Allison L Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4180105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison L Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison L |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3744-0205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Availability of Caregiver-Friendly Workplace Policies: A Follow-Up International Scoping Review Study
Caregiver-employees provide unpaid adult care while simultaneously managing employment. The negative health and employment impacts incurred by caregiver-employees have drawn attention to caregiver-friendly workplace policies internationally, which is the focus of this research. Aging populations and changing workforce demographics present challenges for work-life balance. Using PRISMAs methodological guidelines, a comprehensive search strategy to…
On the Defensive: Identity, Language, and Partisan Reactions to Political Scandal
We investigated how individuals judge politicians embroiled in scandal. Drawing on social identity and realistic group conflict theory, we predicted that beyond an overall ingroup bias, partisans would be particularly forgiving of in-party politicians who denied or justified their misconduct rather than apologize for it. By insisting that they did nothing wrong, these politicians defend the public image of their party and signal their commitment …
Double-Duty Carers’ Health and Wellbeing during Covid-19: Exploring the Role of Mobility of the Care Economy in Southern Ontario, Canada
Double-Duty Carers (DDCs) refer to people who work in the healthcare industry while also providing unpaid care to relatives, friends, or neighbours. The expectations placed on DDCs is expected to grow, and these employees already experience a high caring burden. As such it is important to understand how best to support their health and wellbeing. This paper explores DDCs' wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing an understudied factor: th…
Wages or Legitimacy? A Qualitative Analysis of Home Care Worker Perspectives in Choosing Work Settings
Directly-Funded (DF) home care allows users to organize and purchase their own care services and is expanding globally. Little is known about the career pathways of home care workers. Our study asks, what experiences and factors do home care workers consider when choosing a work setting? And, specifically, what influences their decisions to work directly for their clients? Framed with Cranford's (2020) flexibility-security matrix for analyzing ho…
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences
The objective prevalence of and subjective vulnerability to infectious diseases are associated with greater ingroup preference, conformity, and traditionalism. However, evidence directly testing the link between infectious diseases and political ideology and partisanship is lacking. Across four studies, including a large sample representative of the U.S. population (N > 12,000), we demonstrate that higher environmental levels of human transmissib…
Capturing the impacts of balancing caring and employment: A photovoice study of Filipino-Canadian transnational working carers
An ageing population has resulted in an increase in informal care. Many carers balance employment with care, called ‘working carers’. Research is lacking on minority ethnic working carers. This article explores the experiences of Filipino-Canadian working carers and the health impacts of their roles through qualitative photovoice methods. Participants took photographs recording their experiences. Data were collected from eight participants in Ont…
Social Network Disagreement and Reasoned Candidate Preferences
This study investigates the effects of social network disagreement on candidate preferences. Although much research has explored the effects of disagreement on political tolerance and disengagement, less work has examined the relation between disagreement and political reasoning. We predicted that because disagreement reveals conflicting points of view and motivates people to consider these views, it should promote more effortful reasoning—and th…
Research and Identity: Role-efficacy, Benchmarking, and the Identity Construction Process
In the spring of 2016, university students with little to no research experience volunteered to assist with surveying for a larger project on college success. Volunteers discussed their field experiences through written statements and semistructured interviews. Eighty log sheets and 14 in-depth interviews serve as the qualitative data for this study. We followed Braun and Clarke’s (2006) Thematic Analysis approach and reviewed the log sheets for …
The role of system identity threat in conspiracy theory endorsement
Conspiracy theories (CTs) about government officials and the institutions they represent are widespread, and span the ideological spectrum. In this study, we test hypotheses suggesting that system identity threat , or a perception that society's fundamental, defining values are under siege due to social change, will predict conspiracy thinking. Across two samples ( N = 870, N = 2,702), we found that system identity threat is a strong predictor of…
Gender and sex differences in carers’ health, burden and work outcomes: Canadian carers of community-dwelling older people with multiple chronic conditions
Using two waves of survey data on family carers caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions in Ontario and Alberta, this article provides a sex and gender analysis of 194 carers’ health outcomes. Gender and sex differences were examined on the following health outcomes: general self-efficacy; physical and mental health composite scores; overall quality of life; and the Zarit Burden Inventory – as well as experiences with work interfe…
The Place of Religion in Chicago
The Influence of Income on the Experience of Informal Caregiving: Policy Implications
Examining the need for an eldercare policy is relevant and timely because the population is aging, a focus of care has shifted from institutional to community based, and informal caregivers, primarily women, are increasingly pressured to be responsible for eldercare. The purpose of the study is to examine the differences in the experiences of low-income and those who are not low-income informal caregivers. Three hundred questionnaires were mailed…
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’: Lean Production in a Greenfield Mill
The Alberta Newsprint Company mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, with its state‐of‐the‐art paper machine dubbed Wild Rose I' is one of the most efficient newsprint mills in North America. This paper documents the systematic drive by the Alberta Newsprint Company to achieve lean production by the use of flexible work practices in a greenfield mill, which began production in 1990. The analysis begins by examining the way in which the workforce for the ne…
The role of system identity threat in conspiracy theory endorsement
Conspiracy theories (CTs) about government officials and the institutions they represent are widespread, and span the ideological spectrum. In this study, we test hypotheses suggesting that system identity threat , or a perception that society's fundamental, defining values are under siege due to social change, will predict conspiracy thinking. Across two samples ( N = 870, N = 2,702), we found that system identity threat is a strong predictor of…
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences
The objective prevalence of and subjective vulnerability to infectious diseases are associated with greater ingroup preference, conformity, and traditionalism. However, evidence directly testing the link between infectious diseases and political ideology and partisanship is lacking. Across four studies, including a large sample representative of the U.S. population (N > 12,000), we demonstrate that higher environmental levels of human transmissib…
Social Network Disagreement and Reasoned Candidate Preferences
This study investigates the effects of social network disagreement on candidate preferences. Although much research has explored the effects of disagreement on political tolerance and disengagement, less work has examined the relation between disagreement and political reasoning. We predicted that because disagreement reveals conflicting points of view and motivates people to consider these views, it should promote more effortful reasoning—and th…
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’: Lean Production in a Greenfield Mill
The Alberta Newsprint Company mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, with its state‐of‐the‐art paper machine dubbed Wild Rose I' is one of the most efficient newsprint mills in North America. This paper documents the systematic drive by the Alberta Newsprint Company to achieve lean production by the use of flexible work practices in a greenfield mill, which began production in 1990. The analysis begins by examining the way in which the workforce for the ne…
Gender and sex differences in carers’ health, burden and work outcomes: Canadian carers of community-dwelling older people with multiple chronic conditions
Using two waves of survey data on family carers caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions in Ontario and Alberta, this article provides a sex and gender analysis of 194 carers’ health outcomes. Gender and sex differences were examined on the following health outcomes: general self-efficacy; physical and mental health composite scores; overall quality of life; and the Zarit Burden Inventory – as well as experiences with work interfe…
Capturing the impacts of balancing caring and employment: A photovoice study of Filipino-Canadian transnational working carers
An ageing population has resulted in an increase in informal care. Many carers balance employment with care, called ‘working carers’. Research is lacking on minority ethnic working carers. This article explores the experiences of Filipino-Canadian working carers and the health impacts of their roles through qualitative photovoice methods. Participants took photographs recording their experiences. Data were collected from eight participants in Ont…
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’: Lean Production in a Greenfield Mill
The Alberta Newsprint Company mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, with its state‐of‐the‐art paper machine dubbed Wild Rose I' is one of the most efficient newsprint mills in North America. This paper documents the systematic drive by the Alberta Newsprint Company to achieve lean production by the use of flexible work practices in a greenfield mill, which began production in 1990. The analysis begins by examining the way in which the workforce for the ne…
The Influence of Income on the Experience of Informal Caregiving: Policy Implications
Examining the need for an eldercare policy is relevant and timely because the population is aging, a focus of care has shifted from institutional to community based, and informal caregivers, primarily women, are increasingly pressured to be responsible for eldercare. The purpose of the study is to examine the differences in the experiences of low-income and those who are not low-income informal caregivers. Three hundred questionnaires were mailed…
The Place of Religion in Chicago
Gender and sex differences in carers’ health, burden and work outcomes: Canadian carers of community-dwelling older people with multiple chronic conditions
Using two waves of survey data on family carers caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions in Ontario and Alberta, this article provides a sex and gender analysis of 194 carers’ health outcomes. Gender and sex differences were examined on the following health outcomes: general self-efficacy; physical and mental health composite scores; overall quality of life; and the Zarit Burden Inventory – as well as experiences with work interfe…
The role of system identity threat in conspiracy theory endorsement
Conspiracy theories (CTs) about government officials and the institutions they represent are widespread, and span the ideological spectrum. In this study, we test hypotheses suggesting that system identity threat , or a perception that society's fundamental, defining values are under siege due to social change, will predict conspiracy thinking. Across two samples ( N = 870, N = 2,702), we found that system identity threat is a strong predictor of…
Social Network Disagreement and Reasoned Candidate Preferences
This study investigates the effects of social network disagreement on candidate preferences. Although much research has explored the effects of disagreement on political tolerance and disengagement, less work has examined the relation between disagreement and political reasoning. We predicted that because disagreement reveals conflicting points of view and motivates people to consider these views, it should promote more effortful reasoning—and th…
Research and Identity: Role-efficacy, Benchmarking, and the Identity Construction Process
In the spring of 2016, university students with little to no research experience volunteered to assist with surveying for a larger project on college success. Volunteers discussed their field experiences through written statements and semistructured interviews. Eighty log sheets and 14 in-depth interviews serve as the qualitative data for this study. We followed Braun and Clarke’s (2006) Thematic Analysis approach and reviewed the log sheets for …
Capturing the impacts of balancing caring and employment: A photovoice study of Filipino-Canadian transnational working carers
An ageing population has resulted in an increase in informal care. Many carers balance employment with care, called ‘working carers’. Research is lacking on minority ethnic working carers. This article explores the experiences of Filipino-Canadian working carers and the health impacts of their roles through qualitative photovoice methods. Participants took photographs recording their experiences. Data were collected from eight participants in Ont…
Exposure and Aversion to Human Transmissible Diseases Predict Conservative Ideological and Partisan Preferences
The objective prevalence of and subjective vulnerability to infectious diseases are associated with greater ingroup preference, conformity, and traditionalism. However, evidence directly testing the link between infectious diseases and political ideology and partisanship is lacking. Across four studies, including a large sample representative of the U.S. population (N > 12,000), we demonstrate that higher environmental levels of human transmissib…
Double-Duty Carers’ Health and Wellbeing during Covid-19: Exploring the Role of Mobility of the Care Economy in Southern Ontario, Canada
Double-Duty Carers (DDCs) refer to people who work in the healthcare industry while also providing unpaid care to relatives, friends, or neighbours. The expectations placed on DDCs is expected to grow, and these employees already experience a high caring burden. As such it is important to understand how best to support their health and wellbeing. This paper explores DDCs' wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing an understudied factor: th…
Wages or Legitimacy? A Qualitative Analysis of Home Care Worker Perspectives in Choosing Work Settings
Directly-Funded (DF) home care allows users to organize and purchase their own care services and is expanding globally. Little is known about the career pathways of home care workers. Our study asks, what experiences and factors do home care workers consider when choosing a work setting? And, specifically, what influences their decisions to work directly for their clients? Framed with Cranford's (2020) flexibility-security matrix for analyzing ho…
On the Defensive: Identity, Language, and Partisan Reactions to Political Scandal
We investigated how individuals judge politicians embroiled in scandal. Drawing on social identity and realistic group conflict theory, we predicted that beyond an overall ingroup bias, partisans would be particularly forgiving of in-party politicians who denied or justified their misconduct rather than apologize for it. By insisting that they did nothing wrong, these politicians defend the public image of their party and signal their commitment …
Availability of Caregiver-Friendly Workplace Policies: A Follow-Up International Scoping Review Study
Caregiver-employees provide unpaid adult care while simultaneously managing employment. The negative health and employment impacts incurred by caregiver-employees have drawn attention to caregiver-friendly workplace policies internationally, which is the focus of this research. Aging populations and changing workforce demographics present challenges for work-life balance. Using PRISMAs methodological guidelines, a comprehensive search strategy to…
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works)