Ben Williams
Swinburne University of Technology
23 Papers
170 Citations
Ben Williams is an academic researcher from Swinburne University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Loneliness. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications. Previous affiliations of Ben Williams include University of Melbourne.
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Papers
The effects of personality traits, self-esteem, loneliness, and narcissism on Facebook use among university students
TL;DR: It was concluded that students who are high in openness use Facebook to connect with others in order to discuss a wide range of interests, whereas students who is high in loneliness use the site to compensate for their lack of offline relationships.
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Taxometric analysis supports a dimensional latent structure for schizotypy
TL;DR: The existence of a discrete class of people vulnerable to schizophrenia spectrum disorders is the most replicated finding of taxometric research as mentioned in this paper, and evidence for such a taxon has been obtained with diverse measures of schizotypy in clinical, high-risk, and normal samples.
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Nature of depression in patients with HIV/AIDS.
Fiona Judd,Angela Komiti,Phyllis Chua,Anne M Mijch,Jennifer F Hoy,Paul Grech,Alan C Street,John H. Lloyd,Ben Williams +8 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that at least for ‘well’ people living with HIV/AIDS, there is no distinct subtype of depression and early treatment approaches can be modelled on those used for other non-HIV groups.
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A cluster randomised trial of an internet-based intervention program for tinnitus distress in an industrial setting
Jo-Anne Abbott,Viktor Kaldo,Britt Klein,David W. Austin,Catherine Hamilton,Leon Piterman,Ben Williams,Gerhard Andersson +7 more
TL;DR: The effectiveness of a therapist-supported Internet intervention program for tinnitus distress in an industrial setting was evaluated using a cluster randomised design, with a high attrition rate and small sample size limiting the generalisability of the findings.
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Is schizotypy taxonic? Response to Beauchaine, Lenzenweger, and Waller
TL;DR: Beauchaine, Lenzenweger, and Waller as mentioned in this paper argue that their critique selectively applies more stringent standards to our work than to studies supporting their view that schizotypy is taxonic (i.e., categorical).
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