Dr Lidia Suarez ~ Senior Lecturer Psychology

Lidia Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and registered research supervisor at James Cook University (Singapore).  Lidia holds a PhD and MSSc from the National University of Singapore, a MPsych(Clinical) from James Cook University, a MBA from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and a BPsych from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is also a registered psychologist in Singapore and member of the Singapore Psychological Society. Her research interests include mindfulness, quality of life, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and memory. She has validated measures in Singapore, such as the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) and others. She has published her work in journals such as Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Memory & Cognition, Quality of Life Research, and PLOS ONE.

Teaching

• PY1102: Exploring Psychology: from Perception to Reality (Level 1; SIN)
• PY1103: Critical Thinking in Psychology: How to Think about Weird Things (Level 1; SIN)
• PY2103: Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis (Level 2; SIN & TSV)
• PY4401: Biological, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology (Level 4; SIN)

Interests

Professional

• I am member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. https://contextualscience.org/civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&id=121070&gid=17
• I am a member of the Singapore Psychological Society and registered psychologist in Singapore

Research

• I am interested in topics relating to mindfulness, quality of life, psycholinguistics, and memory.

Teaching

• Research methods and statistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, cognitive psychology, introduction to psychology, psychometrics, learning and behaviour.

Experience

• 2010 to present - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, James Cook University (Singapore)

Research Disciplines

• Applied and developmental psychology (5201)
• Social and personality psychology (5205)
• Clinical and health psychology (5203)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)
• Public health (2004)

Awards

• 2013 - Best Research Paper award for the paper "Visuo-spatial memory advantage of biscriptal bilinguals" at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology Conference (CBP, 2013).

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Morshidi M, Chew P and Suarez L (in press) Psychosocial risk factors of youth suicide in the Western Pacific: a scoping review. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology,
• Morshidi M, Chew P and Suarez L (in press) The higher education expectation scale: development and testing. Higher Education Research & Development,
• Sheel H, Suárez L and Marsh N (2023) Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status and Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire as Screening Measures for Children in India: A Scoping Review. Pediatric Reports, 15 (1). pp. 175-196
• Yeo Z and Suarez L (2022) Validation of the mental health continuum-short form: The bifactor model of emotional, social, and psychological well-being. PLoS ONE, 17 (5).
• Teo D, Suárez L and Oei T (2021) Psychometric properties of the problem solving inventory in a Singapore young male adult sample. Current Psychology, 40. pp. 1420-1428
• Lin P and Suarez L (2020) The Effect of Supernatural Priming on Cheating Behaviour. Religions, 11 (6).
• Suárez L, Tay B and Abdullah F (2018) Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment in Singapore. Quality of Life Research, 27 (11). pp. 2945-2952
• Teo D, Suarez L and Oei T (2018) Validation of the interpersonal needs questionnaire of young male adults in Singapore. PLoS One, 13 (6).
• Toh W and Suárez L (2017) Above, on, or shang (上)? Language and spatial representations among English–Mandarin bilinguals. Perception & Psychophysics, 79 (8). pp. 2235-245
• Hartanto A and Suárez L (2016) Conceptual representation changes in Indonesian-English bilinguals. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45 (5). pp. 1201-1217
• Suárez L, Elangovan S and Au A (2016) Cross-sectional study on the relationship between music training and working memory in adults. Australian Journal of Psychology, 68 (1). pp. 38-46

Conference Papers

• Lim J, Suárez L, Sim L, Broekman B, Yap S, Kwek K, Gluckman P, Saw S, Meaney M and Rifkin-Graboi A (2015) Cultural differences in mirror self-recognition in 18 month-old Singaporean toddlers. Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology. In: CBP 2015: 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, 9-10 Singapore 2015, Singapore

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 39+ research outputs authored by Dr Lidia Suarez from 2005 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• The Development, Validation and Clinical Application of an Integrated Psychobehavioural Model of Sleep (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• "Mother Tongue" Language Anxiety: Identifying Contributing Factors within the Singapore context. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Educational expectations and suicide risk among university students in the Western Pacific (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Determinates of Wellbeing inAged Care (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Work stress and Workaholism in a Post-pandemic World: Factors associated with Thriving and Burnout in White-collar Workers (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Screening for developmental delay and social-emotional learning among children in India (2023, PhD , Secondary Advisor)