A/Professor Mark
Allen
Associate
Professor
Summary
Mark Allen is an Associate Professor at ISN Psychology, where he contributes to research, teaching, and academic leadership. He has 18 years’ experience in higher education and has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research spans major scientific disciplines including psychology, urology, gerontology, preventive medicine, sport and exercise science, and public health. At ISN, Mark supervises honours and doctoral researchers, chairs the Scholarship and Research Training Committee, and teaches Clinical Health Psychology. He is particularly interested in developing research capacity and creating opportunities for students to engage directly with research.
Research and Publications
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Allen, M. S., Jones, M. V., Sheffield, D., & Laborde, S. (2026). Personality in sport: An updated critical review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Prescott, K., & Allen, M. S. (2026). The role of anxiety in the association between adverse childhood experiences and antisocial behaviour in adulthood. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied. Advance online publication.
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Alfonso, C., Haydt, V., Allen, M. S., Capdevila, L., & Laborde, S. (2026). Monitoring training adaptation: A scoping review of the relationship between self-reported subjective variables and resting vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) in adult athletes. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Allen, M. S., Mishra, M., Tashjian, S. M., & Laborde, S. (2025). Linking big five personality traits to components of diet: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(4), 905-929.
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Martins, V., Allen, M. S., Borges, U., Laterza, P., Jackovic, M., Mosley, E., Javelle, F., & Laborde, S. (2025). Effects of light exposure on vagally-mediated heart rate variability: A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 176, Article 106241.
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Mishra, M., & Allen, M. S. (2025). Face, construct and criterion validity, and test-retest reliability, of the Adult Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 41(2), 144-153.
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Robson, D. A., & Allen, M. S. (2025). Teacher self-efficacy and two-year change in children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 34, 1048-1057.