Research
My research encompasses a number of different areas, as illustrated
below. My main areas of research are in the field of stress and well-being measurement using hassle and uplift scales
and more recently in relation to children with a parental mental illness.
I have developed hassle and uplift scales for adults and University
students (see below and related links). My interests in hassle and uplifts also extends to research
into depression and overlaps with positive psychology and particularly
research into uplifts, connectedness and savouring (in collaboration
with Dr. Fred Bryant, Loyola University of Chicago) and the influence
of daily event recall on mood and alternate event recall (collaboration
with Dr. Murray Maybery from University of Western Australia).
I am also interested in connectedness and mental wellbeing in adolescents and children with a specific focus on children of parents with a mental illness. The following outlines my areas of research interest:
Positive and Negative Event Scales
Children of Parents with a Mental Disorder
Social research to underpin regional catchment plan implementation for the NSW Murray Catchment