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Mark E. Boyes is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of psychology and medicine. Their work primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant portion dedicated to clinical psychology and subfields including developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas associated with mental health and development, including:

  • Suicide and self-harm studies
  • Psychosomatic disorders and their treatments
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Traumatic brain injury research
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes
  • Reading and literacy development
  • Language development and disorders

Among the recent papers associated with their work are:

  • Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative (2021), published in Psychological Medicine
  • Why is alexithymia a risk factor for affective disorder symptoms? The role of emotion regulation (2021), published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Loneliness and emotion regulation (2021), published in Personality and Individual Differences
  • Stigma and nonsuicidal self-injury: Application of a conceptual framework (2020), published in Stigma and Health
  • Fluctuations in Affective States and Self-Efficacy to Resist Non-Suicidal Self-Injury as Real-Time Predictors of Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark E. Boyes include:

  • Penelope Hasking
  • Suze Leitão
  • David A. Preece
  • Stephen P. Lewis
  • Elizabeth Hill

The venues where the scientist's research is commonly published highlight their multidisciplinary approach, including:

  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Dyslexia
  • Journal of Affective Disorders Reports

Best Publications

  • The associations between non-suicidal self-injury and first onset suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

    G. Kiekens;G. Kiekens;Penelope Hasking;Mark Boyes;L. Claes

  • Risk and Protective Factors for Physical and Sexual Abuse of Children and Adolescents in Africa: A Review and Implications for Practice

    Franziska Meinck;Franziska Meinck;Lucie D. Cluver;Mark E. Boyes;Elsinah L. Mhlongo

  • Child-focused state cash transfers and adolescent risk of HIV infection in South Africa: a propensity-score-matched case-control study

    Lucie Cluver;Lucie Cluver;Lucie Cluver;Mark Boyes;Mark Orkin;Marija Pantelic

  • Child and adolescent suicide attempts, suicidal behavior, and adverse childhood experiences in South Africa: a prospective study

    Lucie Cluver;Lucie Cluver;Mark Orkin;Mark E. Boyes;Lorraine Sherr

  • Persisting mental health problems among AIDS-orphaned children in South Africa

    Lucie D. Cluver;Mark Orkin;Frances Gardner;Mark E. Boyes

  • Parenting for Lifelong Health: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a non-commercialised parenting programme for adolescents and their families in South Africa

    Lucie D. Cluver;Franziska Meinck;Janina I. Steinert;Yulia Shenderovich

  • Transactional sex amongst AIDS-orphaned and AIDS-affected adolescents predicted by abuse and extreme poverty.

    Lucie Cluver;Mark Orkin;Mark Boyes;Frances Gardner

  • Physical, emotional and sexual adolescent abuse victimisation in South Africa: prevalence, incidence, perpetrators and locations

    Franziska Meinck;Lucie D Cluver;Mark E Boyes;Heidi Loening-Voysey

  • Predicting the incidence of non-suicidal self-injury in college students.

    G. Kiekens;G. Kiekens;P. Hasking;L. Claes;M. Boyes

  • Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative

    Glenn Kiekens;Penelope Hasking;Ronny Bruffaerts;Ronny Bruffaerts;Jordi Alonso

  • Positive parenting for positive parents: HIV/AIDS, poverty, caregiver depression, child behavior, and parenting in South Africa

    Jamie M. Lachman;Lucie D. Cluver;Mark E. Boyes;Caroline Kuo

  • Cash plus care: social protection cumulatively mitigates HIV-risk behaviour among adolescents in South Africa

    Lucie D. Cluver;F. Mark Orkin;Mark E. Boyes;Lorraine Sherr

  • Pathways from parental AIDS to child psychological, educational and sexual risk: developing an empirically-based interactive theoretical model.

    Lucie Cluver;Mark Orkin;Mark E. Boyes;Lorraine Sherr

  • The DSM-5 nonsuicidal self-injury disorder among incoming college students: Prevalence and associations with 12-month mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors

    Glenn Kiekens;Glenn Kiekens;Penelope Hasking;Laurence Claes;Laurence Claes;Philippe Mortier

  • Suicidal thoughts and behaviour among South African adolescents living with HIV: Can social support buffer the impact of stigma?

    Marisa Casale;Marisa Casale;Mark Boyes;Marija Pantelic;Elona Toska

  • Why is alexithymia a risk factor for affective disorder symptoms? The role of emotion regulation.

    David A. Preece;David A. Preece;Ashish Mehta;Rodrigo Becerra;Wai Chen

  • Adverse Life Experience and Psychological Distress in Adolescence: Moderating and Mediating Effects of Emotion Regulation and Rumination.

    Mark E. Boyes;Penelope A. Hasking;Penelope A. Hasking;Graham Martin

  • HIV, violence, blame and shame: pathways of risk to internalized HIV stigma among South African adolescents living with HIV

    Marija Pantelic;Mark Boyes;Mark Boyes;Lucie Cluver;Lucie Cluver;Franziska Meinck;Franziska Meinck

  • Risk and Protective Factors for Physical and Emotional Abuse Victimisation amongst Vulnerable Children in South Africa

    Franziska Meinck;Lucie D. Cluver;Lucie D. Cluver;Mark E. Boyes;Lodrick D. Ndhlovu

  • Loneliness and emotion regulation

    David A. Preece;David A. Preece;Amit Goldenberg;Rodrigo Becerra;Mark Boyes

  • Having a Cyberball: Using a ball-throwing game as an experimental social stressor to examine the relationship between neuroticism and coping

    Mark E. Boyes;Davina J. French

  • Bullying victimisation, internalising symptoms, and conduct problems in South African children and adolescents: a longitudinal investigation.

    Mark E. Boyes;Mark E. Boyes;Lucy Bowes;Lucie D. Cluver;Lucie D. Cluver;Catherine L. Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucie Cluver
Lucie Cluver University of Oxford
Penelope Hasking
Penelope Hasking Curtin University
Lorraine Sherr
Lorraine Sherr University College London
Frances Gardner
Frances Gardner University of Oxford
Barbara Mullan
Barbara Mullan Curtin University
Peter M. McEvoy
Peter M. McEvoy Curtin University
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Clare S. Rees
Clare S. Rees Curtin University
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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