Joseph M. Boden
I am currently investigating the effects of a range of behavioral, environmental, and personality predictors (such as self-esteem, neuroticism, violent behavior, and family dysfunction) on later life outcomes including mental health, substance use, adjustment, and relationship functioning. These studies are being conducted as part of a 30-year longitudinal study of a representative birth cohort in Christchurch New Zealand.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Baumeister, R.F., Smart, L., & Boden, J.M. (1996). Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: The dark side of high self-esteem. Psychological Review, 103, 5-33.
- Boden, J.M. & Baumeister, R.F. (1997). Repressive coping: Distraction using pleasant thoughts and memories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 45-62.
- Boden, J.M. & Fergusson, D.M., & Horwood, L.J. (2006). Illicit drug use and dependence in a New Zealand birth cohort. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40, 156-163. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
- Boden, J.M. & Horwood, L.J. (2006). Self-esteem, risky sexual behavior, and pregnancy in a New Zealand birth cohort. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35(5), 549-560.
- Boden, J.M., Fergusson, D.M., & Horwood, L.J. (2007). Anxiety disorders and suicidal behaviours in adolescence and young adulthood: A 25-year longitudinal study. Psychological Medicine, 37(3), 431-440.
- Boden, J.M., Fergusson, D.M., & Horwood, L.J. (in press). Does self-esteem predict later life outcomes? A test of the causal role of self-esteem. Development and Psychopathology.
- Boden, J.M., Fergusson, D.M., & Horwood, L.J. (in press). Self-esteem and violence: testing links between self-esteem and later violent offending and interpartner violence. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
- DePaulo, B.M, Ansfield, M.E., Kirkendol, S.E., & Boden, J.M. (2004). Serious lies. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 26, 147-168.
- Fergusson DM, Boden JM, Horwood LJ. (2006). Circumcision status and risk of sexually transmitted infection: An analysis of a longitudinal birth cohort. Pediatrics, 118(5), 1971-1977.
- Fergusson, D.M., Boden, J.M. & Horwood, L.J. (2007). Exposure to single parenthood in childhood and later mental health, education, economic, and criminal behavior outcomes. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 1089-1095.
- Fergusson, D.M., Boden, J.M., & Horwood, L.J. (2006). Cannabis use and other illicit drug use: Testing the cannabis gateway hypothesis. Addiction, 101, 556-569.
- Fergusson, D.M., Boden, J.M., & Horwood, L.J. (2006). Examining the intergenerational transmission of violence in a New Zealand birth cohort. Child Abuse and Neglect, 30, 89-108.
- Fergusson, D.M., Horwood, L.J., & Boden, J.M. (2006). The structure of internalising symptoms in early adulthood. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(6), 540-546.
- Fergusson, D.M., Horwood, L.J., & Boden, J.M. (2006). Birth order and educational achievement in adolescence and young adulthood. Australian Journal of Education, 50(2), 122-139.
- Fergusson, D.M., Poulton, R., Smith, P.H., & Boden, J.M. (2006). Cannabis and psychosis. British Medical Journal, 332, 172-175.
Joseph M. Boden
Department of Psychological Medicine
University of Otago, Christchurch
University of Otago, P.O. Box 4345
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
- Phone: 64-3-372-0406
- Fax: 64-3-372-0407