Rate My Professor Indita Dorina

Dr. Indita Dorina is a Sessional Academic in the Curtin School of Population Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and serves as a Lecturer affiliated with the School of Population Health. Dorina is a member of the Behavioural Science & Health Research Group and contributes to the enAble Institute. Her research centers on health psychology, with a particular emphasis on self-regulation processes and the application of temporal self-regulation theory (TST) to predict and understand health and social behaviors. She investigates factors influencing behaviors such as discretionary food consumption, snacking, alcohol intake, plant-based milk consumption, and pro-environmental actions like soft plastic recycling.

Dorina's scholarly output includes several impactful publications. In 2023, she co-authored 'Utility of temporal self-regulation theory in health and social behaviours: A meta-analysis' published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, which examined the predictive utility of TST across various domains and garnered 29 citations. That same year, 'Predicting discretionary food consumption using temporal self-regulation theory and food reward sensitivity' appeared in Appetite, exploring the interplay of self-regulation and reward in eating behaviors. In 2024, 'What Is Behavioral Complexity? Lay Perceptions of Characteristics of Complex Behavior' was published in Behavioral Sciences, investigating public understandings of behavioral intricacy. More recent works include 'Associations between dimensions of self-regulation and health behaviour: Factor analysis and predictive study' (2025), 'The Role of Psychological Factors in Young Adult Snacking: Exploring the Intention-Behaviour Gap' (2025), 'Health, Environment or Taste? Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Plant-Based Milk Consumption' (2025), and 'Clarifying the importance and moderating roles of temporal self-regulation theory across behaviour types' (2024). Earlier, in 2021, she published 'Applying temporal self-regulation theory to identify correlates of soft plastic recycling in Australia' in the Australian Journal of Psychology. Her work has accumulated 61 citations as per ResearchGate metrics. Dorina also engages in mixed-methods research and evidence translation as a Behavioural Health Program Evaluator, fostering partnerships in public health and government sectors.