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Emotional adaptation to relationship dissolution in parents and non-parents: A new conceptual model and measure (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Trait procrastination undermines outcome and efficacy expectancies for achieving health-related possible selves (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Sirois, F. M., Bögels, S., & Emerson, L. (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.

“At least David Cameron resigned”: The protective effects of just-world beliefs for counterfactual thinking after Brexit (2017)
Journal Article
Sirois, F. M., & Iyer, A. (2018). “At least David Cameron resigned”: The protective effects of just-world beliefs for counterfactual thinking after Brexit. Personality and Individual Differences, 121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.09.015

Following an unexpected geo-political event, such as the United Kingdom's June 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union (“Brexit”), people will make counterfactuals that mentally undo the outcome and imagine what might have been had the outco... Read More about “At least David Cameron resigned”: The protective effects of just-world beliefs for counterfactual thinking after Brexit.