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Overview

Dianna T. Kenny is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology as key subfields. Additional areas of study include Music, Sociology and Political Science, and General Health Professions.

Their recent scholarly output includes articles published between 2020 and 2025. Notable papers include:

  • One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria (2020, Archives of Sexual Behavior)
  • The Kenny music performance anxiety inventory (K-MPAI): Scale construction, cross-cultural validation, theoretical underpinnings, and diagnostic and therapeutic utility (2023, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Psychiatric admissions in young people after expiration of criminal justice supervision in Australia: a retrospective data linkage study (2024, BMJ Mental Health)
  • Association Between Mental Health Treatment and Reoffending Among Justice-Involved Youths (2025, Psychiatric Services)
  • Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model (2024, Journal of Criminal Justice)

Frequent coauthors in Dianna T. Kenny's publications include:

  • Emaediong Ibong Akpanekpo
  • Azar Kariminia
  • Preeyaporn Srasuebkul
  • Julian N. Trollor
  • David M. Greenberg

Common publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Preprints.org
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • BMJ Mental Health

Key topics addressed in their research cover a broad range, such as:

  • Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Music Performance Anxiety

    Dianna T. Kenny

  • Music performance anxiety and occupational stress amongst opera chorus artists and their relationship with state and trait anxiety and perfectionism

    Dianna T. Kenny;Pamela Davis;Jenni Oates

  • The Effects of Yoga on the Attention and Behavior of Boys With Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

    Pauline. S. Jensen;Dianna T. Kenny

  • MUSIC PERFORMANCE ANXIETY: NEW INSIGHTS FROM YOUNG MUSICIANS

    Dianna T. Kenny;Margaret S. Osborne

  • Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential: results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire

    Kai MacDonald;Michael L. Thomas;Andres F. Sciolla;Beacher Schneider

  • Psychological well-being in professional orchestral musicians in Australia: A descriptive population study

    Dianna T. Kenny;Tim Driscoll;Bronwen J. Ackermann

  • A Systematic Review of Treatments for Music Performance Anxiety.

    Dianna T. Kenny

  • Musculoskeletal pain and injury in professional orchestral musicians in Australia.

    Bronwen J. Ackermann;Tim Driscoll;Dianna T. Kenny

  • Performance-related musculoskeletal pain, depression and music performance anxiety in professional orchestral musicians: A population study

    Dianna Kenny;Bronwen Ackermann

  • Development and validation of a music performance anxiety inventory for gifted adolescent musicians

    Margaret S. Osborne;Dianna T. Kenny

  • Constructions of chronic pain in doctor-patient relationships: bridging the communication chasm.

    Dianna T. Kenny

  • The Role of Sensitizing Experiences in Music Performance Anxiety in Adolescent Musicians.

    Margaret S. Osborne;Dianna T. Kenny

  • The Impact of Group Singing on Mood, Coping, and Perceived Pain in Chronic Pain Patients Attending a Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic

    Dianna T. Kenny;Gavin Faunce

  • The Effects of Group Singing on Mood

    Margaret M. Unwin;Dianna T. Kenny;Pamela J. Davis

  • Views From the Inside: Young Offenders' Subjective Experiences of Incarceration

    Peter J. Ashkar;Dianna T. Kenny

  • Communicating prognosis in early breast cancer: do women understand the language used?

    Elizabeth A Lobb;Phyllis N Butow;Dianna T Kenny;Martin H N Tattersall

  • Music Performance Anxiety: Origins, Phenomenology, Assessment and Treatment

    Dianna T Kenny

  • The impact of perceived medical dominance on the workplace satisfaction of Australian and British nurses.

    Barbara J Adamson;Dianna T Kenny;Jenifer Wilson-Barnett

  • Physical conditioning programs for workers with back and neck pain: a cochrane systematic review.

    Eva Schonstein;D Kenny;Jennifer Lyn Keating;B Koes

  • The Role of Negative Emotions in Performance Anxiety

    Dianna T. Kenny

Frequent Co-Authors

Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Alex Blaszczynski
Alex Blaszczynski University of Sydney
Bettina Pikó
Bettina Pikó University of Szeged
Alan Carr
Alan Carr University College Dublin
Jill Lobbestael
Jill Lobbestael Maastricht University
Vedat Sar
Vedat Sar Koç University
Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Hans Knoop
Hans Knoop Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Frank C. Worrell
Frank C. Worrell University of California, Berkeley
Katja Wingenfeld
Katja Wingenfeld Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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