Community-based Loneliness Prevention

Dingle, G. A., … Stevenson, C. et al., (2025) Australian and UK perspectives on social prescribing implementation research: Theory, measurement, resourcing and discovery to ensure health equity. Health and Social Care in the Community. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/2650302
Dixon, J., Durrheim, K., Tredoux, C., McKeown, S., Stevenson, C., & Huck, J. (2025). ‘Crossing the line’: A boundary transgression model of resistance to desegregation. European Review of Social Psychology, 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2550110
Fino, E., Morris, S. M., Stevenson, C., Shuttleworth, I., Finell, E., & Bjarnason, Þ. (2025). Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506251325294. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506251325294
Garry, J., Pow, J., Stevenson, C., & Stone, P. (2024). Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy. International Political Science Review, 45(2), 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121221125049
Gooch, D., Bandara, A. K., Bennaceur, A., Giles, E., Harkin, L., Katz, D., ... & Price, B. A. (2024). Reflections on using the story completion method in designing tangible user interfaces. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 192, 103360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103360
Haslam, S. A., Haslam, C., Cruwys, T., Sharman, L. S., Hayes, S., Walter, Z., ... & Young, T. (2024). Tackling loneliness together: A three-tier social identity framework for social prescribing. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(5), 1128-1150. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241242434
Mclocklin, G., Kellezi, B., Stevenson, C., & Mackay, J. (2024). Disclosure decisions and help-seeking experiences amongst victim-survivors of non-consensual intimate image distribution. Victims & Offenders, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2024.2329107
Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Seppälä, T., & Stevenson, C. (2024). The more diverse the better: Identifying with a diverse neighbourhood mother community predicts greater intergroup contact. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2764
Shala, A., Këllezi, B., Wakefield, J. R., & Stevenson, C. (2024). How social norms shape the long-term consequences of war rape: A mixed-method qualitative exploration. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000720
Wakefield, J. R., Stevenson, C., Këllezi, B., McNamara, N., Bowe, M., Dobai, A., ... & Tunçgenç, B. (2024). Articles from and inspired by the 5th International Conference on Social Identity and Health. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2790
Charles, S. J., Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J. R., & Fino, E. (2023). Diversity of group memberships predicts wellbeing: cross sectional and longitudinal evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231202278
Harkin, L., Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Daly, R., Talbot, C. V., Park, M. S. A., ... & Price, B. (2023). Being cut off from social identity resources has shaped loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal interview study with medically vulnerable older adults from the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2724
McNamara, N., Wakefield, J. R., Mair, E., Rennoldson, M., Stevenson, C., & Fitzsimmons, W. (2023). Multiple group identifications and identity compatibility in eating disorder recovery: A mixed methods study. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2720
Paajanen, P., Finell, E., Riikonen, R., & Stevenson, C. (2023). ‘Hey, teach these kids to eat their own food!’: Institutional intergroup contact in immigrant mothers' talk. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(6), 1426-1439. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2746
Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., Riikonen, R., & Finell, E. (2023). Keeping apart on the playground: Construction of informal segregation on public playgrounds in multiethnic neighborhoods. Social Psychology Quarterly, 86(1), 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221116632
Riikonen, R., Finell, E., Suoninen, E., Paajanen, P., & Stevenson, C. (2023). Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 264-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12580
Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Stevenson, C., Paajanen, P., Repo, K., & Finell, E. (2023). Intragroup contact with other mothers living in the same neighborhood benefits mothers' life satisfaction: The mediating role of group identification and social support. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(3), 1365-1377. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22960
Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J.R.H, Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., Jones, B., & McNamara, N. (2023). Weathering the Storm Together: Family identification predicts future wellbeing during COVID-19 via enhanced financial resilience. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000951
Stuart, A., Yan, R. J., Harkin, L. J., Katz, D., Stevenson, C., Mehta, V., ... & Price, B. (2023). Digital intervention in loneliness in older adults: Qualitative analysis of user studies. JMIR Formative Research, 7(1), e42172. https://doi.org/10.2196/42172
Bjarnason, T., Shuttleworth, I., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland. Acta Sociologica 66(4) https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136979.
Clark, I., Lawton, C., Stevenson, C., Vickers, T., & Dahill, D. (2022). A ‘place-based’ approach to work and employment: The end of reciprocity for ordinary working families and ‘giggers’ in a place. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(2), 634-657. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X20946374
Finell, E., & Stevenson, C. (2022). Interpersonal bonds with fellow nationals, blind patriotism and preference for Immigrants' acculturation. Scandinavian journal of psychology, 63(4), 383-392.https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12817
Paajanen, P., Seppälä, T., Stevenson, C., & Finell, E. (2022). Child’s presence shapes immigrant women’s experiences of everyday intergroup contact. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7477
Seppala., T., Riikonen, R., Paajanen, P., Stevenson., C., and Finell, E., (2022) Development of First-time Mothers’ Sense of Shared Identity and Integration with their Neighbourhood. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2592
Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J.R.H, Bowe, M., Kellezi, B., Jones, B., & McNamara, N. (2022). Weathering the Storm Together: Family identification predicts future wellbeing during COVID-19 via enhanced financial resilience.Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000951
Bar-Tal, D., Trew, K., Hameiri, B., Stevenson, C., & Nahhas, E. (2021). Ethos of conflict as the prism to evaluate the Northern Irish and the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts by the involved societies: A comparative analysis. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000547
Stevenson, C., Wakefield, J., Felsner, I. & Drury, J., (2021) Collectively Coping with Coronavirus: Local Community Identification Predicts Giving Support and Lockdown Adherence During the COVID-19 Pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12457
McNamara, N., Stevenson, C., Kellezi, B., Wakefield, J. R. H.,, Mair, E., Bowe, M., ... & Halder, M. (2021) Community identification, social support and loneliness: The benefits of social identification for personal well-being. British Journal of Social Psychology  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12456