RESEARCH

Taking resilience research further.

Findings from our research have been published in over 120 journal articles, books and keynote presentations as well as on-going studies using our profile.

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The SPORE Study 

Jo was the Lead Researcher in a 2013 study of the factors that contributed to resilience amongst prison service probation staff. This cross-European investigation of probation staff from Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria and the Netherlands, utilised our rumination and detached coping scales from the Challenge of Change Resilience Profile and our organisational climate survey.

Jo Clarke, Master Trainer

Stress and rumination

Derek contributed a chapter to ‘Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion and Behavior’ (Edited by George Fink) that describes the key reasons why rumination provides the clearest and simplest way of defining stress.  The distinction between acute and chronic stress, for example, can best be explained by seeing the acute form as pressure rather than stress.  This is a distinction we draw in the Challenge of Change Resilience programme.

Derek Roger, Research Partner
Lehan Stemmet, PHD student

Avoidance Coping research

Avoidance Coping is one of the eight scales in our Profile. Avoidance is a well-known term, but surprisingly little was known about how it actually works. The first paper to emerge from the project showed that there were three key components: General Avoidance, Emotional Avoidance and Conflict Avoidance. All three areas are reflected by questions in the current Profile.   

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Karl Holland

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More additional research studies we've fuelled

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More additional research studies we've fuelled ----

  • Clarke, J. & Roger, D.   (2006) The construction and validation of a scale to assess psychological risk and well-being in sex offender treatment providers.  Legal & Criminological Psychology 12, 83-100.

  • Roger, D. (2007) Self-esteem, stress and emotion. In G. Fink (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Stress (2nd Edition). Oxford: Academic Press

  • Guarino, L.R., Roger, D. & Olason, D.T (2007)  Reconstructing N: A new approach to measuring emotional sensitivity.  Current Psychology 26 (1), 37-45.

  • Borrill, J., Fox, P., Flynn, M. & Roger, D. (2009)  Students with self-harm: Coping style, rumination and alexithymia.  Counselling Psychology Quarterly 22(4) 361-372.

  • Borrill, J., Fox, P. & Roger, D. (2010)  Religion, ethnicity, coping style and self-reported self-harm in a diverse non-clinical UK population.  Mental Health, Religion and Culture 1, 1-11.

  • Roger, D., Guarino de Scremin, L., Borrill, J. & Forbes, A. (2011)  Rumination, inhibition and stress: The construction of a new scale for assessing emotional style.  Current Psychology 30(3), 234-244.

  • Whitman, Z.R., Kachali, H., Roger, D., Vargo, D. & Seville, E. (2013)  Short-form version of the Benchmark Resilience Tool (BRT-53).  Measuring Business Excellence 17 (3), 3 – 14.

  • Stemmet, L., Roger, D., Kuntz, J. & Borrill, J.  (2014) General and specific avoidance: The development and concurrent validation of a new measure of avoidance coping.  European Journal of Psychological Assessment, July.

  • Roger, D. (2016) Rumination, stress and emotion.  In G. Fink (Ed.), Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior.  London: Elsevier.