Matthew Browne
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 175873 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew Browne |
| PRENOMES | Matthew |
| SOBRENOME | Browne |
| ASSINATURA | BROWNE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Central Queensland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7623-8179 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Temporal Asymmetry in Cross-Lagged Panel Models
Inferring causal direction from longitudinal data remains challenging in the social sciences, especially without experimental control. Traditional methods like Granger causality and cross-lagged panel models (CLPMs) assess predictive relationships but cannot distinguish directional causal effects from reciprocal associations due to autoregression, latent confounding, or measurement error. We propose a structured, hypothesis-driven CLPM extension …
Journeys Towards Harm Among Young Adult Sports Bettors
Sports betting increases the risk of gambling harm in young people, but little is known about their pathways into harmful betting and dynamic influences over time. This study explored journeys towards gambling harm among young Australian sports bettors and key sources of influence on their experiences, from childhood to early adulthood. Fifty people aged 18–25 years reporting moderate or high harm from sports betting on the Gambling Harm Scale we…
Central vowels in Kamu and Larrakia
The vowel inventories of Kamu and Larrakia each consist of peripheral /i/-/u/-/e/-/a/-/o/ and another non-low vowel that has not been phonetically characterized. Descriptions of similar six-vowel systems in Western Top End languages offer inconsistent accounts of the non-peripheral vowel, but no instrumental analysis has yet been conducted. Acoustic and phonological analysis reveals that the sixth vowel is best characterized as /ʉ/ in Kamu and /ɨ…
The high cost of direct marketing from wagering operators, tipsters and affiliates
Sure they Gamble – But At Least They’re Not Being Bullied! A Survey of Parental Perspectives of Adolescent Gambling
There is almost no research on adolescent gambling from the perspective of parents, despite their important role in preventing adolescent engagement in potentially risky and harmful activities. This study used a quantitative online survey of 1,185 parents (69% mothers) of adolescents (aged 12 to 17 years) to examine parental attitudes and knowledge of adolescent gambling and adolescent exposure to parental gambling. Most parents disapproved of ad…
From ‘Quirky and Cool’ to ‘Addicted’
Young adults bear the greatest burden of harm from sports betting. This study explored 1) the lived experiences of sports betting harm when people enter adulthood, 2) barriers and catalysts to change, and 3) change strategies used. Interviews with 50 people aged 18–25 who reported sports betting harm were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings highlight the multidimensional nature of harm across financial, emotional, vocational, relationship …
Towards more reliable gambling cost estimates, a population-based study with register-linkage
Methods commonly used in gambling cost studies yield higher estimates of gambling costs when arbitrary causality adjustment methods are used. Bayes theorem allows leveraging data on temporal patterns of gambling problems to estimate the plausible proportion where gambling is the precipitating factor for the experienced harm, rather than the other way around. Additionally, costs could be presented as Int$ per adult using the PPP exchange rate to f…
Beliefs about deception in Australia
Research addressing beliefs about deception has been mostly conducted with North American and European participants. However, deception belief consequences are not continent-bound. In legal proceedings, when jurors are responsible for assessing witness credibility, beliefs about deception can distort the outcome of jury trials, which are integral to Australia's criminal justice system. Research on beliefs about deception in Australia are scarce. …
Harm-to-self from gambling
Feature preferences of sports betting platforms
The influence of age on gambling problems worldwide
Illusions of control
The Covid-19 lockdown experience suggests that restricting the supply of gambling can reduce gambling problems
Revising the core knowledge confusions scale
The Core Knowledge Confusions scale (CKC) was designed to predict paranormal and spiritual beliefs, alternative health beliefs and the degree to which people assign meaning to events. It measures the likelihood of individuals' tendency to accept ontologically confused content as literally true and has been used to investigate beliefs such as the paranormal. However, the psychometric properties of the CKC have not been tested, limiting the scale’s…
The ‘Wild West’ of Wagering Affiliate Marketing and Implications for Gambling Harm
Wagering affiliate marketing is a performance-based system where online wagering operators pay third parties (affiliates) to recruit and engage customers for them. Despite widespread use, it has attracted limited research attention in Australia and elsewhere. This exploratory Australian study aimed to capture key informant perspectives on (1) the key features of wagering affiliate marketing and (2) how it may increase the risk of gambling harm. I…
Self-Regulatory Strategies Reduce Gambling Spend and Harm in a Randomised Controlled Trial of Electronic Gaming Machine Players
Research provides insights into the self-regulatory strategies (SRSs) gamblers use, but evidence supporting their efficacy is weak. Study 1 aimed to identify a set of SRSs that best predict less harmful gambling amongst electronic gaming machine (EGM) players who are most vulnerable to EGM-related harm. Study 2 aimed to test their efficacy as a brief intervention in a randomised controlled trial. Study 1 surveyed 2032 EGM players and compared SRS…
Gambling-Related Harm to Affected Others
Quantitative self-report measures for gambling-related harm experienced by gamblers themselves are established in the literature, whereas similar measures of gambling-related harm to affected others (AOs, a.k.a. concerned significant others) are given less attention. The impact of gambling-related harm varies significantly among different relationship types, such as partners, family members, and friends. Moreover, while many studies concentrate p…
Does the lived experience of gambling accord with quantitative self-report scores of gambling-related harm
A broad quantitative literature has explored the extent and distribution of gambling-related harm. However, any quantitative measure involves a number of statistical decisions around item selection and weighting that may affect its ability to provide an accurate summary of a gambler’s lived experience. This may especially be an issue with a condition as varied and multifaceted as gambling-related harm. The present research therefore used qualitat…
The active foundations of the illusion of control
The mistaken belief that personal control can affect the outcomes of random events is seen as a core part of disordered gamblers’ irrational beliefs via the ‘illusion of control’. The present study tests the extent of action-based manifestation of the illusion of control in a dice-rolling game, which provides a novel controlled test of a claim first made by Henslin that craps gamblers tend to shake their dice harder when aiming for higher numbers…
National burden of gambling in Japan
The study highlighted the prevention paradox of gambling in Japan. While national gambling policies primarily focus on the prevention and intervention for high-risk gamblers, a more effective approach would involve minimizing GRH across the entire population
Unambiguous evidence that over half of gambling problems in Australia are caused by electronic gambling machines
How gambling harms others
Electronic gaming machine accessibility and gambling problems
Gambling advertising on Twitter before, during and after the initial Australian Covid-19 lockdown
Social Democracy
How are the policies, meaning and ideology of social democracy changing and what is the context for this change? To what extent are social democratic parties converging or diverging according to national traditions? What criticism are there of recent social democracy and what alternatives exist? This book offers a distinctive approach to answering these questions. By drawing on a wide range of political and ideological perspectives, the contribut…
Internalized and Externalized Continuing Bonds in Bereaved Parents
Continuing bonds (CBs) expression appears especially prevalent among bereaved parents. This study examined the relationship between CBs and grief outcomes for this population. A customized CB scale for use with bereaved parents was derived from the literature. Three hundred fifty-four participants (10 male) recruited from online support groups completed an internet questionnaire. A 3-factor dimensional structure of CB (internalized, externalized,…
Reflective minds and open hearts
We examined associations between two psychological constructs, analytic cognitive style and the personality facet ‘Openness to Experience’, and several dimensions of religiosity: religious affiliation, strength of faith and spiritual epistemology. In a relatively large (N = 1093), older community sample (M = 55.4 years), analytic cognitive style was associated with a lower probability of affiliating with a religious denomination and a higher prob…
Contrast and retroactive implicatures
The clitic =lku in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan, Australia) has been previously analyzed as a ‘change of state’ marker indicating some proposition is false at an earlier time, and true at a later time. In this paper, I examine a number of uses of =lku, which require expanding and refining the ‘change of state’ analysis, in order to argue for a new analysis of =lku as a temporal and discourse clitic. The temporal function loc…
Identifying risky Internet use
Experiencing negative outcomes online is increasingly common, with more people active online and the continued presence of aggressive online behaviours. This study sought to uncover the underlying factor structure of negative online consequences. It investigated how experiencing negative outcomes is associated with engaging in specific online activities. Australian adult Internet users ( N = 1773, mean age = 42.5 years, 54.8% female) completed an…
An Exploratory Study of Human-Dog Co-sleeping Using Actigraphy
This exploratory study aimed to contribute to the limited research on human–animal co-sleeping by investigating the extent to which human sleep is disturbed by co-sleeping with a dog. Five female Australian dog owners and their dogs were fitted with activity monitors for seven nights. Raw activity of the dog and human for each sleep episode were matched and then compared using a time series correlation. Dog movement was a significant leading indi…
Statistical risk warnings in gambling
Gambling is considered a public health issue by many researchers, similarly to alcohol or obesity. Statistical risk warnings on gambling products can be considered a public health intervention that encourages safer gambling while preserving freedom of consumer choice. Statistical risk warnings may be useful to gamblers, given that net gambling losses are the primary driver of harm and that gambling products vary greatly in the degree to which the…
Associations between children’s independent mobility and physical activity
Independent outdoor play may boost children's daily physical activity levels, predominantly at light intensity. Hence, facilitating independent outdoor play could be a viable intervention strategy to enhance physical activity in children, particularly in girls. Associations between independent travel and physical activity are inconsistent overall and require further investigation
Internalized and Externalized Continuing Bonds in Bereaved Parents
Continuing bonds (CBs) expression appears especially prevalent among bereaved parents. This study examined the relationship between CBs and grief outcomes for this population. A customized CB scale for use with bereaved parents was derived from the literature. Three hundred fifty-four participants (10 male) recruited from online support groups completed an internet questionnaire. A 3-factor dimensional structure of CB (internalized, externalized,…
Reflective minds and open hearts
We examined associations between two psychological constructs, analytic cognitive style and the personality facet ‘Openness to Experience’, and several dimensions of religiosity: religious affiliation, strength of faith and spiritual epistemology. In a relatively large (N = 1093), older community sample (M = 55.4 years), analytic cognitive style was associated with a lower probability of affiliating with a religious denomination and a higher prob…
Going against the Herd
By far the most common strategy used in the attempt to modify negative attitudes toward vaccination is to appeal to evidence-based reasoning. We argue, however, that focusing on science comprehension is inconsistent with one of the key facts of cognitive psychology: Humans are biased information processors and often engage in motivated reasoning. On this basis, we hypothesised that negative attitudes can be explained primarily by factors unrelate…
Understanding gambling related harm
Fatigue in Emergency Services Operations
Under controlled laboratory conditions, neurobehavioral assays such as the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) are sensitive to increasing levels of fatigue, and in general, tend to correlate with subjective ratings. However, laboratory studies specifically curtail physical activity, potentially limiting the applicability of such findings to field settings that involve physical work. In addition, laboratory studies typically involve healthy young ma…
A tale of two countries
Identifying risky Internet use
Experiencing negative outcomes online is increasingly common, with more people active online and the continued presence of aggressive online behaviours. This study sought to uncover the underlying factor structure of negative online consequences. It investigated how experiencing negative outcomes is associated with engaging in specific online activities. Australian adult Internet users ( N = 1773, mean age = 42.5 years, 54.8% female) completed an…
An SEM Algorithm for Scale Reduction Incorporating Evaluation of Multiple Psychometric Criteria
Development and refinement of self-report measures generally involves selecting a subset of indicators from a larger set. Despite the importance of this task, methods applied to accomplish this are often idiosyncratic and ad hoc, or based on incomplete statistical criteria. We describe a structural equation modeling (SEM)-based technique, based on the standardized residual variance-covariance matrix, which subsumes multiple traditional psychometr…
An Exploratory Study of Human-Dog Co-sleeping Using Actigraphy
This exploratory study aimed to contribute to the limited research on human–animal co-sleeping by investigating the extent to which human sleep is disturbed by co-sleeping with a dog. Five female Australian dog owners and their dogs were fitted with activity monitors for seven nights. Raw activity of the dog and human for each sleep episode were matched and then compared using a time series correlation. Dog movement was a significant leading indi…
The prevention paradox applies to some but not all gambling harms
Training gamblers to re-think their gambling choices
Statistical risk warnings in gambling
Gambling is considered a public health issue by many researchers, similarly to alcohol or obesity. Statistical risk warnings on gambling products can be considered a public health intervention that encourages safer gambling while preserving freedom of consumer choice. Statistical risk warnings may be useful to gamblers, given that net gambling losses are the primary driver of harm and that gambling products vary greatly in the degree to which the…
Contrast and retroactive implicatures
The clitic =lku in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan, Australia) has been previously analyzed as a ‘change of state’ marker indicating some proposition is false at an earlier time, and true at a later time. In this paper, I examine a number of uses of =lku, which require expanding and refining the ‘change of state’ analysis, in order to argue for a new analysis of =lku as a temporal and discourse clitic. The temporal function loc…
Skin gambling predicts problematic gambling amongst adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling
The effect of gambling problems on the subjective wellbeing of gamblers’ family and friends
The identification of Australian low-risk gambling limits
Young people who purchase loot boxes are more likely to have gambling problems
Item Version of the Short Gambling Harm Screen (SGHS-18)
The SGHS-18 comprehensively measures the domains of gambling harm, while demonstrating desirable properties of internal consistency, and criterion and convergent validity
Gambling Problems Are Associated with Alcohol Misuse and Insomnia
Gambling has significant costs to the community, with a health burden similar in scale to major depression. To reduce its impact, it is necessary to understand factors that may exacerbate harm from gambling. The gambling environment of late-night licensed venues and 24/7 online gambling has the potential to negatively impact sleep and increase alcohol consumption. This study explored gambling, alcohol, and sleep problems to understand whether the…
As the Pandemic Progresses, How Does Willingness to Vaccinate against Covid-19 Evolve
Controversy around the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines may lead to low vaccination rates. Survey data were collected in April and August 2020 from a total of 2343 Australian adults. A quarter (n = 575, 24%) completed both surveys. A generalized linear mixed model analysis was conducted to determine whether willingness to vaccinate changed in the repeated sample, and a multinominal logistic regression was conducted in all participants to …
Differential Effects of Intuitive and Disordered Eating on Physical and Psychological Outcomes for Women with Young Children
On the Integration of Dative Adjuncts into Event Structures in Yapa Languages
Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia) exhibit a complex predicate construction in which a class of preverbs introduces a single argument that is not shared by the argument structure of the inflecting verb, nor is there necessarily any shared event structure. This is problematic for many theories of linking structures of complex predicates, since no arguments or events are shared between the predicative elements of the compl…
Legacy gambling harms
Validating the short gambling harm screen against external benchmarks
Psychology (45 obras) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (40 obras) · Social Psychology (35 obras) · Harm (24 obras) · Medicine (24 obras) · Psychiatry (24 obras) · Clinical Psychology (17 obras) · Public health (15 obras) · Social Psychology (15 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras)