Griffith Research Online: Recent submissions
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Adaptation processes in the context of climate change: a social and environmental psychology perspective
(Journal of Bioeconomics, 2016)An informed multidisciplinary understanding of the ways in which people experience, appraise, adapt, and respond to global climate change is a prerequisite to effectively managing the transition to a sustainable economy. ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Evidence for motivated control: Understanding the paradoxical link between threat and efficacy beliefs about climate change
(Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2015)Studies reveal that the more efficacious people feel in their ability to combat climate change, the more threatened they feel by it. This positive correlation deserves unpacking, given that classic theories position efficacy ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
When College Students Look after Themselves: Self-Care Practices and Well-Being
(Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016)Research has shown that psychological well-being is positively associated with student engagement, persistence, and performance. To learn more about the behaviors that underlie well-being, 206 (predominantly female) ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Are People High in Skepticism About Anthropogenic Climate Change Necessarily Resistant to Influence? Some Cause for Optimism
(Environment and Behavior, 2016)A sizable minority of people doubt that climate change is primarily caused by human activity (“attribution skeptics”). Consequently, it is important to examine the psychological drivers of pro-environmental intentions among ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
A Better Understanding of the Potential Conflict Between Christianity and Homosexuality
(World Applied Sciences Journal, 2011)Most organized religions including Christianity still regard homosexuality as being against their teachings, as sinful and contrary to scripture. Thus the matter of reconciling sexual orientation with religious and spiritual ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
‘This neo-natal ménage à trois’: British media framing of transnational surrogacy
(Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 2016)Background: Media framing can influence people’s perceptions of social changes in family building, and has the potential to influence their future actions. Objectives: to analyse the type of framing and construction used ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
The impact of Professional Boundaries for Health Professionals (PBHP) training on knowledge, comfort, experience, and ethical decision-making: a longitudinal randomized controlled trial
(Disability and Rehabilitation, 2016)Purpose: A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the impact of Professional Boundaries for Health Professionals (PBHP) training program on the knowledge, comfort, experience, and ethical decision-making of ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
A Report on the Use of Open Access Podcasting in the Promotion of Social Work
(Australian Social Work, 2015)Open access podcasting or podcasts on the internet on specific disciplinary topics are gaining prominence but are not well researched. This paper explores the usefulness of a new podcast series for social workers freely ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Moral outrage: social workers in the Third Space
(Ethics and Social Welfare, 2016)Injustice is at odds with social work's mandate to promote social justice, human rights and ethical responsibility. In nations such as the UK, Australia and the USA, ideologies of the far right exert strong influences on ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Comparative credit risk in Islamic and conventional bank
(Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2015)In this paper, we consider the levels of credit risk in Islamic and conventional banks. One problem with existing studies is the use of accounting information alone to assess credit risk, and this could be especially ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Increasing rates of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in young Australians, 2000-2015
(Medical Journal of Australia, 2018)Objectives: To investigate the incidence and demographic features of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions in Australia by age and sex, and to determine whether the incidence has changed during the past 15 ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Desistance and the rise of rehabilitation
(Sexual Offending: A Criminological Perspective, 2018)The age-crime curve, dating from the early 19th century, has been described as the most robust finding in criminology. It has long been used to describe desistance from general crime over the life span. It is conceptualized ...BOOK CHAPTER -
The Potential Role of Housing Equity in a Looming Baby Boomer Retirement Cash-flow Crisis: An Australian Perspective
(Housing, Theory and Society, 2015)With Australia’s 5.5 million “baby boomer” generation and tens of millions of others around the world now transitioning into retirement, government and community resources for the developed world’s rapidly ageing populations ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Estimating the effects of global oil market shocks on Australian merchandise trade
(Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016)In this paper, we examine the dynamic responses of Australian merchandise trade to global oil market structural shocks. The analysis employs monthly data over the period June 1986 to January 2013 and vector generalized ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Scale and scope economies of distance education in Australian universities
(Studies in Higher Education, 2016)Despite compelling qualitative arguments for scale and scope economies in university-level distance education, as distinct from traditional class-based face-to-face instruction, there is little rigorous quantitative evidence ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Examination into the effects of job satisfaction on salesperson deviance: The moderating role of customer orientation
(Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2016)Salesperson deviance represents a significant cost to organizations throughout the world. This paper addresses a gap in the literature by examining all three dimensions of salesperson deviance (i.e., organizational deviance, ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Differential moderating effects of student- and parent-rated support in the relationship between learning goal orientation and career decision-making self-efficacy
(Journal of Career Assessment, 2012)Guided by the social cognitive career and cognitive evaluation theories, the authors theorize and test differential predictions regarding the moderating role of student- and parent-rated support when considering the influence ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Change readiness: A multilevel review
(Journal of Management, 2013)The authors conducted a theoretical review of the change readiness literature and identified two major limitations with this work. First, while there is substantial agreement about the key cognitions that underlie change ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
The influence of abusive supervisors on followers' organizational citizenship behaviours: The hidden costs of abusive supervision
(British Journal of Management, 2011)In this paper, we identified an expanded array of mediators including interactional justice, organizational‐based self‐esteem, and the meaning of work, which link abusive supervision to two organizational citizenship ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Why Do Employees' Perceptions of their Organization's Change History Matter? The Role of Change Appraisals
(Human Resource Management, 2017)In this article, we identify employees’ change history in an organization as a key antecedent of their appraisals about organizational change (i.e., threat, harm, and challenge). We argue that these change appraisals are ...JOURNAL ARTICLE