Browsing by Author "Furnham, Adrian"
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Advertisement-programme congruence in memory of sexual fragrance advertisements
Wong, Hiu Yan Amy; McClelland, Alastair; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The current study explored the effect of sexual content in advertisements and the programme–advertisement congruence on the memory of sexual and nonsexual advertisements. Seventy participants (41 females and 29 males) were ... -
An integrated perspective on insight
Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Furnham, Adrian; Hærem, Thorvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The present study on insight is based on an integration of Kaplan and Simon’s (1990) information processing theory of insight, a cognitive style theory, and achievement motivation theory. The style theory is the Assimilator ... -
Antecedents and consequences of chronic impulsive buying: Can impulsive buying be understood as dysfunctional self‐regulation?
Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Dibb, Sally; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Researchers reach different conclusions about the functional or dysfunctional nature of impulsive buying behavior. While many note the use of impulsive buying as a form of mood regulation, there is disagreement about whether ... -
Are modern health worries associated with medical conspiracy theories?
Lahrach, Y.; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study was concerned with whether Medical Conspiracy Theories (MCTs), along with other variables (demographics, ideology and health perceptions) are associated with Modern Health Worries (MHWs). MCTs were significantly ... -
Are modern health worries associated with medical conspiracy theories?
Lahrach, Y; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study was concerned with whether Medical Conspiracy Theories (MCTs), along with other variables (demographics, ideology and health perceptions) are associated with Modern Health Worries (MHWs). MCTs were significantly ... -
Associations between childhood biomedical factors, maternal smoking, personality traits, Body and Mass Index and the prevalence of asthma in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Objective: The study set out to investigate socio-economic, biomedical, health and behavioural and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the prevalence of asthma in adulthood, drawing data from ... -
Beliefs about the causes and cures of depression
Furnham, Adrian; Ritchie, William; Lay, Alixe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Aims: To test whether the group would recognise both vignettes with having depression and that the favoured cure would be Psychotherapy/Talking Cure. Method: In all, 320 adults completed a two-part questionnaire. In ... -
Breast size dissatisfaction, but not body dissatisfaction, is associated with breast self-examination frequency and breast change detection in British women
Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Studies examining associations between body image and breast self-examination (BSE) have returned mixed findings, but this may be a function of focusing on global body image. Here, we examined the impact of breast size ... -
Childhood Cognitive Ability Predicts Adult Financial Well-Being
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study set out to investigate to what extent childhood cognitive ability, along with personality traits, education and occupational status, as well as marital status influence adult financial success. Data were drawn ... -
Childhood heart problems, adulthood emotional stability, and sex associated with self-report heart conditions in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Green, Andy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The present study investigated biomedical, social, and psychological factors associated with self-reported heart conditions in adulthood in a British cohort. In total, 5697 (50.7% males) participants with data on parental ... -
Childhood onset of migraine, gender, parental social class, and trait neuroticism as predictors of the prevalence of migraine in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Treglown, Luke; Green, Andy; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Kornilaki, Ekaterina N.; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study investigated the effects of socio-demographic and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood on the prevalence of migraine in adulthood using data from The National Child Development Studies (NCDS), a birth ... -
Cognitive style and competence motivation in creative problem solving
Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study was conceived by the idea that there exist different kinds of cognitive style-based, task competencies that have implications for task motivation and cognitive performance on creative problem-solving tasks/insight. ... -
Comparing mental health literacy and physical health literacy: an exploratory study
Wickstead, Robert; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: This study compared mental health and physical health literacy using five health problems from each area. Aims: The aim was to determine whether the same group had better physical than mental health literacy ... -
Conscientiousness and occupational prestige as independent predictors of the change of tobacco use in adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study investigated the association between childhood intelligence, personality traits, parental social class, maternal smoking, educational qualifications and occupation prestige, and smoking status assessed at different ... -
Correlations Between Personality, Affective and Filial Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and Psychological Well-Being in a Sample of Italian Adolescents.
Furnham, Adrian; Tommasi, Marco; Grassi, Paola; Balsamo, Michela; Picconi, Laura; Saggino, Aristide (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Adolescence is a critical period for the emergence of a balanced personality in adults. Extraversion, neuroticism, and affective self-efficacy beliefs in emotion regulation showed to be good predictors of psychological ... -
Dark side correlates of job reliability and stress tolerance in two large samples
Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study set out to examine how dark-side traits (derailers) are related to Stress Tolerance and Job Reliability. Over 8000 adult Britons from two separate assessment centres completed two validated questionnaires: the ... -
Early indicators of self-esteem in teenagers: Findings from a nationally representative sample
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explored a longitudinal data set of 3096 British sixteen year olds with data collected in 1970, 1980, and 1986. It examined how parental social status at birth; intelligence, locus of control and behavioural ... -
Educational achievement and traits emotional stability and agreeableness as predictors of the occurrence of backache in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Green, Andy; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study investigated the associations between psychological as well as social factors in childhood and adulthood and the occurrence of adulthood back pain in a longitudinal birth cohort study. The analytic sample comprises ... -
Effect of directness of exposure and trauma type on Mental Health Literacy of PTSD
Lee, Cheuk Yan; Furnham, Adrian; Merritt, Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Research has demonstrated that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most widely recognized mental disorders (Furnham & Lousley, 2012), but recognition is affected by trauma type (Merritt et al., ... -
Emotional stability, conscientiousness, and self-reported hypertension in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective: To investigate social and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with self-reported hypertension in adulthood. Method: Using data from the National Child Development Study, a nationally ...