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Alex M. Wood is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, education, sociology and political science, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Wood's main research topics include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, optimism, hope, and well-being, income, poverty, and inequality, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, infant development and preterm care, alongside sexual function and dysfunction studies.

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • "Inequality and Social Rank: Income Increases Buy More Life Satisfaction in More Equal Countries," 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Watch Me Grow - Electronic (WMG-E) surveillance approach to identify and address child development, parental mental health, and psychosocial needs: study protocol," 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • "The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction," 2023, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Positive Perceptions of Parenting and their Links to Theorized Core Emotional Needs," 2020, Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "The role of perceived social norms in non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality: A systematic scoping review," 2023, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wood include Gordon D. A. Brown, Christopher J. Boyce, John Philip Louis, Adam T. Davidson, and George Lockwood.

Their research has been published multiple times in several journals, notably:

  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies

Best Publications

  • Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration

    Alex M. Wood;Jeffrey J. Froh;Adam W.A. Geraghty

  • How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses.

    Andy P. Siddaway;Alex M. Wood;Larry V. Hedges

  • The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale

    Alex M. Wood;P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Michael Baliousis

  • Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future

    P. Alex Linley;Stephen Joseph;Susan Harrington;Alex M. Wood

  • The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression : two longitudinal studies

    Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Raphael Gillett;P. Alex Linley

  • The absence of positive psychological (eudemonic) well-being as a risk factor for depression: a ten year cohort study.

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph

  • Using personal and psychological strengths leads to increases in well-being over time: A longitudinal study and the development of the strengths use questionnaire

    Alex M. Wood;P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Todd B. Kashdan

  • Gratitude predicts psychological well-being above the Big Five facets

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph;John Maltby

  • Measuring happiness: The higher order factor structure of subjective and psychological well-being measures

    P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Alex M. Wood;Gabrielle Osborne

  • Positive Clinical Psychology: a new vision and strategy for integrated research and practice

    Alex M. Wood;Nicholas Tarrier

  • Coping style as a psychological resource of grateful people.

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph;P. Alex Linley

  • A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude.

    Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Neil Stewart;P. Alex Linley

  • Gratitude uniquely predicts satisfaction with life: Incremental validity above the domains and facets of the five factor model

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph;John Maltby

  • Using signature strengths in pursuit of goals: Effects in goal progress, need satisfaction and well-being and implications for coaching psychologists

    P.A. Linley;Karina Nielsen;A. Wood;R. Gillett

  • Resilience to suicidality: the buffering hypothesis.

    Judith Johnson;Alex M Wood;Patricia A Gooding;Peter J Taylor

  • The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicide

    Peter J. Taylor;Patricia A. Gooding;Alexander Mathew Wood;Nicholas Tarrier

  • Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescents

    Carmel Proctor;Eli Tsukayama;Alex M. Wood;John Maltby

  • Character strengths in the United Kingdom: The VIA Inventory of Strengths

    P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph

  • Gratitude influences sleep through the mechanism of pre-sleep cognitions

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph;Joanna Lloyd;Samuel Atkins

  • Resilience as positive coping appraisals: Testing the schematic appraisals model of suicide (SAMS)

    Judith Johnson;Patricia A Gooding;Alex M Wood;Nicholas Tarrier

  • Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait

    Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Neil Stewart;Stephen Joseph

Frequent Co-Authors

John Maltby
John Maltby University of Leicester
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor University of Manchester
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Nicholas Tarrier
Nicholas Tarrier University of Manchester
Patricia A. Gooding
Patricia A. Gooding University of Manchester
Warren Mansell
Warren Mansell University of Manchester
Eamonn Ferguson
Eamonn Ferguson University of Nottingham
Michael Daly
Michael Daly National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Sara Tai
Sara Tai University of Manchester

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