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Overview

Barbara Griffin is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has contributed to research across multiple fields including psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Their work spans diverse subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, gender studies, and epidemiology.

The primary topics covered in Griffin's research include resilience and mental health, aging and gerontology, medical education and admissions, diversity and career development in medicine, traumatic brain injury research, optimism, hope and well-being, as well as retirement, disability, and employment.

Recent publications by Barbara Griffin include:

  • A clustered-randomized controlled trial of a self-reflection resilience-strengthening intervention and novel mediators, 2021, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Strengthening resilience in over 50's: a nested clustered-randomized controlled trial of adaptive systematic self-reflection, 2020, Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Older workers: Past, present and future, 2020, Australian Journal of Management
  • The change from UMAT to UCAT for undergraduate medical school applicants: impact on selection outcomes, 2020, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Cultures of Success: How elite students develop and realise aspirations to study Medicine, 2022, The Australian Educational Researcher

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Griffin include Monique F. Crane, Eyal Karin, Joanne K. Earl, Wendy Hu, and Samantha Leigh Falon.

Barbara Griffin has published in a variety of academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Australian Journal of Management
  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • The Australian Educational Researcher

Best Publications

  • Adaptable behaviours for successful work and career adjustment

    Barbara Griffin;Beryl Hesketh

  • Why Openness to Experience is not a Good Predictor of Job Performance

    Barbara Griffin;Beryl Hesketh

  • Post-retirement work: The individual determinants of paid and volunteer work

    Barbara Griffin;Beryl Hesketh

  • Multilevel relationships between organizational-level incivility, justice and intention to stay.

    Barbara Griffin

  • Day-level fluctuations in stress and engagement in response to workplace incivility: A diary study

    Larissa Beattie;Barbara Griffin

  • Age discrimination in the workplace: Identifying as a late-career worker and its relationship with engagement and intended retirement age

    Piers H. Bayl-Smith;Barbara Griffin

  • The Influence of Subjective Life Expectancy on Retirement Transition and Planning: A Longitudinal Study.

    Barbara Griffin;Beryl Hesketh;Vanessa Loh

  • A Mental model of factors associated with subjective life expectancy

    Barbara Griffin;Vanessa Loh;Beryl Hesketh

  • Older Workers' Age as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Job Satisfaction

    Hannes Zacher;Barbara Griffin

  • Timing of retirement: Including a delay discounting perspective in retirement models☆

    John Bidewell;Barbara Griffin;Beryl Hesketh

  • Here today but not gone tomorrow: Incivility affects after-work and next-day recovery.

    Tahnee Nicholson;Barbara Griffin

  • The interaction of socio-economic status and gender in widening participation in medicine.

    Barbara Griffin;Wendy Hu

  • Spiritual resources and work engagement among religious workers : a three-wave longitudinal study

    Grant R. Bickerton;Maureen H. Miner;Martin Dowson;Barbara Griffin

  • Workplace incivility: does it matter in Asia

    Arthur Yeung;Barbara Nancy Griffin

  • A Future-Oriented Retirement Transition Adjustment Framework

    Beryl Hesketh;Barbara Griffin;Vanessa Loh

  • Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and retesting on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school.

    Barbara Griffin;David W Harding;Ian G Wilson;Neville D Yeomans

  • Are Conscientious Workers Adaptable

    Barbara Griffin;Beryl Hesketh

  • Applicants faking good: evidence of item bias in the NEO PI-R

    Barbara Nancy Griffin;Beryl Hesketh;D Grayson

  • Only the best: medical student selection in Australia

    Ian G Wilson;Christopher Roberts;Eleanor M Flynn;Barbara N Griffin

  • Accounting for within‐person differences in how people respond to daily incivility at work

    Larissa Beattie;Barbara Griffin

  • Person–Environment Fit

    Beryl Hesketh;Barbara Griffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Beryl Hesketh
Beryl Hesketh Western Sydney University
Hannes Zacher
Hannes Zacher Leipzig University
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly University of Newcastle Australia
William S. Helton
William S. Helton George Mason University
Sally Andrews
Sally Andrews University of Sydney
Daniel F. Gucciardi
Daniel F. Gucciardi Curtin University
Maria Kangas
Maria Kangas Macquarie University

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