A5035599055- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Mind wandering and attention
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Media Influence and Health
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
University College London
2019-2024
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
2021-2023
Medical Research Council
2022
University of Cambridge
2022
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
2022
Royal Holloway University of London
2015-2017
We explored what predicts secondary school students' mindfulness practice and responsiveness to universal school-based training (SBMT), how students experience SBMT.
<h2>Abstract</h2><h3>Objective</h3> Recent studies suggest mental health in youths is deteriorating. The current policy the United Kingdom emphasizes role of schools for promotion and prevention, but little data exist on what aspects influence pupils. This study explored school-level influences young people a large school-based sample from Kingdom. <h3>Method</h3> Baseline cluster randomized controlled trial collected between 2016 2018 mainstream secondary selected to be representative...
Background Previous research suggests that mindfulness training (MT) appears effective at improving mental health in young people. MT is proposed to work through executive control affectively laden contexts. However, it unclear whether improves such mitigate difficulties during periods of stress, but any mitigating effects against COVID-related remain unexamined. Objective To evaluate (intervention) versus psychoeducation (Psy-Ed; control), implemented after-school classes: (1) Improves...
Adopting a temporally distant perspective on stressors reduces distress in adults. Here we investigate whether the extent to which individuals project themselves into future influences distancing efficacy. We also examined modulating effects of age across adolescence and reactive aggression: factors associated with reduced future-thinking poor emotion regulation. Participants (N = 83, aged 12-22) read scenarios rated negative affect when adopting distant-future perspective, near-future or...
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence and previous studies have shown that this susceptibility decreases with age. The current study used a cross‐sectional experimental paradigm investigate the effect of age puberty on both prosocial antisocial influence. Methods Participants (N = 520) aged 11–18 from London Cambridge (United Kingdom) rated how likely they would be engage in (e.g. “help classmate their work”) or “make fun classmate”) act. They...
Abstract Adolescence is marked by the onset of puberty, which associated with an increase in mental health difficulties, particularly girls. Social and self‐referential processes also develop during this period: adolescents become more aware others’ perspectives, judgements about themselves less favourable. In current study, data from 119 girls (from London, UK) aged 9–16 years were collected at two‐time points (between 2019 2021) to investigate relationship between puberty difficulties...
Whilst growing research suggests that pain is associated with suicidality in adolescence, it remains unclear whether this relationship moderated by co-morbid depressive symptoms. The present study aimed to investigate the pain-suicidality association We performed secondary analyses on cross-sectional, pre-intervention data from 'My Resilience Adolescence' [MYRIAD] trial (ISRCTN ref: 86619085; N=8072, 11-15 years). Using odds ratio tests and (moderated) network analyses, we investigated...
Adolescence is a sensitive period for categorical self-concept development, which affects the ability to take others' perspectives, might differ from one's own, and how self-related information memorized. Little known about whether these two processes are related in adolescence. The current study recruited 97 male participants aged 11–35 years. Using self-referential memory task, we found that younger were less prone recognize previously seen town-related adjectives, compared adjectives....
Mindfulness training programmes have shown to encourage prosocial behaviours and reduce antisocial tendencies in adolescents. However, less is known about whether affects susceptibility influence. The current study investigated the effect of mindfulness (compared with an active control) on self-reported 465 adolescents aged 11-16 years were randomly allocated one two programmes. Pre- post-training, participants completed a social influence task. Self-reported likelihood engaging did not...
Task-irrelevant emotional expressions are known to capture attention, with the extent of “emotional capture” varying psychopathic traits in antisocial samples. We investigated whether this variation extends throughout continuum (and co-occurring trait anxiety) a community sample. Participants (N = 85) searched for target face among facial distractors. As predicted, angry and fearful faces interfered search, indicated by slower reaction times relative neutral faces. When fear appeared as...
Sustained attention, a key cognitive skill that improves during childhood and adolescence, tends to be worse in some emotional behavioural disorders. attention is typically studied non-affective task contexts; here, we used novel index performance affective versus neutral contexts across adolescence (
Understanding ourselves within our peer environment is an important component of self-development during adolescence, the period life between onset puberty and adulthood (between ages 10 24 years). We used a self-appraisal paradigm to investigate cross-sectionally relationship perceived friendship quality self-judgements in adolescent girls. One hundred sixty-three girls (9 15 years), recruited from London, United Kingdom, rated how well set positive negative adjectives described themselves,...
Understanding ourselves within our peer environment is an important component of self-development during adolescence, the period life between onset puberty and adulthood (between ages 10 24 years). We used a self-appraisal paradigm to investigate cross-sectionally relationship perceived friendship quality self-judgements in adolescent girls. One hundred sixty-three girls (9–15 years), recruited from London, United Kingdom, rated how well set positive negative adjectives described themselves,...
People exhibit marked individual variation in their ability to exercise cognitive control affectively charged situations. Affective is typically assessed laboratory settings by comparing performance carefully constructed executive tasks performed both neutral and contexts. There some evidence that affective undergoes significant improvement throughout adolescence, though it unclear how adolescents deemed at risk of developing depression despite poor being identified as a contributing factor...
The ability to notice and reflect on distressing internal experiences from an objective perspective, often called psychological decentering, has been posited be protective against mental health difficulties. However, little is known about how this skill relates age across adolescence, its relationship with health, it may impact key domains such as affective executive control social cognition. This study analysed a pre-existing dataset including measures cognitive tasks, administered...
Evidence is currently mixed regarding the way in which cognitive conflict modulates effect of emotion on task performance. The present study aimed to address methodological differences across previous studies and investigate conditions under interference from emotional stimuli can either be elicited or eliminated high conflict. Four behavioural experiments were conducted with a university sample using gender-discrimination stimulus-response compatibility task. In line our findings,...
Adolescence is a sensitive period for categorical self-concept development, which affects the ability to take others’ perspectives, might differ from one’s own, and how self-related information memorized. Little known about whether these two processes are related in adolescence. The current study recruited 97 male participants aged 11-35 years. Using self-referential memory task, we found that younger were less prone recognize previously seen town-related adjectives, compared adjectives....
People exhibit marked individual variation in their ability to exercise cognitive control affectively-charged situations. Affective is typically assessed laboratory settings by comparing performance carefully constructed executive tasks performed both affectively neutral (‘cool’) and (‘hot’) contexts. Whilst there some evidence that affective undergoes significant improvement throughout adolescence, it not clear if this follows a linear trajectory. Moreover, unclear how adolescents deemed at...
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted governments worldwide to introduce social distancing measures, including school closures and restrictions on in-person socialising. However, adherence was challenging for many, particularly adolescents, whom interaction is crucial development. current study aimed identify individual-level predictors of in a longitudinal sample 460 adolescents aged 11-20 years. Participants completed detailed pre-pandemic assessments, mental health well-being, altruism, delayed...
Objective: The ability to notice and reflect on distressing internal experiences from an objective perspective, often called psychological decentering, has been posited be protective against mental health difficulties. However, little is known about how this skill develops across adolescence, it relates symptoms, capacity may impact key developmental domains such as affective executive control, social cognition. Method: This study analysed a pre-existing dataset including number of measures...