Ruth is a researcher with an interest in the interplay between the environment and person centred factors and how they influence mental health and behaviour. She has recently been involved in the Computerised Life Events Assessment Record (CLEAR) project, creating a new online system that can be used to measure life events contextually as well as capture measures of mental health, social support and demographics.
Part of the centre for abuse and trauma studies
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6197-9975
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Bifulco, Antonia and Spence, Ruth and Kagan, Lisa (2020) Life events and emotional disorder revisited: research and clinical applications. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780367371579 (Accepted/In press)
Spence, Ruth and Kagan, Lisa and Nunn, Stephen and Bailey-Rodriguez, Deborah and Fisher, Helen L. and Hosang, Georgina M. and Bifulco, Antonia (2020) Life events, depression and supportive relationships affect academic achievement in university students. Journal of American College Health . ISSN 0744-8481 (Published online first)
Bifulco, Antonia and Kagan, Lisa and Spence, Ruth and Nunn, Stephen and Bailey-Rodriguez, Deborah and Hosang, Georgina M. and Taylor, Matthew and Fisher, Helen L. (2019) Characteristics of severe life events, attachment style, and depression – Using a new online approach. British Journal of Clinical Psychology , 58 (4). pp. 427-439. ISSN 0144-6657
Bifulco, Antonia and Damiani, Rachele and Jacobs, Catherine and Bunn, Amanda and Spence, Ruth (2019) Partner violence in women - associations with childhood maltreatment, attachment style and major depression. Maltrattamento E Abuso All’infanzia: Rivista Interdisciplinare | Child Abuse and Maltreatment: Interdisciplinary Journal (2). pp. 13-28. ISSN 1591-4267
Spence, Ruth and Kagan, Lisa and Bifulco, Antonia (2019) A contextual approach to trauma experience: lessons from life events research. Psychological Medicine , 49 (9). pp. 1409-1413. ISSN 0033-2917
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