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Stress and Resilience

Braithwaite, E. C., Walker, L., Cooper, C., & Jones, M. V. (2025). Emails 24/7: Agile working or electronic leash? Psychreg Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/p2cm

Jones, M. V., Smith, N., Walker, L., Turner, M., McCann, A., Braithwaite, E., Burns, D., Emmerson, P., Webster, L. V., & Jones, M. (2025). Development of the ARENA training programme for resilient performance in defence and security settings. Military Psychology, 37(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2023.2268495

Smith, N., Bostock, L., Barrett, E. C., Sandal, G. M., Jones, M. V., & Wuebker, R. (2024). Profiles of resilient psychosocial function during three isolated ski expeditions in the High Arctic. Stress & Health, 40(3), e3331. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3331

Potts, A. J., Didymus, F. F., & Kaiseler, M. (2024). Psychological stress and psychological well-being among sports coaches: A close proximity longitudinal daily diary study. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 36(6), 925–951. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2024.2344847

Jones, M. V., Smith, N., Burns, D., Braithwaite, E., Turner, M., McCann, A., Walker, L., Emmerson, P., Webster, L., & Jones, M. (2022). A systematic review of resilient performance in defence and security settings. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0273015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273015

Turner, M. J., Miller, A., Youngs, H., Barber, N., Brick, N. E., Chadha, N. J., Chandler, C., Coyle, M., Didymus, F. F., Evans, A. L., Jones, K., McCann, B., Meijen, C., & Rossato, C. J. L. (2022). “I must do this!”: A latent profile analysis approach to understanding the role of irrational beliefs and motivation regulation in mental and physical health. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40(8), 934–949. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2022.2042124

Barker, J. B., Slater, M. J., Pugh, G., Mellalieu, S. D., McCarthy, P. J., Jones, M. V., & Moran, A. (2020). The effectiveness of psychological skills training in sport using single-case designs: A meta-regression analysis. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 51, 101746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101746

Meijen, C., Turner, M., Jones, M. V., Sheffield, D., & McCarthy, P. (2020). A theory of challenge and threat states in athletes: A revised conceptualization. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 126. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00126

Norris, L., Didymus, F. F., & Kaiseler, M. (2017). Stressors, coping, and well-being among sports coaches: A systematic review. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 33, 93–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.08.005

Trauma and Recovery

Brooks, M., Banyard, V., Wang, X., & Hamby, S. (2026). Psychosocial strengths associated with higher functioning after interpersonal adversity in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0002109

Brooks, M., O’Brien, R. O., Livanou, M., Turner, M. J., & Whittenbury, K. (2025). Collective violence, strengths, and perceived posttraumatic growth: A scoping review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 26(2), 342–355. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380241309383

Whittenbury, K., Clark, S. L., Brooks, M., Murphy, T., Turner, M. J., & Fawcett, H. (2025). Strengths for helping professionals exposed to secondary trauma: A scoping review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 26(2), 251–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380241309371

Brooks, M., Glynn, J., Fawcett, H., Barnes, A., Carew, R., Errickson, D., & Livanou, M. (2025). Trauma in the courtroom: The role of prior trauma and mental health on stress and emotional responses in mock jurors. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64(3), 603–622. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12522

Turner, M. J., Costello, N., Miller, A., & Wood, A. G. (2024). When not hitting your sales target is “the end of the world”: Examining the effects of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy on irrational beliefs and emotional reactivity. Stress & Health, 40(4), e3391. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3391

Porcheret, K., Dyb, G., Wentzel-Larsen, T., & Stensland, S. Ø. (2024). Predictors of early adulthood insomnia following exposure to a single mass violence attack during adolescence: 7–13-year follow-up. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2312750. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2312750

Livanou, M., Whittenbury, K., & Di Basilio, D. (2024). Listening to other people’s traumatic experiences: What makes it hard and what could protect professionals from developing related distress? Stress & Health, 40(3), e3353. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3353

Davies, L., Brooks, M., & Braithwaite, E. C. (2022). Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and burnout as antecedents to anxiety and depression in UK police officers: A mixed-method analysis. The Police Journal, 95(2), 305–329. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X221106107

Inclusion and Identity in Performance Settings

Hoare, E., Olive, L. S., McGinty-Minister, K. L., McMurtry, C., Walton, C. C., Hall, K., Reardon, C. L., Purcell, R., & Berk, M. (2025). Neurodiversity and the mental health and well-being of elite athletes. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 59(16), 1116–1117. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2024-109325

McGinty-Minister, K. L., Swettenham, L., Champ, F. M., & Whitehead, A. E. (2024). “Smile more”: Women’s experiences of sexism while working in sport from a socio-ecological perspective. Sport in Society, 27(11), 1818–1841. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2321357

Turner, M. J., Evans, A., Fortune, G., & Chadha, N. (2024). “I must make the grade!”: The role of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, exam anxiety, and affect in academic self-concept. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 37(6), 721–744. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2360732

McGinty-Minister, K. L., Champ, F., Eubank, M., Littlewood, M., & Whitehead, A. (2023). Stakeholder conceptualizations of mental health and mental illness in English Premier League football academies. Managing Sport and Leisure, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2023.2239259

Kaiseler, M., Levy, A., Nicholls, A. R., & Madigan, D. J. (2019). The independent and interactive effects of the Big Five personality dimensions upon dispositional coping and coping effectiveness in sport. International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2017.1362459

Sleep and Recovery

Porcheret, K., Hopstock, L. A., & Nilsen, K. B. (2024). Prevalence of insomnia in a general adult population cohort using different diagnostic criteria: The seventh survey of the Tromsø study 2015–2016. Sleep Medicine, 119, 289–295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2024.05.002

Porcheret, K., Dyb, G., Wentzel-Larsen, T., & Stensland, S. Ø. (2024). Predictors of early adulthood insomnia following exposure to a single mass violence attack during adolescence: 7–13 year follow-up from the Utøya and HUNT studies. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2312750. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2312750

Ben Simon, E., Rossi, A., Harvey, A. G., Walker, M. P., & Goldstein, A. N. (2020). Overanxious and underslept. Sleep, 43(8), zsaa033. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa033

Porcheret, K., Iyadurai, L., Bonsall, M. B., Goodwin, G. M., Beer, S. A., Darwent, M., & Holmes, E. A. (2020). Sleep and intrusive memories immediately after a traumatic event in emergency department patients. Sleep, 43(8), zsaa033. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa033

Applied Behavioural Science and Innovation

Brooks, M., & Turner, M. J. (2026). A longitudinal model of emotion pathways to growth, depreciation, and health outcomes after life stress. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 39(2), 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2558729

Turner, M. J. (2025). Tales of rationality: The Rational Emotive Behavioural Monomyth as a metaphorical alignment of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and the hero’s journey narrative structure. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1572636. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1572636

Eve, Z., Turner, M., Di Basilio, D., Harkin, B., Yates, A., Persson, S., Henry, J., Williams, A., Walton, G., Jones, M. V., Whitley, C., & Craddock, N. (2023). Therapeutic games to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: A systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2938

Hostler, T. J. (2023). The invisible workload of open research. Journal of Trial & Error, 4(1), Article mr5. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5

Henrich, S., & Worthington, R. (2023). Let your clients fight dragons: A rapid evidence assessment regarding the therapeutic utility of Dungeons & Dragons. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 18(3), 383–401. https://doi.org/10.1080/15401383.2022.2071284

Carenzo, L., Braithwaite, E. C., Carfagna, F., Franc, J., Ingrassia, P. L., Turner, M., Slater, M., & Jones, M. V. (2020). Cognitive appraisals and team performance under stress: A simulation study. Medical Education, 54, 254–263. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14050

Dixon, J., Jones, M. V., & Turner, M. J. (2020). The benefits of a challenge approach on match day: Investigating cardiovascular reactivity in professional academy soccer players. European Journal of Sport Science, 20, 375–385. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2019.1629179

Biomarkers of Stress and Adaption

Incollingo Rodriguez, A. C., Smith, L., Harris, R., Nephew, B. C., Santos, H. S., Jr., & Murgatroyd, C. (2024). Oxytocin modulates sensitivity to acculturation and discrimination stress in pregnancy. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 141, 105769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105769

Rodriguez, A. C. I., Polcari, J. J., Nephew, B. C., Harris, R., Zhang, C., Murgatroyd, C., & Santos, H. S., Jr. (2022). Acculturative stress, telomere length, and postpartum depression in Latinx mothers. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 147, 301–306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.018

Alyamani, R., Nephew, B. C., & Murgatroyd, C. (2021). Intergenerational changes in hippocampal transcription in an animal model of maternal depression. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55, 2242–2252. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15180

Technological and Data-Driven Approaches

Diconne, K., Kountouriotis, G. K., Paltoglou, A. E., Parker, A., & Hostler, T. J. (2022). Presenting KAPODI: The searchable database of emotional stimuli sets. Emotion Review, 14(1), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739211072803

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., et al. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089–1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x

Rodrigues, S., Paiva, J. S., Dias, D., Pimentel, G., Kaiseler, M., & Cunha, J. P. S. (2018). Wearable biomonitoring platform for the assessment of stress and its impact on cognitive performance of firefighters: An experimental study. Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, 14(1), 250–262. https://doi.org/10.2174/1745017901814010250

Workplace Wellbeing, Productivity, and Team Dynamics

Braithwaite, E. C., Walker, L., Cooper, C., & Jones, M. V. (2025). Emails 24/7: Agile working or electronic leash? Psychreg Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/p2cm

Smith, N., Jones, M. V., Braithwaite, E., Walker, L. I., McCann, A., Turner, M., Burns, D., Emmerson, P., Webster, L. V., & Jones, M. I. (2024). Defence and security perspectives on the operationalization, measurement, and training of resilient performance under stress. Performance Enhancement & Health, 12(1), 100272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2023.100272

Walker, L., Braithwaite, E. C., Jones, M. V., Suckling, S., & Burns, D. (2023). “Make it the done thing”: An exploration of attitudes towards rest breaks, productivity and wellbeing while working from home. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 96(7), 1015–1027. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-023-01985-6

Carenzo, L., Braithwaite, E. C., Carfagna, F., Franc, J., Ingrassia, P. L., Turner, M., Slater, M., & Jones, M. V. (2020). Cognitive appraisals and team performance under stress. Medical Education, 54, 254–263. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14050

Norris, L. A., Didymus, F. F., & Kaiseler, M. (2020). Understanding social networks and social support resources with sports coaches. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 48, Article 101665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101665