Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- d.johnston@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Room S13, School of Psychology, William Guild Building, University of Aberdeen
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
- Research
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Research Overview
My primary research interests are stress, including occupational stress, fatigue, psychological and behaviour aspects of cardiavascular diease, and understanding and increasing activity in various groups. The methods I use include ambulatory physiological measurement, real time diary studies (ecological momentary assessment) and n-of-1 methods. My research is illustrated by these selected papers. A fuller list can befound under Publications.
Health Psychology
Johnston, DW, Beedie, A, & Jones, MC (2006) Using computerised ambulatory diaries for the assessment of job characteristics and work-related stress in nurses Work & Stress, 20, 163-172.
Allan , J., Johnston, D.W., Johnston, M., & Mant, D. (2007). Depression and perceived behavioural control are independent predictors of future activity and fitness after coronary. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 63, 501-508.
Powell R, Johnston M, Johnston DW. (2007). Assessing walking limitations in stroke survivors: Are self-reports and proxy-reports interchangeable? Rehabilitation Psychology, 52, 177-18
Johnston D.W., Tuomisto M.T., & Patching, G.R. (2008) The Relationship between Cardiac Reactivity in the Laboratory and in Real Life. Health Psychology. 27, 34-42
Molloy, G.J., Johnston, D.W., Johnston, M., Gao, C., Witham M. D., Struthers, A.D., , & McMurdo M.E.T. (2008) Using the Demand-Control Model of job strain to predict Caregiver Burden and Caregiver Satisfaction in the informal caregivers of heart failure patients. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 401-417.
Powell R, Johnston M & Johnston DW. (2008). The effects of negative affectivity on self-reported activity limitations in stroke patients: Testing the Symptom Perception, Disability and Psychosomatic Hypotheses. Psychology and Health, 23, 195-206
Powell, R., Allan J., Johnston, D.W., Gao, G., Johnston, M., Kenardy, J., Pollard, B., & Rowley, D. (2009) Activity and affect: Repeated within participant assessment of people after joint replacement surgery. Rehabilitation Psychology, 54, 83-90.
McMurdo, M.E.T, Sugden, J, Argo, I., Boyle P., Johnston, D.W., Sniehotta F.F., DonnanP.T (2010). Do pedometers increase physical activity in sedentary older women? A randomised controlled trial. Journal of the American Geriatric Society,58, 2099-2106.
Zanstra, Y. J., Johnston, D. W., Rasbash, J. (2010) Appraisal predicts hemodynamic reactivity in a naturalistic stressor. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77, 35-42.
Zanstra, Y. J., Johnston, D. W. (2011) Cardiovascular reactivity in real life settings: measurement, mechanisms and meaning. Biological Psychology, 86, 98-105
Quinn, F., Johnston, M., Dixon, D., Johnston, D.W., Pollard, B., & Rowley, D.I. (2012) Testing the integration of model of ICF and behavioral models of disability in orthopedic patients:Replication and extension. Rehabilitation Psychology, 57, 167-177
Johnston, D.W., Jones M.C., McCann, C.K., McKee, L. (2013) Stress in nurses: stress-related affect and its determinants examined over the nursing day. Annals of Behavioural Medicine, 45, 348-356.
Johnston, D.W., & Johnston, M. (2013). Useful theories should apply to individuals. British Journal of Health Psychology, 18, 469-473.
Quinn, F., Johnston, M., Johnston, D.W. (2013) Testing an integrated behavioural and biomedical model of disability in N-of-1 studies with chronic pain. Psychology & Health, 28, 1391-1406.
Johnston, D.W., Bell, C., Jones, M., Farquharson, B., Allan, J., Schofield, P., Ricketts, I., Johnston, M, (2016). Stressors, appraisal of stressors, experienced stress and cardiac response: a real-time, real-life investigation of work stress in nurses. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 50, 187-187.
Johnston, D.W. (2016). Ecological Momentary Assessment. In “Assessment in Health Psychology” Edited by Y. Benyamini, M. Johnston, & V. Karademas. Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. Pp 241-251
Steele, F., Clarke, P., Leckie, G., Allan, J., & Johnston, D.W. (2017). Multilevel structural equation models for longitudinal data where predictors are measured more frequently than outcomes: an application to the effects of stress on the cognitive function of nurses. J. R. Statist. Soc. A , 180, Part 1, pp. 263–283.
Suzanne McDonald, S., Quinn, F., Vieira, R., O’Brien, N., White, M., Johnston, D.W., & Sniehotta, F.F., (2017): The state of the art and future opportunities forusing longitudinal n-of-1 methods in health behaviour research: a systematic literature overview,Health Psychology Review, DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2017.1316672
Johnston, D.W., Allan, J.L., Powell, D.J.H., Jones, M.C., Farquharson, B., Bell, C., & Johnston, M. (2018). Why does work cause fatigue? A real-time investigation of fatigue, and determinants of fatigue in nurses working 12-hour shifts. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Online
Jones, M.C., Smith, K., Herber, O., White, W., Steele, F., & Johnston, D.W. (2018). Intention, beliefs and mood assessed using electronic diaries predicts attendance at cardiac rehabilitation: An observational study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 88, 143-152
- Publications
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Assessment and measurement issues.
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology: Clinical Health Psychology. Bellack, A., Hersen, M. (eds.). PergamonChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe relationship between heart rate and blood pressure reactivity in the laboratory and in the field: Evidence using continuous measures of blood pressure, heart rate and physical activity
International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 362-375Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.27.1.34
Cardiac rehabilitation
The Lancet, vol. 350, no. 9088, pp. 1400; author reply 1401Contributions to Journals: LettersDistress, stress and coping in first-year student nurses
Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 475-482Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTreatment choice for agoraphobic women: Exposure or cognitive-behaviour therapy?
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 409-420Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCardiovascular disease
The science and practice of cognitive behaviour therapy.. Oxford University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCoronary Heart Disease
Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. Baum, A., Newman, S., Weinman, J., West, R., McManus, C. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 421-423, 3 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHypertension
Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. Baum, A., Newman, S., Weinman, J., West, R., McManus, C. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 500-501, 2 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHypertension
Mind-body medicine: a clinician's guide to psychoneuroimmunology.. Watkins, A. D. (ed.). Churchill Livingstone, pp. 75-85, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe ambulatory measurement of posture, thigh acceleration, and muscle tension and their relationship to heart rate
Psychophysiology, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 409-415Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImproving control and psychological event detection during ambulatory cardiovascular recording.
Ambulatory assessment: computer assisted psychological and psychophysiological methods in monitoring and field studies.. Fahrenberg, J., Myrtek, M. (eds.). Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, pp. 129-140, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe development and field testing of a real-time interactive ambulatory heart rate monitor
International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 82-82Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesThe management of hypertension, type A behavior and hostility
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 643-644Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1995.tb01498.x
CARDIOVASCULAR REACTIVITY IN THE LABORATORY AND IN EVERYDAY LIFE - THE RELEVANCE OF DIFFERENT REACTIVITY PARAMETERS IN THE ANALYSIS OF FIELD DATA
Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 77-77Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesCONTINUOUS MEASURES OF THIGH ACCELERATION, MUSCLE TENSION, AND POSTURE IN THE ASSESSMENT OF MOTOR-ACTIVITY AND POSTURE AND IN THE PREDICTION OF HEART-RATE
International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 187-188Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesCardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and in the field: the relevance of different reactivity parameters in the analysis of daily-life data.
Neiren-und Hockdruckkrankheiten, vol. 24, pp. 151-153Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHYPERTENSION - PSYCHOLOGICAL-FACTORS IN ETIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Irish Journal of Psychology, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 27-42Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSTRESS MANAGEMENT AND BLOOD-PRESSURE HABITUATION
Homeostasis in health and disease, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 126-126Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTemporal stability of ambulatory cardiovascular reactivity.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 16, pp. 3-11Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe relationship between cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and heart rate response in real life: active coping and beta blockade
Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 369-76Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe relationship between laboratory and ambulatory cardiovascular reactivity: current evidence and suggested future directions.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 16, pp. 12-23Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffect of stress management on blood pressure in mild primary hypertension
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 306, no. 6883, pp. 963-966Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStress management in the treatment of primary hypertension and the reduction of coronary heart disease
Health Psychology in Cardiovascular Health and Disease. Sibilia, L., Borgia, S. (eds.). Errata CorrigeChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEART-RATE RESPONSIVENESS IN THE LABORATORY AND IN THE FIELD - 2 STUDIES
International Journal of Psychophysiology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 217-229Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe current status of the coronary prone behaviour pattern
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. 86, no. 7, pp. 406-9Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe measurement and significance of the cardiovascular response to psychological challenge.
Health Psychology. Sibilia, L., Borgia, S. (eds.)Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersStress management in the prevention of coronary heart disease.
International Review of Health Psychology, vol. 1, pp. 57-83Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe relationship between cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the field: the importance of Active Coping.
Temporal variations of the cardiovascular system. Schmidt, T. H., Engel, B. T., Blumchen, G. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 127-144, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersStress management in the treatment of mild primary hypertension
Hypertension, vol. 17, no. Suppl. 4 , pp. S63-S68Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBehavioural Medicine: The Application of Behaviour Therapy to Physical Health
Behavioural Psychotherapy, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 100-108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0141347300011551
Clinical applications of cardiovascular assessment.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 337-349Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModels relating cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in real life.: In proceedings of the 4th Annual conference of the European Health Psychology Society.
Health Psychology Section. Johnston, M., Herbert, M., Marteau, T. (eds.). British Psychological Society, pp. 6-7, 2 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPsychophysiological contributions to behaviour therapy.: Handbook of behaviour therapy and psychological science; An integrated approach
Pergamon, New YorkBooks and Reports: BooksStress management in the treatment of primary hypertension and the reduction of coronary heart disease
Horizons in Medicine. Seymour, C. A., Summerfield, J. A. (eds.). Royal College of PhysiciansChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA simple activity measure for use with ambulatory subjects
Psychophysiology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 87-93Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAnger, hypertension and heart disease
Current Developments in Health Psychology. Harwood Academic PublishersChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPsychophysiological responses in panic and stress.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, pp. 331-339Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe cardiovascular effects of stress.
Medical Research Council News, vol. 47, pp. 18-19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe relationship between cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the field
Psychophysiology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 34-44Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe relationship between heart rate and mood in real life
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 21-7Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTowards a state measure of Type A behaviour.
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 29, pp. 155-165Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWill stress management prevent coronary heart disease?
Psychology and Health Promotion. Shute, R., Penny, G. (eds.). British Psychological SocietyChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAn evaluation of the Takeda UA751 automatic sphygmomanometer
Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 203-204Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(89)90080-6
El status del tratemiento psicologico de la Yhipertension essential.
Revista de Psicologia de la Salud, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 3-17Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHypertension
The Practice of Behavioural Medicine. BPS Publications, pp. 1-25, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPrevention of cardiovascular disease by psychological methods
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 154, pp. 183-94Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effects of imminent minor surgery on the cognitive processing of health and interpersonal threat words
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 28 ( Pt 3), pp. 281-2Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWill stress management prevent coronary heart disease?
The Psychologist, vol. 7, pp. 275-278Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPsychological risk factors for disease: nature, importance and modification
Current Opinion in Psychiatry, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 734-739Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe behaviour control of high blood pressure.
Applications in Health Psychology. Rutgers Transaction PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHEALTH PSYCHOLOGY .2. THE BEHAVIORAL-CONTROL OF HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE
Current Psychology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 99-114Contributions to Journals: ArticlesType A behavior and ischaemic heart disease
British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.), vol. 295, no. 6602, pp. 851-2Contributions to Journals: ArticlesType A behaviour and ischaemic heart disease in middle aged British men
British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.), vol. 295, no. 6590, pp. 86-9Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCan and should type A behaviour be changed?
Postgraduate Medical Journal, vol. 62, no. 730, pp. 785-8Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow does relaxation training reduce blood pressure in primary hypertension.
Biological and Psychological Factors in Cardiovascular Disease. Springer Verlag, pp. 550-567, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRelaxation and stress management in the treatment of essential hypertension
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 437-450Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSubjective and cognitive effects of relaxation
Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 413-419Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(86)90006-9
The relationship between stress and cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and in the field.
Neural Mechanisms and Cardiovascular Disease.: Fidia Research Series. Lown, B., Malliani, B., Prosdocimi, M. (eds.). Liviana PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe treatment of essential hypertension by behavioural methods
Annual Review of European Behavior therapy, pp. 279-286Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe use of feedback to reduce the cardiovascular response to exercise.
Cardiac, Respiratory and Somatic Psychophysiology. Grossman, P., Janssen, K., Vaitl, D. (eds.). Plenum Press, pp. 251-261, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersMRC Trial of treatment of mild hypertension.
British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.), vol. 291, pp. 396Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPsychological interventions in cardiovascular disease
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 447-56Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBiofeedback, relaxation and related procedures in the treatment of psychophysiological disorders
Health Care and Human Behaviour. Academic PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCardiovascular feedback during dynamic exercise
Psychophysiology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 199-206Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCumulative scales for the measurement of agoraphobia
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 23 ( Pt 2), pp. 133-43Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of modification of baroreceptor activity on reaction time
Psychophysiology, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 487-93Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe relationship between arterial blood pressure and pulse transit time during dynamic and static exercise
Psychophysiology, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 521-7Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe self-control of the cardiovascular response to exercise using feedback of the product of interbeat interval and pulse transit time
Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 115-25Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effects of cardiovascular feedback and relaxation on angina pectoris
Behavioural Psychotherapy, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 257-264Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0141347300009071
Feedback and Incentive Effects on the Decrease of Interbeat Interval
Biofeedback and Self-regulation, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 255-263Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00998855
Type A behaviour in British men: reliability and intercorrelation of two measures
Journal of chronic diseases, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 203-7Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBehavioural treatment in the reduction of coronary risk factors: type A behaviour and blood pressure
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 21 (Pt 4), pp. 281-94Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNon-drug treatment of hypertension.
British Medical Journal, vol. 285, pp. 1046-1047Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSelf-control of interbeat interval and pulse transit time at rest and during exercise: A preliminary report
Acta Medica Scandinavica, vol. 211, no. S660, pp. 238-243Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1982.tb00379.x
The behavioural treatment of the symptoms of ischaemic heart disease
Behavioural Treatment of Disease. Plenum PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAgoraphobia: nature and treatment
Tavistock, LondonBooks and Reports: BooksExploiting the uniqueness of biofeedback
Behavioural Medicine. Ciba GeigyChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersProgrammed practice for agoraphobia: clients' manual
Tavistock, LondonBooks and Reports: BooksProgrammed practice for agoraphobia: partners' manual
Guilford Press, New YorkBooks and Reports: BooksThe production of specific decreases in interbeat interval and the motor skills analogy
Psychophysiology, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 288-300Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe control of pulse transit time independently of interbeat interval by providing feedback from both.
Biofeedback and Self-regulation, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 105-118Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999067
Agoraphobia: the long-term follow-up of behavioural treatment
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 137, pp. 418-27Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.137.5.418
The learning of specific increases in heart rate.
Psychophysiology, vol. 18, pp. 288-300Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA home based treatment programme for agoraphobia.
Behaviour Therapy. Behaviour Therapy, pp. 915-924, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersClinical applications of biofeedback
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, pp. 561-566Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBiofeedback, verbal instructions and the motor skills analogy
Biofeedback and Behaviour. Beatty, T., Legewie, H. (eds.). Plenum Press, pp. 331-342, 11 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersFeedback and instructional effects in the voluntary control of digital pulse amplitude
Biological Psychology, vol. 5, pp. 158-171Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCriterion level and instructional effects in the voluntary control of heart rate.
Biological Psychology. Kamiya, J., Barber, T. X., Miller, N. E., Shapiro, D., Stoyva, J. (eds.). Aldine Publishing Company, pp. 1-17, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersImaginal flooding and exposure to real phobic situations: changes during treatment
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 129, pp. 372-7Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImaginal flooding and exposure to real phobic situations: treatment outcome with agoraphobic patients
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 129, pp. 361-71Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe control of blood pressure with pulse wave velocity feedback.
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 20, pp. 417-424Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe control of blood pressure: A comparison of instructions and pulse wave velocity feedback.
European Journal of Behavioural modification, vol. 3, pp. 147-154Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBiofeedback: How useful is it?
New Behaviour, vol. 2, pp. 132-135Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProcess variables and the prediction of outcome in behaviour therapy
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 125, pp. 236-64Contributions to Journals: ArticlesArousal levels and attribution effects in diazepam assisted flooding
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 123, pp. 463-466Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.123.4.463
Probability learning and width of attention in normal and schizophrenic groups
The British journal of social and clinical psychology, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 402-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpecific and non-specific factors in behaviour therapy
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 123, no. 575, pp. 445-62Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe learned control of differential blood flow in the human ear lobe.
Biological Psychology. Di Cara, L. V., Baber, T. X., Kamiya, J., Miller, N. E., Shapiro, D., Stoyva, J. (eds.). Aldine Publishing Company, pp. 237-240, 4 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersFLATTENING OF AFFECT AND PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS
British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 116, no. 530, pp. 39Contributions to Journals: Articles