Stephen Gallagher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3777582 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Gallagher |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Gallagher |
| ASSINATURA | GALLAGHER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5471-7774 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Local Community Identification Improves Wellbeing by Reducing Loneliness
Applying social emotional learning across secondary school transition
The transition into secondary/middle school can diverge adolescents into positive and negative developmental trajectories. Social emotional learning (SEL) programs can improve social-emotional skills and psychological well-being (PWB). However, there has been little examination of the potential utility of SEL programs across secondary school transition, and whether their effectiveness varies by the socioeconomic status of the school (SES), COVID-…
Support needs of east Asian migrant family carers in a host country
Purpose This paper aims to examine the characteristics, key concepts and themes surrounding the support needs of East Asian Migrant family carers in a host country. Design/methodology/approach A systematic scoping review was conducted across five databases: CINAHL, PsycINFO, Scopus, MEDLINE and Web of Science, between 2012 and 2023, adhering to the Joanna Briggs Institute and PRISMA-ScR reporting frameworks. Findings In all, 26 primary studies me…
Negative religious coping is associated with blunted cardiovascular reactivity and higher self-reported stress in response to acute psychological stress
Objective: Negative religious coping is associated with adverse mental health and well-being. However, the majority of research focuses on general life stress; few studies have examined negative religious coping in response to a standardized acute psychological stressor. The present study examined the relationship between negative religious coping and physiological and psychological responses to acute stress. Methods: Young adults (N = 81, Mage =…
Personality and mortality risk
Personality traits have long been deemed to be an important driver of longevity; however, a large volume of evidence remains divergent across traits, populations, and contexts. This preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis brings together longitudinal data (158 effect sizes) exploring five personality trait associations with mortality risk from 569,859 people, representing 5,997,667 person-years, 43,851 deaths, and four continents. Univa…
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Young Adult Carers Relative to Non-carer Peers and Relations with Mental Health, Caregiving and Socio-demographics
Young adult carers (YACs) report poorer mental health than their peers. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) constitute a mental health risk factor. Prior quantitative research has not investigated ACEs in YACs. Hence, this study explores ACEs in YACs and aims to: (1) compare ACEs in two groups of YACs (chronically ill parent and chronically ill non-parent family member contexts) with non-carer peers; (2) examine relations between caregiving and …
A quantitative study of social identity, social support and perceived stress in online support groups for family caregivers
Online support groups (OSGs) may help reduce family caregiver stress, but the psychosocial pathways remain unclear. Using social identity theory, this study examined the relationships between social identity, social support and perceived stress. It was hypothesised that non-OSG members would report lower social support and higher stress than OSG members, with social support mediating the relationship between social identity and stress. A cross-se…
Using a Respondent-Type Matching-to-Sample Exclusion Training Procedure to Establish Equivalence Responding
An exclusion training procedure involves presenting a sample stimulus with an unrelated comparison stimulus that is presented alongside other comparison stimuli that previously have acquired a negative relation to the sample stimulus. Due to the already established negative comparisons, the participant selects the unrelated stimulus, establishing a relation between the two stimuli. Of the large body of research on exclusion, there has been no res…
Interactions Between Caregiving and Sex and the Antibody Response to Covid-19 Vaccination
OBJECTIVE: Antibody response to vaccination is a powerful paradigm for studying the effects of chronic stress on immune function. In the present study, we used this paradigm to examine the interaction between caregiving (as a type of chronic stress) and sex on the antibody response to a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccination; recent research has called for examination of sex differences on health outcomes among family caregivers. A three-way inter…
Predictors of depression in young carers
Caregiving in adolescence, specifically when directed towards a parent, is associated with increased depression. This study examines whether young carers caring for their parents are more likely to be depressed than those caring for other family members and non-caring youth. Using data from two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland study (N = 3,312), the above associations were examined cross-sectionally (Aged 17; T1), and longitudinally (Aged 20; T…
Type D personality is associated with lower cardiovascular reactivity to stress in women
OBJECTIVE: This study examines if Type D personality is (1) associated with cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress in a healthy sample, and (2) has predictive utility for cardiovascular reactivity above its individual subcomponents (negative affect; NA, social inhibition; SI), as well as anxiety and depression. DESIGN: = 173) competed a standardised cardiovascular reactivity experimental protocol consisting of resting baseline and stressor pha…
The Respondent-Type Matching-to-Sample Procedure
Stimulus equivalence research is dominated by operant conditioning procedures that require the active responding of a participant to establish relations between arbitrary stimuli. In comparison, there has been relatively little research using respondent-type procedures, which only require the participant to view relations that appear on screen. This presentation describes two experiments using a respondent-type matching-to-sample procedure to exa…
Early Life Adversity and Blunted Cardiovascular Reactivity to Acute Psychological Stress
OBJECTIVE: The pathways underlying the early life adversity and cardiovascular reactivity association remain unclear. The current study examined the role of current depressive symptoms on this relationship. METHODS: Mediation analyses were conducted using data from 639 participants drawn from the Midlife Development in the United States 2 Biomarker Project. Responses were derived from the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and Center for Epidemiologi…
A review of support tools to assess multi-sector interactions in the emerging offshore Blue Economy
Multiple ocean sectors compete for space and resources, creating conflicts but also opportunities to plan for synergistic outcomes that benefit multiple sectors. Planning and management are increasingly informed by qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing multi-sector interactions to identify trade-offs and synergies among sectors and with the environment, but there is a need to critically review the alignment of these tools with the re…
Positive Traits Inventory
The aim of this paper was generating a short form of the Positive Traits Inventory (PTI-5-SF) by means of three consecutive studies, using a cross-sectional design. The first study tested the psychometric properties of the shorter version of PTI-5. Results showed that a 25-item scale was appropriate to capture the five positive traits of the Positive Personality Model (PPM). In the secondstudy, the PTI-5-SF was used to replicate the analyses of P…
State level income inequality affects cardiovascular stress responses
RATIONALE: The slow and insidious effects of income inequality on health means that their effects can be difficult to reveal, taking many years to become apparent. These effects can also be experienced differently according to subjective status and ethnicity making the relation between income inequality and health difficult to understand. Cardiovascular reactions to acute stress are indicative of future health outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To examine whet…
Life satisfaction, social participation and symptoms of depression in young adult carers
This study aims to examine whether the association between life satisfaction and depressive symptoms in young carers was moderated by social \nparticipation. Cross-sectional data were extracted from the 7th wave of the \nEuropean Social Survey. Our sample included 673 young carers and 1606 \nnon-carers (aged 14–18 years) drawn from 21 participating countries who \ncompleted measures of life satisfaction, social participation and depression sympto…
Social support imbalance and depressive symptoms in young adolescents
This study examined associations between receiving and giving support, and their imbalance on depression symptoms in adolescents. Our sample included 2,111 young adolescents drawn from 6th Wave European Social Survey who completed measures of social support and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D). A hierarchical linear regression demonstrated that both receiving and giving social support were associated with a 51% and 34% redu…
Juggling with theory, evidence, practice, and real-world circumstances
Despite well-known benefits of physical activity, in Ireland only 38 % of older adults are sufficiently active. Behavioural interventions are rarely developed systematically and, when reported, inadequate description often becomes a barrier for subsequent replication and scalability. In this article, we describe the development and characteristics of Move for Life, an intervention to reach and help inactive adults aged 50 years and older increase…
The Effects of Social Labels on the Allocation of Resources to Equivalent Stimuli
The studies reported here examine how participants distribute resources to arbitrary stimuli in an equivalence class after one stimulus is given a social label. In Experiment 1, two 3-member equivalence classes were established with nonsense syllables (Class 1: A1 (ZID), B1 (YIM), C1 (FAP) and Class 2: A2 (VEK), B2 (RIX), C2 (KUD)) using matching-to-sample training. A social function was then assigned to B1 only, using the simple verbal statement…
Making the leap and finding your feet
University poses unique challenges surrounding disclosure for students living with type 1 diabetes, with implications for social support and self-management. Semi-structured interviews with students and peer interviewers living with type 1 diabetes explored university experiences of disclosure and social support. Thematic analysis identified three major themes: disclosure as a measured process, the need for lived experience for true understanding…
Loneliness, Living Alone, and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: The aims of the study were to examine the predictive value of social and emotional loneliness for all-cause mortality in the oldest-old who do and do not live alone and to test whether these varied by functional status and personality. METHODS: Participants were 413 older adults from the Berlin Aging Study (M [SD] = 84.53 [8.61] years of age) who either lived alone (n = 253) or did not live alone (n = 160). Significance values for haza…
Parents’ concerns about future pregnancy after stillbirth
OBJECTIVES: As stillbirth has a devastating impact, it is imperative to understand the importance of clinical and emotional care after stillbirth and how it influences subsequent pregnancies. The aim of the study was to gain insight into the consideration and planning of a subsequent pregnancy by parents in the weeks following stillbirth. DESIGN: A qualitative semi-structured interview format was utilized. Interpretative phenomenological analysis…
It might hurt, but still it's good
Many people who have rheumatoid arthritis report low levels of physical activity. We conducted 17 interviews with people who have rheumatoid arthritis to gain insight into how they view physical activity and to explore how their levels of activity may be increased. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Four main themes were generated: being active, barriers and facilitators, information and advice, and support…
Social support mediates the association between benefit finding and quality of life in caregivers
The psychosocial pathways underlying associations between benefit finding and quality of life are poorly understood. Here, we examined associations between benefit finding, social support, optimism and quality of life in a sample of 84 caregivers. Results revealed that quality of life was predicted by benefit finding, optimism and social support. Moreover, the association between benefit finding and quality of life was explained by social support…
The association between stress and physical health in parents caring for children with intellectual disabilities is moderated by children's challenging behaviours
The present study examined the moderating role of social support and challenging behaviour on the stress-physical health relationship in parents caring for children with intellectual disabilities. Parents of children with intellectual disabilities ( n = 70) reported more physical health problems compared to control parents ( n = 45) and were more likely to visit their general practitioner. Furthermore, challenging behaviours, but not social suppo…
Social support mediates the association between benefit finding and quality of life in caregivers
The psychosocial pathways underlying associations between benefit finding and quality of life are poorly understood. Here, we examined associations between benefit finding, social support, optimism and quality of life in a sample of 84 caregivers. Results revealed that quality of life was predicted by benefit finding, optimism and social support. Moreover, the association between benefit finding and quality of life was explained by social support…
Happy but unhealthy
Social connections are essential to health and well‐being. However, when pursing social acceptance, people may sometimes engage in behavior that is detrimental to their health. Using a multi‐time‐point design, we examined whether the structure of an emerging network of students in an academic summer school program correlated with their physical health and mental well‐being. Participants who were more central in the network typically experienced g…
Making the leap and finding your feet
University poses unique challenges surrounding disclosure for students living with type 1 diabetes, with implications for social support and self-management. Semi-structured interviews with students and peer interviewers living with type 1 diabetes explored university experiences of disclosure and social support. Thematic analysis identified three major themes: disclosure as a measured process, the need for lived experience for true understanding…
How Does Bereavement Get Under the Skin? The Effects of Late-Life Spousal Loss on Cortisol Levels
Our findings reveal that stressful life events are associated with stress-related neuroendocrine reactions for longer durations than researchers have previously documented. The specific death-related stressor affecting cortisol varies by gender. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Soft and fluffy
Psychology is viewed by medical students in a negative light. In order to understand this phenomenon, we interviewed 19 medical students about their experiences of psychology in medical education. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Four main themes were generated: attitudes, teaching culture, curriculum factors and future career path; negative attitudes were transmitted by teachers to students and psycholog…
Experiences of adolescent participation in a four-week community-based workshop designed to improve psychosocial skills
The present study sought to explore the experiences of young adolescents who participated in a community-based workshop designed to improve psychosocial competence. The workshop involved fourteen adolescent children aged between 10 and 14, who lived in socially disadvantaged areas of Liverpool, UK. Focus groups were employed to assess whether participation in Skills for the Street workshops improved adolescents psychosocial functioning and person…
Jessica Lynch, Simulacrum
You'd have to be really ***king dumb to get lost on that road. —unnamed Florida National Guardsman on duty in Iraq, expressing astonishment that Pfc. Jennifer Lynch and her team got lost and taken
Towards a Common European Asylum System
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, A FORMER PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, once said that all countries have a threshold of tolerance (seuil de tolerance) when it comes to the number of foreigners in their midst.(1) Europe as a whole has long surpassed its limit. In each of the countries of the European Union (EU) there is simply no desire to welcome more foreigners as permanent residents, regardless of the reason for their arrival. Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's announc…
Jessica Lynch, Simulacrum
You'd have to be really ***king dumb to get lost on that road. —unnamed Florida National Guardsman on duty in Iraq, expressing astonishment that Pfc. Jennifer Lynch and her team got lost and taken
The American Prison, Open for Business
The United States is obsessed with imprisoning human beings. While the world focuses its attention on Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and the nameless black sites around the world, the real news is Statesi
Caregiving for Children With Developmental Disabilities Is Associated With a Poor Antibody Response to Influenza Vaccination
OBJECTIVE: Older spousal caregivers of dementia patients have been found to show a relatively poor antibody response to medical vaccination. In the present case control study in a different caregiving environment, we sought to compare antibody responses to vaccination in parents of children with disabilities and parents of typically developing children. METHODS: At baseline assessment, 32 parents of children with developmental disabilities and 29…
Experiences of adolescent participation in a four-week community-based workshop designed to improve psychosocial skills
The present study sought to explore the experiences of young adolescents who participated in a community-based workshop designed to improve psychosocial competence. The workshop involved fourteen adolescent children aged between 10 and 14, who lived in socially disadvantaged areas of Liverpool, UK. Focus groups were employed to assess whether participation in Skills for the Street workshops improved adolescents psychosocial functioning and person…
How Does Bereavement Get Under the Skin? The Effects of Late-Life Spousal Loss on Cortisol Levels
Our findings reveal that stressful life events are associated with stress-related neuroendocrine reactions for longer durations than researchers have previously documented. The specific death-related stressor affecting cortisol varies by gender. Implications for research and practice are discussed
The association between stress and physical health in parents caring for children with intellectual disabilities is moderated by children's challenging behaviours
The present study examined the moderating role of social support and challenging behaviour on the stress-physical health relationship in parents caring for children with intellectual disabilities. Parents of children with intellectual disabilities ( n = 70) reported more physical health problems compared to control parents ( n = 45) and were more likely to visit their general practitioner. Furthermore, challenging behaviours, but not social suppo…
Happy but unhealthy
Social connections are essential to health and well‐being. However, when pursing social acceptance, people may sometimes engage in behavior that is detrimental to their health. Using a multi‐time‐point design, we examined whether the structure of an emerging network of students in an academic summer school program correlated with their physical health and mental well‐being. Participants who were more central in the network typically experienced g…
The Association Between Spirituality and Depression in Parents Caring for Children with Developmental Disabilities
Parental decision making around perinatal autopsy
BACKGROUND: Decades of decline in uptake rates of perinatal autopsies has limited investigation into the causes and risk factors for stillbirth. AIMS: This study aimed to qualitatively explore perinatal autopsy decision-making processes in parents who experienced antepartum and intrapartum stillbirths. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A qualitative semi-structured interview format was utilized. The line of questioning centred on how parents came to decide o…
A Cluster Analysis of Reported Sleeping Patterns of 9-Month Old Infants and the Association with Maternal Health
Psychological Sciences Table of Content
Soft and fluffy
Psychology is viewed by medical students in a negative light. In order to understand this phenomenon, we interviewed 19 medical students about their experiences of psychology in medical education. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Four main themes were generated: attitudes, teaching culture, curriculum factors and future career path; negative attitudes were transmitted by teachers to students and psycholog…
Social support mediates the association between benefit finding and quality of life in caregivers
The psychosocial pathways underlying associations between benefit finding and quality of life are poorly understood. Here, we examined associations between benefit finding, social support, optimism and quality of life in a sample of 84 caregivers. Results revealed that quality of life was predicted by benefit finding, optimism and social support. Moreover, the association between benefit finding and quality of life was explained by social support…
Parents’ concerns about future pregnancy after stillbirth
OBJECTIVES: As stillbirth has a devastating impact, it is imperative to understand the importance of clinical and emotional care after stillbirth and how it influences subsequent pregnancies. The aim of the study was to gain insight into the consideration and planning of a subsequent pregnancy by parents in the weeks following stillbirth. DESIGN: A qualitative semi-structured interview format was utilized. Interpretative phenomenological analysis…
It might hurt, but still it's good
Many people who have rheumatoid arthritis report low levels of physical activity. We conducted 17 interviews with people who have rheumatoid arthritis to gain insight into how they view physical activity and to explore how their levels of activity may be increased. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Four main themes were generated: being active, barriers and facilitators, information and advice, and support…
Loneliness, Living Alone, and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: The aims of the study were to examine the predictive value of social and emotional loneliness for all-cause mortality in the oldest-old who do and do not live alone and to test whether these varied by functional status and personality. METHODS: Participants were 413 older adults from the Berlin Aging Study (M [SD] = 84.53 [8.61] years of age) who either lived alone (n = 253) or did not live alone (n = 160). Significance values for haza…
Juggling with theory, evidence, practice, and real-world circumstances
Despite well-known benefits of physical activity, in Ireland only 38 % of older adults are sufficiently active. Behavioural interventions are rarely developed systematically and, when reported, inadequate description often becomes a barrier for subsequent replication and scalability. In this article, we describe the development and characteristics of Move for Life, an intervention to reach and help inactive adults aged 50 years and older increase…
The Effects of Social Labels on the Allocation of Resources to Equivalent Stimuli
The studies reported here examine how participants distribute resources to arbitrary stimuli in an equivalence class after one stimulus is given a social label. In Experiment 1, two 3-member equivalence classes were established with nonsense syllables (Class 1: A1 (ZID), B1 (YIM), C1 (FAP) and Class 2: A2 (VEK), B2 (RIX), C2 (KUD)) using matching-to-sample training. A social function was then assigned to B1 only, using the simple verbal statement…
Making the leap and finding your feet
University poses unique challenges surrounding disclosure for students living with type 1 diabetes, with implications for social support and self-management. Semi-structured interviews with students and peer interviewers living with type 1 diabetes explored university experiences of disclosure and social support. Thematic analysis identified three major themes: disclosure as a measured process, the need for lived experience for true understanding…
Early Life Adversity and Blunted Cardiovascular Reactivity to Acute Psychological Stress
OBJECTIVE: The pathways underlying the early life adversity and cardiovascular reactivity association remain unclear. The current study examined the role of current depressive symptoms on this relationship. METHODS: Mediation analyses were conducted using data from 639 participants drawn from the Midlife Development in the United States 2 Biomarker Project. Responses were derived from the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and Center for Epidemiologi…
A review of support tools to assess multi-sector interactions in the emerging offshore Blue Economy
Multiple ocean sectors compete for space and resources, creating conflicts but also opportunities to plan for synergistic outcomes that benefit multiple sectors. Planning and management are increasingly informed by qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing multi-sector interactions to identify trade-offs and synergies among sectors and with the environment, but there is a need to critically review the alignment of these tools with the re…
Positive Traits Inventory
The aim of this paper was generating a short form of the Positive Traits Inventory (PTI-5-SF) by means of three consecutive studies, using a cross-sectional design. The first study tested the psychometric properties of the shorter version of PTI-5. Results showed that a 25-item scale was appropriate to capture the five positive traits of the Positive Personality Model (PPM). In the secondstudy, the PTI-5-SF was used to replicate the analyses of P…
State level income inequality affects cardiovascular stress responses
RATIONALE: The slow and insidious effects of income inequality on health means that their effects can be difficult to reveal, taking many years to become apparent. These effects can also be experienced differently according to subjective status and ethnicity making the relation between income inequality and health difficult to understand. Cardiovascular reactions to acute stress are indicative of future health outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To examine whet…
Life satisfaction, social participation and symptoms of depression in young adult carers
This study aims to examine whether the association between life satisfaction and depressive symptoms in young carers was moderated by social \nparticipation. Cross-sectional data were extracted from the 7th wave of the \nEuropean Social Survey. Our sample included 673 young carers and 1606 \nnon-carers (aged 14–18 years) drawn from 21 participating countries who \ncompleted measures of life satisfaction, social participation and depression sympto…
Psychology (26 obras) · Medicine (20 obras) · Developmental psychology (12 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Social support (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras)