Dr Hitaua Arahanga-Doyle

2025

Journal - Research Article

Fox, R., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Johnson, F. N., Ritchie, T., Rose, B. M., Petaera-Rukuwai, E., & Winter, T. (2025). Tales from the trenches: The barriers to and facilitators of decolonizing doctoral research in psychology departments of Aotearoa. American Psychologist, 80(8), 1272-1284. doi: 10.1037/amp0001492

Hunter, J. A., Clarke, H., Keenan, G., Moradi, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Boyes, M., Ruffman, T., … Mason, A., … Scarf, D. (2025). Social identity is associated with the long-term growth of personal efficacy in an Adventure Education Program (AEP). Group Dynamics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/gdn0000231

Garcia, C., Grant, E., Treharne, G. J., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Lucassen, M. F. G., Scarf, D., … Rapsey, C. (2025). ‘We’ll be okay together’: Navigating challenges as queer university students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kōtuitui, 55(1), 32-46. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2023.2235297

Garcia, C., Grant, E., Treharne, G. J., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Lucassen, M. F. G., Scarf, D., … Rapsey, C. (2025). ‘Is it worth potentially dealing with someone who won't get it?’: LGBTQA+ university students’ perspectives on mental health care. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 55(1), 32-46. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2023.2235297

2024

Chapter in Book - Research

Ransom, C., Scarf, D., Arahanga-Doyle, H., & Hunter, J. A. (2024). The effects of COVID-19-related threat on perceived control and ingroup favoritism. In A. Akande (Ed.), Power, politics and influence: Exercising followership, leadership, and practicing politics. (pp. 335-359). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-69610-7_12

Clifford, C., & Arahanga-Doyle, H. (2024). He Awa Whiria in psychology: Health, clinical practice and tertiary education. In A. Macfarlane, M. Derby & S. Macfarlane (Eds.), He Awa Whiria: Braiding the knowledge streams in research, policy and practice. (pp. 123-144). Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press. doi: 10.26021/14970

Journal - Research Article

Jamieson, I., Winter, T., Mason, A., Fehoko, E., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Fox, R., & Scarf, D. (2024). Indigenous people display lower mental illness stigma in Aotearoa. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674241307159

Fox, A., Fox, R., Linton, C. J., Cruwys, T., Hunter, J. A., Fehoko, E. S., Jones, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Winter, T., Treharne, G. J., & Scarf, D. (2024). Social Identity Mapping with justice-involved young people: Exploring identity pathways to aid the desistance of criminal offending. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34, e70017. doi: 10.1002/casp.70017

Du, K., Hunter, J. A., Yogeeswaran, K., Scarf, D., Arahanga-Doyle, H., & Ruffman, T. (2024). Information regarding shared genes between humans improves attitudes towards world members. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.3111

Johnson, F. N., Wehi, P., Neha, T., Cross, M., Thompson, V., Tibble, S., … Arahanga-Doyle, H., & Jose, P. E. (2024). Introducing 'Ngaruroro': A new model for understanding Māori wellbeing. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 21(4), 445. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21040445

Fischer, R., Bailey, Y., Shankar, M., Safaeinili, N., Karl, J. A., Daly, A., … Arahanga-Doyle, H., … Zulman, D. M. (2024). Cultural challenges for adapting behavioral intervention frameworks: A critical examination from a cultural psychology perspective. Clinical Pyschology Review, 110, 102425. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102425

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Scarf, D., Fox, A., Fox, R., Cruwys, T., Hunter, J., Fehoko, E., Jones, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., … Treharne, G. (2024). Social identity mapping with justice-involved Indigenous youth. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychology (SASP). Retrieved from https://sasp-acpid.org

2023

Journal - Research Other

Rayne, A., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Cox, B., Cox, M. P., Febria, C. M., Galla, S. J., … Wehi, P. M., & Steeves, T. E. (2023). Collective action is needed to build a more just science system. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1034-1037. doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01635-4

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Garcia, C., Grant, E., Treharne, G. J., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Lucassen, M. F. G., Scarf, D., Taumoepeau, M., … Rapsey, C., Skirrow, P., Johnstone, G., Douglas, K., & Faulkner, J. (2023). "I wouldn't know where to start": LGBTQA+ university students' experiences and preferences in mental health care. Proceedings of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists (NZCCP) National Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzccp.co.nz

2022

Chapter in Book - Research

Arahanga-Doyle, H., Shine, B., Treharne, G. J., Hunter, J., Yan, R., Rapana, W., & Scarf, D. (2022). R. Tucker Thompson II: "It was more like Whānau": Social identity during an adventure education programme. In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 73-93). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572

Rankin, V., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Scarf, D., & Hunter, J. A. (2022). How ingroup favoritism functions as a defense against threat. In A. Akande (Ed.), Handbook of racism, xenophobia, and populism: All forms of discrimination in the United States and around the globe. (pp. 387-414). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13559-0_18

Journal - Research Article

Phillips, C., Berghan, J., Clifford, A., Arahanga-Doyle, H., & Totoro, V. (2022). Mauriora and the environment: A Kaupapa Māori exploration of adventure therapy in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 52(Suppl. 1), 144-159. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2022.2139731

Ruwhiu, D., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Donaldson-Gush, R., Bragg, C., Kapa, J., & Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki. (2022). Enhancing the sustainability science agenda through Indigenous methodology. Sustainability Science, 17, 403-414. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01054-2

2021

Awarded Doctoral Degree

Arahanga-Doyle, H. G. (2021). Blending whanaungatanga and belonging: A wise intervention integrating Māori values and contemporary social psychology (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/12406

2019

Journal - Research Article

Moradi, S., Jang, K., Pehrson, S., Boden, H., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Hunter, J. A., … Scarf, D. (2019). Express yourself? Ease to express one’s identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health. Kōtuitui, 14(2), 290-304. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2019.1632907

Koni, E., Moradi, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Neha, T., Hayhurst, J. G., Boyes, M., Cruwys, T., Hunter, J. A., & Scarf, D. (2019). Promoting resilience in adolescents: A new social identity benefits those who need it most. PLoS ONE, 14(1), e0210521. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210521

Arahanga-Doyle, H., Moradi, S., Brown, K., Neha, T., Hunter, J. A., & Scarf, D. (2019). Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme. Kōtuitui, 14(1), 38-51. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2018.1508479

Journal - Research Other

Scarf, D., Waitoki, W., Chan, J., Britt, E., Nikora, L. W., Neha, T., … Hunter, J. A., Arahanga-Doyle, H. G., & Abbott, M. (2019). Holding a mirror to society? Sociodemographic diversity within clinical psychology training programmes across Aotearoa [Research letter]. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1495), 79-81. Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

2018

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Arahanga-Doyle, H. (2018). Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme. Proceedings of the 11th Education Psychology Forum (EPF): Research and practice partnerships: Advancing educational psychology together. Retrieved from http://www.eenz.com/epf

2016

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Arahanga-Doyle, H., & Ruwhiu, D. (2016). The complexity of economic development for Māori communities: A case study. Proceedings of the International Indigenous Research Conference. (pp. 9). Auckland, New Zealand: Ngä Pae o te Māramatanga. Retrieved from http://www.indigenousresearch2016.ac.nz/