Grant number: 106366 | Funding period: 2021 - 2027
Active
M Ananyev, F Botha, N Lamberova, K Peyton
2026-04-01
Despite a large strand of literature investigating how pet ownership is associated with different health and well-being outcomes, ..
DM Klyne, M Hall, SS Smith, MF Barbe, N Egorova-Brumley, A Serafimovska, PW Hodges, A Suraev
Background Sleep, psychological wellbeing, and musculoskeletal health are more closely interconnected than previously recognised. ..
E Vera-Toscano, C Waite, H Cuervo, M Santhanam-Martin, M Ayre, R Nettle
2026-03-01
The migration of rural youth to urban areas for employment opportunities has been a central scholarship focus on young people in r..
MR Sanders, C Chainey, JM Nicholson, SS Havighurst, A Morawska, DJ Higgins, S Dawe, MR Dadds, W Cann, TG Mazzucchelli, B Mathews, DJ Hawes, JW Toumbourou, C Hatherly
2026-02-01
Objective: The purpose of this article was to present a model for effective research alliances that facilitate collective action t..
F Botha, JP de New
Using a nationally representative household panel for Australia, we observe an apparent significant deterioration in financial lit..
VO Mancini, JD Brett, M Mazidi, TP Nevill, B Roberts, J Chhabra, P Fisher, Z Seidler
2026-01-01
Traditional masculine norms shape the well-being of fathers and how they care for their children. This study used latent profile a..
SC Dahmann, N Kettlewell, J Lam
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey..
F Botha, J Kabátek, J Meekes, R Wilkins
In this study, we quantify the effects of commuting time and working from home (WFH) arrangements on the mental health of Australi..
AG Rondinel, AMH Price
2025-12-01
Parenthood is associated with significant income reductions and labour market disruptions, known as the child penalty. This paper ..
J Lam, A Li
Climate-related changes and disasters may disrupt relationships and ties. Drawing on 10 years of data from the Household, Income a..
P Caldwell, N Glozier, T Powell, K Conn, R Einboden, N Buus, E Brown, I Choi, A Milton
2025-10-23
Background Early Intervention Psychosis Services (EIPS) provide multimodal interventions for young people who are at risk of, or h..
U Arnautovska, M Trott, KJ Vitangcol, A Milton, E Brown, N Warren, S Leucht, J Firth, D Siskind
2025-09-01
Background Digital health interventions (DHIs) may enable low cost, scalable improvements in the quality of care for adults with s..
DA Cobb-Clark, SC Dahmann, DA Kamhöfer, H Schildberg-Hörisch
While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality remains a matte..
Y Huang, J Silva-Goncalves, J Lam, J Baxter
2025-06-01
We study the influence of maternal chronic illness and disability on the socio-emotional development of children across early to m..
MR Chilver, RA Burns, F Botha, P Butterworth
Self-report measures are useful in psychological research and practice, but scores may be impacted by administration methods. This..
I Laß, E Vera-Toscano, M Wooden
2025-03-01
This article examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers’ job ..
KC Runions, JH Sae-Koew, N Pearce, K Sarasjärvi, M Attey, F Mitrou
2025-02-01
Growing up in socioeconomic disadvantage increases risk of peer bullying at school. Both socioeconomic status and involvement in b..
C Boyle, MR Sanders, T Ma, J Hodges, KA Allen, VE Cobham, I Darmawan, CK Dittman, KL Healy, SJ Hepburn, LM MacLeod, J Teng, M Trompf, W Warton
2025-01-01
Background: This study evaluated the efficacy of three interconnected parenting seminars delivered online and through schools in p..
F Botha, DC Ribar
Using Dutch panel data, we study the reciprocal association between people’s financial well-being and mental health. We estimate m..
HW Mak, JK Bone, T Noguchi, J Kim, R So, E Walker, C Smith, M Bower, F Botha, N Sajnani, N Fietje, D Fancourt
Background: Arts and cultural engagement is a ubiquitous human behavior and considered to be evolutionarily and developmentally ad..
M Perera, R Vidanaarachchi, S Chandrashekeran, M Kennedy, B Kennedy, S Halgamuge
This systematic literature review addresses the intersection of two rapidly evolving areas of knowledge and practice: Indigenous K..
G Kalb, J Meekes
J Lam, J Baxter
Background and Objectives: There is increasing acknowledgment that loneliness is associated with neighborhood characteristics in a..
I Wiesel, J Meekes, S Chandrashekeran
Previous studies have shown that unequal housing costs contribute to income polarisation, and a contraction of the middle-income g..
B Singh, M Ahmed, AE Staiano, C Gough, J Petersen, C Vandelanotte, C Kracht, C Huong, Z Yin, MF Vasiloglou, CC Pan, CE Short, M Mclaughlin, L von Klinggraeff, CD Pfledderer, LJ Moran, AM Button, CA Maher
2024-12-01
The aim of this meta-meta-analysis was to systematically review randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence examining the effective..
Z Li, X Mao, D Feng, M Li, X Xu, Y Luo, L Zhuang, R Lin, T Zhu, F Liang, Z Huang, D Liu, Z Yan, A Du, Z Shao, Z Zhu
Efficient catalysts are imperative to accelerate the slow oxygen reaction kinetics for the development of emerging electrochemical..
H Nolan, B O’Donoghue, M Simmons, I Zbukvic, S Ratcliff, A Milton, E Hughes, A Thompson, E Brown
Background: Young people with mental ill-health experience higher rates of high-risk sexual behaviour, have poorer sexual health o..
Deborah A Cobb-Clark, Sarah C Dahmann, Anne C Gielen
We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-se..
S Chandrashekeran, J de Bruyn, D Sullivan, D Bryant
2024-10-01
Shifting away from residential gas is important for decarbonisation, however there is little understanding of the equity implicati..
We use information on people's ideal, predicted, and realized body weight to classify them as time-consistent versus naïve, and pa..
C Chainey, S Whittle
2024-09-01
F Botha, R Bentley, A Li, I Wiesel
Using data from wave 20 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we provide a descriptive examination of ..
J Lam, J Garcia
2024-08-01
Objectives: This study examines how older adults’ (65 years old plus) daily activities shifted in the years around the coronavirus..
Ferdi Botha, Marlee Bower, Ferdi Botha
2024-05-10
BACKGROUND: Despite growing recognition of loneliness as a global public health concern, research on its occurrence and precipitan..
Deborah A Cobb-Clark, Sarah C Dahmann, Daniel A Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
2024-05-01
This paper studies important determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting Germany’s divi..
P Vidafar, EM McGlashan, AC Burns, C Anderson, A Shechter, SW Lockley, AJK Phillips, SW Cain
2024-03-01
Women typically sleep and wake earlier than men and have been shown to have earlier circadian timing relative to the light/dark cy..
F Botha, SC Dahmann
We provide the first empirical evidence on the direct link between locus of control and self-control, and how they interact in exp..
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
R Steinbring, F Perales, J Baxter, J Lam
This paper examines household earnings arrangements and parenthood. Previous research has shown that parenthood is associated with..
T Lejarraga, DD Schnitzlein, SC Dahmann, R Hertwig
2024-01-01
Why is the empirical evidence for birth-order effects on human psychology so inconsistent? In contrast to the influential view tha..
Alyssa Milton, Ingrid Ozols, Tayla Cassidy, Dana Jordan, Ellie Brown, Grad Cert, Urska Arnautovska, Jim Cook, Darren Phung, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Sonia Johnson, Ian Hickie, Nick Glozier
Background: Supported self-management interventions, which assist individuals in actively understanding and managing their own hea..
SA Keramat, F Perales, K Alam, R Rashid, R Haque, N Monasi, R Hashmi, F Siddika, ZH Siddiqui, MA Ali, ND Gebremariam, S Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan
Background: The burden of multimorbidity has been observed worldwide and it has significant consequences on health outcomes. In Au..
H Hoffmann, J Lam, J Baxter
This paper examines young women’s experiences of early motherhood focusing on their aims and goals for the future. Young mothers f..
Ferdi Botha, Richard W Morris, Peter Butterworth, Nick Glozier
2023-12-05
Given the observed deterioration in mental health among Australians over the past decade, this study investigates to what extent t..
2023-12-01
Self-report measures are widely used in mental health research and may use different recall periods depending on the purpose of th..
C Boyle, MR Sanders, T Ma, J Hodges, KA Allen, VE Cobham, I Darmawan, CK Dittman, KL Healy, SJ Hepburn, LM MacLeod, J Teng, M Trompf
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the normality of daily life for many children, their families, and schools, resulting ..
I Wiesel, J de Bruyn, J Meekes, S Chandrashekeran
2023-11-01
Recent years have seen growing concern about the ‘hollowing out’ of the middle class, due to processes of polarisation. In this pa..
A Li, M Toll, R Bentley
The need to assess and measure how social vulnerability influences the health impacts of climate change has resulted in a rapidly ..
Kristina Vingrys, Michael L Mathai, Andrew J McAinch, Julie K Bassett, Maximilian de Courten, Lily Stojanovska, Lynne Millar, Graham G Giles, Allison M Hodge, Vasso Apostolopoulos
2023-09-13
Background: Cereal-derived polyphenols have demonstrated protective mechanisms in colorectal cancer (CRC) models; however, confirm..
E O'Donnell, M Kennedy, D Garrick, A Horne, R Woods
2023-08-01
Australia shows the need for more sustainable and just water management.
We examine the relationship between trait self-control and body weight. Data from a population representative household survey rev..
2023-06-01
Background: Understanding the role of how people are housed in reducing the long-term health and housing effects of climate-relate..
Frances L Doyle, Alina Morawska, Daryl J Higgins, Sophie S Havighurst, Trevor G Mazzucchelli, John W Toumbourou, Christel M Middeldorp, Carys Chainey, Vanessa E Cobham, Paul Harnett, Matthew R Sanders
Parents can be essential change-agents in their children’s lives. To support parents in their parenting role, a range of programs ..
F Perales, E Kuskoff, M Flood, T King
2023-05-01
Scholarly work and public commentary point to the persistence of masculinity models characterized by a sense of entitlement, the e..
2023-04-01
We examine how changes in home care work, with greater emphasis on social support, have led to corresponding changes in the forms ..
J Lam, M Vuolo
Objectives: Both loneliness and the use of psychotropic drugs are common in later life. Although loneliness has been found to be a..
J Lam, C Broccatelli, J Baxter
2023-03-01
This paper examines the relationship between characteristics of older adults' networks and loneliness. Drawing on a mixed-methods ..
J Lam, A Campbell
Background and Objectives: The aim of this study is to contribute to the literature on variation in later-life outcomes by sexual ..
Ferdinand Botha, Richard W Morris, Peter Butterworth, Nick Glozier
The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, including the indirect effect of policy responses, on psychological distress has been ..
A Li, M Toll, E Martino, I Wiesel, F Botha, R Bentley
Extreme weather and climate-related disaster events are associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. People are not equally..
2023-02-01
This article investigates differences in husbands' and wives' experiences of financial hardships. It develops and estimates a stru..
Loneliness among older adults has been a topic of interest in recent years. We analyse four waves of data from the Australian Long..
TL King, M Shields, M O’Flaherty, A Kavanagh, MJ Spittal
Being a young carer can have significant impacts on the lives of children and adolescents. Identifying young carers is difficult, ..
S Shen, S Seneviratne, X Wanyan, M Kirley
2023-01-01
In recent decades, wildfires have caused tremendous property losses, fatalities, and extensive damage to forest ecosystems. Inspir..
X Wanyan, S Seneviratne, K Nice, J Thompson, M White, N Langenheim, M Stevenson
Footpath mapping, modeling, and analysis can provide important geospatial insights to many fields of study, including transport, h..
S Chandrashekeran, V Noka, S Bouzarovski
2022-12-01
In Australia there is limited understanding of the scale and nature of energy hardship or poverty. Energy poverty remains a concep..
Background: Over the past two decades, prescription medication use for pain and depression increased dramatically. Most studies co..
J Lam, S Wang
2022-11-01
Objective: To examine characteristics of the built environment and investigate associations with loneliness among older adults. Me..
J Lam
Objectives: Loneliness is an important concern for older adults. Studies have linked demographic characteristics with loneliness, ..
F Botha, P Butterworth, R Wilkins
2022-08-01
This paper investigates whether the Australian government's Coronavirus Supplement, a temporary income support payment for unemplo..
C Comerton-Forde, J de New, N Salamanca, DC Ribar, A Nicastro, J Ross
2022-06-01
We develop scales of the financial well-being of customers of a major Australian bank using self-reported survey data matched to c..
Tuhin Biswas, Peter Azzopardi, Syeda Novera Anwar, Tim David de Vries, Luis Manuel Encarnacion-Cruz, Md Mehedi Hasan, M Mamun Huda, Sonia Pervin, Rajat Das Gupta, Dipak Kumar Mitra, Lal B Rawal, Abdullah Al Mamun
2022-05-16
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to assess the current status of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors amongst adolescen..
2022-05-01
This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative da..
S Kalucza, J Lam, J Baxter
2022-03-01
Young motherhood is often framed as detrimental to the life chances of young women with research showing negative impacts on educa..
2022-01-01
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health at the level of the population. The current study adds to the ..
F Botha, E Vera-Toscano
We test for differences in subjective well-being across four pre-defined generations in Australia born between 1928 and 1994: The ..
Deborah A Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, Daniel A Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
We examine the relationship between trait self-control and body weight. Data from a population representative household survey re..
Tea Lallukka, Aapo Hiilamo, Mark Wooden, Nick Glozier, Nathaniel Marshall, Allison Milner, Peter Butterworth
2021-12-01
A substantial proportion of Australians report recurring pain and mental health problems, but their separate and joint contributio..
S Wang, Y Liu, J Lam, MP Kwan
2021-11-01
The built environment has been identified as a key factor for health intervention and obesity prevention. However, it is still unc..
E Ghafoori, E Ip, J Kabátek
2021-09-01
We analyze the causal impact of a large-scale financial education intervention on retirement saving behaviors and asset allocation..
Simon Chang, Deborah COBB-CLARK, Nicolas Salamanca Acosta
2020-03-01
We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents’ investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stake..