Associate Professor Jennifer Boldero
BA MA PhD
Associate Professor
Contact details:
| email: bolderoj AT unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 6363 |
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
- Implicit assessment of characteristics of the self
- Antecedents and consequences of gambling
- Measurement of social psychological and personality constructs
- Environmental psychology
- Experimental Social Psychology Laboratory
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
- Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Association for Psychological Science
- International Society for Political Psychology
- International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders
Recent Funded Research:
| Project: | Factors affecting youth gambling: A comprehensive model of the antecedents of gambling in younger people. |
| Year: | 2008-2011 |
| Funded by: | Victorian Department of Justice, Office of Racing and Gaming |
| Project: | The structure and content of self-knowledge: When and how are implicit and explicit measures related and what do they tell us? |
| Year: | 2006-2008 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
| Project: | Cultural Dynamics of Narratives: Micro and Macro Implications of Narrative Transmission |
| Year: | 2004–2008 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
| Project: | The Role of the Other in Self-Regulation |
| Year: | 2003–2005 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
Recent Publications: |
Books:
Clode, D., & Boldero, J. (2005). Keeping the doctor alive: A self-care guidebook for medical practitioners. South Melbourne: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Book Chapters:
Boldero, J., & Whelan, J. (2011). Australians’ attitudes toward culturally similar and culturally dissimilar migrants. In G. M. Ruggerio, S. Sassaroli, Y. Latzer, & S. Suchday (Eds.) Perspectives on immigration and terrorism (pp. 105-114). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Boldero, J.M., Haslam., N., & Whelan, J. (2009). Increasing the predictive utility of neuroticism for health behaviors: The role of implicit neuroticism. In R. G. Jackson (Ed.). Psychology of neuroticism and shame. New York: Nova Science.
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.
Journal Articles:
Boldero, J. M., & Bell, R. C. (in press). An evaluation of the factorial structure of the Problem Gambling Severity Index. International Gambling Studies.
Boldero, J. M., & Bell, R. C. (in press). Chance- and skill-based dimensions underlying young Australians’ gambling activities and their relationships with gambling problems and other factors. International Gambling Studies
Binder, G., & Boldero, J. (in press). Planning for change: The roles of habitual practice and habitus in planning practice. Urban Policy and Research.
Boldero, J. M., & Higgins, E. T. (2011). Regulatory focus and political decision making: When people favour reform over the status quo. Political Psychology, 32, 399-418.
Lin, X., Bryant, C., & Boldero, J., (2011). Measures for assessing student attitudes toward older people. Educational Gerontology, 37, 12-26.
Boldero, J. M., Bell, R. C., & Moore, S. M. (2010). Do gambling activity patterns predict gambling problems? A latent class analysis of gambling forms among Australian youth. International Gambling Studies, 10, 12-26.
Whelan, J., Laham, S. M., Peters, K., Boldero, J., & Kashima, Y. (2010). Regulatory focus and attitudes to migrants. International Journal of Psychology, 45, 190-201.
Boldero, J. M., Hulbert, C. A., Bloom, L., Cooper, J., Gilbert, F., Mooney, J. L., & Salinger, J. (2009). Rejection sensitivity and negative self-beliefs as mediators of associations between the number of borderline personality disorder features and self-reported adult attachment. Personality and Mental Health, 3, 248-262.
Boldero, J. M., Robins, G.L., Williams, B.J., Francis, J.J., Hampton, A., & Fourie, A. J. (2009). Relational discrepancies and emotion: The moderating role of relational mode and relational discrepancy valence. Asian Journal of Psychology, 12, 259-273.
Boldero, J. M., Rawlings, D., & Haslam, N. (2007). Convergence between GNAT-assessed implicit and explicit personality. European Journal of Personality, 21, 341–358.
Ouschan, L., Boldero, J. M., Kashima, Y., Wakimoto, R., & Kashima, E.S. (2007). Regulatory Focus Strategies Scale: A measure of individual differences in the endorsement of regulatory strategies. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 243–257.
Francis, J. J., Boldero, J. M., & Sambell, N. E. (2006). Self-Lines: A new, psychometrically sound, ‘user-friendly’ idiographic technique for assessing self-discrepancies. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, 69-84.
Parker, A. G., Boldero, J. M., & Bell, R. C. (2006). Borderline personality disorder: The role of self-discrepancies and self-complexity. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 309-321.
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.
PhD Students under Supervision:
Richard Davies, Domonic Motto, Graham Gee, Trang Nguyen, Stuart Todd