Associate Professor Jennifer Boldero

BA MA PhD

Associate Professor

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Associate Professor Jennifer Boldero completed her undergraduate and Masters degrees in Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her PhD, which examined the predictors of relationship satisfaction and stability, was undertaken at the University of Melbourne. She has held academic positions in psychology at Melbourne State College, Melbourne College of Advanced Education, and the University of Melbourne. From 1995-1997 she was the Director of Membership Affairs of the Australian Psychological Society. Her academic and research interests are in the area of social psychology, specifically focusing on social influences on the self and self-regulatory processes. Her research collaborators include E. Tory Higgins (Columbia University; and a University of Melbourne Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2005), Timothy Strauman (Duke University), Marlene Moretti (Simon Fraser University), Jill Francis (University of Aberdeen), James Shah (Duke University), and Eshkol Rafaeli (Columbia University), as well as Department of Psychology colleagues.

Research Interests:

• Social & Organisational Psychology
• Emotional, motivational, and behavioural consequences of self-regulatory processes
• Relational discrepancies
• Implicit assesment of characteristics of the self
• Experimental Social Psychology Laboratory

Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

• Society of Australiasian Social Psychologists
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  

Recent Funded Research:

Parker, A.G., Boldero, J.M., & Bell, R.C. (in press).  Borderline personality disorder: The role of self-discrepancies and self-complexity. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Boldero, J.M., & Francis, J.J. (2005). Situational influences on the intensity of emotional responses to self-evaluation. In A.V. Clark (Ed.). Psychology of moods. New York: Nova Science.

Boldero, J.M., Moretti, M.M, Bell, R.C., & Francis, J.J. (2005). Self-discrepancies and negative affect: A primer on when to look for specificity, and how to find it. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57, 139-147

Clode, D., & Boldero, J. (2005). Keeping the doctor alive: A self-care guidebook for medical practitioners. South Melbourne: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Parker, A.G., Boldero, J.M., & Bell, R.C. (in press). Borderline personality disorder: The role of self-discrepancies and self-complexity. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

Francis, J.J., Boldero, J.M., & Sambell, N. (in press) Self-Lines: A new,
psychometrically sound, 'user-friendly' idiographic technique for assessing self-discrepancies. Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Boldero, J.M., & Francis, J.J. (2005). Situational influences on the intensity of emotional responses to self-evaluation. In A.V. Clark (Ed.).  Psychology of moods. New York: Nova Science.

Boldero, J.M., Moretti, M.M, Bell, R.C., & Francis, J.J. (2005). Self-discrepancies and negative affect: A primer on when to look for specificity, and how to find it. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57, 139-147.

Burns, J., Martryes, R.F., Clode, D., & Boldero, J. M. (2004). Predicting overdoses: mental health, prescription drug use and personal circumstances in young heroin-users. Medical Journal of Australia , 181(7) 25-28.

Boldero, J. (2004). Understanding cultural differences in safe-sex behaviour: The experience of gay Asian Australians. In D. Ridge & G. Walker (Eds.). Out in the antipodes: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychology. Sydney: Brightfire Press.

Boldero, J., & Francis, J. (2002). "Goals, Standards, and the Self: Reference Values Serving Different Functions", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 6, 232–241.

Francis, J.J., Boldero, J.M., & Newson, S.A. (2002). Looking at family life and looking back: The links between retrospective self-discrepancies and emotional health in older age. Journal of Family Studies, 8, 165-180.

Boldero, J., & Francis, J. (2000). "The Relation Between Self-Discrepancies and Emotion: The Moderating Roles of Self-Guide Importance, Location Relevance, and Social Self-Domain Centrality", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 38–52

Robins, G., & Boldero, J. (2003). "Relational Discrepancy Theory: The Implications of Self-Discrepancy Theory for Dyadic Relationships and for the Emergence of Social Structure", Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 56–74.

PhD Students under Supervision:

Alexandra Parker, Warwick Hosking, Natalie Samball, Anna Machlin, Freda Zapsalis