Katrina Mclaughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina Mclaughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAUGHLIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8400-0184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Pathologization of Women who have been Abused is a Criminal Act”: A Qualitative Exploration of Survivors’ Experiences with Statutory Professionals and Coercive Control Two-years Post-legislative R…
Understanding Dynamics: A Systematic Review of the Attitudes, Knowledge, and Competencies of European Frontline Professionals Toward Domestic Abuse
There remains a paucity of European research on attitudes and responses to domestic abuse from frontline workers and professionals who regularly encounter domestic abuse or engage with domestic abuse legislation. This systematic review synthesized qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method peer-reviewed studies that explored professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, and competencies related to domestic abuse. The professionals included medical staff …
Experiences in Nature and Benefits on Emerging Adult Wellbeing: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Research demonstrates that wellbeing can benefit from contact with natural environments. How nature benefits emerging adults isn’t well understood. This review sought to systematically synthesise and analyse emerging adults’ experiences in nature for wellbeing. We aimed to achieve greater conceptual understanding of nature as a tool for wellbeing, and the barriers inhibiting engagement. A systematic search and inclusion criteria meant 11 studies …
Exploring Parent Perspectives: A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Post-Separation Domestic Abuse on Children
Purpose This study aimed to explore mothers’ perceptions of the impact post-separation abuse has on their children . Despite ample research exploring the impacts of domestic abuse on an international scale, literature concerning post-separation abuse is lacking. Internationally, there has been a historical permissiveness towards experiences of coercive control, whereby non-physical acts have only recently become criminalizable. This has led to ju…
The Rights of Very Young Children in the Digital Environment of the Family Home: Findings From a UK Survey of Children 0–36 Months and Their Parents
As digital technologies have become increasingly embedded in daily family life, there has been a growing international concern about children's protection, provision and participation rights in a digital environment. Recognising this, the Committee on the Rights of the Child published General Comment No. 25 Children's Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment (CRC, 2021), giving detailed advice on implementation issues in this area and callin…
Responding to the Needs of Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Australian Nongovernment Schools
The voice of young adults making sense of their caring childhoods: Demonstrating resilience through adversity
Caring when young can have long-term negative consequences. Recently, more nuanced accounts have revealed potential positive impacts. The aim of this study was to give voice to participants from NI to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of childhood caring. Individual interviews were conducted with six females aged between 19 and 24. Unstructured interviews were transcribed verbatim, analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological An…
How adopters’ and foster carers’ perceptions of ‘family’ affect communicative openness in post-adoption contact interactions
This article explores the constructions of communicative openness following adoption. Data from three waves of interviews with six adoptive mothers and four foster carers were collected, transcribed verbatim and analysed in keeping with a social constructivist grounded theory methodology. The results show that the way ‘family’ is constructed can both facilitate and impede communicative openness. Those who hold a fluid, child-centred concept of fa…
Heroes on the Hill: A qualitative study of the psychosocial benefits of an intercultural arts programme for youth in Northern Ireland
The current study investigates the psychosocial benefits of a cross‐community, intercultural dance programme for youth in Northern Ireland. Psychological theories, including contact theory and the ecology of childhood development, underpin the study, and results are discussed in relation to the programme's aims. The present study used qualitative, inductive methods; data consisted of interviews before and after the programme with facilitators ( n…
Father Identity, Involvement and Work–Family Balance: An In‐depth Interview Study
Work and family roles have changed considerably in the past number of decades. Fathers are now expected to fulfil the role of ‘new father’ that involves actively caring and sharing in child rearing and, at the same time, maintain commitment to their occupational role. As a consequence, men are subject to the same pressure that women were when they initially entered the workplace decades ago and indeed still are today. This study aims to explore t…
The Media and Memories of Conflict in Northern Ireland: The views of Protestant and Catholic adolescents in the border counties
As part of a larger analysis of the transmission of ethno‐national identity across generations, some 800 adolescents from the border areas of Ireland recalled events related to the troubles in Northern Ireland and the source of their knowledge. They also completed a scale that measured the extent of their interest in current events. Substantial agreement in the memories of the conflict recorded by adolescents from Northern Ireland and the Republi…
Adolescents' Explanations for Paramilitary Involvement
Current understanding of the motivations of young people who engage in paramilitary activity is poor. The youth bulge literature has made important advances in understanding determinants of political violence at population level; however, the psychological processes that underpin engagement with political violence among young people are less clearly understood. Further, the pathologization of terrorist activity has hampered deeper understanding o…
Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement
National and religious identification processes can be seen as the basis of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and over the course of the conflict preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional and entrenched. This paper reviews this evidence using population‐level studies of self‐categorized national and religious identity. In an attempt to explore the bases of these identities, two interrelated qualitative studies exa…
The Moral Boundaries of the Nation: The Constitution of National Identity in the Southeastern Border Counties of Ireland
This article argues that nationalism is more varied in the way that it constructs its boundaries than contemporary scholarship suggests. In an interdisciplinary, multi-stranded qualitative study of ethno-national identity on the Southern side of the Irish border, it shows the moral repertoires that qualify, conflict with, and on occasion replace, territorial, ethnic and state-centred aspects of national identity. It refocuses attention on the cul…
Religion, Ethnicity and Group Identity: Irish Adolescents’ Views
The article examines aspects of religious identity for young people living along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in terms both of religious and ethno-national content and encompassing personal as well as collective components. Religion is seen as both positive and negative. It is constructed as strengthening family bonds, providing a sense of belonging and history and fostering tolerance and acceptance. Paradoxical…
Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement
National and religious identification processes can be seen as the basis of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and over the course of the conflict preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional and entrenched. This paper reviews this evidence using population‐level studies of self‐categorized national and religious identity. In an attempt to explore the bases of these identities, two interrelated qualitative studies exa…
Father Identity, Involvement and Work–Family Balance: An In‐depth Interview Study
Work and family roles have changed considerably in the past number of decades. Fathers are now expected to fulfil the role of ‘new father’ that involves actively caring and sharing in child rearing and, at the same time, maintain commitment to their occupational role. As a consequence, men are subject to the same pressure that women were when they initially entered the workplace decades ago and indeed still are today. This study aims to explore t…
The voice of young adults making sense of their caring childhoods: Demonstrating resilience through adversity
Caring when young can have long-term negative consequences. Recently, more nuanced accounts have revealed potential positive impacts. The aim of this study was to give voice to participants from NI to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of childhood caring. Individual interviews were conducted with six females aged between 19 and 24. Unstructured interviews were transcribed verbatim, analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological An…
Adolescents' Explanations for Paramilitary Involvement
Current understanding of the motivations of young people who engage in paramilitary activity is poor. The youth bulge literature has made important advances in understanding determinants of political violence at population level; however, the psychological processes that underpin engagement with political violence among young people are less clearly understood. Further, the pathologization of terrorist activity has hampered deeper understanding o…
Exploring Parent Perspectives: A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Post-Separation Domestic Abuse on Children
Purpose This study aimed to explore mothers’ perceptions of the impact post-separation abuse has on their children . Despite ample research exploring the impacts of domestic abuse on an international scale, literature concerning post-separation abuse is lacking. Internationally, there has been a historical permissiveness towards experiences of coercive control, whereby non-physical acts have only recently become criminalizable. This has led to ju…
Responding to the Needs of Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Australian Nongovernment Schools
Religion, Ethnicity and Group Identity: Irish Adolescents’ Views
The article examines aspects of religious identity for young people living along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in terms both of religious and ethno-national content and encompassing personal as well as collective components. Religion is seen as both positive and negative. It is constructed as strengthening family bonds, providing a sense of belonging and history and fostering tolerance and acceptance. Paradoxical…
The Moral Boundaries of the Nation: The Constitution of National Identity in the Southeastern Border Counties of Ireland
This article argues that nationalism is more varied in the way that it constructs its boundaries than contemporary scholarship suggests. In an interdisciplinary, multi-stranded qualitative study of ethno-national identity on the Southern side of the Irish border, it shows the moral repertoires that qualify, conflict with, and on occasion replace, territorial, ethnic and state-centred aspects of national identity. It refocuses attention on the cul…
Religion, Ethnicity and Group Identity: Irish Adolescents’ Views
The article examines aspects of religious identity for young people living along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in terms both of religious and ethno-national content and encompassing personal as well as collective components. Religion is seen as both positive and negative. It is constructed as strengthening family bonds, providing a sense of belonging and history and fostering tolerance and acceptance. Paradoxical…
Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday Agreement
National and religious identification processes can be seen as the basis of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and over the course of the conflict preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional and entrenched. This paper reviews this evidence using population‐level studies of self‐categorized national and religious identity. In an attempt to explore the bases of these identities, two interrelated qualitative studies exa…
Adolescents' Explanations for Paramilitary Involvement
Current understanding of the motivations of young people who engage in paramilitary activity is poor. The youth bulge literature has made important advances in understanding determinants of political violence at population level; however, the psychological processes that underpin engagement with political violence among young people are less clearly understood. Further, the pathologization of terrorist activity has hampered deeper understanding o…
The Media and Memories of Conflict in Northern Ireland: The views of Protestant and Catholic adolescents in the border counties
As part of a larger analysis of the transmission of ethno‐national identity across generations, some 800 adolescents from the border areas of Ireland recalled events related to the troubles in Northern Ireland and the source of their knowledge. They also completed a scale that measured the extent of their interest in current events. Substantial agreement in the memories of the conflict recorded by adolescents from Northern Ireland and the Republi…
Father Identity, Involvement and Work–Family Balance: An In‐depth Interview Study
Work and family roles have changed considerably in the past number of decades. Fathers are now expected to fulfil the role of ‘new father’ that involves actively caring and sharing in child rearing and, at the same time, maintain commitment to their occupational role. As a consequence, men are subject to the same pressure that women were when they initially entered the workplace decades ago and indeed still are today. This study aims to explore t…
Heroes on the Hill: A qualitative study of the psychosocial benefits of an intercultural arts programme for youth in Northern Ireland
The current study investigates the psychosocial benefits of a cross‐community, intercultural dance programme for youth in Northern Ireland. Psychological theories, including contact theory and the ecology of childhood development, underpin the study, and results are discussed in relation to the programme's aims. The present study used qualitative, inductive methods; data consisted of interviews before and after the programme with facilitators ( n…
How adopters’ and foster carers’ perceptions of ‘family’ affect communicative openness in post-adoption contact interactions
This article explores the constructions of communicative openness following adoption. Data from three waves of interviews with six adoptive mothers and four foster carers were collected, transcribed verbatim and analysed in keeping with a social constructivist grounded theory methodology. The results show that the way ‘family’ is constructed can both facilitate and impede communicative openness. Those who hold a fluid, child-centred concept of fa…
The voice of young adults making sense of their caring childhoods: Demonstrating resilience through adversity
Caring when young can have long-term negative consequences. Recently, more nuanced accounts have revealed potential positive impacts. The aim of this study was to give voice to participants from NI to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of childhood caring. Individual interviews were conducted with six females aged between 19 and 24. Unstructured interviews were transcribed verbatim, analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological An…
Understanding Dynamics: A Systematic Review of the Attitudes, Knowledge, and Competencies of European Frontline Professionals Toward Domestic Abuse
There remains a paucity of European research on attitudes and responses to domestic abuse from frontline workers and professionals who regularly encounter domestic abuse or engage with domestic abuse legislation. This systematic review synthesized qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method peer-reviewed studies that explored professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, and competencies related to domestic abuse. The professionals included medical staff …
Experiences in Nature and Benefits on Emerging Adult Wellbeing: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Research demonstrates that wellbeing can benefit from contact with natural environments. How nature benefits emerging adults isn’t well understood. This review sought to systematically synthesise and analyse emerging adults’ experiences in nature for wellbeing. We aimed to achieve greater conceptual understanding of nature as a tool for wellbeing, and the barriers inhibiting engagement. A systematic search and inclusion criteria meant 11 studies …
Exploring Parent Perspectives: A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Post-Separation Domestic Abuse on Children
Purpose This study aimed to explore mothers’ perceptions of the impact post-separation abuse has on their children . Despite ample research exploring the impacts of domestic abuse on an international scale, literature concerning post-separation abuse is lacking. Internationally, there has been a historical permissiveness towards experiences of coercive control, whereby non-physical acts have only recently become criminalizable. This has led to ju…
The Rights of Very Young Children in the Digital Environment of the Family Home: Findings From a UK Survey of Children 0–36 Months and Their Parents
As digital technologies have become increasingly embedded in daily family life, there has been a growing international concern about children's protection, provision and participation rights in a digital environment. Recognising this, the Committee on the Rights of the Child published General Comment No. 25 Children's Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment (CRC, 2021), giving detailed advice on implementation issues in this area and callin…
Responding to the Needs of Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Australian Nongovernment Schools
The Pathologization of Women who have been Abused is a Criminal Act”: A Qualitative Exploration of Survivors’ Experiences with Statutory Professionals and Coercive Control Two-years Post-legislative R…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)