Research Fellow
BSc(Hons)(Psychology)(Liverpool John Moores) PhD(Psychology)(Otago)
Janet is the Principal Investigator of a CHDS sub-study funded by the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation (CMRF): ‘Trajectories of depression to middle adulthood in a 40 year birth cohort’. This research aims to improve service delivery for New Zealanders experiencing depression by investigating:
- changes in depressive symptoms from adolescence to age 40
- childhood predictors of depression
- outcomes of depression at age 40
Janet previously studied the health and wellbeing of the lesbian, gay and bisexual members of the CHDS cohort; and also hoarding, personality and mood disorders with another Christchurch-based team, the Canterbury Health Ageing and Lifecourse (CHALICE) study.
News
- Janet talks to Radio NZ about our findings: Gay, lesbian and bisexual people twice as likely to report depression
- Watch Janet's 1NEWS interview about pathological hoarding in the over 50s as part of her work with the CHALICE study: Exclusive: Pathological hoarding grips up to 35,000 Kiwis
Publications
Monk, N. J., McLeod, G. F. H., Mulder, R. T., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Boden, J. M. (2022). Expanding the system: A brief psychosocial complex systems model of internalising disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 303, 297-300. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.014
Spittlehouse, J. (2021, August). Identity and gender. Verbal presentation at the George Abbott Symposium, [Online].
Monk, N. J., McLeod, G. F. H., Mulder, R. T., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Boden, J. M. (2023). Childhood anxious/withdrawn behaviour and later anxiety disorder: A network outcome analysis of a population cohort. Psychological Medicine, 53, 1343-1354. doi: 10.1017/s0033291721002889
McLeod, G. F. H., Cleland, L., Welch, J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Fenton, A., Boden, J. M., & Horwood, L. J. (2022). Menopause status and climacteric symptoms in a birth cohort of mid-life New Zealand women. Climacteric, 25(3), 271-277. doi: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1948005
McLeod, G. F. H., Horwood, L. J., Darlow, B. A., Boden, J. M., Martin, J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Carter, F. A., Jordan, J., Porter, R., Bell, C., Douglas, K., … McIntosh, V. V. W., … Vierck, E. (2022). Recruitment and retention of participants in longitudinal studies after a natural disaster. Longitudinal & Life Course Studies, 13(2), 287-306. doi: 10.1332/175795921X16168462584238
Monk, N. J., McLeod, G. F. H., Mulder, R. T., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Boden, J. M. (2022). Expanding the system: A brief psychosocial complex systems model of internalising disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 303, 297-300. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.014
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. (2021, August). Identity and gender. Verbal presentation at the George Abbott Symposium, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Monk, N. J., McLeod, G. F. H., Mulder, R. T., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Boden, J. M. (2023). Childhood anxious/withdrawn behaviour and later anxiety disorder: A network outcome analysis of a population cohort. Psychological Medicine, 53, 1343-1354. doi: 10.1017/s0033291721002889
Journal - Research Article
McLeod, G. F. H., Cleland, L., Welch, J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Fenton, A., Boden, J. M., & Horwood, L. J. (2022). Menopause status and climacteric symptoms in a birth cohort of mid-life New Zealand women. Climacteric, 25(3), 271-277. doi: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1948005
Journal - Research Article
McLeod, G. F. H., Horwood, L. J., Darlow, B. A., Boden, J. M., Martin, J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Carter, F. A., Jordan, J., Porter, R., Bell, C., Douglas, K., … McIntosh, V. V. W., … Vierck, E. (2022). Recruitment and retention of participants in longitudinal studies after a natural disaster. Longitudinal & Life Course Studies, 13(2), 287-306. doi: 10.1332/175795921X16168462584238
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. K., Boden, J. M., & Horwood, L. J. (2020). Sexual orientation and mental health over the life course in a birth cohort. Psychological Medicine, 50, 1348-1355. doi: 10.1017/S0033291719001284
Journal - Research Article
Prickett, T. C. R., Spittlehouse, J. K., Miller, A. L., Liau, Y., Kennedy, M. A., Cameron, V. A., Pearson, J. F., Boden, J. M., Troughton, R. W., & Espiner, E. A. (2019). Contrasting signals of cardiovascular health among natriuretic peptides in subjects without heart disease. Scientific Reports, 9, 12108. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48553-y
Journal - Research Article
Boden, J. M., & Spittlehouse, J. K. (2019). What we know, and don't know, about cannabis, psychosis and violence. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1499), 76-77. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Boden, J. M., Newton-Howes, G., Foulds, J., Spittlehouse, J., & Cook, S. (2019). Trajectories of alcohol use problems based on early adolescent alcohol use: Findings from a 35 year population cohort. International Journal of Drug Policy, 74, 18-25. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.06.011
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. K. (2017). Personality associations with mood, hoarding, health and well-being (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7186
Awarded Doctoral Degree
Pearson, J. F., Pullar, J. M., Wilson, R., Spittlehouse, J. K., Vissers, M. C. M., Skidmore, P. M. L., Willis, J., Cameron, V. A., & Carr, A. C. (2017). Vitamin C status correlates with markers of metabolic and cognitive health in 50-year-olds: Findings of the CHALICE Cohort Study. Nutrients, 9(8), 831. doi: 10.3390/nu9080831
Journal - Research Article
Appleby, S., Pearson, J. F., Aitchison, A., Spittlehouse, J. K., Joyce, P. R., & Kennedy, M. A. (2017). Mean telomere length is not associated with current health status in a 50-year-old population sample. American Journal of Human Biology, 29(1), e22906. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22906
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. K., Vierck, E., Pearson, J. F., & Joyce, P. R. (2016). Personality, mental health and demographic correlates of hoarding behaviours in a midlife sample. PeerJ, 4, e2826. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2826
Journal - Research Article
Vierck, E., Porter, R. J., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Joyce, P. R. (2015). Evaluation of the Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) test as an assessment and screening instrument for mild cognitive impairment. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 7(4), 119-129. doi: 10.5539/ijps.v7n4p119
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. K., Vierck, E. K., & Joyce, P. R. (2015). Personality and its association to self-reported health after earthquake exposure. In M. Tummino, M. Bollati & M. Widmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th European Congress of Psychology: Linking Technology and Psychology: Feeding the Mind, Energy for Life. (pp. 1163). Milan, Italy: Innexta. [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Spittlehouse, J., Vierck, E., Pearson, J., & Joyce, P. (2014, July). Temperament and character as determinants of well-being. Poster session presented at the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) 17th European Conference on Personality: Putting Personality in Context, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Jodczyk, S., Pearson, J. F., Fergusson, D. M., Horwood, L. J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Joyce, P. R., Hampton, M. B., & Kennedy, M. A. (2014). Association between telomere length and life stress in two New Zealand cohorts. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1396). Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Thorpe, A. M., Pearson, J. F., Schluter, P. J., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Joyce, P. R. (2014). Attitudes to aging in midlife are related to health conditions and mood. International Psychogeriatrics, 26(12), 2061-2071. doi: 10.1017/s1041610214001550
Journal - Research Article
Jodczyk, S., Pearson, J. F., Fergusson, D. M., Horwood, L. J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Joyce, P. R., Hampton, M. B., & Kennedy, M. A. (2014). No association between telomere length and exposure to life course stress or adversity in two longitudinal New Zealand cohorts. Proceedings of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting. 1325M. Retrieved from http://www.ashg.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Spittlehouse, J. K., Vierck, E., Pearson, J. F., & Joyce, P. R. (2014). Temperament and character as determinants of well-being. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55(7), 1679-1687. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.06.011
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. K., Joyce, P. R., Vierck, E., Schluter, P. J., & Pearson, J. F. (2014). Ongoing adverse mental health impact of the earthquake sequence in Christchurch, New Zealand. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48(8), 756-763. doi: 10.1177/0004867414527522
Journal - Research Article
Schluter, P. J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Cameron, V. A., Chambers, S., Gearry, R., Jamieson, H. A., Kennedy, M., Lacey, C. J., Murdoch, D. R., Pearson, J., Porter, R. J., Richards, M., Skidmore, P. M. L., Troughton, R., Vierck, E., & Joyce, P. R. (2013). Canterbury Health, Ageing and Life Course (CHALICE) study: Rationale, design and methodology. New Zealand Medical Journal, 126(1375). Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Spittlehouse, J. K., Pearson, J. F., Luty, S. E., Mulder, R. T., Carter, J. D., McKenzie, J. M., & Joyce, P. R. (2010). Measures of temperament and character are differentially impacted on by depression severity. Journal of Affective Disorders, 126, 140-146. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.03.010
Journal - Research Article
Slade, P., Morrell, C. J., Rigby, A., Ricci, K., Spittlehouse, J., & Brugha, T. S. (2010). Postnatal women's experiences of management of depressive symptoms: A qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 60(580), e440-e448. doi: 10.3399/bjgp10X532611
Journal - Research Article
Slade, P., Morrell, J., Rigby, A., Ricci, K., Spittlehouse, J., & Brugha, T. S. (2009, September). Postnatal depression: Women's perspectives of care from the PoNDER Trial. Verbal presentation at the 29th Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology Annual Conference, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
