The University of Wollongong Faculty of Social Sciences was formed in 2013 following an organisational restructure. It was dissolved on 1 July 2020 and incorporated in the new Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2013 it comprised an amalgamation of the former Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences. Related series: Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive); Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive).

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Papers from 2012

Are cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity independently associated to overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity in elderly?, Diana A. Santos, Analiza M. Silva, Fatima Baptista, Rute Santos, Luis A. Gobbo, Jorge Mota, and Luis B. Sardinha

Sedentary behavior and physical activity are independently related to functional fitness in older adults, Diana A. Santos, Analiza M. Silva, Fatima Baptista, Rute Santos, Susana Vale, Jorge Mota, and Luis B. Sardinha

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Reference curves for BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio for Azorean adolescents (Portugal), Rute Santos, Carla Moreira, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Susana Vale, Luisa Soares-Miranda, Pedro Moreira, Luis Lopes, Ana I. Marques, Antonio Oliveira-Tavares, Paula Clara Santos, Sandra Abreu, Manuel J. Coelho-E-Silva, and Jorge Mota

The combined influence of sedentary behavior and physical activity on cardiorespiratory fitness, Rute Santos, Micheal Pratt, Anthony D. Okely, Jorge Mota, Carla Moreira, Manuel J. Coelho-E-Silva, Susana Vale, and Luis B. Sardinha

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Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity in a representative sample of Portuguese adults, Luis B. Sardinha, Diana A. Santos, Analiza M. Silva, Manuel J. Coelho-E-Silva, Armando M. M. Raimundo, Helena Moreira, Rute Santos, Susana Vale, Fatima Baptista, and Jorge Mota

Waist circumference percentiles for Portuguese children and adolescents aged 10 to 18 years, Luis B. Sardinha, Rute Santos, Susana Vale, Manuel J. Coelho-E-Silva, Armando M. M. Raimundo, Helena Moreira, Fatima Baptista, and Jorge Mota

Complementary medicine, self-help, and lifestyle interventions for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the OCD spectrum: a systematic review, Jerome Sarris, David A. Camfield, and Michael Berk

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Participant experiences from chronic administration of a multivitamin versus placebo on subjective health and wellbeing: a double-blind qualitative analysis of a randomised controlled trial, Jerome Sarris, Katherine H M Cox, David A. Camfield, Andrew Scholey, Con Stough, Erin Fogg, Marni Kras, David J. White, Avni Sali, and Andrew Pipingas

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Complementary medicine, exercise, meditation, diet, and lifestyle modification for anxiety disorders: a review of current evidence, J Sarris, S Moylan, David Camfield, M P. Pase, D Mischoulon, M Berk, F N. Jacka, and I Schweitzer

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How do dentists understand evidence and adopt it in practice?, Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy M. Carter, and R Wendell Evans

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Experiences of dental care: what do patients value?, Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy M. Carter, R Wendell Evans, and Anthony Blinkhorn

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The human foveal confluence and high resolution fMRI, Mark M. Schira

Brain mapping: The (un)folding of striate cortex, M M. Schira, C W. Tyler, and M G.P Rosa

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How feasible are lifestyle modification programs for disease prevention in general practice?, Heike Schutze, Elizabeth F. Rix, Rachel A. Laws, Megan Passey, Mahnaz Fanaian, and Mark F. Harris

Bang and bust: almost everything you wanted to know about sex and the mining boom (but were afraid to ask), John Scott, Catherine L. Mac Phail, and Victor Minichiello

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Selective imitation in 6-month-olds: the role of the social and physical context, Sabine Seehagen and Jane S. Herbert

Boyfriends, babies and basketball: present lives and future aspirations of young women in a remote Australian Aboriginal community, Kate Senior and Richard D. Chenhall

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Developing successful diversionary schemes for youth from remote Aboriginal communities, Kate Senior, William Ivory, Richard D. Chenhall, Teresa Cunningham, Tricia Nagel, Robbie Lloyd, and Rachel McMahon

Improved processing speed: online computer-based cognitive training in older adults, Tamara Simpson, David Camfield, Andrew Pipingas, Helen Macpherson, and Con Stough

Gettting on with each other: PBL group dynamics and function, Vicki Skinner, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, and Tracey J. Winning

High levels of C-reactive protein are associated with reduced vagal modulation and low physical activity in young adults, Luisa Soares-Miranda, C E. Negrao, L M. Antunes-Correa, T S. Nobre, Pedro Silva, Rute Santos, Susana Vale, and Jorge Mota

Metabolic syndrome, physical activity and cardiac autonomic function, Luisa Soares-Miranda, Gavin Sandercock, Susana Vale, Rute Santos, Sandra Abreu, Carla Moreira, and Jorge Mota

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Does cannabis cause lasting brain damage?, Nadia Solowij, Murat Yucel, Valentina Lorenzetti, and Dan Lubman

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Voices in the playground: A qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators of lunchtime play, Rebecca M. Stanley, Kobie Boshoff, and James Dollman

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Correlates of children's time-specific physical activity: A review of the literature, Rebecca M. Stanley, Kate Ridley, and James Dollman

Investigating resilience in breast cancer: a mixed-methods approach, Natalie Stefanic, Peter Caputi, Donald C. Iverson, Lisbeth G. Lane, and Lindsay G. Oades

Target-to-target interval influences a range of erp components, Genevieve Steiner, Craig J. Gonsalvez, Robert J. Barry, Frances M. De Blasio, and Michelle Brennan

Implementing workplace health promotion initiatives: who should we target?, Alexis B. St George, Lesley King, Robyn Newson, Venessa L. Wells, and Mireille Campbell

The effects of 90-day supplementation with the Omega-3 essential fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on cognitive function and visual acuity in a healthy aging population, Con Stough, Luke Downey, Beata Silber, Jenny Lloyd, C Kure, Keith Wesnes, and David Camfield

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A randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of Pycnogenol and Bacopa CDRI08 herbal medicines on cognitive, cardiovascular, and biochemical functioning in cognitively healthy elderly people: the Australian Research Council Longevity Intervention (ARCLI) study protocol (ANZCTR12611000487910), Con K. Stough, Matthew P. Pase, Vanessa Cropley, Stephen P. Myers, Karen Nolidin, Rebecca King, David Camfield, Keith Wesnes, Andrew Pipingas, Kevin Croft, Dennis Chang, and Andrew Scholey

A measure of spiritual sensitivity for children, Gerard J. Stoyles, B Stanford, Peter Caputi, A L. Keating, and B Hyde

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Clinical speech to text: Evaluation setting, Hanna Suominen, Jim Basilakis, Maree Johnson, Linda Dawson, Lief Hanlen, Barbara Kelly, Anthony Yeo, and Paula Sanchez

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The health and development of children born to older mothers in the United Kingdom: observational study using longitudinal cohort data, Alastair G. Sutcliffe, Jacqueline Barnes, Jay Belsky, Julian Gardiner, and Edward Melhuish

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A systematic review of the experience, occurrence, and controllability of flow states in elite sport, Christian F. Swann, Richard J. Keegan, David Piggott, and Lee Crust

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Exploring flow occurrence in elite golf, Christian F. Swann, Richard J. Keegan, David Piggott, Lee Crust, and Mark F. Smith

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Final report from the Key Stage 3 phase: Influences on students' development from age 11-14, Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, and Brenda Taggart

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O poder da pre-escola: evidencias de um estudo longitudinal na Inglaterra, Brenda Taggart, Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, Pam Sammons, and Iram Siraj-Blatchford

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A Critical Appraisal of Responses to Maori Offending, Juan M. Tauri and Robert Webb

Exploring patterns of visual attention during learning, Gemma Taylor and Jane S. Herbert

Community and health sector partnerships for primary prevention in Australia: Developing a typology, Judy Taylor, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, Margaret Cargo, and Sarah Larkins

Conceptualisation of gambling risks and benefits: A socio-cultural study of 100 Victorian gamblers, Samantha Thomas and Sophie Lewis

Sports betting marketing during sporting events: a stadium and broadcast census of Australian Football League matches, Samantha L. Thomas, Sophie Lewis, Jenny Duong, and Colin McLeod

'They are working every angle'. A qualitative study of Australian adults' attitudes towards, and interactions with, gambling industry marketing strategies, Samantha L. Thomas, Sophie Lewis, Colin McLeod, and John Haycock

Assertive but not hostile: effective use of limit setting and de-escalation in police encounters with people who are emotionally distressed, S Thomas and D Kesic

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Canadian directive with regard to sedentary behavior in young infants (0-4 years), Mark S. Tremblay, Allana G. LeBlanc, Valerie Carson, Louise Choquette, Sarah Conor Gorber, Carrie Dillman, Mary Duggan, Mary J. Gordon, Audrey Hicks, Ian Janssen, Michelle E. Kho, Amy E. Latimer-Cheung, Claire LeBlanc, Kelly Murumets, Anthony D. Okely, John Reilly, Jodie A. Stearns, Brian W. Timmons, and John C. Spence

Self-perceptions of age and illness in older Australian adults, Louise Turner, Peter Caputi, Craig J. Gonsalvez, and Donald C. Iverson

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Patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in preschool children, Eveline Van Cauwenberghe, Rachel A. Jones, Trina Hinkley, David Crawford, and Anthony D. Okely

Involvement of the endocannabinoid system in reward processing in the human brain, Hendrika H. van Hell, Gerry Jager, Matthijs G. Bossong, Annelies Brouwer, J Martijn Jansma, Lineke Zuurman, Joop M. A Van Gerven, Rene S. Kahn, and Nick F. Ramsey

'I don't think I'm a boy!' Social understanding and giftedness in preschoolers, Wilma Vialle

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The role of school counsellors in fostering giftedness: The Australian experience., Wilma Vialle

Gifted, talented, or educationally disadvantaged? The case for including 'giftedness' in teacher education programs, Wilma Vialle and Karen Rogers

Using constructivist-oriented content analysis scales, Linda L. Viney and Peter Caputi

Qualitative methods in personal construct research: A set of possible criteria, Linda L. Viney and Sue Nagy

Queer perspectives on tourism geographies, Gordon R. Waitt

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Occupational therapy discharge planning for older adults: A protocol for a randomised trial and economic evaluation, Kylie Wales, Lindy Clemson, Natasha A. Lannin, Ian D. Cameron, Glenn P. Salkeld, Laura Gitlin, Laurance Rubenstein, Sarah Barras, Lynette Mackenzie, and Collette Davies

The use of laddering: Techniques, applications and problems, Beverly M. Walker and Nadia Crittenden

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Weight change in control group participants in behavioural weight loss interventions: a systematic review and meta-regression study, Lauren Waters, Alexis B. St George, Tien Chey, and Adrian E. Bauman

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The ASTUTE Health study protocol: deliberative stakeholder engagements to inform implementation approaches to healthcare disinvestment, Amber M. Watt, Janet E. Hiller, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, John R. Moss, Heather Buchan, Janet Wale, Dagmara E. Riitano, Katherine Hodgetts, Jackie M. Street, and Adam Elshaug

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Violence in West Papua: the vulnerable become Indonesia's latest target, Camellia B. Webb-Gannon

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Creative unit and lesson planning through a thematic/integrated approach to Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU), Paul I. Webb and Philip J. Pearson

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High incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer: similarity for 60% of mitochondrial DNA signatures between the Bidayuhs of Borneo and the Bai-yue of Southern China, Joseph Tien Seng Wee, Tam C. Ha, Susan Loong, and Chao-Nan Qian

Dimensions of anxiety sensitivity in the anxiety disorders: Evaluation of the ASI-3, Michael G. Wheaton, Brett J. Deacon, Patrick B. McGrath, Noah C. Berman, and Jonathan S. Abramowitz

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Psychological Adjustment after Traumatic Brain Injury: Reporting the Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial, Diane L. Whiting, Grahame K. Simpson, Hamish J. Mcleod, Frank P. Deane, and Joseph Ciarrochi

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Frequency of smoking cessation interventions from health care providers in Minnesota, Megan N. Whittet, Raymond G. Boyle, Jeong Kyu Lee, Ann W.St Claire, Joanne D'Silva, Peter Rode, and Ann M. Kinney

Measures of the recovery orientation of mental health services: systematic review, J. Patrick Williams, M Leamy, V Bird, Carol A. Harding, Joshua Larsen, C Le Boutillier, Lindsay G. Oades, and Mike Slade

Ways with words: teacher's personal epistemologies of the role of metalanguage in the teaching of poetry writing, A Wilson and Debra Myhill

How do people with chronic kidney disease value cancer-related quality of life?, Germaine Wong, Kirsten Howard, Jeremy Chapman, Carol Pollock, Steven Chadban, Glenn P. Salkeld, Allison Tong, Narelle Williams, Angela Webster, and Jonathan Craig

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Places to play outdoors: Sedentary and safe or active and risky?, Shirley Wyver, Paul Tranter, Ellen Sandseter, Geraldine A. Naughton, Helen Little, Anita C. Bundy, Jo Ragen, and Lina Engelen

How to better inform the decision making about universal influenza vaccination in children, Jiehui Yin, Glenn P. Salkeld, Leon Heron, and Robert Booy

Diagnosis of self-regulated learning profiles, Albert Ziegler, Heidrun Stoeger, Wilma Vialle, and Bastian Wimmer

Papers from 2011

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Validity and reliability of farsi version of Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire (CMDQ), H Afifehzadeh-Kashani, A Choobineh, Shahnaz Bakand, M R. Gohari, H Abbastabar, and P Moshtaghi

Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness in children and adolescents with physical activity, active commuting to school, and screen time, Luisa Aires, Michael Pratt, Felipe Lobelo, Rute Santos, Maria Paula Santos, and Jorge Mota

An investigation of the five-factor model of personality and coping behaviour in sport, Mark S. Allen, Iain Greenlees, and Marc V. Jones

Are the causes assigned to unsatisfactory performance related to the intensity of emotions experienced after competition?, Mark S. Allen, Marc V. Jones, and David Sheffield

The influence of child, family, home factors and pre-school education on the identification of special educational needs at age 10, Yvonne Anders, Pam Sammons, Brenda Taggart, Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, and Iram Siraj-Blatchford

Reply to Trauer, Retta Andresen, Lindsay Oades, and Peter Caputi

Fostering communities of learning in two Portuguese pre-school classrooms applying the Movimento da Escola Moderna (MEM) pedagogy, Maria Assuncao Folque and Iram Siraj-Blatchford

Does geographic access to primary healthcare influence the detection of hepatitis C?, Thomas E. Astell-Burt, Robin Flowerdew, Paul J. Boyle, and John F. Dillon

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Ethnic differences in adolescent mental health trajectories and the influence of racism and context: the Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health (DASH) study, Thomas E. Astell-Burt, Maria J. Maynard, Erik Lenguerrand, and Seeromanie Harding

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Cell viability and cytokine production of human alveolar epithelial cells following exposure to sulphur dioxide, Shahnaz Bakand, Chris Winder, and Amanda Hayes

Neighborhood characteristics and mental health: the relevance for mothers of infants in deprived English neighborhoods, Jacqueline Barnes, Jay Belsky, Martin Frost, and Edward Melhuish

Do young children misunderstand their own emotions?, Patrick K. Bender, Francisco Pons, Paul L. Harris, and Marc de Rosnay

Schizophrenia disorders, substance abuse and prior offending in a sequential series of 435 homicides, D J. Bennett, J RP Ogloff, P E. Mullen, S DM Thomas, C Wallace, and T Short

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A randomised controlled trial to compare opt-in and opt-out parental consent for childhood vaccine safety surveillance using data linkage: study protocol, Jesia G. Berry, Philip Ryan, Annette J. Braunack-Mayer, Katherine M. Duszynski, V Xafis, and M S. Gold

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Attention-induced deactivations in very low frequency EEG oscillations: Differential localisation according to ADHD symptom status, Samantha J. Broyd, Suzannah K. Helps, and Edmund J.S Sonuga-Barke

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Phon: Free software for phonological transcription and analysis, Heather Buchan

Comparing the effectiveness of a parent group intervention with child-based intervention for promoting playfulness in children with disabilities, Anita C. Bundy, Jitka Kolrosova, Sarah-Grace Paguinto, Paula Bray, Belinda Swain, Margaret Wallen, and Lina Engelen

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The Sydney Playground Project: popping the bubblewrap - unleashing the power of play: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary school playground-based intervention aiming to increase children's physical activity and social skills, Anita C. Bundy, Geraldine A. Naughton, Paul Tranter, Shirley Wyver, Louise A. Baur, Wendy Schiller, Adrian E. Bauman, Lina Engelen, Jo Ragen, Tim Luckett, Anita Niehues, Gabrielle Stewart, Glenda Jessup, and Jennie Brentnall

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Profiling the silver surfers: Which older australians are using the internet?, Pippa Burns, Sandra C. Jones, and Donald C. Iverson

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The impact of self-efficacy on asthma management amongst older Australian adults, Pippa Burns, Sandra C. Jones, and Donald C. Iverson

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Teacher knowledge activated in the context of designing problems, Barbara Butterfield and Mohan Chinnappan

iMap: A novel method for statistical fixation mapping of eye movement data, Roberto Caldara and Sebastien R. Miellet

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Dairy constituents and neurocognitive health in ageing, David A. Camfield, Lauren Owen, Andrew Scholey, Andrew Pipingas, and Con Stough

Nutraceuticals in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): a review of mechanistic and clinical evidence, David A. Camfield, Jerome Sarris, and Michael Berk

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The appeal to nature implicit in certain restrictions on public funding for assisted reproductive technology, Drew Carter and Annette J. Braunack-Mayer

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Shared health governance: the potential danger of oppressive "healthism", Stacy M. Carter, Vikki A. Entwistle, Kirsten McCaffery, and Lucie Rychetnik

Evidence, ethics and values: a framework for health promotion, Stacy M. Carter, Lucie Rychetnik, Beverley Lloyd, Ian Kerridge, Louise A. Baur, Adrian E. Bauman, Claire Hooker, and Avigdor Zask

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A climate of ill health, Noel Castree

Nature and society, Noel Castree

Nature - Part I, Noel Castree