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A meta-analysis of loneliness and use of primary health care (2021)
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Sirois, F. M., & Owens, J. (2023). A meta-analysis of loneliness and use of primary health care. Health Psychology Review, 17(2), 193-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2021.1986417

Loneliness is a growing public health concern that is associated with a range of negative health outcomes. The extent to which loneliness may also be associated with greater use of primary health care remains unclear. The present meta-analysis aimed... Read More about A meta-analysis of loneliness and use of primary health care.

Neural connectome prospectively encodes the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Chen, Z., Feng, P., Becker, B., Xu, T., Nassar, M. R., Sirois, F., Hommel, B., Zhang, C., He, Q., Qiu, J., He, L., Lei, X., Chen, H., & Feng, T. (2021). Neural connectome prospectively encodes the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neurobiology of Stress, 15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100378

A person-centred test of multidimensional perfectionism and health in people with chronic fatigue syndrome versus healthy controls (2021)
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Sirois, F. M., Toussaint, L., Hirsch, J. K., Kohls, N., & Offenbächer, M. (2021). A person-centred test of multidimensional perfectionism and health in people with chronic fatigue syndrome versus healthy controls. Personality and Individual Differences, 181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111036

Theory and evidence suggests that person-centred models may be especially relevant for elucidating the role of perfectionism in health and well-being in those with chronic health conditions. This may be particularly true for conditions, such as chron... Read More about A person-centred test of multidimensional perfectionism and health in people with chronic fatigue syndrome versus healthy controls.

The prospective effects of self-compassion on depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress: A study in inflammatory bowel disease (2021)
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Trindade, I. A., & Sirois, F. M. (2021). The prospective effects of self-compassion on depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress: A study in inflammatory bowel disease. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110429

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To date, research with people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has only examined how self-compassion is linked with stress, and have exclusively used cross-sectional designs. This study aims to examine the associations of self-compass... Read More about The prospective effects of self-compassion on depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress: A study in inflammatory bowel disease.

Factors Associated With Psychological Distress in Health-Care Workers During an Infectious Disease Outbreak: A Rapid Systematic Review of the Evidence (2021)
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Sirois, F. M., & Owens, J. (2021). Factors Associated With Psychological Distress in Health-Care Workers During an Infectious Disease Outbreak: A Rapid Systematic Review of the Evidence. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.589545

Objective: Health-care workers (HCW) are at risk for psychological distress during an infectious disease outbreak, such as the coronavirus pandemic, due to the demands of dealing with a public health emergency. This rapid systematic review examined t... Read More about Factors Associated With Psychological Distress in Health-Care Workers During an Infectious Disease Outbreak: A Rapid Systematic Review of the Evidence.

Emotional adaptation to relationship dissolution in parents and non-parents: A new conceptual model and measure (2020)
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Millings, A., Hirst, S. L., Sirois, F., & Houlston, C. (2020). Emotional adaptation to relationship dissolution in parents and non-parents: A new conceptual model and measure. PLoS ONE, 15(10), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239712

Relationship dissolution can cause declines in emotional well-being, particularly if there are children involved. Individuals’ capacity to cope with the pragmatics of the situation, such as agreeing childcare arrangements, can be impaired. Before now... Read More about Emotional adaptation to relationship dissolution in parents and non-parents: A new conceptual model and measure.

Sleeping perfectly? Trait perfectionism, perceived stress, and sleep quality (2020)
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Molnar, D. S., Janssen, W. F., & Sirois, F. M. (2020). Sleeping perfectly? Trait perfectionism, perceived stress, and sleep quality. Personality and Individual Differences, 167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110244

The aims of our study were to test the role of stress in explaining the links between multidimensional perfectionism and sleep quality and to replicate our findings with two distinct samples and two different measures of perfectionism. Sample 1 inclu... Read More about Sleeping perfectly? Trait perfectionism, perceived stress, and sleep quality.

A meta-analysis of parental multidimensional perfectionism and child psychological outcomes (2020)
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Lilley, C., Sirois, F., & Rowse, G. (2020). A meta-analysis of parental multidimensional perfectionism and child psychological outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences, 162, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110015

Multidimensional perfectionism is a vulnerability factor for poor individual psychological well-being. Less is known about how parental perfectionism is associated with risk for poor child psychological outcomes. The aim of the current meta-analysis... Read More about A meta-analysis of parental multidimensional perfectionism and child psychological outcomes.

Neuroanatomical substrates accounting for the effect of present hedonistic time perspective on risk preference: the mediating role of right posterior parietal cortex (2020)
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Xu, T., Chen, Z., Sirois, F. M., Zhang, R., Yang, Y., & Feng, T. (2020). Neuroanatomical substrates accounting for the effect of present hedonistic time perspective on risk preference: the mediating role of right posterior parietal cortex. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-019-00251-z

The preference for taking risk troubles people across multiple domains including health, economics, and social well-being. Prior research has demonstrated that risk preference can be influenced by time perspective (TP). However, little is known about... Read More about Neuroanatomical substrates accounting for the effect of present hedonistic time perspective on risk preference: the mediating role of right posterior parietal cortex.

Examining the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 20 diverse samples: Support for use of a total score and six subscale scores. (2019)
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Neff, K. D., Tóth-Király, I., Yarnell, L. M., Arimitsu, K., Castilho, P., Ghorbani, N., Guo, H. X., Hirsch, J. K., Hupfeld, J., Hutz, C. S., Kotsou, I., Lee, W. K., Montero-Marin, J., Sirois, F. M., de Souza, L. K., Svendsen, J. L., Wilkinson, R. B., & Mantzios, M. (2019). Examining the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 20 diverse samples: Support for use of a total score and six subscale scores. Psychological Assessment, 31(1), https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000629

Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves (2019)
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Sirois, F. M. (2019). Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves. Current Psychology, 40(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00338-2

People often fail at following through with their health behaviour goals. How health goals are cognitively represented holds promise for understanding successful health behaviour change. Health-related possible selves (HPS) reflect cognitive represen... Read More about Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves.

Giving in when feeling less good: Procrastination, action control, and social temptations (2018)
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Sirois, F. M., & Giguère, B. (2018). Giving in when feeling less good: Procrastination, action control, and social temptations. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12243

Emotion-regulation perspectives on procrastination highlighting the primacy of short-term mood regulation focus mainly on negative affect. Positive affect, however, has received much less attention and has not been considered with respect to social t... Read More about Giving in when feeling less good: Procrastination, action control, and social temptations.

Self-compassion Improves Parental Well-being in Response to Challenging Parenting Events (2017)
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Sirois, F. M., Bögels, S., & Emerson, L.-M. (2018). Self-compassion Improves Parental Well-being in Response to Challenging Parenting Events. The Journal of Psychology, 153(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2018.1523123

Shame and guilt are common during the course of parenting and can reflect feelings of “bad self “and “bad behaviour” in relation to parenting events. Self-compassion is known to be beneficial for well-being by reducing negative emotions, yet there is... Read More about Self-compassion Improves Parental Well-being in Response to Challenging Parenting Events.