Brooke Brady

UNSW Sydney | UNSW · School of Psychology

Subjective views of aging have been associated with positive health-promoting behaviours and well-being. While age-related changes are considered fundamental to views of aging, the role of declining hearing function in shaping these age views remains a largely unexplored area. Within the scope of this study, we hypothesized that poor hearing functi...

Subjective age (SA), measured as how old you feel, is associated with positive health and developmental outcomes. Despite the increased use of multi-dimensional items, there is great heterogeneity in how it is implemented. SA measures often use different scoring methods which may impact subsequent analyses and interpretations. To understand the dai...

Background Culture and its practice is a recognised, but not well understood factor, in Aboriginal health and wellbeing. Our study aimed to explore how health and wellbeing are phenomenologically connected to cultural practices, foods, medicines, languages, and Country, through the platform of ‘on-Country’ camps facilitated by Aboriginal cultural k...

Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ have sustained their cultural practices for over 60,000 years which fundamentally impacts their health and wellbeing. Recent literature emphasizes cultural connection as a contributor to good public health, yet the mechanisms through which cultural engagement promotes health and wellbeing re...

Indigenous cultural health is an emerging field of research and reflects the unique connections Indigenous peoples have with their Country, culture, and knowledge systems. This narrative review explores the concept of cultural health focusing on the interplay between culture, health, and wellbeing within settler colonial contexts. The review is mos...

Objectives: This systematic review aimed to synthesise the evidence on potential differences in financial, social, health and safety-related decision-making between younger and older adults. Methods: Trial, experimental, and prospective studies including older (60+) and younger adults that reported on quantitative decision-making outcome measures (...

Objectives Interpersonal relevancy appraisals are a dynamic and understudied aspect of human social cognition. Despite their importance, there are no existing measures. This study developed and validated a new measure of self-perceived interpersonal threat, opportunity, and invisibility appraisals among a life-course sample of adults. We also explo...

Background ‘Cognitive reserve’ (CR) refers to a model of active protection against cognitive decline conferred by the adaptability of one’s cognitive processes. Research on life‐course accumulation of reserve and impact of factors like gender is limited. We examined long‐term effects of CR on episodic memory in two population‐based cohorts. Method...

Introduction The health and well-being of Aboriginal Australians is inextricably linked to culture and Country. Our study challenges deficit approaches to health inequities by seeking to examine how cultural connection, practice and resilience among Aboriginal peoples through participation in ‘cultural camps’ held on sites of cultural significance...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have explored dementia risk according to sex and gender including for transgender and non‐binary adults. This study evaluated dementia risk factors and risk scores among cisgender, transgender, and non‐binary adults. METHODS Observational data were drawn from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. A matched‐c...

BACKGROUND Traditional longitudinal ageing research involves studying the same individuals over a long period of time, with measurement intervals typically several years apart. App-based studies have the potential to provide new insights into processes of life-course ageing by improving the accessibility, temporal specificity, and real-world integr...

Background Traditional longitudinal aging research involves studying the same individuals over a long period, with measurement intervals typically several years apart. App-based studies have the potential to provide new insights into life-course aging by improving the accessibility, temporal specificity, and real-world integration of data collectio...

Gender is dynamic across the life-course for all people. This is true for you, me and the collective ‘us’. In this perspective paper, we invite you to reflect on how changes in the experience and expression of gender can be most appropriately viewed as a normal part of human development, diversity, and growth. We can find gender’s dynamism in at le...

Habits play an important role in physical activity (PA) engagement; however, these associations in older people are not well understood. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between engagement in types of PA and their automaticity in older people, using an observational, cross-sectional design. Current hours engaged in planned ex...

Objective: Despite theoretical models emphasizing the likely importance of adaptive decision-making to maintaining safety on the roads, there has been a lack of research investigating this topic. This exploratory study aimed to determine if decision-making under risk conditions, as measured by the Game of Dice Task (GDT), can explain additional var...

Introduction: Previous research has suggested that individual differences in executive functions, memory and reinforcement sensitivity are associated with performance on behavioral decision-making tasks. Decision-making performance may also decline with age, however there is a lack of research on the interplay of cognitive and affective processes,...

Objectives The present study assessed age-related differences in the success of instructed mindful attention and positive reappraisal, as well as trait affect and emotion regulation. Methods Young and older adults were instructed to regulate their emotions while viewing frightening and amusing films using three separate instructions (just watch, p...

Sufficient physical activity is crucial to maintaining independence, health and wellbeing during ageing, yet physical inactivity is common in older people. Identifying factors associated with physical activity engagement is essential to develop novel approaches to increase activity in older people. Automatic, context-dependent habits may play an im...

Background Physical inactivity is a key risk factor for dementia, yet physical inactivity is common in older adults. Increasing physical activity levels in this population is an urgent health priority. Automatic, context‐dependent habits may play an important role in physical activity behaviour. This study aimed to investigate the relationship betw...

This paper draws on the largest and most comprehensive Australian research to date that explores the campus climate for sexuality and gender diverse (SGD) people at one university. Using a mixed-method approach that incorporated an online survey open to all students and staff (n = 2395), face-to-face in-depth interviews with key stakeholders (n = 1...

Fear of heterosexism—as distinct from actual experiences of heterosexism—plays a significant role in staff and students lives on campus. Ambient workplace heterosexism provides a context for staff and students about what to expect from their peers and colleagues, and shapes the daily activities of those who perceive heterosexism as a regulating for...

This article presents a broad narrative review of the epidemiological evidence on how and why the mental health of older adults varies by gender. We draw upon international research literatures spanning gerontology and population mental health, as well as major reports from global health agencies. Compared with older men, older women are more likel...

The 24-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire – Short Form (FFMQ-SF) was developed to measure five facets of dispositional mindfulness: observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judgment of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner experience. The FFMQ-SF is increasingly used with older adult populations, despite not having been appr...

The process model of emotion regulation (ER) is based on stages in the emotion generative process at which regulation may occur. This meta-analysis examines age-related differences in the subjective, behavioral, and physiological outcomes of instructed ER strategies that may be initiated after an emotional event has occurred; attentional deployment...

Discrimination, harassment, and violence can mediate staff and students’ experiences of education and work. While there is increasing knowledge about these experiences in primary and secondary education, very little is known about these experiences in higher education. This paper draws from landmark research that examines the interpersonal, educati...

Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) among a sample of older community-dwelling males and females and to also assess gender differences in the association between emotion regulation and positive and negative affect. Method: The ERQ and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-10 were ad...

Objectives: The degree to which older adults experience emotional empathy and show subsequent prosocial behavior versus experience personal distress in response to another's distress remains unclear. Method: Young (n = 40; 17-29 years) and older (n = 39; 61-82 years) adults watched videos of individuals expressing pain or no pain. Pain mimicry w...

The initial aim of this research was to investigate the experiences of sexuality and gender diverse (SGD) staff and students. After discussions with Western’s executive, the remit of the project was expanded to include perceptions and attitudes to sexuality and gender diversity on campus, (un)safe places, and bystander capacity. By including non-SG...