Adam Austin Rogers

• Aley, Melanie; Alibhai, Salima; Bloomfield-Gallie, Amanda; Dooley, Jamie; Rederiene, Gitana & Rogers, Adam Austin [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2026). From margins to mainstream: reimagining oral health in integrated healthcare. Frontiers in Dental Medicine. 7, p. 1–8. doi: 10.3389/fdmed.2026.1905156. Full text in Research Archive
• Rogers, Adam Austin; Halvari, Anne Elisabeth M.; Solbakk, Anne-Kristin & Johnsen, Jan-Are Kolset (2025). Testing Dental Anxiety and Self-Care Behaviours as Mediators of the Association Between Executive Functioning and Oral Health Among Young Adults. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. ISSN 0301-5661. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.13047. Full text in Research Archive
• Rogers, Adam Austin; Halvari, Anne Elisabeth Münster; Johnsen, Jan-Are Kolset & Solbakk, Anne-Kristin (2023). Executive functioning as a moderator of flossing behaviour among young adults: a temporal self-regulation theory perspective. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. 11(1), p. 1–18. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2023.2249972. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background - Flossing among young adults is often infrequent and barriers not completely understood. One explanation concerns the capacity for executive functioning (EF) during the self-regulation of behaviour.<p> <p>Methods - Using Temporal Self-Regulation Theory (TST) as a framework to explore EF, young adults from Norwegian universities completed a survey that measured monthly flossing frequency, flossing-related intentions and behavioural prepotency (BP), and EF using the Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function – Adult Version (BRIEF-A).<p> <p>Results - Data from 362 participants were analysed. The TST-model explained a substantial proportion of variance in monthly flossing (R2 = 0.74), and flossing was associated directly with intention and BP, and interactions between intention and both BP and global-EF. Sub-domains of EF were explored using the same model, revealing that behavioural regulation processes, specifically those related to emotional control and shifting between tasks, offered better fit. Simple slopes revealed that moderation effects were only present at lower levels of BP.<p> <p>Conclusion - EF plays a role in moderating the translation of intentions into flossing behaviour. Specifically, emotional control and task-shifting appear to be influential, and this influence increases when habitual and environmental support (i.e. BP) is reduced. Overcoming EF-barriers may represent a key step in establishing flossing behaviours.

• Rogers, Adam Austin; Willumsen, Tiril; Strømme, Hilde & Johnsen, Jan-Are Kolset (2022). Top-down self-regulation processes as determinants of oral hygiene self-care behaviour: A systematic scoping review. Clinical and Experimental Dental Research. 8, p. 807–826. doi: 10.1002/cre2.548. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Objectives: Understanding the psychological mechanisms that moderate oral hygiene self‐care behavior is anticipated to benefit efforts to change such behavior. Top‐down self‐regulatory (TSR) processes represent one group of relatively unexplored, yet potentially influential, moderating factors. This systematic scoping review aims to explore whether there is evidence that TSR processes moderate oral hygiene self‐care engagement within the current literature.<p> <p>Methods: CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science databases were searched up to April 2020 for articles that compared measures of TSR processes (such as self‐monitoring, inhibitory control, and task switching) to oral hygiene self‐care behavior, or tested interventions that aimed to change or support TSR processes.<p> <p>Results: The search returned 6626 articles, with 25 included in the final sample. Weak evidence supported both the role of TSR processes as moderators of interdental cleaning and the value of interventions targeting self‐monitoring of interdental cleaning behavior. Overall, methodological limitations rendered the findings somewhat inconclusive, with an absence of objective assessments of TSR capacity, and little focus on TSR processes as moderators of intervention effects.<p> <p>Conclusions: The inconclusive, but reasonably promising, findings point to the value of continuing to apply TSR processes within studies of oral hygiene behavior. Exploring why interdental cleaning appears more reliant on TSR processes than toothbrushing, employing objective neuropsychological assessment, and measuring TSR constructs within interventions targeting TSR processes, are encouraged. As a scoping review, the study hopes to generate interest and serve as a starting point for further investigation.

• Hayes, Melanie; Rogers, Adam Austin; Chuanon, Janet; Tan, Thomas; Lai, Ivan & Yong, Elisha (2021). Dental and oral health students’ perceptions of loupes. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE). ISSN 1080-3548. 27(1), p. 136–143. doi: 10.1080/10803548.2019.1574110. Full text in Research Archive
• Rogers, Adam Austin; Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew; Lewis, Vivian; Krug, Isabelle & Richardson, Ben (2017). A person-by-situation account of why some people more frequently engage in upward appearance comparison behaviors in everyday life. Behavior Therapy. ISSN 0005-7894. 48(1), p. 19–28. Full text in Research Archive

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• Johnsen, Jan-Are Kolset; Rogers, Adam Austin; Bergdahl, Jan & Willumsen, Tiril (2022). Basic oral health-related psychology, Oral Health Psychology. Springer. ISSN 9783031042478. p. 3–23. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04248-5_1. Full text in Research Archive

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