Bryan Rodgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3927935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Rodgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodgers |
| SIGNATURE | RODGERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8924-185X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
In Pursuit of a Culture of Continuous Improvement
This case study explores employee perceptions of, and commitment to, continuous improvement in a national public sector organisation. The survey of 593 employees is analysed across four management levels and evidences the employees desire to deliver service improvements and their frustrations across different levels of feeling unsupported and impacted by negative management behaviours. The study shows the areas where there are clear differences b…
Elucidating knowledge and beliefs about obesity and eating disorders among key stakeholders
The findings indicate areas where the EDs and obesity fields have common ground and can work together in developing integrated health promotion programs
Consistency and Continuity in Material and Psychosocial Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
The Australian child support reforms
The Australian Child Support Scheme aims to ensure that children continue to be supported financially should their parents separate or never live together. Sweeping changes to the Australian Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a dramatically different system for the calculation of child support and a more rigorous enforcement regime. The reforms were intended to respond to ongoing concerns about equity, and to ch…
Can child support compliance be improved by the introduction of a ‘fairer’ child support formula and more rigorous enforcement? The recent Australian experience
Child support compliance continues to be a thorny policy issue. In Australia, major changes to the Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a markedly different and purportedly ‘fairer’ system for the calculation of child support. Extra resources were also provided to the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure that child support is paid in full and on time. Did these initiatives lead to greater compliance by payers with…
Quality of life impairment associated with body dissatisfaction in a general population sample of women
In women, BD is associated with marked impairment in aspects of quality of life relating to mental health and psycho-social functioning and at least some aspects of physical health, independent of its association with body weight and eating disorder symptoms. Greater attention may need to be given to BD as a public health problem. The fact that BD is "normative" should not be taken to infer that it is benign
Combining work and family
Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Post-separation patterns of children's overnight stays with each parent
Post-separation patterns of children’s overnight stays with each parent
Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation over the past decade - especially in shared-time arrangements - few studies have explored the detail of post-separation parenting time schedules. This article: (a) provides a detailed snapshot of children's overnight stays with each parent among a national random sample of 408 separated parents registered with the Australian Child Support Agency (CSA); and (b) develops a typolo…
Mental health impairment in underweight women
The findings suggest that mental health impairment in underweight women, where this occurs, is unlikely to be due to higher levels of body dissatisfaction or eating-disordered behaviour. Rather, lower levels of body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behaviour among underweight women may counterbalance, to some extent, impairment due to other factors
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion
This evidence underlines the difficulty of moving from unemployment into good quality work and highlights the need for social inclusion policies to consider people's pre-existing health conditions and promote job quality
Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression
Mental health problems among single and partnered mothers
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire
Weekly Alcohol Consumption, Brain Atrophy, and White Matter Hyperintensities in a Community-Based Sample Aged 60 to 64 Years
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the association between weekly alcohol consumption and brain atrophy in adults aged 60 to 64 years. Methods: Brain magnetic resonance imaging scans from 385 adults recruited through a community survey were analyzed. Automated segmentation and manual tracing methods were used to obtain brain subvolumes and automated methods were used to obtain quantification and localization of white matter h…
Retirement and mental health
The lesser evil
Gender differences in factors affecting use of health services
Mental Health and the Family Law System
Mental health issues permeate the family law system – at least according to anecdote. Yet such issues are rarely mentioned in family-law research, policy, and practice. This article aims to stimulate discussion about the sometimes close and complex links between mental health issues and family law, and suggests a framework for how the family-law system might provide better emotional support to families in transition
Sexual orientation and mental health
BACKGROUND: Community surveys have reported a higher rate of mental health problems in combined groups of homosexual and bisexual participants, but have not separated these two groups. AIMS: To assess separately the mental health of homosexual and bisexual groups compared with heterosexuals. METHOD: A community survey of 4824 adults was carried out in Canberra, Australia. Measures covered anxiety, depression, suicidality, alcohol misuse, positive…
Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife
A short form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
Does financial hardship account for elevated psychological distress in lone mothers
Does financial hardship account for elevated psychological distress in lone mothers
Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression
The lesser evil
Retirement and mental health
Combining work and family
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire
Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife
Social and psychological wellbeing of children from divorced families
Several commentators have proposed that overseas research on the adverse sequelae of parental divorce is not applicable to Australia. Arguments supporting this are critically assessed and rejected. Australian studies show that parental divorce is associated with many problems in adolescence and adulthood: poor academic achievement, low self-esteem, psychological distress, delinquency, recidivism, substance use, sexual precocity, adult criminal of…
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Post-separation patterns of children’s overnight stays with each parent
Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation over the past decade - especially in shared-time arrangements - few studies have explored the detail of post-separation parenting time schedules. This article: (a) provides a detailed snapshot of children's overnight stays with each parent among a national random sample of 408 separated parents registered with the Australian Child Support Agency (CSA); and (b) develops a typolo…
Re-thinking the Analysis of Intergenerational Social Mobility
The method of analyzing social mobility described by Fox (1990) is flawed in its adjustment for between-group differences in destination status when estimating the extent of the mentally ill's mobility as compared with the general population. Use of the recommended model with hypothetical data sets resulted in a significant finding when no overall upward or downward mobility occurred, and a non-significant result when the downward mobility of a p…
Can child support compliance be improved by the introduction of a ‘fairer’ child support formula and more rigorous enforcement? The recent Australian experience
Child support compliance continues to be a thorny policy issue. In Australia, major changes to the Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a markedly different and purportedly ‘fairer’ system for the calculation of child support. Extra resources were also provided to the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure that child support is paid in full and on time. Did these initiatives lead to greater compliance by payers with…
Mental Health and the Family Law System
Mental health issues permeate the family law system – at least according to anecdote. Yet such issues are rarely mentioned in family-law research, policy, and practice. This article aims to stimulate discussion about the sometimes close and complex links between mental health issues and family law, and suggests a framework for how the family-law system might provide better emotional support to families in transition
Re-thinking the Analysis of Intergenerational Social Mobility
The method of analyzing social mobility described by Fox (1990) is flawed in its adjustment for between-group differences in destination status when estimating the extent of the mentally ill's mobility as compared with the general population. Use of the recommended model with hypothetical data sets resulted in a significant finding when no overall upward or downward mobility occurred, and a non-significant result when the downward mobility of a p…
Social and psychological wellbeing of children from divorced families
Several commentators have proposed that overseas research on the adverse sequelae of parental divorce is not applicable to Australia. Arguments supporting this are critically assessed and rejected. Australian studies show that parental divorce is associated with many problems in adolescence and adulthood: poor academic achievement, low self-esteem, psychological distress, delinquency, recidivism, substance use, sexual precocity, adult criminal of…
“Mental health literacy”
OBJECTIVES: To assess the public's recognition of mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of various treatments ("mental health literacy"). DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey, in 1995, with structured interviews using vignettes of a person with either depression or schizophrenia. PARTICIPANTS: A representative national sample of 2031 individuals aged 18-74 years; 1010 participants were questioned about the depression vignette and…
Children and parental divorce
The commentary on my earlier review of Australian studies of parental divorce raises a number of important points. One of these is the evaluation of strength of association. I argue that the effect sizes found for the association between parental divorce and several social and psychological outcomes have been understated and can be shown to be equal to those of other important early-life and contemporary risk factors for mental health problems. A…
A short form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
Does financial hardship account for elevated psychological distress in lone mothers
Sexual orientation and mental health
BACKGROUND: Community surveys have reported a higher rate of mental health problems in combined groups of homosexual and bisexual participants, but have not separated these two groups. AIMS: To assess separately the mental health of homosexual and bisexual groups compared with heterosexuals. METHOD: A community survey of 4824 adults was carried out in Canberra, Australia. Measures covered anxiety, depression, suicidality, alcohol misuse, positive…
Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife
Gender differences in factors affecting use of health services
Mental Health and the Family Law System
Mental health issues permeate the family law system – at least according to anecdote. Yet such issues are rarely mentioned in family-law research, policy, and practice. This article aims to stimulate discussion about the sometimes close and complex links between mental health issues and family law, and suggests a framework for how the family-law system might provide better emotional support to families in transition
Weekly Alcohol Consumption, Brain Atrophy, and White Matter Hyperintensities in a Community-Based Sample Aged 60 to 64 Years
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the association between weekly alcohol consumption and brain atrophy in adults aged 60 to 64 years. Methods: Brain magnetic resonance imaging scans from 385 adults recruited through a community survey were analyzed. Automated segmentation and manual tracing methods were used to obtain brain subvolumes and automated methods were used to obtain quantification and localization of white matter h…
Retirement and mental health
The lesser evil
Mental health problems among single and partnered mothers
Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire
Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion
This evidence underlines the difficulty of moving from unemployment into good quality work and highlights the need for social inclusion policies to consider people's pre-existing health conditions and promote job quality
Mental health impairment in underweight women
The findings suggest that mental health impairment in underweight women, where this occurs, is unlikely to be due to higher levels of body dissatisfaction or eating-disordered behaviour. Rather, lower levels of body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behaviour among underweight women may counterbalance, to some extent, impairment due to other factors
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
Post-separation patterns of children's overnight stays with each parent
Post-separation patterns of children’s overnight stays with each parent
Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation over the past decade - especially in shared-time arrangements - few studies have explored the detail of post-separation parenting time schedules. This article: (a) provides a detailed snapshot of children's overnight stays with each parent among a national random sample of 408 separated parents registered with the Australian Child Support Agency (CSA); and (b) develops a typolo…
Quality of life impairment associated with body dissatisfaction in a general population sample of women
In women, BD is associated with marked impairment in aspects of quality of life relating to mental health and psycho-social functioning and at least some aspects of physical health, independent of its association with body weight and eating disorder symptoms. Greater attention may need to be given to BD as a public health problem. The fact that BD is "normative" should not be taken to infer that it is benign
Combining work and family
Developing Prospective Measures of Adversity Among Australian Families with Young Children
Can child support compliance be improved by the introduction of a ‘fairer’ child support formula and more rigorous enforcement? The recent Australian experience
Child support compliance continues to be a thorny policy issue. In Australia, major changes to the Child Support Scheme were introduced between 2006 and 2008, featuring a markedly different and purportedly ‘fairer’ system for the calculation of child support. Extra resources were also provided to the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure that child support is paid in full and on time. Did these initiatives lead to greater compliance by payers with…
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Psychiatry (18 works) · Mental health (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Population (9 works)