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D-Index
39
Citations
7106
World Ranking
8532
National Ranking
501

Overview

Baljinder K. Sahdra is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Education.

The scientist's research covers multiple topics, notably Mental Health Research, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Baljinder K. Sahdra has published extensively in prominent venues with frequent publications in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Mindfulness, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their research. Frequent collaborators include Joseph Ciarrochi, Steven C. Hayes, Philip D. Parker, Stefan G. Hofmann, and Herbert W. Marsh.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Evolving an idionomic approach to processes of change: Towards a unified personalized science of human improvement (2022), Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • A configural approach to aspirations: The social breadth of aspiration profiles predicts well-being over and above the intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that comprise the profiles (2020), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Does school average achievement explain the effect of socioeconomic status on math and reading interest? A test of the Information Distortion Model (2020), Learning and Instruction
  • The roles of social-emotional skills in students' academic and life success: A multi-informant and multicohort perspective (2022), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT) (2022), Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Best Publications

  • Intensive Meditation Training Improves Perceptual Discrimination and Sustained Attention

    Katherine A. MacLean;Emilio Ferrer;Stephen R. Aichele;David A. Bridwell

  • Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators

    Tonya L. Jacobs;Elissa S. Epel;Jue Lin;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • A Scale to Measure Nonattachment: A Buddhist Complement to Western Research on Attachment and Adaptive Functioning

    Baljinder Kaur Sahdra;Phillip R. Shaver;Kirk Warren Brown

  • Does your mindfulness benefit others? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the link between mindfulness and prosocial behaviour

    James N. Donald;Baljinder K. Sahdra;Brooke Van Zanden;Jasper J. Duineveld

  • Group Identification and Historical Memory

    Baljinder Sahdra;Michael Ross

  • Self-compassion protects against the negative effects of low self-esteem : a longitudinal study in a large adolescent sample

    Sarah Marshall;Phillip D Parker;Joseph Ciarrochi;Baljinder K Sahdra

  • Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning.

    Baljinder K. Sahdra;Katherine A. MacLean;Emilio Ferrer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • The development of compulsive internet use and mental health: A four-year study of adolescence.

    Joseph Ciarrochi;Phillip David Parker;Baljinder Kaur Sahdra;Sarah Louise Marshall

  • Evolving an idionomic approach to processes of change: Towards a unified personalized science of human improvement

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  • Contextual Positive Psychology: Policy Recommendations for Implementing Positive Psychology into Schools.

    Joseph Ciarrochi;Paul W. B. Atkins;Louise L. Hayes;Baljinder K. Sahdra

  • Empathy and nonattachment independently predict peer nominations of prosocial behavior of adolescents.

    Baljinder K. Sahdra;Joseph Ciarrochi;Philip D. Parker;Sarah Marshall

  • Nonattachment and mindfulness: Related but distinct constructs

    Baljinder Kaur Sahdra;Joseph Ciarrochi;Phillip David Parker

  • Mindfulness and Its Association With Varied Types of Motivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using Self-Determination Theory:

    James N. Donald;Emma L. Bradshaw;Richard M. Ryan;Geetanjali Basarkod

  • Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity

    Manish Saggar;Brandon G. King;Anthony P. Zanesco;Katherine A. MacLean

  • The well-being profile (WB-Pro): Creating a theoretically based multidimensional measure of well-being to advance theory, research, policy, and practice.

    Herbert W Marsh;Felicia A Huppert;James N Donald;Marcus S Horwood

  • A longitudinal person-centered perspective on youth social support: Relations with psychological wellbeing.

    Joseph Ciarrochi;Alexandre J. S. Morin;Baljinder K. Sahdra;David Litalien

  • Hope, Friends, and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Network Approach to Peer Group Contextual Effects

    Philip D. Parker;Joseph Ciarrochi;Patrick C.L. Heaven;Sarah Marshall

  • Network analysis for the visualization and analysis of qualitative data

    Jennifer J. Pokorny;Alex Norman;Anthony P. Zanesco;Susan Bauer-Wu

  • Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.

    Erika L. Rosenberg;Anthony P. Zanesco;Brandon G. King;Stephen R. Aichele

  • Self-reported mindfulness and cortisol during a Shamatha meditation retreat.

    Tonya L. Jacobs;Phillip R. Shaver;Elissa S. Epel;Anthony P. Zanesco

  • A configural approach to aspirations: The social breadth of aspiration profiles predicts well-being over and above the intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that comprise the profiles

    Emma L. Bradshaw;Baljinder K. Sahdra;Joseph Ciarrochi;Philip D. Parker

  • Can security-enhancing interventions overcome psychological barriers to responsiveness in couple relationships?

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver;Baljinder K. Sahdra;Naama Bar-On

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Ciarrochi
Joseph Ciarrochi Australian Catholic University
Philip D. Parker
Philip D. Parker Australian Catholic University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
Emilio Ferrer
Emilio Ferrer University of California, Davis
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Patrick C. L. Heaven
Patrick C. L. Heaven Australian Catholic University
Mario Mikulincer
Mario Mikulincer Reichman University
Todd B. Kashdan
Todd B. Kashdan George Mason University
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco

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