Outputs (11)

A Meta-Analysis Taxonomizing Empathy in Schizophrenia (2018)
Journal Article
Varachhia, S., Ferguson, E., & Doody, G. (2018). A Meta-Analysis Taxonomizing Empathy in Schizophrenia. HSOA Journal of Psychiatry, Depression & Anxiety, 4, Article 016. https://doi.org/10.24966/PDA-0150/100016

Background: Trait empathy is integral to relationship development and maintenance. Therefore, impairment in this ability can have an adverse effect on many domains of life including social, sexual, and marital. Previous reviews show in schizophrenia,... Read More about A Meta-Analysis Taxonomizing Empathy in Schizophrenia.

Blood donor behaviour, motivations and the need for a systematic cross-cultural perspective: the example of moral outrage and health and non-health based philanthropy across seven countries (2018)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Dorner, L., France, C. R., France, J. L., Masser, B., Lam, M., …Scerri, J. (2018). Blood donor behaviour, motivations and the need for a systematic cross-cultural perspective: the example of moral outrage and health and non-health based philanthropy across seven countries. ISBT Science Series, 13(4), 375-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/voxs.12471

Background: Blood donation is a prosocial altruistic act that is motived by the mechanisms that underlie altruism (e.g., warm-glow, reciprocity, fairness/trust). Because there is consistent evidence that altruism and its mechanisms show cross-cultura... Read More about Blood donor behaviour, motivations and the need for a systematic cross-cultural perspective: the example of moral outrage and health and non-health based philanthropy across seven countries.

Psychosocial characteristics of blood donors influence their voluntary non-medical lapse (2018)
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Merz, E.-M., Ferguson, E., & van Dongen, A. (2018). Psychosocial characteristics of blood donors influence their voluntary non-medical lapse. Transfusion, 58(11), 2596-2603. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.14891

Background: Approximately 10% of Dutch donors lapse yearly. Common reasons are non-voluntary medical issues (e.g., low Hemoglobin), reaching the upper age limit, and voluntary (e.g., own request, non-response). Little is known about predictors of vol... Read More about Psychosocial characteristics of blood donors influence their voluntary non-medical lapse.

Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality (2018)
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Ferguson, E., Zhao, K., O'Carroll, R., & Smillie, L. (2019). Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(4), 461-471. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618765071

Prosociality can either be costly (e.g., donating to charity) or costless (e.g. posthumous organ donation). Whereas links between personality and costly prosociality and have been explored, links with costless prosociality and personality are at pres... Read More about Costless and costly prosociality: correspondence among personality traits, economic preferences, and real world prosociality.

From ideation to action: differentiating between those who think about suicide and those who attempt suicide in a national study of young adults (2018)
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Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., Eschle, S., Ferguson, E., O’Connor, D. B., O’Carroll, R. E., & O’Connor, R. C. (2018). From ideation to action: differentiating between those who think about suicide and those who attempt suicide in a national study of young adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 241, 475-483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.07.074

Background: Although many suicide risk factors have been identified, there is still relatively little known about the factors that differentiate those who think about suicide from those who make a suicide attempt.
Aims: Using the integrated motivat... Read More about From ideation to action: differentiating between those who think about suicide and those who attempt suicide in a national study of young adults.

The colorectal surgeon’s personality may influence the rectal anastomotic decision (2018)
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Moug, S., Henderson, N., Tiernan, J., Bisset, C., Ferguson, E., Harji, D., …Fearnhead, N. (2018). The colorectal surgeon’s personality may influence the rectal anastomotic decision. Colorectal Disease, 20(11), 970-980. https://doi.org/10.1111/codi.14293

Aim. Colorectal surgeons regularly make the decision to anastomose, defunction or form an end colostomy when performing rectal surgery. This study aimed to define personality traits of colorectal surgeons and explore any influence of such traits on t... Read More about The colorectal surgeon’s personality may influence the rectal anastomotic decision.

Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm: a national prevalence study of young adults (2018)
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O’Connor, R. C., Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., Eschle, S., Drummond, J., Ferguson, E., …O'Carroll, R. E. (2018). Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm: a national prevalence study of young adults. BJPsych Open, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2018.14

Background: There are few prevalence studies of suicide attempts (SAs) and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSH).
Aims: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of thoughts of NSSH, suicidal thoughts, NSSH and SAs among 18-34 year olds in Scotland for t... Read More about Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm: a national prevalence study of young adults.

General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer (2018)
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James, R. J. E., Walsh, D. A., & Ferguson, E. (2018). General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer. BMC Medicine, 16, Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1031-9

Background:
While the heterogeniety of pain progression has been studied in chronic diseases, it is unclear the extent to which patterns of pain progression among people in general as well as across different diseases impacts on social, civic and po... Read More about General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer.

Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK (2018)
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Boyce, C. J., Delaney, L., Ferguson, E., & Wood, A. M. (2018). Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK. Journal of Affective Disorders, 234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.03.003

Background: Central banks set economy-wide interest rates to meet exclusively economic objectives. There is a strong link between indebtedness and psychiatric morbidity at the individual level, with interest rates being an important factor determinin... Read More about Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK.

It’s only fair: blood donors are more sensitive to violations of fairness norms than non-donors: converging psychometric and ultimatum game evidence (2018)
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Ferguson, E., & Lawrence, C. (2018). It’s only fair: blood donors are more sensitive to violations of fairness norms than non-donors: converging psychometric and ultimatum game evidence. Vox Sanguinis, 113(3), 242-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.12636

Background and Objectives: The design of effective donor recruitment campaigns requires an accurate understanding of donor motivations. This requires cross-validation of theoretically derived, psychometrically assessed motivations with behavioural pr... Read More about It’s only fair: blood donors are more sensitive to violations of fairness norms than non-donors: converging psychometric and ultimatum game evidence.