Dr Páraic Ó Súilleabháin is a Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Ireland. Páraic also serves as the Research Coordinator on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. Páraic’s research is primarily focused on the biobehavioural processes underlying disease and mortality. Páraic examines the associations between biobehavioural factors (such as personality traits, loneliness, stress) on the accumulative lifespan development and progression of disease (such as cardiovascular disease), and mortality trajectories across the lifespan. While utilising several approaches, including both longitudinal and experimental methods, Páraic is interested in the identification of individual differences involved in health processes. He has received several awards, and both national and international recognition for his research.

Publications

O’Súilleabháin, P.S., Gallagher, S., & Steptoe, A. (2019). Loneliness, living alone, and all-cause mortality: Emotional and social loneliness effects over 19-years of follow-up in old age. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81(6), 521-526. Doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000710

https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Fulltext/2019/07000/Loneliness,_Living_Alone,_and_All_Cause_Mortality_.6.aspx

 

O’Súilleabháin, P.S., Hughes, B.M., Oommen, A.M., Joshi, L., Cunningham, S. (2019). Vulnerability to stress: Personality facet of vulnerability is associated with cardiovascular adaptation to recurring stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 144, 34-39.   Doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.06.013

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016787601930039X

 

Soye, A. & O’Súilleabháin, P.S. (2019). Underlying facets of openness to experience and cardiovascular responsivity across active and passive stress exposures. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 140, 26-32. Doi:  10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.03.016

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167876018309693

 

O’Súilleabháin, P.S., & Hughes, B.M. (2018). Neuroticism predicts all-cause mortality over 19-years: The moderating effects on functional status, and the angiotensin-converting enzyme. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 110, 32-37. Doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2018.04.013

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399917312394

 

O’Súilleabháin, P.S., Howard, S., & Hughes, B.M. (2018). Openness to experience and adaptation to change: Cardiovascular habituation to change in acute stress exposures. Psychophysiology, 55, e13023. Doi: 10.1111/psyp.13023

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/psyp.13023