Publications by authors named "Zara Brodie"
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- * The shift to working from home heightened emotions such as anxiety, helplessness, and guilt for DAHS, blurring the lines between their professional and personal lives.
- * To cope, DAHS engaged in leisure activities and increased virtual meetings with colleagues, highlighting how emotional work can serve to cover up shortcomings in employer support for worker well-being.
Research into relationships between victim-generated content, abuse received, and observer characteristics when considering Twitter abuse has been limited to male victims. We evaluated participant perceptions of female celebrity victims and abuse received on Twitter. We used a 3 (Initial Tweet Valence; negative, neutral, positive) × 2 (Abuse Volume; low, high) repeated measures design and online survey method.
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- PCSOs (Persons Convicted of Sex Offences) face significant challenges when reintegrating into the community, including stigma, hostility, and difficulties with housing and employment.
- An online survey showed that public attitudes toward PCSOs with mental illness or intellectual disabilities were more favorable than those toward neurotypical PCSOs, who were seen as posing a higher risk of reoffending.
- Important demographic factors influenced perceptions, with women and older participants generally feeling more concern about the risks posed by PCSOs, underscoring the need for public education to promote better understanding and acceptance of neurodiverse individuals within this group.
Emerging evidence suggests that pet dogs can offer features of a secure attachment which has been associated with healthy psychological development across the lifespan. Limited research has investigated the underpinning mechanisms that may contribute to the benefits and risks of child-dog attachment during childhood. This study aimed to test the potential mediating role of caregiver-observed positive and negative child-dog behaviours, on the relationship between child-reported child-dog attachment, and caregiver-reported child psychopathology and emotion regulation.
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- The study examined how social-cognitive factors influence adults' likelihood of sexting and its potential outcomes.
- About 77.6% of participants reported having sexted, with motivations varying based on whether the sexting occurred within a romantic relationship or not.
- While sexting was linked to greater sexual satisfaction overall, those who sexted outside a romantic relationship also perceived an increased likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors.