Dr Kareena McAloney-Kocaman is a Lecturer in Applied Health Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. She completed a BSc (Hons) Social Psychology at the University of Ulster, a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Care Ethics and Law at the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Ulster. Her research interests focus on how social group memberships and intergroup processes influence health and health behaviours.
Recent papers:
McAloney, K. (2015). Clustering of sex and substance use behaviours in adolescence. Substance Use and Misuse, 50(11), 1406 – 1411.
McAloney, K. (2015). Perceptions of segregation and substance use behaviours in adolescence. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 24(5), 295 – 301.
McAloney, K. Graham, H., Law, C., Platt, L., and Wardle, H. (2014) Inter-generational concordance of smoking status between mothers and young people aged 10 – 15 in the UK. Public Health, 128(9), 831 – 833.
McAloney, K., Graham, H., Law, C., and Platt, L. (2013). A scoping review of statistical approached to the analysis of multiple health-related behaviours. Preventive Medicine, 56(6), 365 – 371.
McAloney, K., McCrystal, P., and Percy, A. (2010). Sex, Drugs and STDs: Preliminary Findings of the Belfast Youth Development Study. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 17 (4), 443 – 453