Rebecca L Monk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5863005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca L Monk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca L |
| FAMILY NAME | Monk |
| SIGNATURE | MONK R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3554-9007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Risk Perception, Cooperation, and Emotional Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring Adaptive Risk Perception
During the COVID-19 pandemic, while risk perception may promote public cooperation with pandemic prevention, it may also increase emotional distress and thus endanger mental health. This study aimed to examine whether there is an adaptive risk perception pattern that fits both needs of pandemic control and mental health protection. Two waves of Chinese participants (N sample 1 = 1633, N sample 2 = 1899) completed the Scale of Pandemic Risk Percep…
The Impact of Alcohol-Specific and Traditional Masculine Norms on Drinking Game Behaviors: A Multisite Study of Emerging Adult Men
Playing a drinking game (DG) can provide a context for men to behave in accordance with endorsed masculine norms. Using a multisite college sample of emerging adult men ( n = 1142), we examined alcohol-specific masculine norms ( excess / control ) alongside traditional masculine norms and their relations to DG frequency and quantity, and the moderating effects of fraternity membership and hazardous drinking status on these associations. After adj…
Impact of alcohol strength on attitudes and decisions concerning special occasion drinking during pregnancy
Perceived harm, and the ability to apply the potential harms of drinking during pregnancy to one's own circumstances, may be crucial in reducing the risk special occasions pose to alcohol exposed pregnancies. Public health campaigns should focus on facilitating this, compassionately explaining the risk of harms across a range of drinking behaviours, while explicitly tackling the stigma and shame women may experience around this public health issu…
Acculturation domains, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences among Asian American university students
Although Asian American (AA) college students tend to exhibit lower prevalence of heavy alcohol use compared to other racial/ethnic groups, excessive alcohol consumption within this population occurs. It has been suggested that U.S. acculturation may be associated with both alcohol use and negative alcohol consequences. Theory and research with other ethnic groups point to the importance of drinking motives in influencing alcohol consumption and …
Factor structure of the alcohol expectancies questionnaire among adolescents in rural Ghana
Manipulating avatar age and gender in level-2 visual perspective taking
Visual perspective taking (VPT) represents how the world appears from another person’s position. The age, group status and emotional displays of the other person have been shown to affect task performance, but tasks often confound social and spatial outcome measures by embedding perspective taking in explicitly social contexts or theory-of-mind reasoning. Furthermore, while previous research has suggested that visual perspective taking may be imp…
Catching a smile from individuals and crowds: Evidence for distinct emotional contagion processes
Research examining how crowd emotions impact observers usually requires participants to engage in an atypical mental process whereby (static) arrays of individuals are cognitively integrated to represent a crowd. The present work sought to extend our understanding of how crowd emotions may spread to individuals by assessing self-reported emotions, attention and muscle movement in response to emotions of dynamic, virtually modeled crowd stimuli. S…
Thinking and drinking: Associations between momentary thoughts and alcohol consumption during Covid-19 lockdown
COVID-19-related lockdown provided an opportunity to scrutinise alcohol consumption patterns in a historically unique context. This exploratory study examined how people’s thoughts during the day may be related to their drinking during confinement to their homes. Using ecological momentary assessment, 77 UK participants (61% female, Mage = 27.26) used their smartphones to respond to thrice-daily prompts, recording thoughts (in response to open-en…
Assessing alcohol-related beliefs using pictographic representations: A systematic approach to the development and validation of the revised alcohol expectancy task
Aim To systematically develop and test stimuli for inclusion within the revised Alcohol Expectancy Task (rAET)-a pictographic assessment of alcohol-related beliefs.Using a UK adult sample of regular social drinkers, this paper documents the (1) selection (2)development and (3)testing of stimuli, along with (4)initial validation of the rAET.Method A hierarchy of common alcoholic beverages was established, along with a consensus regarding beverage …
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load
Social media, such as Microblogs, have become an important source for people to obtain information. However, we know little about how this would influence our comprehension over online information. Based on the cognitive load theory, this research explores whether and how two important features of Weibo, which are the feedback function and information fragmentation, would increase cognitive load and may in turn hinder users’ information comprehen…
An examination of the extent to which drinking motives and problem alcohol consumption vary as a function of deprivation, gender and age
Emotion and liking: How director emotional expression and knowledge of (dis)liking may impact adults’ ability to follow the instructions of an ignorant speaker
Grieving the Living: The Social Death of Former Jehovah’s Witnesses
Addressing a relative lack of research investigating the experiences of individuals who have left the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW), this research utilizes a social identity approach to examine qualitatively, the process of transitioning towards post-JW life, experiences of ostracism and perceived threats to self-identity. Semi-structured interviews were carried out in the homes of six former JWs, and transcripts were analysed using interpretive pheno…
Academic stress and smartphone dependence among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model
Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery
It is well documented that religiosity is linked with positive indicators of well-being, but less research has examined the psychosocial impacts of leaving “high-control” religions. Theoretically situated in recovery and desistance literature underpinned by the social identity approach, the current study examined cross-sectionally the extent to which ‘disfellowshipped’ former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of ostracism and post-exit identificat…
Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery
It is well documented that religiosity is linked with positive indicators of well-being, but less research has examined the psychosocial impacts of leaving “high-control” religions. Theoretically situated in recovery and desistance literature underpinned by the social identity approach, the current study examined cross-sectionally the extent to which ‘disfellowshipped’ former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of ostracism and post-exit identificat…
Academic stress and smartphone dependence among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model
Catching a smile from individuals and crowds: Evidence for distinct emotional contagion processes
Research examining how crowd emotions impact observers usually requires participants to engage in an atypical mental process whereby (static) arrays of individuals are cognitively integrated to represent a crowd. The present work sought to extend our understanding of how crowd emotions may spread to individuals by assessing self-reported emotions, attention and muscle movement in response to emotions of dynamic, virtually modeled crowd stimuli. S…
Academic stress and smartphone dependence among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model
Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery
It is well documented that religiosity is linked with positive indicators of well-being, but less research has examined the psychosocial impacts of leaving “high-control” religions. Theoretically situated in recovery and desistance literature underpinned by the social identity approach, the current study examined cross-sectionally the extent to which ‘disfellowshipped’ former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of ostracism and post-exit identificat…
An examination of the extent to which drinking motives and problem alcohol consumption vary as a function of deprivation, gender and age
Emotion and liking: How director emotional expression and knowledge of (dis)liking may impact adults’ ability to follow the instructions of an ignorant speaker
Grieving the Living: The Social Death of Former Jehovah’s Witnesses
Addressing a relative lack of research investigating the experiences of individuals who have left the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW), this research utilizes a social identity approach to examine qualitatively, the process of transitioning towards post-JW life, experiences of ostracism and perceived threats to self-identity. Semi-structured interviews were carried out in the homes of six former JWs, and transcripts were analysed using interpretive pheno…
Thinking and drinking: Associations between momentary thoughts and alcohol consumption during Covid-19 lockdown
COVID-19-related lockdown provided an opportunity to scrutinise alcohol consumption patterns in a historically unique context. This exploratory study examined how people’s thoughts during the day may be related to their drinking during confinement to their homes. Using ecological momentary assessment, 77 UK participants (61% female, Mage = 27.26) used their smartphones to respond to thrice-daily prompts, recording thoughts (in response to open-en…
Assessing alcohol-related beliefs using pictographic representations: A systematic approach to the development and validation of the revised alcohol expectancy task
Aim To systematically develop and test stimuli for inclusion within the revised Alcohol Expectancy Task (rAET)-a pictographic assessment of alcohol-related beliefs.Using a UK adult sample of regular social drinkers, this paper documents the (1) selection (2)development and (3)testing of stimuli, along with (4)initial validation of the rAET.Method A hierarchy of common alcoholic beverages was established, along with a consensus regarding beverage …
The Impact of Weibo Features on User’s Information Comprehension: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load
Social media, such as Microblogs, have become an important source for people to obtain information. However, we know little about how this would influence our comprehension over online information. Based on the cognitive load theory, this research explores whether and how two important features of Weibo, which are the feedback function and information fragmentation, would increase cognitive load and may in turn hinder users’ information comprehen…
Manipulating avatar age and gender in level-2 visual perspective taking
Visual perspective taking (VPT) represents how the world appears from another person’s position. The age, group status and emotional displays of the other person have been shown to affect task performance, but tasks often confound social and spatial outcome measures by embedding perspective taking in explicitly social contexts or theory-of-mind reasoning. Furthermore, while previous research has suggested that visual perspective taking may be imp…
Catching a smile from individuals and crowds: Evidence for distinct emotional contagion processes
Research examining how crowd emotions impact observers usually requires participants to engage in an atypical mental process whereby (static) arrays of individuals are cognitively integrated to represent a crowd. The present work sought to extend our understanding of how crowd emotions may spread to individuals by assessing self-reported emotions, attention and muscle movement in response to emotions of dynamic, virtually modeled crowd stimuli. S…
Factor structure of the alcohol expectancies questionnaire among adolescents in rural Ghana
Risk Perception, Cooperation, and Emotional Distress During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring Adaptive Risk Perception
During the COVID-19 pandemic, while risk perception may promote public cooperation with pandemic prevention, it may also increase emotional distress and thus endanger mental health. This study aimed to examine whether there is an adaptive risk perception pattern that fits both needs of pandemic control and mental health protection. Two waves of Chinese participants (N sample 1 = 1633, N sample 2 = 1899) completed the Scale of Pandemic Risk Percep…
The Impact of Alcohol-Specific and Traditional Masculine Norms on Drinking Game Behaviors: A Multisite Study of Emerging Adult Men
Playing a drinking game (DG) can provide a context for men to behave in accordance with endorsed masculine norms. Using a multisite college sample of emerging adult men ( n = 1142), we examined alcohol-specific masculine norms ( excess / control ) alongside traditional masculine norms and their relations to DG frequency and quantity, and the moderating effects of fraternity membership and hazardous drinking status on these associations. After adj…
Impact of alcohol strength on attitudes and decisions concerning special occasion drinking during pregnancy
Perceived harm, and the ability to apply the potential harms of drinking during pregnancy to one's own circumstances, may be crucial in reducing the risk special occasions pose to alcohol exposed pregnancies. Public health campaigns should focus on facilitating this, compassionately explaining the risk of harms across a range of drinking behaviours, while explicitly tackling the stigma and shame women may experience around this public health issu…
Acculturation domains, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences among Asian American university students
Although Asian American (AA) college students tend to exhibit lower prevalence of heavy alcohol use compared to other racial/ethnic groups, excessive alcohol consumption within this population occurs. It has been suggested that U.S. acculturation may be associated with both alcohol use and negative alcohol consequences. Theory and research with other ethnic groups point to the importance of drinking motives in influencing alcohol consumption and …
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Alcohol (4 works) · Alcohol consumption (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)