Grace Pretty's research while affiliated with University of Southern Queensland and other places
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Publications (21)
Environmental stewardship networks flourish across Australia. Although the environment benefits, this article looks to identify what volunteers draw from their stewardship. The authors adapted 16 questions that purportedly tap environmental stewardship motivation and administered them to a convenience sample of 318 university students and then to 8...
This study examined the traumatic sequelae associated with childhood sexual abuse from a contextualized perspective, taking into account childhood physical and psychological abuse experiences and adult trauma. Participants were 90 (45 men and 45 women) competitive athletes, purposefully selected to balance the distributions of sex and reported chil...
Abstract Sense of community is a concept that has considerable currency within a vast range of disciplines and practices. It serves as a criterion for the assessment of social capitol; the generation of social policies; the development of social and geographical communities; and the evaluation of community capacity building. Community psychologists...
This study explores whether community sentiment factors can mediate structural disadvantage factors in rural youths’ intentions to stay in their home communities. In total, 3,023 Australians ages 13 to 18 years responded to items assessing community sentiment (belonging, sense of community, and social support) and subjective quality of life. Struct...
This study examined the utility of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), past behaviour, and spontaneous implementation intentions in predicting exercise behaviour. The psychological correlates of spontaneous implementation intentions and the moderating effects of intention, perceived behavioural control, past behaviour, and implementation intenti...
This study examined the utility of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) along with additional constructs in predicting exercise, and explored the motivational antecedents of exercise intentions. Participants included 162 Canadian University College students (61% females). Measures of TPB, autonomous and controlling intention, perceived autonomy su...
Quality of life is a popular measure of outcomes and its widespread use has led to recent calls for a better understanding of the construct, emphasizing the need to build a substantial body of knowledge around what determines perceptions of life quality. Three widely reported and used conceptual principles are examined in this study.
Self-ratings o...
This retrospective study explores, through quantitative and qualitative methods, the relationship of two variables (perpetrator relationship and perpetrator methodology) to posttraumatic and dissociative symptomatology. The quantitative sample comprised a nonpsychiatric group (N = 39) of Australian adults reporting sexual abuse histories. A MANOVA...
Understanding the complex dynamics involved in sexual abuse trauma is of central importance to clinicians working with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In this study 20 volunteer participants formed 2 gender-balanced groups differentiated by clinical (vs. nonclinical) levels of distress. A negative case analysis revealed group differences...
This study examines youths' experiences of loneliness and community connectedness in relation to seven domains of subjective quality of life among pre-adolescents, early adolescents, and middle adolescents. Participants consisted of 464 youth, ranging in age from 11 to 17 years, from two rural towns. Youth reported on their subjective experiences o...
Community integration has increasingly become the focus of research and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Recent research has demonstrated that community integration needs to be more than simply living within a community, people need to use the community and feel like they belong. This study pioneers the use of a sense of community...
A study was carried out to examine the ability of equestrians to accurately report precompetition emotions and thoughts across varying time delays (3, 7, and 14 days) after competition. Forty male and female dressage riders were randomly divided into two equal groups: participants who watched their video-taped precompetition routine before respondi...
Subjective quality of life is a popular measureof outcomes across fields as disparate asmedical research, community and healthpsychology and sociology. Its widespread usehas led to recent calls for a betterunderstanding of the psychological determinantsof the construct, emphasising the need to builda substantial body of knowledge around whatdetermi...
This paper reports the findings relating to discharge planning from a larger study (Hegney et al 2001) that aimed to investigate options to improve care co-ordination between the aged, community, acute and primary care sectors for the elderly residents of a large provincial town. The data, which were collected from a wide variety of aged care stake...
This article reports the first phase of a three-phase research programme investigating the prevalence and long-term sequelae associated with sexual abuse in a non-psychiatric sample of male and female Australian athletes. A cross-sectional, retrospective design, using a mailed survey, provided a quantitative assessment of sexual abuse prevalence in...
Community integration has long been acknowledged as a foundational goal of community-based care for young people with an intellectual disability. However, studies of community integration that consider the experiences of young people who have always lived in the "ordinary community" have been limited. This study reports a comparative analysis of aw...
Community integration has long been acknowledged as a foundational goal of community-based care for young people with an intellectual disability. However, studies of community integration that consider the experiences of young people who have always lived in the "ordinary community" have been limited. This study reports a comparative analysis of aw...
This work considers a central theme that arises when community engagement processes 'get stuck' as a result of divisions in the community and how to understand the matters that are implicit and explicit in conflict to facilitate its resolution. The issue at hand in this project is water allocation, which is becoming increasingly contentious both gl...
Citations
... Our studies are not without limitations. First, in both studies, we did not measure athletes' appraisals of the event in the few seconds immediately before the event started due to ethical reasons (Tenenbaum et al., 2002). Evidence has indicated that appraisals are fluid (Blascovich & Mendes, 2000;Chadha et al., 2019), and thus, it is plausible that the appraisals athletes reported an hour before the competition changed in the imminent seconds before the start. ...
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... Echter, uit onderzoek blijkt dat mensen met een verstandelijke beperking wel fysiek aanwezig zijn in de buurt, maar dat zij hier nog weinig van profiteren (Verdonschot, De Witte, Reichrath, Buntinx, & Curfs, 2009;Cummins & Lau, 2003, Pretty, Rapley, & Bramston, 2002. Het louter plaatsen van mensen in de samenleving betekent dus niet automatisch dat zij er ook in worden opgenomen. ...
... A central part of UCE success is the readiness and commitment of any community to be part of the engagement process. Specifically, 'readiness' of a community to capture and prioritise its health needs is based on the premise that there is strong impetus and commitment from the community itself and that there are sufficient structures within the community that are adequately developed to enable effective cooperation, mutual support and empowerment (Grasby, Zammit, Pretty and Bramston 2005). ...
... Pretty has nonetheless continued to apply her extensive knowledge base in adolescent sense of community to a wide range of contexts within Australia and abroad, particularly with a view to enhancing the well-being, resilience, and civic participation of young people-another example of the creative adaptation and localised application of CP theories originating elsewhere. With Bishop, Fisher, and Sonn (2005), she produced a paper for the APS on the potential contribution of sense of community theory and research to understandings of everyday life in Australia, alongside currently popular concepts such as social capital, community engagement, and capacity building. ...
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... As mentioned, dissociation may be an adaptive coping response to stressful and potentially traumatic events in the short run [7,25]. However, especially among athletes with histories of childhood abuse, dissociative reactions may overgeneralize to any stressful situation in competitive settings, thereby potentially impeding performance [19,26]. ...
... At the same time, environmental activism goals and actions come with consequences, such as impacting well-being [7][8][9]. Many of the negative impacts of environmental activism can be linked to the cultural reality that one privileges certain abilities over others and that certain groups have the power to shape the discussions on which instill a sense of responsibility for environmental stewardship in students [195][196][197][198][199][200][201]. One study noted that "there is a knowledge gap between the perceived environmental impact and actual impact on high-impact and low-impact pro-environmental behaviors" [177] (p. 1). ...
... Various studies have found a positive correlation between social support and the well-being of immigrants, identifying support resources as predictive factors (Amit, 2010;McMichael & Manderson, 2004;Pretty et al., 2006;Zhou & Lin, 2016). Although satisfaction with life is only one of the factors that define a wider construct of subjective well-being, it has typically been used as a measure of well-being in numerous research studies. ...
... (Bramston, Bruggerman, & Pretty, 2002; Smoot, 2004). ...
... The prevalence of harassment and abuse in sport is difficult to quantify in elite sport due to significant underreporting [6]; however, it is believed that it occurs at all levels of sport and in all sports [36][37][38]. There have been several studies published on the prevalence of sexual abuse in sport. ...
... In small country towns, like those where participants in this study lived, people are close to large open spaces, but services and public transport are usually limited in range and scale, or missing altogether. On the other hand, relationships among community members tend to be close (Pretty et al., 2002), and people can engage in locally generated sporting and cultural activities (Ouellette-Kuntz, 2012). ...
