Nathan King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4664-5456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Left out and languishing: A cross-national analysis of relative deprivation and human flourishing
Relative socio-economic position and meaning and purpose in life in adolescents: An intangible cost of social inequalities
Having a sense of meaning in life supports adolescent health but is affected by experiences of wealth or poverty. We examined its associations with relative advantage (RA) and relative deprivation (RD) in a sample of Canadian adolescents (n = 17,634) using survey data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. We calculated RA and RD using all other schoolmates as reference groups in 238 schools. Descriptively, RA was associated wit…
Life meaning and purpose as an unrecognized determinant of mental health equity in Canadian adolescents
Consistent with determinants of health models and past cross-national analyses of adolescent health survey data in Canada, results provide prospective evidence in support of life meaning and purpose as an intermediary determinant of mental health in adolescents. Experiences that foster a sense of meaning and purpose in life require recognition as determinants of health, and suggest an intangible resource that can be applied to clinical and public…
Domains of spirituality and their importance to the health of 75 533 adolescents in 12 countries
Spirituality is an ancient concept with many contemporary applications to the field of health promotion. While recognized in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basic human right, definitional misunderstandings about what spirituality is, and is not, and the mechanisms by which it affects the health of young people, remain. In this cross-national analysis involving >75 000 adolescents from 12 countries, we examined the relative impo…
Connections associated with a healthy spirituality: Are these unrecognized intermediary determinants that shape health inequities in Canadian young people
Specific connections afforded by a healthy spirituality could be intermediary determinants of health in Canadian adolescent populations
Mental health and cannabis use among Canadian youth: Integrated findings from cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
A novel application of a data mining technique to study intersections in the social determinants of mental health among young Canadians
This analysis represents a novel proof-of-concept to demonstrate the utility of a subgroup identification algorithm to reveal important differences in mental health experiences between adolescent males and females. The algorithm detected new social locations (i.e., where gender intersected with other characteristics) associated with poor mental health outcomes. These findings set the stage for further intersectional research, involving both quant…
Social Media Use and Cyber-Bullying: A Cross-National Analysis of Young People in 42 Countries
PURPOSE: Social media use (SMU) has become an intrinsic part of adolescent life. Negative consequences of SMU for adolescent health could include exposures to online forms of aggression. We explored age, gender, and cross-national differences in adolescents' engagement in SMU, then relationships between SMU and victimization and the perpetration of cyber-bullying. METHODS: We used data on young people aged 11-15 years (weighted n = 180,919 in 42 …
Religious Involvement and Self-Perceived Spiritual Health: A Quantitative Study of Canadian Children with Disabilities
This study presents a national analysis of 24,190 young Canadians in which relationships between religious group involvement and the spiritual health of children with and without disabilities is described. Two key findings emerged: 1) Children who report religious involvement report higher self-rated importance of spiritual health compared with non-involved peers; 2) among involved children, spiritual health was rated as less important among thre…
Electronic screen technology use and connection to nature in Canadian adolescents: A mixed methods study
Objectives Declines in exposure to nature may deprive young people of experiences that are positive for their mental health. One factor that may interfere with connections to nature is use of electronic screen technologies. The objectives of this study are to (1) document variations in the perceived importance of connections to nature nationally among adolescents; (2) explore relationships between these connections and the use of electronic scree…
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Determined Behaviour Reduce Psychological Distress: Interactions with Resilience in Social Work Students in the UK
Social workers in the UK experience higher levels of burnout compared with other healthcare professionals, making it important to understand how they can develop resilience to protect themselves from psychological distress. The current study aimed to deepen our understanding of the psychological predictors of resilience, which include emotional intelligence, reflective ability, social competence, and empathy, using self-determination theory. This…
Developmental patterns of adolescent spiritual health in six countries
The spiritual health of adolescents is a topic of emerging contemporary importance. Limited numbers of international studies provide evidence about developmental patterns of this aspect of health during the adolescent years. Using multidimensional indicators of spiritual health that have been adapted for use within younger adolescent populations, we therefore: (1) describe aspects of the perceptions of the importance of spiritual health of adoles…
Inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians: A national, cross-sectional study
Study findings highlight potential inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians, as well as opportunities for methodological advances in the assessment of adolescent spiritual health in our population
Walkable school neighborhoods are not playable neighborhoods
The objectives were to determine whether: (1) playability features differed across walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods, and (2) physical activity differed in children living in walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods. A total of 3912 grade 6-8 students from 132 school neighborhoods were studied. There was more developed park space in high walkability neighborhoods than low walkability neighborhoods. Other playability features we…
A Review of The Cambridge Companion to Dewey
Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology: A Reply to the Situationist Challenge
Some epistemologists—virtue responsibilists—model the intellectual virtues on Aristotelian moral virtues. According to responsibilists, intellectual virtues are stable, excellent dispositions of cognitive character like intellectual courage, open-mindedness, curiosity and creativity. Such virtues figure prominently in responsibilist accounts of knowledge, epistemic justification and proper inquiry. In a recent paper, Mark Alfano argues that becau…
Perseverance as an intellectual virtue
Disagreement: What’s the Problem? or A Good Peer is Hard to Find
Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief – By John Bishop
Religious Diversity and its Challenges to Religious Belief
Contemporary Western culture is experiencing a heightened awareness of religious diversity. This article surveys a range of possible responses to such diversity, and distinguishes between responses that concern the salvation or moral transformation of persons (soteriologicalviews) and those that concern the alethic or epistemic status of religious beliefs (doctrinalviews). After providing a brief taxonomy of these positions and their possible rel…
Clarification and evaluation of the two-factor theory of job satisfaction
Integration Of Two Personality Factor Systems
Six major personality factors in inventory items have been developed through previous investigations in this series. These factors have been defined by analyzing total scores over groups of homogeneous items. An inventory containing items t o measure these factors, the Comrey inventory, and the Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey, or GZTS, were administered to 262 volunteers. The GZTS was divided up into groups of relatively homogeneous items. …
Disagreement: What’s the Problem? or A Good Peer is Hard to Find
Clarification and evaluation of the two-factor theory of job satisfaction
Religious Diversity and its Challenges to Religious Belief
Contemporary Western culture is experiencing a heightened awareness of religious diversity. This article surveys a range of possible responses to such diversity, and distinguishes between responses that concern the salvation or moral transformation of persons (soteriologicalviews) and those that concern the alethic or epistemic status of religious beliefs (doctrinalviews). After providing a brief taxonomy of these positions and their possible rel…
Electronic screen technology use and connection to nature in Canadian adolescents: A mixed methods study
Objectives Declines in exposure to nature may deprive young people of experiences that are positive for their mental health. One factor that may interfere with connections to nature is use of electronic screen technologies. The objectives of this study are to (1) document variations in the perceived importance of connections to nature nationally among adolescents; (2) explore relationships between these connections and the use of electronic scree…
Perseverance as an intellectual virtue
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Determined Behaviour Reduce Psychological Distress: Interactions with Resilience in Social Work Students in the UK
Social workers in the UK experience higher levels of burnout compared with other healthcare professionals, making it important to understand how they can develop resilience to protect themselves from psychological distress. The current study aimed to deepen our understanding of the psychological predictors of resilience, which include emotional intelligence, reflective ability, social competence, and empathy, using self-determination theory. This…
Walkable school neighborhoods are not playable neighborhoods
The objectives were to determine whether: (1) playability features differed across walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods, and (2) physical activity differed in children living in walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods. A total of 3912 grade 6-8 students from 132 school neighborhoods were studied. There was more developed park space in high walkability neighborhoods than low walkability neighborhoods. Other playability features we…
Integration Of Two Personality Factor Systems
Six major personality factors in inventory items have been developed through previous investigations in this series. These factors have been defined by analyzing total scores over groups of homogeneous items. An inventory containing items t o measure these factors, the Comrey inventory, and the Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey, or GZTS, were administered to 262 volunteers. The GZTS was divided up into groups of relatively homogeneous items. …
Clarification and evaluation of the two-factor theory of job satisfaction
Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief – By John Bishop
Religious Diversity and its Challenges to Religious Belief
Contemporary Western culture is experiencing a heightened awareness of religious diversity. This article surveys a range of possible responses to such diversity, and distinguishes between responses that concern the salvation or moral transformation of persons (soteriologicalviews) and those that concern the alethic or epistemic status of religious beliefs (doctrinalviews). After providing a brief taxonomy of these positions and their possible rel…
Disagreement: What’s the Problem? or A Good Peer is Hard to Find
A Review of The Cambridge Companion to Dewey
Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology: A Reply to the Situationist Challenge
Some epistemologists—virtue responsibilists—model the intellectual virtues on Aristotelian moral virtues. According to responsibilists, intellectual virtues are stable, excellent dispositions of cognitive character like intellectual courage, open-mindedness, curiosity and creativity. Such virtues figure prominently in responsibilist accounts of knowledge, epistemic justification and proper inquiry. In a recent paper, Mark Alfano argues that becau…
Perseverance as an intellectual virtue
Walkable school neighborhoods are not playable neighborhoods
The objectives were to determine whether: (1) playability features differed across walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods, and (2) physical activity differed in children living in walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods. A total of 3912 grade 6-8 students from 132 school neighborhoods were studied. There was more developed park space in high walkability neighborhoods than low walkability neighborhoods. Other playability features we…
Developmental patterns of adolescent spiritual health in six countries
The spiritual health of adolescents is a topic of emerging contemporary importance. Limited numbers of international studies provide evidence about developmental patterns of this aspect of health during the adolescent years. Using multidimensional indicators of spiritual health that have been adapted for use within younger adolescent populations, we therefore: (1) describe aspects of the perceptions of the importance of spiritual health of adoles…
Inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians: A national, cross-sectional study
Study findings highlight potential inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians, as well as opportunities for methodological advances in the assessment of adolescent spiritual health in our population
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Determined Behaviour Reduce Psychological Distress: Interactions with Resilience in Social Work Students in the UK
Social workers in the UK experience higher levels of burnout compared with other healthcare professionals, making it important to understand how they can develop resilience to protect themselves from psychological distress. The current study aimed to deepen our understanding of the psychological predictors of resilience, which include emotional intelligence, reflective ability, social competence, and empathy, using self-determination theory. This…
Social Media Use and Cyber-Bullying: A Cross-National Analysis of Young People in 42 Countries
PURPOSE: Social media use (SMU) has become an intrinsic part of adolescent life. Negative consequences of SMU for adolescent health could include exposures to online forms of aggression. We explored age, gender, and cross-national differences in adolescents' engagement in SMU, then relationships between SMU and victimization and the perpetration of cyber-bullying. METHODS: We used data on young people aged 11-15 years (weighted n = 180,919 in 42 …
Religious Involvement and Self-Perceived Spiritual Health: A Quantitative Study of Canadian Children with Disabilities
This study presents a national analysis of 24,190 young Canadians in which relationships between religious group involvement and the spiritual health of children with and without disabilities is described. Two key findings emerged: 1) Children who report religious involvement report higher self-rated importance of spiritual health compared with non-involved peers; 2) among involved children, spiritual health was rated as less important among thre…
Electronic screen technology use and connection to nature in Canadian adolescents: A mixed methods study
Objectives Declines in exposure to nature may deprive young people of experiences that are positive for their mental health. One factor that may interfere with connections to nature is use of electronic screen technologies. The objectives of this study are to (1) document variations in the perceived importance of connections to nature nationally among adolescents; (2) explore relationships between these connections and the use of electronic scree…
A novel application of a data mining technique to study intersections in the social determinants of mental health among young Canadians
This analysis represents a novel proof-of-concept to demonstrate the utility of a subgroup identification algorithm to reveal important differences in mental health experiences between adolescent males and females. The algorithm detected new social locations (i.e., where gender intersected with other characteristics) associated with poor mental health outcomes. These findings set the stage for further intersectional research, involving both quant…
Domains of spirituality and their importance to the health of 75 533 adolescents in 12 countries
Spirituality is an ancient concept with many contemporary applications to the field of health promotion. While recognized in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basic human right, definitional misunderstandings about what spirituality is, and is not, and the mechanisms by which it affects the health of young people, remain. In this cross-national analysis involving >75 000 adolescents from 12 countries, we examined the relative impo…
Connections associated with a healthy spirituality: Are these unrecognized intermediary determinants that shape health inequities in Canadian young people
Specific connections afforded by a healthy spirituality could be intermediary determinants of health in Canadian adolescent populations
Mental health and cannabis use among Canadian youth: Integrated findings from cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
Relative socio-economic position and meaning and purpose in life in adolescents: An intangible cost of social inequalities
Having a sense of meaning in life supports adolescent health but is affected by experiences of wealth or poverty. We examined its associations with relative advantage (RA) and relative deprivation (RD) in a sample of Canadian adolescents (n = 17,634) using survey data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. We calculated RA and RD using all other schoolmates as reference groups in 238 schools. Descriptively, RA was associated wit…
Life meaning and purpose as an unrecognized determinant of mental health equity in Canadian adolescents
Consistent with determinants of health models and past cross-national analyses of adolescent health survey data in Canada, results provide prospective evidence in support of life meaning and purpose as an intermediary determinant of mental health in adolescents. Experiences that foster a sense of meaning and purpose in life require recognition as determinants of health, and suggest an intangible resource that can be applied to clinical and public…
Left out and languishing: A cross-national analysis of relative deprivation and human flourishing
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)