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Alison Wearden

Professor Emerita of Health Psychology
Verified email at manchester.ac.uk
Cited by 9841

A critical evaluation of the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in health psychology

JM Brocki, AJ Wearden - Psychology and health, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
With the burgeoning use of qualitative methods in health research, criteria for judging their
value become increasingly necessary. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a …

A review of expressed emotion research in health care

AJ Wearden, N Tarrier, C Barrowclough… - Clinical psychology …, 2000 - Elsevier
Much research has been carried out on the impact of family relationships on the development
and course of different illnesses. Research on Expressed Emotion (EE) developed out of …

A review of the role of adult attachment style in psychosis: unexplored issues and questions for further research

K Berry, C Barrowclough, A Wearden - Clinical psychology review, 2007 - Elsevier
Attachment styles reflect individual differences in beliefs about self and others, interpersonal
functioning and affect regulation. We review and critically appraise studies suggesting …

Attachment theory: a framework for understanding symptoms and interpersonal relationships in psychosis

K Berry, C Barrowclough, A Wearden - Behaviour research and therapy, 2008 - Elsevier
We investigated associations between adult attachment, symptoms and interpersonal
functioning, including therapeutic relationships in 96 patients with psychosis. Using a prospective …

Attachment styles, interpersonal relationships and psychotic phenomena in a non-clinical student sample

K Berry, A Wearden, C Barrowclough… - Personality and Individual …, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper describes the development and initial validation of a measure of adult attachment
styles based on Bartholomew’s (1990, 1997) model and adapted for use with individuals …

Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment trial of fluoxetine and graded exercise for chronic fatigue syndrome

AJ Wearden, RK Morriss, R Mullis… - The British Journal of …, 1998 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe Joint Working Group of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists and
General Practitioners (1996) recommended graded exercise and antidepressants for …

Adult attachment, alexithymia, and symptom reporting: An extension to the four category model of attachment

AJ Wearden, N Lamberton, N Crook, V Walsh - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: A previous study using a three-category attachment model found that avoidant
attachment was associated with increased symptom reporting, and that this relationship was …

Expressed emotion, attributions and depression in mothers of children with problem behaviour

…, S Peters, J Roberts, A Wearden… - Journal of Child …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Background: This was an initial study seeking to examine the relationship between Expressed
Emotion (EE), spontaneous causal attributions and depression in mothers of children …

Adult attachment, alexithymia, symptom reporting, and health-related coping

A Wearden, L Cook, J Vaughan-Jones - Journal of psychosomatic research, 2003 - Elsevier
Objective: The objective of this study was to test a hypothesised model of associations between
adult attachment style and two health-related outcomes, symptom reporting and coping …

Age and IQ effects on stimulus and response timing.

JH Wearden, AJ Wearden… - Journal of Experimental …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
Normal older participants (aged 60–79 yrs), with known scores on the Culture Fair Intelligence
Test, were tested on 4 timing tasks (ie, temporal generalization, bisection, differential …