School of Applied Social Sciences
Recent Submissions
-
"You Keep Yourself Strong": A Discourse Analysis of African Women Asylum Seekers' Talk about Emotions
(Article)The current study investigates how asylum-seeking African women use talk about emotion to construct empowered roles for themselves. A discourse analysis was conducted on interviews with African asylum-seeking women. ... -
Effects of social and outcome expectancies on hazardous drinking among Chinese university students: The mediating role of drinking motivations
(Article)Background and Objectives: Based on the theory of reasoned action, the present study investigated the relative effects of drinking outcome expectancies and parental norms, as well as the mediating effect of drinking ... -
Using repeated visual exposure, rewards and modelling in a mobile application to increase vegetable acceptance in children
(Article)Children are not consuming the recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables. Repeated visual exposure, modelling, and rewards have been shown to be effective at increasing vegetable acceptance in young children. The aim of ... -
Instrument de evaluare a riscurilor si nevoilor in unitatile penitenciare din Romania: Raport de validare
(Technical Report)The project "Contribution to the implementation of criminal legislation in Romania" was elaborated between September 2012 and May 2013. The partners involved in carrying out the project were the initiator of the project ... -
Voluntary and involuntary admissions for severe mental illness in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Article)Aim: The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine the prevalence of voluntary and involuntary psychiatric admissions for severe mental illness in China and explore their associated factors. Method: ... -
Screening for postpartum hypomania among Chinese women after childbirth
(Article)This study examines the prevalence and risk factors for postpartum hypomania in women after childbirth as well as examining the potential influence of personality traits in relation to experiencing symptoms of postpartum ... -
An Examination of the Experiences of BAME Students in the Community and Criminal Justice Division
(Technical Report)Freedom to Achieve is De Montfort University’s commitment to its students, whatever their ethnicity, to ensure there is an equal playing field. The attainment gap between Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)1 and white ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Let Our Kids be Kids Protest
(Article)The aims of this research were to explore the relationship between parents and the Government within primary education and to critically analyse neoliberal modes and technologies of governmentality within the testing regime. ... -
‘I don’t think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people’: using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about tax
(Article)The increasing recognition of the negative impact of income inequality has highlighted the importance of taxation which can function as a redistributive mechanism. Previous critical social psychological research found that ... -
Celebrations amongst challenges: Considering the past, present and future of the qualitative methods in psychology section of the British Psychology Society
(Article)This article summarises the standpoint of the Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society regarding the current position of qualitative research in psychology in the United Kingdom. The ... -
The effectiveness of a social media intervention for reducing portion sizes in young adults and adolescents
(Article)Abstract Objective: Adolescents and young adults select larger portions of energy-dense food than recommended. The majority of young people have a social media profile, and peer influence on social media may moderate the ... -
Attribution matters: revisiting the link between extreme weather experience and climate change mitigation responses
(Article)The literature suggests that extreme weather experiences have potential to increase climate change engagement by influencing the way people perceive the proximity and implications of climate change. Yet, limited attention has ... -
The resilience paradox: flooding experience, coping and climate change mitigation intentions
(Article)Climate change is projected to increase the frequency, intensity and unpredictability of extreme weather events across the globe and these events are likely to have significant mental health implications. The mental health ... -
Context-appropriate environmental attitude measurement in Nigeria using the Campbell paradigm
(Article)The need to tailor environmental policies in Africa with an understanding of public attitudes is commonly acknowledged, but efforts to generate such understanding are generally constrained by a lack of reliable ... -
The moderating role of political affiliation in the link between flooding experience and preparedness to reduce energy use.
(Article)Research suggests that highlighting links between local weather events and climate change can help promote climate change engagement. Yet, the evidence for the relationship between weather experiences and climate change ... -
Cross-cultural evidence for spatial bias in beliefs about the severity of environmental problems
(Article)Prior research has shown a tendency for environmental problems to be rated as more severe at the global level than at the local level. The present article reports reanalyses of a large cross-cultural data set (Study 1: k ... -
Socio-demographic differences in environmental concern and willingness to pay for addressing global climate change in Pakistan
(Article)Previous research indicates that socio-demographic attributes are important predictors of environmental concern. However, this research mainly focused on Western societies, with minimal representation of non-Western ... -
Knowledge, morality and threat perception: A juxtaposition of internal influences on climate change-related behavioral intentions in Nigeria
(Article)As part of efforts to mitigate the consequences of environmental degradation resulting from negative human activities, the focus of social–scientific studies on human–nature relationships has expanded in the last two decades ...
RSS 1.0