John Pickering
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Pickering |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickering |
| SIGNATURE | PICKERING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1364-8936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1844 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The role of seniors' centres in mitigating social isolation and loneliness among older adults in rural areas
Background Social isolation and loneliness pose significant public health challenges for older adults in rural areas, where geographic remoteness and limited services intensify these issues. The COVID-19 pandemic further magnified these challenges, highlighting the importance of community-based solutions. This study examines the role of the Hardy Bay Senior Citizens Society in mitigating social isolation and loneliness among older adults in the r…
Aging Where the Road Ends
Covid-19 experiences of social isolation and loneliness among older adults in Africa
Objective: Social isolation and loneliness (SI/L) are considered critical public health issues. The primary objective of this scoping review is to document the experience of SI/L among older adults in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, given research gaps in this area. We identified the reasons for SI/L, the effects of SI/L, SI/L coping strategies, and research and policy gaps in SI/L experiences among older adults in Africa during COVID-19. Me…
Ageing and Mental Health in Canada
Canada is a relatively young, geographically-diverse country, with a larger proportion of the population aged over 65 than under 15. Increasing alongside the number of ageing Canadians is the number of older adults that live with mental health challenges. Across the life course, one in five Canadians will experience a mental health disorder with many more living with subclinical symptoms. For these individuals, their lived experience may be direc…
The Effects of Loneliness on Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults During Covid-19
ObjectivesThis paper examines the longitudinal effects of changes in the association between loneliness and depressive symptoms during the pandemic among older adults (65+). Methods Baseline (2011-2015) and Follow-up 1 (2015-2018) from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), and the Baseline and Exit waves of the CLSA COVID-19 study (April-December, 2020) ( n = 12,469) were used. Loneliness was measured using the 3-item UCLA Loneliness S…
Relational, community‐based and practical
Every year tens of thousands of older Canadians travel to the southern United States (US) to live there seasonally during the winter months to enjoy a warmer climate-a practice known as international retirement migration. Several factors facilitate participation in this transnational mobility, including having the financial resources needed to live abroad. For those managing chronic or acute health conditions, traveling with a caregiver (typicall…
Using behaviour science to enrich development
Low-resource communities that rely on the environment face challenges in the forms of climate change and the overuse of natural resources. Behaviour science offers methods and strategies to mitigate behaviours that contribute to environmental degradation, as well as promote the adoption of desirable behaviours. We investigated the attitudes and beliefs of vulnerable communities. We conducted surveys across five villages on Selayar Island, a small…
What Is Known about the Factors Motivating Short-Term International Retirement Migration? A Scoping Review
Design behaviour for sustainability
Reducing Child Maltreatment by Making Parenting Programs Available to All Parents
Preventing the maltreatment of children is a major public health challenge. Using the Triple P-Positive Parenting program as an example, this article makes the case that strengthening parenting and family relationships at a population level is a potentially powerful means of taking on this challenge. We focus on the value of making parenting programs available to all parents in the community. We conclude by examining the key ingredients required …
Meeting the Needs of Rural Populations Through Interdisciplinary Partnerships
This article describes the organization and outcomes of a Rural Health Outreach Initiative (RHOI) designed to increase collaboration between the medical education and health care delivery sectors to improve the quality of health care delivery and health outcomes in rural communities. Two inter-related partnership strategies were utilized in rural communities to address the health and social service needs of rural populations. The partnerships wer…
On the Interaction of Buddhism and Psychology
This proteiform spirit who, beginning from a humble origin, rose to the summit of the Buddhist pantheon, is referred to in the texts by the titles of Yaka Vajrapi, Guhyakdhipati, Malla, 'the spirit Thunderbolt-wielder, great leader of the Guhyakas, the Malla'. Here a few words of explanation are called for
On Revising Assumptions
Michaels (2000) reviewed some basic assumptions in the ecological approach in the light of recent experimental findings. Other reviews have also recently appeared (e.g., Stoffregen, 2000; Stoffregen & Bardy, in press). Here, it is suggested that some assumptions underlying the ecological approach are actually restrictive. The consequences of relaxing them are discussed as well as the contribution that phenomenological methods might make
On the Proper Treatment of Affordance
What distinguishes affordances from events depends on the capacities of the perceiver, in the sense of distinction between open versus closed behavioral programs (Popper, 1978, p. 353). Recent evolutionary history has rendered human perceptual capacities uniquely open. As well as formalization, deeper consideration of mutuality relations will enrich the concept of affordance and link the ecological approach to recent developments in psychology
Consciousness and psychological science
The growth of research on consciousness creates an opportunity to enrich psychological practice. This paper suggests that a more even balance between third and first‐person perspectives may now be sought, and that this will make possible more informed interaction between psychological science and pre‐scientific traditions for investigating the mind. This paper concludes by discussing how such developments might enhance the image of psychological …
Buddhism and cognitivism
Cognitivism, presently the major paradigm of psychology, presents a scientific account of mental life. Buddhism also presents an account of mental life, but one which is integral with its wider ethical and transcendental concerns. The postmodern appraisal of science provides a framework within which these two accounts may be compared without inheriting many of the assumed oppositions between science and religion. It is concluded that cognitivism …
Viewpoints
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The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 2: Letters Nos. 462–848
Affordances are Signs
Peirce and Whitehead share a common project: to restrict the over-extension of reductionism, to show how matter must be sensate and to create an ontology of process and subjectivity. This article claims that biosemiotics can assist this project. Moreover, it shows that the concept of affordance is a means to produce a theory of causation that embraces physical, natural and cultural levels of order
The History of Paper Money in China
Ageing and Mental Health in Canada
Canada is a relatively young, geographically-diverse country, with a larger proportion of the population aged over 65 than under 15. Increasing alongside the number of ageing Canadians is the number of older adults that live with mental health challenges. Across the life course, one in five Canadians will experience a mental health disorder with many more living with subclinical symptoms. For these individuals, their lived experience may be direc…
Design behaviour for sustainability
The History of Paper Money in China
Affordances are Signs
Peirce and Whitehead share a common project: to restrict the over-extension of reductionism, to show how matter must be sensate and to create an ontology of process and subjectivity. This article claims that biosemiotics can assist this project. Moreover, it shows that the concept of affordance is a means to produce a theory of causation that embraces physical, natural and cultural levels of order
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: The Correspondence of John Locke: In Eight Volumes, Vol. 2: Letters Nos. 462–848
Viewpoints
Preview this article: Viewpoints: Metaphor and Monsters-Children's Storytelling, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/rte/24/4/researchintheteachingofenglish15483-1.gif
Buddhism and cognitivism
Cognitivism, presently the major paradigm of psychology, presents a scientific account of mental life. Buddhism also presents an account of mental life, but one which is integral with its wider ethical and transcendental concerns. The postmodern appraisal of science provides a framework within which these two accounts may be compared without inheriting many of the assumed oppositions between science and religion. It is concluded that cognitivism …
Consciousness and psychological science
The growth of research on consciousness creates an opportunity to enrich psychological practice. This paper suggests that a more even balance between third and first‐person perspectives may now be sought, and that this will make possible more informed interaction between psychological science and pre‐scientific traditions for investigating the mind. This paper concludes by discussing how such developments might enhance the image of psychological …
On the Proper Treatment of Affordance
What distinguishes affordances from events depends on the capacities of the perceiver, in the sense of distinction between open versus closed behavioral programs (Popper, 1978, p. 353). Recent evolutionary history has rendered human perceptual capacities uniquely open. As well as formalization, deeper consideration of mutuality relations will enrich the concept of affordance and link the ecological approach to recent developments in psychology
On Revising Assumptions
Michaels (2000) reviewed some basic assumptions in the ecological approach in the light of recent experimental findings. Other reviews have also recently appeared (e.g., Stoffregen, 2000; Stoffregen & Bardy, in press). Here, it is suggested that some assumptions underlying the ecological approach are actually restrictive. The consequences of relaxing them are discussed as well as the contribution that phenomenological methods might make
Meeting the Needs of Rural Populations Through Interdisciplinary Partnerships
This article describes the organization and outcomes of a Rural Health Outreach Initiative (RHOI) designed to increase collaboration between the medical education and health care delivery sectors to improve the quality of health care delivery and health outcomes in rural communities. Two inter-related partnership strategies were utilized in rural communities to address the health and social service needs of rural populations. The partnerships wer…
On the Interaction of Buddhism and Psychology
This proteiform spirit who, beginning from a humble origin, rose to the summit of the Buddhist pantheon, is referred to in the texts by the titles of Yaka Vajrapi, Guhyakdhipati, Malla, 'the spirit Thunderbolt-wielder, great leader of the Guhyakas, the Malla'. Here a few words of explanation are called for
Reducing Child Maltreatment by Making Parenting Programs Available to All Parents
Preventing the maltreatment of children is a major public health challenge. Using the Triple P-Positive Parenting program as an example, this article makes the case that strengthening parenting and family relationships at a population level is a potentially powerful means of taking on this challenge. We focus on the value of making parenting programs available to all parents in the community. We conclude by examining the key ingredients required …
What Is Known about the Factors Motivating Short-Term International Retirement Migration? A Scoping Review
Design behaviour for sustainability
Ageing and Mental Health in Canada
Canada is a relatively young, geographically-diverse country, with a larger proportion of the population aged over 65 than under 15. Increasing alongside the number of ageing Canadians is the number of older adults that live with mental health challenges. Across the life course, one in five Canadians will experience a mental health disorder with many more living with subclinical symptoms. For these individuals, their lived experience may be direc…
The Effects of Loneliness on Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults During Covid-19
ObjectivesThis paper examines the longitudinal effects of changes in the association between loneliness and depressive symptoms during the pandemic among older adults (65+). Methods Baseline (2011-2015) and Follow-up 1 (2015-2018) from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), and the Baseline and Exit waves of the CLSA COVID-19 study (April-December, 2020) ( n = 12,469) were used. Loneliness was measured using the 3-item UCLA Loneliness S…
Relational, community‐based and practical
Every year tens of thousands of older Canadians travel to the southern United States (US) to live there seasonally during the winter months to enjoy a warmer climate-a practice known as international retirement migration. Several factors facilitate participation in this transnational mobility, including having the financial resources needed to live abroad. For those managing chronic or acute health conditions, traveling with a caregiver (typicall…
Using behaviour science to enrich development
Low-resource communities that rely on the environment face challenges in the forms of climate change and the overuse of natural resources. Behaviour science offers methods and strategies to mitigate behaviours that contribute to environmental degradation, as well as promote the adoption of desirable behaviours. We investigated the attitudes and beliefs of vulnerable communities. We conducted surveys across five villages on Selayar Island, a small…
Covid-19 experiences of social isolation and loneliness among older adults in Africa
Objective: Social isolation and loneliness (SI/L) are considered critical public health issues. The primary objective of this scoping review is to document the experience of SI/L among older adults in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, given research gaps in this area. We identified the reasons for SI/L, the effects of SI/L, SI/L coping strategies, and research and policy gaps in SI/L experiences among older adults in Africa during COVID-19. Me…
Aging Where the Road Ends
The role of seniors' centres in mitigating social isolation and loneliness among older adults in rural areas
Background Social isolation and loneliness pose significant public health challenges for older adults in rural areas, where geographic remoteness and limited services intensify these issues. The COVID-19 pandemic further magnified these challenges, highlighting the importance of community-based solutions. This study examines the role of the Hardy Bay Senior Citizens Society in mitigating social isolation and loneliness among older adults in the r…
Psychology (13 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)