Publications :: B. M. Hughes

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Howard, S., Hughes, B. M. & James, J. E. (2011). "Type D Personality and Hemodynamic Reactivity to Laboratory Stress in Women". International Journal of Psychophysiology, 80, pp. 96-102.

Hughes, B. M., Howard, S., James, J. E. & Higgins, N. M. (2011). "Individual Differences in Adaptation of Cardiovascular Responses to Stress". Biological Psychology, 86, pp. 129–136.

Phillips, A. C., Hughes, B. M. (2011); Cardiovascular Reactivity at a Crossroads: Where Are We Now? Biological Psychology, 86, 95-97.

Hughes, B.M. & Higgins, N.M. (2010) "Habituation-sensitization of cardiovascular reactivity to repeated stress in smokers and non-smokers: An anthropometrically matched trial". International Journal of Psychophysiology, 76(1), 2010, 34-39, pp. 49-52.

Kaptein, A.A., Hughes, B.M.,Scharloo, M., Hondebrink, N.V. & Langeveld, T.P.M. (2010) 'Psychological aspects of adductor spasmodic dysphonia: A prospective population-controlled questionnaire study'. Clinical Otolaryngology, 35(1), 2010, pp. 31-38.

Schallmayer, S. & Hughes, B. M. (2010) "Impact of oral contraception and neuroticism on cardiovascular stress reactivity across the menstrual cycle". Psychology, Health & Medicine, 15(1), 2010, pp. 105-115.

Conneely, S. & Hughes, B. M. (2010). "Test Anxiety and Sensitivity to Social Support Among College Students: Effects on Salivary Cortisol". Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 14, pp. 95-310.

O’Donovan, A., Hughes, B. M., Slavich, G. M., Lynch, L., Cronin, M. T., O’Farrelly, C. & Malone, K. M. (2010). "Clinical anxiety, cortisol and interleukin-6: Evidence for specificity in emotion–biology relationships". Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 24, pp. 1074-1077.

Ferguson, E.; Williams, L.; O’Connor, R.; Howard, S.; Hughes, B.M.; Johnston, D.W.; Allan, J. L.; O’Connor, D.B.; Lewis, C.A.; Grealy, M.A.; O’Carroll, R.E. (2009) 'A taxometric analysis of Type-D personality'. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71(9),pp. 981-986.

Hughes, B.M. & Howard, S. (2009) "Social support reduces resting cardiovascular function in women". Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 22(5), 2009, pp. 537-548.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) “Social Support in Ordinary Life and Laboratory Measures of Cardiovascular Reactivity: Gender Differences in Habituation-Sensitization”. Annals of Behavioral Medicine; Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 166-176

O'Donovan, A. & Hughes, B.M. (2008) "Factors that moderate the effects of social support on cardiovascular reactivity to stress". International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8(1), pp. 85-102.

Hughes, B.M. with O’Donovan, A. (2008) “Social Support and Loneliness in College Students: Effects on Pulse Pressure Reactivity to Acute Stress”. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health; Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 523-528

Hughes, B.M. & Williams, L./et al/ (2008) “Type D Personality Mechanism of Effect: The Role of Health-Related Behaviour and Social Support”. Journal of Psychosomatic Research;, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 63-69.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) "Evidence-based helping: Dispositional, situational, and temporal parameters of social support". In Buchwald, P. et al.eds. 'Stress and anxiety: Application to lifespan development and health promotion'. Berlin: Logos Verlag

Non Peer Reviewed Publications

Hughes, B.M. (2009) Stress, Social Support, and Blood Pressure: Worktime-Downtime Distinctions. In: A. Antoniou, C. L. Cooper, G. Chrousos, C. D. Spielberger, & M. W. Eysenck (Eds.); Handbook of Managerial Behaviour and Occupational Health; Edward Elgar, pp. 413-426

Book Chapters

Pal, S. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "A cross-cultural questionnaire survey of job stress, psychosocial work environment and work-family conflict as predictors of subjective well-being and physical health: Comparing Norwegian and Indian Nurses". In: Kumar, S. A., Kumar, I. & Srivastava, A. (eds.) Challenges of the twenty-first century: A trans-disciplinary perspective. Noida, India: Macmillan.

Verrier, D. B., Hughes, B. M. (2011); Spirituality and Schizotypy: How Personality Can Influence Beliefs and Experience. In O. Cosgrove, L. Cox, C. Kuhling, & P. Mulholland (Eds.), Ireland’s new religious movements (pp. 165-175). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Hughes, B.M. & Creaven, A.-M. (2008) "Achieving greater theoretical sophistication in research on socially supportive interactions and health". In Columbus, F. eds 'Social interactions in the 21st century'. New York: Nova Science Press (in press).

Hughes, B.M. (2008) "Stress, social support, and blood pressure: Worktime-downtime distinctions". In Antoniou, A. et al eds. 'Handbook of occupational health psychology and medicine'. London:Elsevier.

Conference Papers

Creaven, A-M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Personality and perceived social support: Overlap in measurement and associations with resting cardiovascular function". STAR 2011: 32nd World Conference on Stress and Anxiety Research, Münster, Germany, July.

Creaven, A-M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Blood pressure responses to internal representations of support provision". Psychology, Health and Medicine, 8th Annual Conference of the PSI Division of Health Psychology Galway, April

Creaven, A-M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Individual differences in need for social support predict cardiovascular reactivity to support transactions". C-SPI 2011: 2nd Conference on Social Psychology in Ireland, Limerick, April.

Higgins, N. M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Biased attention to emotional stimuli and cardiovascular adaptation to stress: the role of individual differences". STAR 2011: 32nd World Conference on Stress and Anxiety Research, Münster, Germany, July.

Higgins, N. M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Individual differences in psycho-physiological tolerance of acute stress following attentional bias training in women". Cardiovascular stress reactivity - Antecedents and Consequences, Birmingham, UK, June.

Hughes, B. M. (2011). Keynote lecture: "Cardiovascular responses to recurrent stress: Individual differences and aetiological implications". Cardiovascular stress reactivity - Antecedents and Consequences, Birmingham, UK, June.

Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Psychosocial moderators of mental health and immunity in familial caregiver Implications for family outcomes". C-SPI 2011: 2nd Conference on Social Psychology in Ireland, Limerick, April.

Hughes, B. M. & Howard, S. (2011). "Benefit of perceived social support for building resilience is contingent on social context of stress". STAR 2011: 32nd World Conference on Stress and Anxiety Research, Münster, Germany, April.

Lee, E. M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Influence of hostility on activity-related diurnal variations in blood pressure". STAR 2011: 32nd World Conference on Stress and Anxiety Research, Münster, Germany, July.

Higgins, N. M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Biased attention to emotional stimuli and cardiovascular adaptation to stressors: Implicating anxiety in disease pathways". 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, San Antonio, US, March.

Pal, S. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Individual differences in impact of sleep loss on cardiovascular adaptation to stress". 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, San Antonio, US, March.

Creaven ,A-M., Skowron, E.A., Howard, S., & Hughes, B.M. (2010) (NUIG) Patterns of physiological congruence between mothers and their pre-school children: Evidence for stress-contagion phenomena among maltreating parents 7th Annual Conference of the PSI Division of Health Psychology, Dublin, March 2010 Oral Presentation

Hughes B.M., Skowron E.A., Howard S., Creaven A-M. (2010) (NUIG) Elevated HR and reduced RSA in socio-economically disadvantaged mothers: Implications for stress processes and physical health 7th Annual Conference of the PSI Division of Health Psychology, Dublin. March 2010 Oral Presentation

Lee, E., & Hughes, B.M. (2010) (NUIG) Temporal differences in cardiovascular functioning and depression: A self-monitoring study 7th Annual Conference of the PSI Division of Health Psychology, Dublin. March 2010 Oral Presentation

Pal, S. & Hughes, B. M. (2010). "A cross-cultural questionnaire survey of job stress, psychosocial work environment, and work-family conflict as predictors of subjective well-being and physical health". International Conference on Demography, Culture, and Marketing, Bhubaneswar, India, December.

Hughes, B.M. & Howard, S. (2009) 'Type D personality, gender, and habituation-sensitization of cardiovascular response to stress', 6th Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology. Trinity College Dublin, June.

Hughes, B.M. & Howard, S. (2009) 'Implicating a stress-related psycho-physiological mechanism in the link between Type D personality and cardiovascular health', 30th International Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society. Semmelweiss University, Budapest, July.

Hughes, B.M. et al. (2009) 'Impact of laboratory-based social support on cardiovascular reactivity to stress is contingent on recipients’ support in ordinary life', 30th International Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society. Semmelweiss University, Budapest, July.

Hughes, B.M. & Doyle, F. et al. (2009) 'Do the traits of negative affectivity and social inhibition (type D personality) have an ‘order’ across populations? A Mokken scaling approach', 6th Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology. Trinity College Dublin, June.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) 'Social Support in Ordinary Life and Cardiovascular Adaptation to Laboratory Stress', Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society. Bath.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) “Making Sense of Miracle Cures: How Psychology Makes Alternative Medicine 'work'", Departmental Research Seminar Series. Department of Psychology, Goldsmith’s, University of London

Hughes, B.M. (2008) “Social Support in Ordinary Life and Cardiovascular Reactivity in Laboratories”, Departmental Seminar Series. Department of Psychology (at Guy’s), King’s College London.

Hughes, B.M. (with S. Howard et al.) (2008) “Type D Personality and Health-Related Behaviour in a “Republic of Ireland Sample: Possible Mechanisms of Effect and Comparison”, “Psychology, Health, & Medicine 2008”, Annual Conference of the Division of Health Psychology of the Psychological Society of Ireland. Derry.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) 'Social Support, Gender, and Cardiovascular Habituation-Sensitization to Stress', Departmental Seminar Series. Department of Epidemiology, University College London.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) “The Discrepant Repressor Revisited: Cognitive and Social Formulations for Understanding Emotion Regulation and Health”, Conference “The (Non-)Expression of Emotion in Health and Illness”. University of Tilburg, Netherlands.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) “On the Outside, on the Inside: Gender-Specific Effects of Life Social Support on Laboratory Blood Pressure”, Departmental Research Seminar Series. Department of Psychology, University of Westminster.

Hughes, B.M. (2008) “Repression, Social Interaction, and Gender-Specific Cardiovascular Responses to Stress”, 'The (Non-)Expression of Emotion in Health and Illness', Fourth International Conference. Tilburg, Netherlands.

Hughes, B.M. with O’Donovan, A. et al. (2008) 'Social Support, Affectivity, and Heart Disease Pathogenesis', 29th International Conference on Stress and Anxiety Research.

Other

Hughes, B. M. (2011). "Keynote lecture: Cardiovascular responses to recurrent stress: Individual differences and aetiological implications". Cardiovascular stress reactivity - Antecedents and Consequences, Birmingham, UK, June.

Hughes, B. M. (2011). "The Babel Fish dilemma: Talking science with non-scientists". Irish Skeptics Society Public Lecture Series, Dublin, April.

Phillips, A. C., Hughes, B. M. (Eds.) (2011); Cardiovascular Reactivity at a Crossroads: Where are we now? Special Issue of ‘Biological Psychology’, Volume 86, ISSN 0301-0511 (February)

Creaven, A.-M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). Conference Poster: "Socially relevant traits are more predictive of cardiovascular stress responses than perceived social support". 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, San Antonio, US, March.

Lee, E. M. & Hughes, B. M. (2011). Conference poster: "Influence of hostility on activity-related diurnal variations in blood pressure". 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society San Antonio, US, March.

Hughes, B. M. (2010); Response to Friedman and Krippner. PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology--APA Review of Books, 55 (44).

Hughes, B. M. (2010) "Restoring personality and social factors to behavioural research on health". Seminar Series, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, December.

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