Nerina Caltabiano is a social psychologist with research interests incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives from pathology, health, development and educational psychology.  She embraces both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in her research.

Her Honours thesis investigated symbolic hand gestures in children from different cultures which extended knowledge of non-verbal communication in 3-6 year-old children, and employed an innovative stroboscopic photographic technique to depict the gestures. Her PhD thesis combined aspects of pathology and social psychology in examining community reactions to compulsive casino gamblers who differed in terms of gender and ethnicity. More recently her focus has turned to understanding and preventing aggressive behaviours which undermine psychological wellbeing, including youth suicide, bullying and cyberbullying.

Nerina has teaching responsibilities at both the Cairns and Singapore campuses and is the Cairns Campus Fourth-Year Coordinator. She is also a member of both the Australian and the American Psychological Societies.

Teaching

• PY3101: Psychological Research Methods and Interpretation (Level 3; CNS & SIN)
• PY3102: Social Psychology in Everyday Life (Level 3; CNS, SIN & TSV)
• PY4107: Group Project Part 2 of 2 (Level 4; CNS)
• PY4108: Advanced Topics in Psychology Part 1 of 2 (Level 4; CNS)
• PY4109: Advanced Topics in Psychology Part 2 of 2 (Level 4; CNS)
• PY4115: Psychology: Now and the Future (Level 4; CNS)

Interests

Research

• •Social psychology (e.g. social cognition, attitudes, empathy and well-being) •Developmental social psychology (e.g. socio-emotional development, and ageing research)

Teaching

• Social Psychology Research design and analysis

Awards

• 2009 - Docemus Volunteer Supporter Award

Memberships

• 2012 to 2013 - Society for the Teaching of Psychology
• 2011 to 2013 - Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - General Registration
• 2010 to 2013 - International Association of Applied Psychology
• 2010 to 2013 - International Association for Suicide Prevention
• 1995 to 2013 - Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
• 1994 to 2013 - The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• 1990 to 2013 - American Psychological Society
• 1980 to 2013 - Australian Federation of University Women
• 1979 to 2013 - Australian Psychological Society
• 1980 to 2010 - Registered Psychologist in Queensland

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Journal Articles

• Hajhashemi K, Anderson N, Jackson C and Caltabiano N (2017) Online learning: increasing learning opportunities. IJAEDU - International E-Journal of Advances in Education, 3 (7). pp. 184-189
• Hajhashemi K, Caltabiano N and Anderson N (2017) Net-Geners' perceptions of engagement through online videos. Journal of Computers in Education, 4 (3). pp. 321-337
• Haring U, Sorin R and Caltabiano N (2017) To teach and how to teach the Holocaust: that is the question. International Journal of Humanities Education, 15 (1). pp. 19-28
• Li W and Caltabiano N (2017) Prevalence of substance abuse and socio-economic differences in substance abuse in an Australian community-dwelling elderly sample. Health Psychology Open, 4 (1). pp. 1-7
• Shakarami A, Hajhashemi K and Caltabiano N (2017) Compensation still matters: language learning strategies in the third millennium ESL learners. Online Learning Journal, 21 (3). pp. 235-250
• Caltabiano N and Caltabiano M (2016) Reactions to a female perpetrator of neglect and financial elder abuse. Psychology, 7. pp. 776-780
• Hajhashemi K, Caltabiano N and Anderson N (2016) Integrating digital technologies in the classroom: lecturers’ views on flipped classroom approach. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 26 (3). pp. 18-29
• Hajhashemi K, Caltabiano N and Anderson N (2016) Students' perceptions and experiences towards the educational value of online videos. Australian Educational Computing, 31 (2). pp. 1-17
• Honorato B, Caltabiano N and Clough A (2016) From trauma to incarceration: exploring the trajectory in a qualitative study in male prison inmates from north Queensland, Australia. Health & Justice, 4 (3). pp. 1-10
• Huuskes L, Heaven P, Ciarrochi J, Parker P and Caltabiano N (2016) Is belief in God related to differences in adolescents' psychological functioning? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 55 (1). pp. 40-53
• Pensini P, Horn E and Caltabiano N (2016) An exploration of the relationships between adults' childhood and current nature exposure and their mental well-being. Children, Youth and Environments, 26 (1). pp. 125-147

Book Chapters

• Hajhashemi K and Caltabiano N (2018) Blended learning: uncovering challenges in implementing online videos in higher education. In: Redesigning Learning for Greater Social Impact: Taylor's 9th Teaching and Learning Conference 2016 Proceedings. Springer, Singapore, pp. 113-118

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 77+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Nerina Caltabiano from 1982 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

• Drawing Through Disaster; Young Children's Artwork Responses to Crises. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The Role of the Arts in Developing Sustainability and Social Emotional Literacy Through the Australian Curriculum (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Relationship Sabotage: An Attachment and Goal Orientation Perspective on Seeking Love but Failing to Maintain Intimate Relationships (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Determinants of an Effective Preventive Drug Education in the Local Context (PhD , Advsor Mentor)
• Professional Psychology Education Curricula: An Indonesian Case Study (PhD , Advsor Mentor)
• Exploring Protective Factors for Violent Offending and Incarceration of Indigenous Adults in Far North Queensland. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• I'll cry instead; The neural correlates of empathy (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Emerging from the Dark: Successful Learning Strategies for Three Dimensional Visual Thinkers (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The Effect of Social and Emotional Learning Curriculums on Students, Teachers and Parents in France (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Successful Ageing of Australian Baby Boom Career Women: the Psychosocial Processes in Constructing Quality of Life Judgements (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• The role of contentment, adult attachment and perceived parental emotional expressivity on adaptive emotional regulation in youth at risk who dysregulate in school (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Reducing Assaults in the Cairns Night Time Economy Using Realist Evaluation: A Focus on Closed Circut Television (CCTV). (PhD , Primary Advisor)

Completed

• Future challenges for older adults residing in ageing coastal hamlets on Queensland's cyclone-prone coastline (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Multiple Intelligences and Network Affordances: Can Videos Enhance Students’ Perceptions of Their Learning Experience, Learning Outcomes, and Subject Engagement? (2017, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Landowners' management of riparian forest in far North Queensland, Australia: a social psychological perspective (2014, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Aiming for sustainability: how do feelings of collective guilt impact ecological friendliness? (2013, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Brack, K. (2014) Cyberbullying and Self-Esteem. James Cook University
• Caltabiano, N. (2013) Drink Spiking. James Cook University
• Caltabiano, N. (2013) Key Factors Influencing Student Satisfaction. James Cook University

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