Program > Keynote speaker - M. McDERMOTT
Mark R. McDERMOTT
Professor of Psychology, University of East London (UK)
- Illustrating the myth of consistency: personality, psychodiversity, and responding to requirements
In the above title, the Pr. McDermott would talk about work on rebelliousness and conformity, given this essentially is what `responding to requirements’ is about, but also about psychodiversity and its measurement.
- Biography
Mark McDermott studied undergraduate psychology between 1978 and 1981 in what was then University College Cardiff (UCC) (now, the University of Wales, Cardiff), where he first encountered Reversal Theory, and the theory’s progenitor, Professor Apter, as an erudite lecturer and tutor. In 1982, Mark was awarded a University of Wales PhD scholarship and undertook work which later emerged in thesis form as "Rebelliousness in adolescence and young adulthood". He was an attendee at the very first Reversal Theory conference in 1983, and has delivered papers at many RT conferences since. He was co-organiser of the 8th International RT conference in 1997, London. From 1987 he trained for two years as a clinical psychologist at the University of Manchester.
Across his career, his research has focused on questionnaire development. Within Reversal Theory, this has centred upon the development of the Negativism Dominance Scale (NDS), a questionnaire measure of proactive and reactive rebelliousness. Mark has published a variety of journal articles with national and international collaborators, and book chapters, based on work using this measure. The NDS has been adopted and used in a variety of international settings, having been translated into French, German, Ukrainian, Dutch and Spanish. More recently, with Daniel Alfonso, he has been developing a novel self-report measure of psychodiversity, a concept which lies at the heart of RT.
Mark has been a lecturer and researcher in psychology in the School of Psychology, at the University of East London since 1989. During that time, he has twice led the School’s PGR programme, been the School’s director of research from 2003-2011, and in this, his 35th year at the University, has been appointed at the start of 2024 as the School’s Interim Director of Research. He continues to lead well-received undergraduate modules on health psychology and the psychology of mental health, whilst also supervising PhD students.
For further information, see: https://uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/mark-r-mcdermott
To connect with Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mcdermott-34128623/
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