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Overview

Kirsten McEwan is affiliated with the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work emphasizes several key topics including Urban Green Space and Health, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Animal and Plant Science Education, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Health, psychology, and well-being, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

McEwan has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, often collaborating with scholars such as Paul Gilbert, Nicola Petrocchi, Shuge Zhang, Marcela Matos, and Simone Cheli. These partnerships highlight a consistent engagement with research communities focused on mental health, environmental psychology, and well-being.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Forests
  • Sustainability
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kirsten McEwan include:

  • "Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans?" (2020), published in Urban Ecosystems
  • "Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries" (2022), published in Mindfulness
  • "The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing" (2020), published in Cities
  • "A Pragmatic Controlled Trial of Forest Bathing Compared with Compassionate Mind Training in the UK: Impacts on Self-Reported Wellbeing and Heart Rate Variability" (2021), published in Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures.

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Marcela Matos;Amanda Rivis

  • The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis

    Alison Pritchard;Miles Richardson;David Sheffield;Kirsten McEwan

  • A pilot exploration of heart rate variability and salivary cortisol responses to compassion-focused imagery.

    Helen Rockliff;Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Stafford Lightman

  • Feeling safe and content: A specific affect regulation system? Relationship to depression, anxiety, stress, and self-criticism

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Ranjana Mitra;Leigh Franks

  • Fears of compassion and happiness in relation to alexithymia, mindfulness, and self‐criticism

    P. Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;L. Gibbons;S. Chotai

  • Self-harm in a mixed clinical population: the roles of self-criticism, shame, and social rank.

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Christopher Paul Irons;Rakhee Bhundia

  • The dark side of competition: How competitive behaviour and striving to avoid inferiority are linked to depression, anxiety, stress and self-harm

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Rebecca Bellew;Alison Mills

  • Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans?

    Ross W. F. Cameron;Paul Brindley;Meghann Mears;Kirsten McEwan

  • Development of an early memories of warmth and safeness scale and its relationship to psychopathology.

    Anne Richter;Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan

  • Fears of happiness and compassion in relationship with depression, alexithymia, and attachment security in a depressed sample

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Francisca Catarino;Francisca Catarino;Rita Baião

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on 'compassion focused imagery'.

    Helen Rockliff;Anke Karl;Kirsten McEwan;Jean Gilbert

  • Forms of Self‐Criticising/Attacking & Self‐Reassuring Scale: Psychometric properties and normative study

    Rita Baião;Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Sérgio Carvalho

  • Paranoid beliefs and self‐criticism in students

    Alison Mills;Paul Gilbert;Rebecca Bellew;Kirsten McEwan

  • An Exploration of Group-Based Compassion Focused Therapy for a Heterogeneous Range of Clients Presenting to a Community Mental Health Team

    Lorna Judge;Ailish Cleghorn;Kirsten McEwan;Paul Gilbert

  • Joy and Calm: How an Evolutionary Functional Model of Affect Regulation Informs Positive Emotions in Nature

    Miles Richardson;Kirsten McEwan;Frances A. Maratos;David Sheffield

  • The relation of entrapment, shame and guilt to depression, in carers of people with dementia

    Y. Martin;Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Christopher Paul Irons

  • Cultural differences in shame-focused attitudes towards mental health problems in Asian and Non-Asian student women

    Paul Gilbert;Rakhee Bhundia;Ranjana Mitra;Kirsten McEwan

  • Development of a Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale.

    Paul Gilbert;Claire Broomhead;Christopher Paul Irons;Kirsten McEwan

  • An Exploration into Depression-Focused and Anger-Focused Rumination in Relation to Depression in a Student Population

    Paul Gilbert;Mimi Cheung;Christopher Paul Irons;Kirsten McEwan

  • 30 Days Wild and the Relationships Between Engagement With Nature’s Beauty, Nature Connectedness and Well-Being

    Miles Richardson;Kirsten McEwan

  • An exploration of different types of positive affect in students and patients with a bipolar disorders.

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Ranjana Mitra;Anne Richter

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert University of Derby
David Sheffield
David Sheffield University of Derby
Marcela Matos
Marcela Matos University of Coimbra
Eamonn R. Maher
Eamonn R. Maher University of Cambridge
Neil P. Roberts
Neil P. Roberts Cardiff University
Mark W. Baldwin
Mark W. Baldwin McGill University
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford
Anke Karl
Anke Karl University of Exeter
Jonathan Ian Bisson
Jonathan Ian Bisson Cardiff University
Ask Elklit
Ask Elklit University of Southern Denmark

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