Fiona Alpass
Fiona Alpass | |
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| Alma mater | Massey University |
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| Fields | gerontology |
| Institutions | Massey University |
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| Doctoral advisor | Nigel Long |
Fiona Margaret Alpass ONZM is a New Zealand academic at Massey University.[1]
Academic career
[edit | edit source]Alpass completed a master's degree at Massey University in 1992, looking at how anger management and social contact can modulate the effects of alcohol and tobacco use.[2] After a 1994 PhD titled The Effects of Organisational Change in the Military: A Comparison of Work Related Perceptions and Experiences in Military and Non-military Environments at Massey University, Alpass started working at Massey and rose to full professor in 2013.[3][4]
Alpass has had a number of externally funded research projects,[3] and a longitudinal ageing studying run jointly with Christine Stephens, also at Massey.[5][6][7]
In the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours, Alpass was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health psychology and seniors.[8]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- Alpass, Fiona M., and Stephen Neville. "Loneliness, health and depression in older males." Aging & Mental Health 7, no. 3 (2003): 212–216.
- Stephens, Christine, Fiona Alpass, Andy Towers, and Brendan Stevenson. "The effects of types of social networks, perceived social support, and loneliness on the health of older people: Accounting for the social context." Journal of Aging and Health 23, no. 6 (2011): 887–911.
- Noone, Jack H., Christine Stephens, and Fiona M. Alpass. "Preretirement planning and well-being in later life: A prospective study." Research on Aging 31, no. 3 (2009): 295–317.
- Noone, Jack, Fiona Alpass, and Christine Stephens. "Do men and women differ in their retirement planning? Testing a theoretical model of gendered pathways to retirement preparation." Research on Aging 32, no. 6 (2010): 715–738.
- Alpass, Fiona, Andy Towers, Christine Stephens, Eljon Fitzgerald, Brendan Stevenson, and Judith Davey. "Independence, Well‐being, and Social Participation in an Aging Population." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1114, no. 1 (2007): 241–250.
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External links
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- Publications by Fiona Alpass at ResearchGate
- institutional homepage
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