Alan E Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 5081441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan E Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9737-6359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Anxiety and Worry about Six Categories of Climate Change Impacts
The occurrence of severe and extreme weather events that have been attributed to a changed climate system and the widespread dissemination of the impacts of these events in the media can lead people to experience concern, worry, and anxiety, which we examined in two studies. In Study 1, we observed that people more frequently expressed worry than anxiety about the impacts of climate change in six areas. People were more frequently worried and anx…
Designing sensory museum experiences for visitors’ emotional responses
Engaging senses in the museum experience design enables emotional visitor responses and makes the experience more memorable. The aim of this study was to discover a potential relationship between visual and aural stimuli and emotions to provide guidelines for the design of sensory museum experiences. To do so, the study used self-report and psychophysiological measures (skin conductance rate, zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii activity).…
Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale
Climate change worry involves primarily verbal-linguistic thoughts about the changes that may occur in the climate system and the possible effects of these changes. Such worry is one of several possible psychological responses (e.g., fear, anxiety, depression, and trauma) to climate change. Within this article, the psychometric development of the ten-item Climate Change Worry Scale (CCWS) is detailed in three studies. The scale was developed to a…
Investigating Connections between Need for Cognitive Closure and Climate Change Concern in College Students
Understanding how people's worldviews and individual personality differences affect their thinking about anthropogenic climate change is critical to communication efforts regarding this issue. This study surveyed University of Georgia students to investigate the role that need for cognitive closure plays in level of climate change worry. The relationship between these two was found to involve suppression-a subset of mediation-by the social dimens…
Weather as Ecological Events
Gibson’s (1979 Gibson, J. J. (1979/1986). The ecological approach to visual perception. New York: Psychology Press. (Original work published 1979) [Google Scholar]/1986) definition of ecological events suggests that they are different types of change. Weather events exemplify all three varieties that Gibson outlined and can: (1) change the layout of surfaces, (2) change the color or texture of surfaces, and (3) change surface existence. Wind can …
The Dislike of Hot Thermal Conditions and Its Relationship with Sun (Ultraviolet Radiation) Exposure in the Southeastern United States
We investigated the relationship between peoples' preferences for being outside during certain months of the year, based upon their dislike of hot or warm temperatures, and of taking precautions against ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure. A sample of university undergraduates ( N = 1400) living in the Northern Hemisphere completed an online survey in the late summer of 2017 that inventoried their dislike of heat and hot conditions, their sun ta…
Counseling Psychology Faculty’s Contributions to the Internationalization of Counseling
A focus on an emerging Latina/o population: The role of psychological acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping on depression symptoms among central Florida Puerto Ricans
Research has documented the relationship between acculturation, acculturative stress, coping, and psychological problems among Latinas/os in the United States by using aggregated Latina/o (pan-ethnic) samples. However, the generalizability of these data across specific Latina/o subgroups in different geographic contexts remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine how psychological acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping help…
Adlerian Psychotherapy: An Advanced Approach to Individual Psychology
Adlerian Psychotherapy gives an account of Adlerian therapy and counselling from its origins to the present day, and proposes an advanced version of the theory. The main principles and concepts of Adler's thinking are re-examined from a contemporary perspective, placing them in the context of other contemporary approaches. Adler's techniques are described then applied to an understanding of what an Adlerian approach to family life would look like…
The Relationship of Weather Salience with the Perceptions and Uses of Weather Information in a Nationwide Sample of the United States
The authors used data from a sample of 1465 adults living in the United States to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the Weather Salience Questionnaire (WxSQ), a 29-item instrument designed to measure the ways in which weather is psychologically significant for people. The original measurement model of the WxSQ was confirmed in the present sample. Additional work also was performed to create a WxSQ short form consisting of seven items. The…
Gulf Coast Residents Underestimate Hurricane Destructive Potential
Most people do not realize that hurricane destructiveness increases nonlinearly with increases in storm intensity. Three studies were conducted to examine people’s perceptions of hurricane destructive potential and their likelihood of evacuation. In the first study, undergraduate students (n = 349) provided damage ratings of hurricanes in each Saffir–Simpson category. A majority (84%) of students produced only linearly increasing damage profiles …
Emplotting the traumatic self: Narrative revision and the construction of coherence
In this article we provide a constructivist‐narrative conceptualization of the origins and psychotherapeutic methods for treating trauma. We believe that the experience of trauma ensues when lived events outpace peoples’ abilities to emplot or narrate these events from the perspective of dominant life narratives. The sights, sounds, and smells associated with traumatic events preclude such emplotment. The therapeutic objectives of narrative thera…
Internship and Initial Job Placements in Counseling Psychology: A 26-Year Retrospective
A 26-year retrospective study was conducted on internship and initial job placements of counseling psychologists. The results indicated that university counseling centers consistently supported the highest percentage of the field’s predoctoral interns followed by Veteran Administration Medical Centers, other hospital settings, and community mental health centers. Initial job placements indicated relative parity among placements in academic, commu…
Complicated Bereavement and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Fatal Car Crashes: Recommendations for Death Notification Practice
This article reviewed how four characteristics of car crash deaths--suddenness, untimeliness, preventability, and violent, mutilating injuries--may contribute to complicated bereavement syndromes or to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Fatality Analysis Reporting System was then used to assess the proportion of car crashes from 1990-1996 that involved one or more of these characteristics. At least 75% of all deaths invo…
Associations of Scores on the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory and the Kern Lifestyle Scale
This study investigated the relations among psychological birth order, actual birth order, and lifestyle. The study also further examined the convergent validity of the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory. This inventory and Kern's Lifestyle Scale were administered to 126 individuals in a southeastern urban university. The several analyses of variance and canonical correlation analysis (1) supported a stronger relationship between …
Effects of Group Membership on Perception of Risk for Aids
The role of social identity as a moderator for perception of risk for AIDS has not been examined. The purpose of this study was to examine perception of risk for AIDS as a function of membership in an identified risk group. 34 subjects who were homosexual, 58 intravenous drug users (IV), and 34 college students rated a 21-item list of behaviors for perception of AIDS risk. The findings indicate that the IV drug-use group significantly underestima…
Internship and Initial Job Placements in Counseling Psychology: A 26-Year Retrospective
A 26-year retrospective study was conducted on internship and initial job placements of counseling psychologists. The results indicated that university counseling centers consistently supported the highest percentage of the field’s predoctoral interns followed by Veteran Administration Medical Centers, other hospital settings, and community mental health centers. Initial job placements indicated relative parity among placements in academic, commu…
A focus on an emerging Latina/o population: The role of psychological acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping on depression symptoms among central Florida Puerto Ricans
Research has documented the relationship between acculturation, acculturative stress, coping, and psychological problems among Latinas/os in the United States by using aggregated Latina/o (pan-ethnic) samples. However, the generalizability of these data across specific Latina/o subgroups in different geographic contexts remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine how psychological acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping help…
Designing sensory museum experiences for visitors’ emotional responses
Engaging senses in the museum experience design enables emotional visitor responses and makes the experience more memorable. The aim of this study was to discover a potential relationship between visual and aural stimuli and emotions to provide guidelines for the design of sensory museum experiences. To do so, the study used self-report and psychophysiological measures (skin conductance rate, zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii activity).…
Complicated Bereavement and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Fatal Car Crashes: Recommendations for Death Notification Practice
This article reviewed how four characteristics of car crash deaths--suddenness, untimeliness, preventability, and violent, mutilating injuries--may contribute to complicated bereavement syndromes or to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Fatality Analysis Reporting System was then used to assess the proportion of car crashes from 1990-1996 that involved one or more of these characteristics. At least 75% of all deaths invo…
Effects of Group Membership on Perception of Risk for Aids
The role of social identity as a moderator for perception of risk for AIDS has not been examined. The purpose of this study was to examine perception of risk for AIDS as a function of membership in an identified risk group. 34 subjects who were homosexual, 58 intravenous drug users (IV), and 34 college students rated a 21-item list of behaviors for perception of AIDS risk. The findings indicate that the IV drug-use group significantly underestima…
Associations of Scores on the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory and the Kern Lifestyle Scale
This study investigated the relations among psychological birth order, actual birth order, and lifestyle. The study also further examined the convergent validity of the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory. This inventory and Kern's Lifestyle Scale were administered to 126 individuals in a southeastern urban university. The several analyses of variance and canonical correlation analysis (1) supported a stronger relationship between …
Complicated Bereavement and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Fatal Car Crashes: Recommendations for Death Notification Practice
This article reviewed how four characteristics of car crash deaths--suddenness, untimeliness, preventability, and violent, mutilating injuries--may contribute to complicated bereavement syndromes or to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Fatality Analysis Reporting System was then used to assess the proportion of car crashes from 1990-1996 that involved one or more of these characteristics. At least 75% of all deaths invo…
Emplotting the traumatic self: Narrative revision and the construction of coherence
In this article we provide a constructivist‐narrative conceptualization of the origins and psychotherapeutic methods for treating trauma. We believe that the experience of trauma ensues when lived events outpace peoples’ abilities to emplot or narrate these events from the perspective of dominant life narratives. The sights, sounds, and smells associated with traumatic events preclude such emplotment. The therapeutic objectives of narrative thera…
Internship and Initial Job Placements in Counseling Psychology: A 26-Year Retrospective
A 26-year retrospective study was conducted on internship and initial job placements of counseling psychologists. The results indicated that university counseling centers consistently supported the highest percentage of the field’s predoctoral interns followed by Veteran Administration Medical Centers, other hospital settings, and community mental health centers. Initial job placements indicated relative parity among placements in academic, commu…
Gulf Coast Residents Underestimate Hurricane Destructive Potential
Most people do not realize that hurricane destructiveness increases nonlinearly with increases in storm intensity. Three studies were conducted to examine people’s perceptions of hurricane destructive potential and their likelihood of evacuation. In the first study, undergraduate students (n = 349) provided damage ratings of hurricanes in each Saffir–Simpson category. A majority (84%) of students produced only linearly increasing damage profiles …
The Relationship of Weather Salience with the Perceptions and Uses of Weather Information in a Nationwide Sample of the United States
The authors used data from a sample of 1465 adults living in the United States to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the Weather Salience Questionnaire (WxSQ), a 29-item instrument designed to measure the ways in which weather is psychologically significant for people. The original measurement model of the WxSQ was confirmed in the present sample. Additional work also was performed to create a WxSQ short form consisting of seven items. The…
Adlerian Psychotherapy: An Advanced Approach to Individual Psychology
Adlerian Psychotherapy gives an account of Adlerian therapy and counselling from its origins to the present day, and proposes an advanced version of the theory. The main principles and concepts of Adler's thinking are re-examined from a contemporary perspective, placing them in the context of other contemporary approaches. Adler's techniques are described then applied to an understanding of what an Adlerian approach to family life would look like…
A focus on an emerging Latina/o population: The role of psychological acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping on depression symptoms among central Florida Puerto Ricans
Research has documented the relationship between acculturation, acculturative stress, coping, and psychological problems among Latinas/os in the United States by using aggregated Latina/o (pan-ethnic) samples. However, the generalizability of these data across specific Latina/o subgroups in different geographic contexts remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine how psychological acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping help…
The Dislike of Hot Thermal Conditions and Its Relationship with Sun (Ultraviolet Radiation) Exposure in the Southeastern United States
We investigated the relationship between peoples' preferences for being outside during certain months of the year, based upon their dislike of hot or warm temperatures, and of taking precautions against ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure. A sample of university undergraduates ( N = 1400) living in the Northern Hemisphere completed an online survey in the late summer of 2017 that inventoried their dislike of heat and hot conditions, their sun ta…
Counseling Psychology Faculty’s Contributions to the Internationalization of Counseling
Weather as Ecological Events
Gibson’s (1979 Gibson, J. J. (1979/1986). The ecological approach to visual perception. New York: Psychology Press. (Original work published 1979) [Google Scholar]/1986) definition of ecological events suggests that they are different types of change. Weather events exemplify all three varieties that Gibson outlined and can: (1) change the layout of surfaces, (2) change the color or texture of surfaces, and (3) change surface existence. Wind can …
Investigating Connections between Need for Cognitive Closure and Climate Change Concern in College Students
Understanding how people's worldviews and individual personality differences affect their thinking about anthropogenic climate change is critical to communication efforts regarding this issue. This study surveyed University of Georgia students to investigate the role that need for cognitive closure plays in level of climate change worry. The relationship between these two was found to involve suppression-a subset of mediation-by the social dimens…
Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale
Climate change worry involves primarily verbal-linguistic thoughts about the changes that may occur in the climate system and the possible effects of these changes. Such worry is one of several possible psychological responses (e.g., fear, anxiety, depression, and trauma) to climate change. Within this article, the psychometric development of the ten-item Climate Change Worry Scale (CCWS) is detailed in three studies. The scale was developed to a…
Designing sensory museum experiences for visitors’ emotional responses
Engaging senses in the museum experience design enables emotional visitor responses and makes the experience more memorable. The aim of this study was to discover a potential relationship between visual and aural stimuli and emotions to provide guidelines for the design of sensory museum experiences. To do so, the study used self-report and psychophysiological measures (skin conductance rate, zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii activity).…
Anxiety and Worry about Six Categories of Climate Change Impacts
The occurrence of severe and extreme weather events that have been attributed to a changed climate system and the widespread dissemination of the impacts of these events in the media can lead people to experience concern, worry, and anxiety, which we examined in two studies. In Study 1, we observed that people more frequently expressed worry than anxiety about the impacts of climate change in six areas. People were more frequently worried and anx…
Psychology (15 works) · Geography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)