asked to rate the likelihood of eight harmful alcohol-related outcomes occurring to themselves and to an average student. Participants made either unitary est…
Perceptions of Tobacco Use in Early Adolescents
Relationships between risk‐taking behaviour and subsequent risk perceptions
Research has suggested that engagement in patterns of risk‐taking behaviour might have a negative influence on the processing of risk information. However, risk‐takers display higher risk perceptions than non‐risk takers. This paradox might be resolved by removing the confounding effect of risk takers' increased exposure to risk. A longitudinal survey was administered to 255 motorists to examine the extent to which Time 1 (T1) self‐reported speed…
The Relationship Between Anxiety, Smoking, and Gambling in Electronic Gaming Machine Players
Primary Prevention for Mental Health
Emotive health advertising and message resistance
Health-promotion advertising campaigns often induce high levels of negative affect to stimulate self-regulation of unhealthy behaviours. Although the use of negative emotion may increase the salience and accessibility of campaign messages, there is also a risk that it may induce resistance toward those messages. This paper describes four specific forms of resistance: repression, defensive processing, downward comparison, and reactance. Each may b…
Correlates of Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Scales with Selected Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Scales
The pattern of correlations between selected MMPI scales and the scales of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire were examined in a convenience sample of 88 patients who had received both tests. Time between tests (usually less than one year) did not affect the correlations, but MMPI response-set variables (L, F, K, F-K) did. The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire harm avoidance scale and subscales had many correlates on the MMPI. Th…
Types of leisure, leisure motivation, and well-being in university students
This research aimed at investigating types of leisure motivation, leisure satisfaction, leisure patterns, health status, demographic backgrounds, and the relationship between these and current leisure. A cross-sectional study by recruiting 199 university students showed that intrinsic leisure motivation is the single greatest predictor for leisure satisfaction, even after controlling for elementary and high school leisure, extrinsic leisure motiv…
Do institutional logics predict interpretation of contract rules at the dental chair-side
Risk perception, fuzzy representations and comparative optimism
Rather than a unitary value, individuals may represent health risk as a fuzzy entity that permits them to make a number of specific possible estimates. Comparative optimism might be explained by people flexibly, using such a set to derive optimistic risk estimates. Student participants were asked to rate the likelihood of eight harmful alcohol-related outcomes occurring to themselves and to an average student. Participants made either unitary est…
Emotive health advertising and message resistance
Health-promotion advertising campaigns often induce high levels of negative affect to stimulate self-regulation of unhealthy behaviours. Although the use of negative emotion may increase the salience and accessibility of campaign messages, there is also a risk that it may induce resistance toward those messages. This paper describes four specific forms of resistance: repression, defensive processing, downward comparison, and reactance. Each may b…
Predictors of injurious assault committed during or after drinking alcohol
Studies of causal links between alcohol and aggression are often handicapped by threats to internal and external validity. Case–control methods employ an event‐level analysis that can reduce some of these validity threats by the use of within‐subject controls. This study used a case–control approach, asking 39 male inmates in a Young Offenders' Institution to compare drinking behaviour before incidents where they reported commission of an injurio…
Family meals and adolescent perceptions of parent–child connectedness
Affirming parent–child interactions, leading to Parent–Child Connectedness (PCC), may provide protective factors that support positive adolescent behaviors and health outcomes; shared family meals are thought to reinforce these interactions. Eight hundred and fifty-five adolescents, ages 9–13, attending six health education centers in the US were surveyed regarding their attitudes about selected interactions they share with their parents. This st…
Correlates of Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Scales with Selected Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Scales
The pattern of correlations between selected MMPI scales and the scales of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire were examined in a convenience sample of 88 patients who had received both tests. Time between tests (usually less than one year) did not affect the correlations, but MMPI response-set variables (L, F, K, F-K) did. The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire harm avoidance scale and subscales had many correlates on the MMPI. Th…
Primary Prevention for Mental Health
Emotive health advertising and message resistance
Health-promotion advertising campaigns often induce high levels of negative affect to stimulate self-regulation of unhealthy behaviours. Although the use of negative emotion may increase the salience and accessibility of campaign messages, there is also a risk that it may induce resistance toward those messages. This paper describes four specific forms of resistance: repression, defensive processing, downward comparison, and reactance. Each may b…
The Relationship Between Anxiety, Smoking, and Gambling in Electronic Gaming Machine Players
Relationships between risk‐taking behaviour and subsequent risk perceptions
Research has suggested that engagement in patterns of risk‐taking behaviour might have a negative influence on the processing of risk information. However, risk‐takers display higher risk perceptions than non‐risk takers. This paradox might be resolved by removing the confounding effect of risk takers' increased exposure to risk. A longitudinal survey was administered to 255 motorists to examine the extent to which Time 1 (T1) self‐reported speed…
Perceptions of Tobacco Use in Early Adolescents
Correlates of Resilience in the Face of Adversity for Korean Women Immigrating to the US
Anxiolytic effects of Lavandula angustifolia odour on the Mongolian gerbil elevated plus maze
Risk perception, fuzzy representations and comparative optimism
Rather than a unitary value, individuals may represent health risk as a fuzzy entity that permits them to make a number of specific possible estimates. Comparative optimism might be explained by people flexibly, using such a set to derive optimistic risk estimates. Student participants were asked to rate the likelihood of eight harmful alcohol-related outcomes occurring to themselves and to an average student. Participants made either unitary est…
Predictors of injurious assault committed during or after drinking alcohol
Studies of causal links between alcohol and aggression are often handicapped by threats to internal and external validity. Case–control methods employ an event‐level analysis that can reduce some of these validity threats by the use of within‐subject controls. This study used a case–control approach, asking 39 male inmates in a Young Offenders' Institution to compare drinking behaviour before incidents where they reported commission of an injurio…
Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms
Implicit alcohol‐aggression scripts and alcohol‐related aggression on a laboratory task in 11‐ to 14‐year‐old adolescents
Social scripts are commonly shared representations of behavior in social contexts, which are seen to be partly transmitted through social and cultural media. Research suggests that people hold scripts associated with alcohol‐related aggression, but, unlike general aggression scripts, there is little evidence of social transmission. To demonstrate social transmission of alcohol‐related aggression scripts, learning mechanisms based on personal expe…
Trajectories of loneliness during childhood and adolescence
The present study employed latent growth mixture modeling to discern distinct trajectories of loneliness using data collected at 2‐year intervals from age 7–17 years ( N = 586) and examine whether measures taken at age 5 years were good predictors of group membership. Four loneliness trajectory classes were identified: (1) low stable (37% of the sample), (2) moderate decliners (23%), (3) moderate increasers (18%), and (4) relatively high stable (…
Do institutional logics predict interpretation of contract rules at the dental chair-side
Family meals and adolescent perceptions of parent–child connectedness
Affirming parent–child interactions, leading to Parent–Child Connectedness (PCC), may provide protective factors that support positive adolescent behaviors and health outcomes; shared family meals are thought to reinforce these interactions. Eight hundred and fifty-five adolescents, ages 9–13, attending six health education centers in the US were surveyed regarding their attitudes about selected interactions they share with their parents. This st…
Types of leisure, leisure motivation, and well-being in university students
This research aimed at investigating types of leisure motivation, leisure satisfaction, leisure patterns, health status, demographic backgrounds, and the relationship between these and current leisure. A cross-sectional study by recruiting 199 university students showed that intrinsic leisure motivation is the single greatest predictor for leisure satisfaction, even after controlling for elementary and high school leisure, extrinsic leisure motiv…
Reconciling the theory and reality of shared decision‐making
Shared decision making ( SDM ) evolved to resolve tension between patients’ entitlement to make health‐care decisions and practitioners’ responsibility to protect patients’ interests. Implicitly assuming that patients are willing and able to make “good” decisions, SDM proponents suggest that patients and practitioners negotiate decisions. In practice, patients often do not wish to participate in decisions, or cannot make good decisions. Consequen…
Pre–Post Release Health in US Adult Male Convicts
This study sought to determine whether need for healthcare and reported health status among adult men (N = 1,113) in US Federal prisons (in 12 states) changed from pre-release to 15 months after release by analyzing data collected by the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI). Specifically, the study was guided by three questions: (1) were there changes in treatment for specific diseases; (2) were there changes in health status, …
What are the underlying reasons behind socioeconomic differences in doctor‐patient communication in head and neck oncology review clinics
OBJECTIVE: To explore socioeconomic status (SES) differences in patterns of doctor-patient communication within head and neck cancer clinics and why such differences exist. METHODS: Thirty-six head and neck cancer review appointments with five Physicians were observed and audio-taped, along with follow-up interviews involving 32 patients. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis, and compared by patient SES (education, occupation and Indices of…
‘I Don't Like Uncertainty, I Like to Know’
BACKGROUND: Technological advances have led to cancer prognostication that is increasingly accurate but often unalterable. However, a reliable prognosis of limited life expectancy can cause psychological distress. People should carefully consider offers of prognostication, but little is known about how and why they decide on prognostication. Using uveal melanoma (UM) patients, we aimed to identify (i) how and why do people with UM decide to accep…
Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works)