Christine Liddell
Biographic Data
| ID | 91479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Liddell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Liddell |
| SIGNATURE | LIDDELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4131-6920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living in a cold and damp home: Frameworks for understanding impacts on mental well-being
Excess winter mortality associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias in the UK: A case for energy justice
Human factors in energy efficient housing: Insights from a Northern Ireland pocket neighbourhood
Fuel poverty in Northern Ireland: Humanizing the plight of vulnerable households
Fuel poverty and human health: A review of recent evidence
The Culture of Condoms: Culturally Grounded Variables and Their Association With Attitudes to Condoms
OBJECTIVE: To examine attitudes toward condoms and their association with culturally grounded beliefs among young South African adults. METHODS: A questionnaire survey undertaken in three different locations (urban, rural, and mixed), including 1100 participants, and implementing both a cross-validational and a bootstrap multivariate design. Outcome measures were intention to use a condom at next sex and condom salience (i.e., confidence in the p…
Factor Analyses and Score Validity of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale in an Adolescent Sample
The factor structure of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale (FEICS) is tested in a sample of Irish adolescents. Participants were 661 adolescents with a mean age of 15.9 years ( SD = 1.26). Interpretation of both the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the FEICS show support for the two-factor structure of the FEICS with a Perceived Criticism scale and an Emotional Involvement scale. The reliabilities of the subscale …
Condom use in African adolescents: The role of individual and group factors
This study set out to assess the ability of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict and explain condom use in a traditional African context and in particular to assess the relative contributions of individual and normative constructs. A questionnaire survey was administered to 152 young adults (48% male, 52% female) at two points in time. Key constructs contained within the TPB were measured at Time 1. A short follow-up set of items was …
Indigenous representations of illness and Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emic Perspectives on Risk in African Childhood
Predicting early grade retention: A longitudinal investigation of primary school progress in a sample of rural South African children
Background. One hundred and fifty rural South African children, newly enrolled in Grade 2 in 1994, were retraced in 1998 when they were scheduled to have entered Grade 7. Only 39% of the cohort had progressed smoothly to Grade 7; more than a third (36%) had left their original primary school, and 25% had been retained at least once. Aims. The present study investigated factors that were measurable at the start of Grade 2 which proved useful in pr…
Conceptualising "Childbood" in Developing Countries
Children in the developing world live in diverse and varied settings; the diversity of synergistic effects that impinge on childhood is often ignored by social scien tists. Citing human indicators data from six Southern African countries, the dif ficulties in establishing a meaningful prototype for conceptualising childhood in developing countries is highlighted. The paper focuses on two aspects of childhood in the developing world: the first yea…
Every Picture Tells A Story-Or Does It: Young South African Children Interpreting Pictures
In a previous study by the author, it was reported that South African children in Grades 2 and 3 used very different picture interpretation skills than did a group of British children and showed different patterns of change as they progressed through school. The present study replicates the South African results but uses a larger sample and investigates the picture interpretation skills of South African children more fully in their own right. Res…
Failing Grade 1: South African Children's First Encounters with School
Since educational statistics were first collated in South Africa, more than 30 years ago, roughly a quarter of children from the majority groups of the nation have failed Grade 1 each year. This represents one of the highest Grade 1 wastage rates in the world. This paper examines the assumed correlates of early school failure, and then pieces together a mosaic of information from a variety of sources, which calls much of this received wisdom into…
Use of Educational Resource Materials with South African Children in Day Care
The psychometric scores of black South African children (N = 248) in 16 day-care centers were assessed before (n = 119) and after (n = 129) the introduction of an enrichment package, which consisted of a range of educational toys and cost US $12 per child. Analysis indicated that the enrichment was associated with significant improvements on a number of psychometric measures. Results are critically examined in terms of methodological issues, the …
Providing services for young children in South Africa
Science and Social Accountability: Issues Related to South African Developmental Psychology
In the light of similar publications by Dawes (1985) and Biesheuvel (1987) the issue of social accountability in local psychology is examined, with particular reference to the research and practice of developmental psychology. Discussion focuses first on the notion of scientific neutrality which, it is argued, is not an option for South African developmental psychology. Consideration is then given to the issue of whether apartheid should comprise…
The Social Interaction and Activity Patterns of Children from Two San Groups Living as Refugees on a Namibian Military Base
Observations were made of the social interaction and activity patterns of children under 6 years old from two San groups, Sekele and Kwengo. Despite the fact that these children lived with their families in identical settlements on the same military base, marked intergroup differences were found, especially in patterns of social interaction. Differences were particularly marked when comparing girls. The findings are interpreted in the light of cu…
Some issues regarding the introduction of preschool enrichment programmes for black South African children
Mothers, fathers, and children in an urban park playground: A comparison of dyads and triads
Comparaison des interactions dans des dyades mere-enfant, des dyades pere-enfant et des triades pere-mere-enfant observees dans l'aire de jeu d'un parc
Indigenous representations of illness and Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa
Science and Social Accountability: Issues Related to South African Developmental Psychology
In the light of similar publications by Dawes (1985) and Biesheuvel (1987) the issue of social accountability in local psychology is examined, with particular reference to the research and practice of developmental psychology. Discussion focuses first on the notion of scientific neutrality which, it is argued, is not an option for South African developmental psychology. Consideration is then given to the issue of whether apartheid should comprise…
Predicting early grade retention: A longitudinal investigation of primary school progress in a sample of rural South African children
Background. One hundred and fifty rural South African children, newly enrolled in Grade 2 in 1994, were retraced in 1998 when they were scheduled to have entered Grade 7. Only 39% of the cohort had progressed smoothly to Grade 7; more than a third (36%) had left their original primary school, and 25% had been retained at least once. Aims. The present study investigated factors that were measurable at the start of Grade 2 which proved useful in pr…
Fuel poverty in Northern Ireland: Humanizing the plight of vulnerable households
Mothers, fathers, and children in an urban park playground: A comparison of dyads and triads
Comparaison des interactions dans des dyades mere-enfant, des dyades pere-enfant et des triades pere-mere-enfant observees dans l'aire de jeu d'un parc
Every Picture Tells A Story-Or Does It: Young South African Children Interpreting Pictures
In a previous study by the author, it was reported that South African children in Grades 2 and 3 used very different picture interpretation skills than did a group of British children and showed different patterns of change as they progressed through school. The present study replicates the South African results but uses a larger sample and investigates the picture interpretation skills of South African children more fully in their own right. Res…
Providing services for young children in South Africa
Some issues regarding the introduction of preschool enrichment programmes for black South African children
Mothers, fathers, and children in an urban park playground: A comparison of dyads and triads
Comparaison des interactions dans des dyades mere-enfant, des dyades pere-enfant et des triades pere-mere-enfant observees dans l'aire de jeu d'un parc
The Social Interaction and Activity Patterns of Children from Two San Groups Living as Refugees on a Namibian Military Base
Observations were made of the social interaction and activity patterns of children under 6 years old from two San groups, Sekele and Kwengo. Despite the fact that these children lived with their families in identical settlements on the same military base, marked intergroup differences were found, especially in patterns of social interaction. Differences were particularly marked when comparing girls. The findings are interpreted in the light of cu…
Science and Social Accountability: Issues Related to South African Developmental Psychology
In the light of similar publications by Dawes (1985) and Biesheuvel (1987) the issue of social accountability in local psychology is examined, with particular reference to the research and practice of developmental psychology. Discussion focuses first on the notion of scientific neutrality which, it is argued, is not an option for South African developmental psychology. Consideration is then given to the issue of whether apartheid should comprise…
Use of Educational Resource Materials with South African Children in Day Care
The psychometric scores of black South African children (N = 248) in 16 day-care centers were assessed before (n = 119) and after (n = 129) the introduction of an enrichment package, which consisted of a range of educational toys and cost US $12 per child. Analysis indicated that the enrichment was associated with significant improvements on a number of psychometric measures. Results are critically examined in terms of methodological issues, the …
Providing services for young children in South Africa
Failing Grade 1: South African Children's First Encounters with School
Since educational statistics were first collated in South Africa, more than 30 years ago, roughly a quarter of children from the majority groups of the nation have failed Grade 1 each year. This represents one of the highest Grade 1 wastage rates in the world. This paper examines the assumed correlates of early school failure, and then pieces together a mosaic of information from a variety of sources, which calls much of this received wisdom into…
Every Picture Tells A Story-Or Does It: Young South African Children Interpreting Pictures
In a previous study by the author, it was reported that South African children in Grades 2 and 3 used very different picture interpretation skills than did a group of British children and showed different patterns of change as they progressed through school. The present study replicates the South African results but uses a larger sample and investigates the picture interpretation skills of South African children more fully in their own right. Res…
Conceptualising "Childbood" in Developing Countries
Children in the developing world live in diverse and varied settings; the diversity of synergistic effects that impinge on childhood is often ignored by social scien tists. Citing human indicators data from six Southern African countries, the dif ficulties in establishing a meaningful prototype for conceptualising childhood in developing countries is highlighted. The paper focuses on two aspects of childhood in the developing world: the first yea…
Predicting early grade retention: A longitudinal investigation of primary school progress in a sample of rural South African children
Background. One hundred and fifty rural South African children, newly enrolled in Grade 2 in 1994, were retraced in 1998 when they were scheduled to have entered Grade 7. Only 39% of the cohort had progressed smoothly to Grade 7; more than a third (36%) had left their original primary school, and 25% had been retained at least once. Aims. The present study investigated factors that were measurable at the start of Grade 2 which proved useful in pr…
Emic Perspectives on Risk in African Childhood
Condom use in African adolescents: The role of individual and group factors
This study set out to assess the ability of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict and explain condom use in a traditional African context and in particular to assess the relative contributions of individual and normative constructs. A questionnaire survey was administered to 152 young adults (48% male, 52% female) at two points in time. Key constructs contained within the TPB were measured at Time 1. A short follow-up set of items was …
Indigenous representations of illness and Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa
Factor Analyses and Score Validity of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale in an Adolescent Sample
The factor structure of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale (FEICS) is tested in a sample of Irish adolescents. Participants were 661 adolescents with a mean age of 15.9 years ( SD = 1.26). Interpretation of both the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the FEICS show support for the two-factor structure of the FEICS with a Perceived Criticism scale and an Emotional Involvement scale. The reliabilities of the subscale …
The Culture of Condoms: Culturally Grounded Variables and Their Association With Attitudes to Condoms
OBJECTIVE: To examine attitudes toward condoms and their association with culturally grounded beliefs among young South African adults. METHODS: A questionnaire survey undertaken in three different locations (urban, rural, and mixed), including 1100 participants, and implementing both a cross-validational and a bootstrap multivariate design. Outcome measures were intention to use a condom at next sex and condom salience (i.e., confidence in the p…
Fuel poverty and human health: A review of recent evidence
Fuel poverty in Northern Ireland: Humanizing the plight of vulnerable households
Living in a cold and damp home: Frameworks for understanding impacts on mental well-being
Excess winter mortality associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias in the UK: A case for energy justice
Human factors in energy efficient housing: Insights from a Northern Ireland pocket neighbourhood
Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)