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School of Psychology: Academic Staff

Dr. Gerry Molloy

Lecturer in Psychology
Office: Room 224, Cairnes Building (St. Anthony's)
Telephone: 353-91-495123
E-mail: Gerry Molloy

Dr Gerry Molloy, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS

Background

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, since 2012
Lecturer in Psychology, Division of Psychology, University of Stirling, 2009-2012
Honorary Research Fellow, Psychobiology Group, UCL, 2009-present
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, since 2010
Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL, 2006-2009
Health Psychologist, Health and Care Professions Council, since 2009
Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society, since 2007
ESRC/ MRC Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 2004-2006
PhD, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, 2001-2004
BSc (Hons) Applied Psychology, University of Ulster, 1997-2001

Research Interests

Gerry’s primary research interests focus on the question, 'How does the immediate social environment and one's personality influence health and illness across the lifespan?' In this work self-regulation models from behavioural sciences are used to understand how aspects of social relationships interact with individual differences to influence health and illness throughout life. The two core research areas that provide the context to much of this work are Behavioural Medicine and Health Psychology. Specific current research questions and interests include:

How can adherence to medications be enhanced?
How are personality and coronary heart disease related?
The psychobiology of aspects of emotional distress (loneliness, depression and anxiety) and cardiovascular disease

This methodologically diverse programme of research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the British Academy and the British Heart Foundation. Gerry was Chair of the Scientific Committee for the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting in 2011, which was held at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He is also currently an elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) and sits on the Editorial Board of Psychology & Health. From 2011-2012 he was an associate board member of the National Institute of Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme. In 2013 he became an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology and he served on the S cientific Committee for the 2013 EHPS conference in Bordeaux .

Teaching and administration

PS412 Experimental Psychology Workshop 1
PS325 Research Project 1
PS327 Research Project 2
PS576 Foundations of Health Psychology
Visiting Students Co-ordinator, School of Psychology
NU248 Nursing
NU248 Midwifery

Final year project students should consult this document before meeting to discuss final year projects.

Bibliometrics

Citations on Google Scholar
Researcher ID page
Research Gate

Recent Invited Presentations

Conference: Abracadabara Annual Diabetes Nursing Conference, Nass, Ireland. Date: 8th February 2013
Presentation title: Tackling the problem of poor medication adherence. Is it about motivation for medications or skills for pills?
Conference: British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: 5th October 2012
Presentation title: Medication Adherence

Recent Publications

In Press/2013

1. Molloy GJ, O'Carroll RE, Ferguson E (in press). Conscientiousness and medication adherence: A meta-analysis. Annals of Behavioural Medicine
2. Molloy GJ (2013). Behavioral science and reasons for nonadherence to medication. Medical Care, 51, 468
3. Steptoe A, Wikman, Molloy GJ, Messerli-Burgy N, Kaski JC (2013). Inflammation and symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with acute coronary heart disease. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 31, 183-188.

2008-2012

1. Molloy GJ, Graham H & McGuinness H (2012). Adherence to the oral contraceptive pill: a cross-sectional survey of modifiable behavioural determinants. BMC Public Health, 838. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-838
2. Messerli-Burgy N, Molloy GJ, Wikman A, Perkins-Porras L, Randall G, Steptoe A. (2012). Cortisol levels and history of depression in acute coronary syndrome patients. Psychological Medicine, 42, 1815-1823
3. Wikman A, Messerli-Burgy N, Molloy GJ, Randall G, Perkins-Porras L & Steptoe A (2012). Symptom experience during acute coronary syndrome and the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 35, 420-430.
4. Steptoe A, Wikman, Molloy GJ, Kaski JC (2012). Anaemia and the development of depressive symptoms following acute coronary syndrome: Longitudinal clinical observational study. BMJ Open, 2, e000551
5. Thomson P, Molloy GJ, Chung M (2012). The effects of perceived social support on quality of life in patients awaiting CABG and their partners: testing dyadic dynamics using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 17, 35-46
6. Molloy GJ, O’Carroll RE, Witham MD & McMurdo ME (2012). Interventions to enhance adherence to medications in patients with heart failure: A systematic review. Circulation: Heart Failure, 5, 126-33.
7. Molloy GJ, Randall G, Wikman A, Perkins-Porras L, Messerli-Burgy N, Steptoe A (2012). Type D Personality, self-efficacy, and medication adherence following an acute coronary syndrome. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74, 100-106.
8. Steptoe A, Molloy GJ, Messerli-Burgy N, Wikman A, Randall G, Perkins-Porras L & Kaski JC (2011). Fear of dying and inflammation following acute coronary syndrome. European Heart Journal, 32, 2405-2411.
9. Wikman A, Molloy GJ, Randall G & Steptoe A (2011). Cognitive predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms six months following acute coronary syndrome. Psychology & Health, 26, 974-988.
10. Steptoe A, Molloy GJ, Messerli-Burgy N, Wikman A, Randall G, Perkins-Porras L, Kaski JC (2011). Emotional triggering and low socioeconomic status as determinants of depression following acute coronary syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 41, 1857-1866.
11. Skår S, Sniehotta FF, Molloy GJ, Araújo-Soares V, Prestwich A. (2011). Do brief online planning interventions embedded in a lifestyle survey increase physical activity amongst university students: A randomised controlled trial. Psychology & Health, 26,399-417.
12. Molloy GJ, Dixon D, Hamer M & Sniehotta FF (2010). Social support and physical activity: Does planning mediate this link? British Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 859-870.
13. Molloy GJ, McGee HM, O'Neill D & Conroy RM (2010). Loneliness and emergency and planned hospitalizations among a community sample of older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58, 1538-1541.
14. Molloy GJ (2010). Increasing influenza vaccination rates: Where is the behaviour change theory? Vaccine, 28, 3632. 15. Randall G, Molloy GJ & Steptoe A (2009). The impact of an acute cardiac event on the partners of patients: A systematic review. Health Psychology Review, 3, 1-84.
16. Molloy GJ, Stamatakis E, Randall G & Hamer M. (2009). Marital status, gender and cardiovascular mortality: Behavioural, psychological distress and metabolic explanations. Social Science & Medicine, 69, 223-228.
17. Molloy GJ, Gao C, Johnston DW, Johnston M, Witham MD, Struthers AD, McMurdo MET (2009). Adherence to ACE inhibitors and illness beliefs in older heart failure patients. European Journal of Heart Failure, 11, 715-720.
18. Hamer M, Molloy GJ, de Oliveira C & Demakakos P. (2009). Leisure time physical activity, risk of depressive symptoms, and inflammatory mediators: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 1050-1055.
19. Hamer M & Molloy GJ (2009). Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of anaemia and depressive symptoms in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57, 948-949.
20. Molloy GJ, Sniehotta FF & Johnston M (2009). Two alternative models of health behaviour and recovery from activity limitations due to acute injury. A prospective study. Psychology & Health, 24, 271-285.
21. Hamer M, Molloy GJ, de Oliveira C & Demakakos P (2009). Persistent depressive symptomatology and inflammation: To what extent do health behaviours and weight control mediate this relationship? Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 23, 413-418.
22. Hamer M, Chida Y & Molloy GJ (2009). Psychological distress and cancer mortality. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 66, 255-258.
23. Hamer M, Molloy GJ, Stamatakis E. (2008). Psychological distress and cardiovascular events: Pathophysiological and behavioural mechanisms. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 52, 2156-2162.
24. Molloy GJ, Perkins-Porras L, Strike PC & Steptoe A (2008). Practical support predicts medication adherence and attendance at cardiac rehabilitation following acute coronary syndrome. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65, 581-586.
25. Molloy GJ, Perkins-Porras L, Strike PC & Steptoe A (2008). Type-D personality and cortisol in survivors of acute coronary syndrome. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 863-868.
26. McGee HM, Molloy GJ, O’Hanlon, A, Layte R (2008). Older people as both recipients and providers of informal care: analysis among community samples in the Republic and Northern Ireland. Health and Social Care in the Community,16, 548-553.
27. Molloy GJ, Hamer M, Randall G, Chida Y (2008). Marital status and cardiac rehabilitation attendance: a meta-analysis. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, 15, 557-561.
28. Skår S, Sniehotta FF, Araújo-Soares V, & Molloy GJ. (2008). Prediction of behaviour vs. prediction of behaviour change: The role of motivational moderators in the theory of planned behaviour. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 57, 609-627.
29. Bhattacharyya MR, Molloy GJ & Steptoe A (2008). Depression is associated with flatter cortisol rhythms in patients with coronary artery disease. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65, 107-113.
30. Dockray S, Bhattacharyya MR, Molloy GJ & Steptoe A (2008). The cortisol awakening response in relation to objective and subjective measures of wakening in the morning. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33, 77-82.
31. Molloy GJ, Johnston DW, Johnston M, Morrison V, Pollard B, Bonetti D, Joice S & McWalter R (2008). Spousal caregiver confidence and recovery from activity limitations in stroke survivors. Health Psychology, 27, 286-290.
32. Molloy GJ, Perkins-Porras L, Strike PC & Steptoe A (2008). Social networks and partner stress as predictors of adherence to medication, rehabilitation attendance and quality of life following acute coronary syndrome. Health Psychology, 27, 52-58.
33. Molloy GJ, Johnston DW, Johnston M, Gao C, Witham MD, Struthers AD, McMurdo MET (2008). Using the demand-control model of job strain to predict caregiver burden and satisfaction in the informal caregivers of heart failure patients. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 401-417.

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