Honours Projects

 Staff Name
Honours project title
 Majella Albion P1: Developing Cultural Competence
 Majella Albion P2: The Impact of Social Networks on Learning
 Majella Albion P3: Work/life Balance and Border Theory
 Mr Gavin Beccaria P1: Improving the Resilience of Children, who have a Sibling with a Disability: An Evaluation the “Sibworks” Program
 Mr Gavin Beccaria Predicting affective wellbeing and job satisfaction from personality and work characteristics
 Mr Gavin Beccaria The Evaluation of a Social Problem Solving Skills Program for ‘at risk’ students
 Associate Professor Paul Bramston Project 1: Understanding Distress and Well-being amongst Adults with Diabetes
 Dr Lorelle Burton Project 1: Learning Approaches and Personality as Predictors of Academic Success over Time: Mature-Age versus School Leaver
 Dr Lorelle Burton Project 2: Learning Approaches, Career Decidedness, Personality and Academic Success: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
 Mr Steven Christensen P1 2009: Response Tokens in Research Interviews are Interesting
 Mr Steven Christensen P2 2009: Questions in Research Interviews are Interesting
 Mr Steven Christensen P3 2009: Overlapping Talk in Research Interviews is Interesting
 Mr Steven Christensen P4 2009: Studying “So” in Research Interviews is Interesting
 Dr Des Coates Project 1: Anger and Quality of Life at Different Severity Levels of Asthma
 Dr Des Coates Project 2: Physical Exercise Predicts Improved Attitude to Chronic Pain
 Dr Des Coates Project 3: Anger and Quality of Life in Asthma Sufferers and in Non-Asthmatic Controls
 Dr Des Coates Project 4: Anger, Optimism, and Impairment in Arthritis Sufferers
 Dr Lucille Douglas Project 1: Extending the Applications of the WMS-III-A
 Dr Lucille Douglas Project 2: Extending the Application of the WTAR
 Professor Gerard Fogarty P1: Holland’s Career Interests and Financial Literacy
 Professor Gerard Fogarty P2: Subjective memory loss and cognitive failures: the Validity of self-
 Dr Liam Hendry 2009:P1 Abbreviation Effect in Word Length
 Dr Liam Hendry 2009:P2 Rawlinson Effect” in Interrupted Reading
 Dr Liam Hendry 2009:P3 Interrupted Reading & Sentence Completion
 Dr Liam Hendry 2009:P4 Interrupted Reading & Word Length
 Dr Andrea Lamont-Mills P1: The Prevalence of Athletic Burnout and Overtraining in Rural and Remote Adolescent Athletes
 Dr Andrea Lamont-Mills P2: The Relationship Between Athletic Burnout, Overtraining, and Possible Early Signs of Burnout in Rural and Remote Adolescent Athletes
 Dr Andrea Lamont-Mills P3: The Relationship Between Athletic Burnout, Overtraining, Athlete Identity, and Perceived Control in Rural and Remote Adolescent Athletes
 Dr Andrea Lamont-Mills P4: Using Self-Determined Motivation to Predict Athletic Burnout, Overtraining in Rural and Remote Adolescent Athletes
 Dr Susan Littler Project 1: Self Reported Attachment Styles, Empathy and Social Provisions
 Dr Susan Littler Project 2: Self Reported Attachment Styles, Affect and Loneliness
 Associate Professor Tony Machin Understanding the factors that predict involvement in accidents and near misses whilst driving
 Associate Professor Tony Machin Predicting affective wellbeing and job satisfaction from personality and work characteristics
 Dr Nola Passmore P1 Gratitude and Attachment Style as Predictors of Romantic Loneliness
 Dr Nola Passmore P2 Gratitude and Forgiveness as Predictors of Relationship Satisfaction
 Dr Nola Passmore P3 Gratitude and Religiosity as Predictors of Relationship Commitment
 Dr Nola Passmore P4 Parental Bonding and Attachment Style as Predictors of Loneliness
 Professor Grace Pretty Projects 1-4: Community Resilience in Agricultural Rural Towns
 Professor Peter Terry Project 1-4: Meta-analysis of effects of psychological variables in sport and/or exercise (4 projects)