Chris Gibbons is Chair of the Association for Psychology Teachers in Northern Ireland.
For educational purposes you can freely access a selection of articles from
studies he and his colleagues have carried out in the area of stress and coping. This is likely to be of interest to those students who are considering pursuing psychology at university as well as to researchers in health and positive psychology.
APT Conference 2011
From left to right back row - Andrea Barber, Stephen Smyth, Kim Moore, Ogo Agunenye
From left to right front row - Chris Gibbons, Paul Gardner, Jackie Abell, Julia Willerton
From left to right back row - Andrea Barber, Stephen Smyth, Kim Moore, Ogo Agunenye
From left to right front row - Chris Gibbons, Paul Gardner, Jackie Abell, Julia Willerton
The first file reports on a recent study exploring stress and coping among university students. University league tables draw heavily on the National Student Survey (NSS) and course satisfaction ratings and they are increasingly important, not least because a University's positioning in the table is an important consideration for prospective students. The results of this paper suggest that rating a university on course satisfaction alone is, at best, an incomplete measure and that other factors should be considered when judging a course and a university.
The second file is the Psychology Teaching Review Special Issue. It includes the paper above along with papers from colleagues exploring other areas of research linked to learning and teaching among psychology students. The third file contains the instrument developed by Chris Gibbons to measure sources of stress in nursing students. Interested parties are welcome to use this in learning or research exercises.
Chris was a contributor on Material World, BBC Radio 4, August 2007 on teaching psychology to undergraduate students and you can listen to this episode at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20070830.shtml
He was lead researcher and a contributor on a series of five programmes on stress in teaching (first aired February 2007) for Teachers TV. These can also be downloaded e.g. http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/series/how-stressed-is-your-school
Further information or clarification can be obtained on any of the areas listed here please contact Chris Gibbons at c.gibbons@qub.a.uk.
| Stress, positive psychology and the NSS 2012 (Psychology Teaching Review) |
| Psychology Teaching Review - Special Issue August 2012. |
| The Index of Sources of Stress in Nursing students |
| How satisfied are students with their course and should we care (The Higher Education Academy) |
| Stress, coping and burn-out in students (International Journal of Nursing Studies) |
| Stress, coping and satisfaction in nursing students (Journal of Advanced nursing) |
| Index of Sources of Stress in Nursing students - a confirmatory factor analysis (Journal of Advanced Nursing) |
| The Index of Sources of Stress in Nursing students - an exploratory analysis (Nurse Education Today) |
| Stress and eustress in nursing students (Journal of Advanced Nursing) |
| Stress in the chef profession (International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management) |
| The effects of organisational change on occupational stress in further education lecturers (Journal of Further and Higher Education) |
