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Lynn Williams
Researcher at University of Strathclyde
Publications - 57
Citations - 2041
Lynn Williams is an academic researcher from University of Strathclyde. The author has contributed to research in topics: Type D personality & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1377 citations. Previous affiliations of Lynn Williams include University of the West of Scotland & University of Stirling.
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Type-D personality mechanisms of effect: the role of health-related behavior and social support.
Lynn Williams,Rory C. O'Connor,Siobhán Howard,Brian M. Hughes,Derek Johnston,Julia L. Hay,Daryl B. O'Connor,Christopher Alan Lewis,Eamonn Ferguson,Noel Sheehy,Madeleine Grealy,Ronan E. O'Carroll +11 more
TL;DR: Findings provide new evidence on type-D and suggest a role for health-related behavior in explaining the link between type- D and poor clinical prognosis in cardiac patients.
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Towards intervention development to increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among those at high risk: Outlining evidence-based and theoretically informed future intervention content
Lynn Williams,Allyson J. Gallant,Susan Rasmussen,Louise A. Brown Nicholls,Nicola Cogan,Karen Deakin,David Young,Paul Flowers +7 more
TL;DR: Willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccination is currently high among high-risk individuals and mass media interventions aimed at maximizing vaccine uptake should utilize the BCTs of information about health, emotional, social and environmental consequences, and salience of consequences.
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A taxometric analysis of type-D personality.
Eamonn Ferguson,Lynn Williams,Rory C. O'Connor,Siobhán Howard,Brian M. Hughes,Derek Johnston,Julia L. Allan,Daryl B. O'Connor,Christopher Alan Lewis,Madeleine Grealy,Ronan E. O'Carroll +10 more
TL;DR: Testing the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, indicates that Type D is more accurately represented as a dimensional rather than categorical construct.
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Towards intervention development to increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among those at high risk: outlining evidence-based and theoretically informed future intervention content
Lynn Williams,Allyson J. Gallant,Susan Rasmussen,Louise A. Brown Nicholls,Nicola Cogan,Karen Deakin,David Young,Paul Flowers +7 more
TL;DR: Willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccination is currently high among high-risk individuals and the majority of barriers and facilitators could be mapped onto the beliefs about consequences TDF domain, with themes relating to personal health, health consequences to others, concerns of vaccine safety, and severity of CO VID-19.
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Protection motivation theory and social distancing behaviour in response to a simulated infectious disease epidemic
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that PMT was a useful framework for understanding intention to engage in social Distancing behaviour, but not actual behaviour during the simulated epidemic, which may reflect an intention-behaviour gap in relation to social distancing behaviour.