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Michael J. Boulton is affiliated with the University of Chester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with particular attention to social psychology, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, education, and safety research.

The main topics addressed in Michael J. Boulton's work include bullying, victimization, and aggression; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; behavioral and psychological studies; child development and digital technology; youth development and social support; insect and pesticide research; and resilience and mental health.

The scientist has published several recent papers, including:

  • Does authentic self-esteem buffer the negative effects of bullying victimization on social anxiety and classroom concentration? Evidence from a short-term longitudinal study with early adolescents, 2022, British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Promoting Junior School Students' Anti-bullying Beliefs with the CATZ Cross-age Teaching Zone Intervention, 2021, International Journal of Bullying Prevention
  • Επιθετικότητα και θυματοποίηση ανάμεσα στους μαθητές των ελληνικών Δημοτικών σχολείων, 2020, Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society
  • Parenting about challenges and adolescents' social anxiety, disrupted classroom concentration, and resilience knowledge: The mediating role of authentic self-esteem., 2022, Families Systems & Health
  • Testing the social validity of the CATZ cross-age teaching zone anti-bullying intervention among school students, 2023, Research Papers in Education

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Peter J. R. Macaulay (6 collaborations)
  • Hedda Marx (2 collaborations)
  • Siobhan Atherton (1 collaboration)
  • Louise Boulton (1 collaboration)
  • Tracey Colebourne (1 collaboration)

The scientist has published repeatedly in several journals, notably:

  • International Journal of Bullying Prevention (2 publications)
  • British Journal of Educational Psychology (1 publication)
  • Research Papers in Education (1 publication)
  • Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society (1 publication)
  • Families Systems & Health (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Twenty Years' Research on Peer Victimization and Psychosocial Maladjustment: A Meta‐analytic Review of Cross‐sectional Studies

    David S. J. Hawker;Michael J. Boulton

  • Bully/Victim Problems Among Middle School Children

    Michael J. Boulton;Kerry Underwood

  • Bully/victim problems in middle-school children: Stability, self-perceived competence, peer perceptions and peer acceptance

    Michael J. Boulton;Peter K. Smith

  • Teachers' views on bullying : definitions, attitudes and ability to cope

    Michael J. Boulton

  • Concurrent and longitudinal links between friendship and peer victimization: implications for befriending interventions.

    Michael J. Boulton;Mark Trueman;Cam Chau;Caroline Whitehand

  • The Social Skills Problems of Victims of Bullying: Self, Peer and Teacher Perceptions.

    Claire L. Fox;Michael J. Boulton

  • Associations between Secondary School Pupils' Definitions of Bullying, Attitudes towards Bullying, and Tendencies to Engage in Bullying: Age and sex differences

    Michael J. Boulton;Mark Trueman;Ian Flemington

  • Friendship as a moderator of the relationship between social skills problems and peer victimisation

    Claire L. Fox;Michael J. Boulton

  • Concurrent and longitudinal relations between children's playground behavior and Social Preference, victimization, and bullying

    Michael J. Boulton

  • Rough-and-Tumble Play, Aggression and Dominance: Perception and Behaviour in Children’s Encounters

    Peter K. Smith;Michael Boulton

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of a social skills training (SST) programme for victims of bullying.

    Claire L. Fox;Michael J. Boulton

  • Swedish and English secondary school pupils' attitudes towards, and conceptions of, bullying: Concurrent links with bully/victim involvement

    Michael J. Boulton;Eva Bucci;David D. S. Hawker

  • The social nature of play fighting and play chasing: Mechanisms and strategies underlying cooperation and compromise.

    Michael J. Boulton;Peter K. Smith

  • Sex differences in levels of physical, verbal, and indirect aggression amongst primary school children and their associations with beliefs about aggression

    Katy Tapper;Michael J. Boulton

  • Cooperation in the Multi-Ethnic Classroom: The Impact of Cooperative Group Work on Social Relationships in Middle Schools

    Helen Cowie;Peter Smith;Michael Boulton;Rema Laver

  • Short-Term Longitudinal Relationships Between Children’s Peer Victimization/Bullying Experiences and Self-Perceptions: Evidence for Reciprocity

    Michael J. Boulton;Peter K. Smith;Helen Cowie

  • The relation between trust beliefs and loneliness during early childhood, middle childhood, and adulthood.

    Ken J. Rotenberg;Nick Addis;Lucy R. Betts;Amanda Corrigan

  • Associations between peer victimization, fear of future victimization and disrupted concentration on class work among junior school pupils

    Michael J. Boulton;Mark Trueman;Lindsay Murray

  • Patterns of Bully/Victim Problems in Mixed Race Groups of Children

    Michael J. Boulton

  • Victim and peer group responses to different forms of aggression among primary school children

    Katy Tapper;Michael J. Boulton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken J. Rotenberg
Ken J. Rotenberg Keele University
Katy Tapper
Katy Tapper City, University of London
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa
Shelley Hymel
Shelley Hymel University of British Columbia
Daniel Boduszek
Daniel Boduszek University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Philip Hyland
Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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