Joseph M Boden

..The present study examined the extent to which these linkages could be explained by the influence of social, family, and background factors that were associated with early motherhood...

..This study examined the associations between measures of alcohol abuse/dependence (AAD) and several classifications of offending behaviour to age 30 in a New Zealand birth cohort...

..This study examined the associations between measures of alcohol abuse/dependence (AAD) and violent offending and intimate partner violence (IPV) to age 30 in a New Zealand birth cohort...

..This study examined the associations between cigarette smoking and suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, both before and after control for potentially confounding using fixed effects regression models...

..It was concluded that the effects of self-esteem during adolescence on later developmental outcomes were weak, and largely explained by the psychosocial context within which self-esteem develops...

..In addition, a persistent association was found between unstable high self-esteem and self-reported violent offending. The results suggest that self-esteem level plays a limited role in the understanding of violent behavior...

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..The present study examined a novel method for assessing interactions between a single gene and multiple risk factors related to environmental and personal adversity...

..The present study examined the developmental antecedents of illicit drug use and abuse/dependence...

..This study attempted to replicate the findings in this area using a 30-year longitudinal study that has strong resemblance to the original research cohort...

..This study examined the associations between the transition to parenthood and substance use disorders from ages 18 to 30 in a New Zealand birth cohort...

..There has been a great deal of research and speculation on the impact of growing up in a single-parent household; however, it is unclear whether exposure to single parenthood is a direct cause of adverse life outcomes...

..To examine the role of ethnic identity in cannabis use, and links between ethnic identity, cannabis use and life outcomes, in a birth cohort of >1000 young people studied to age 25...

..There is relatively little evidence as to whether abortion leads to improved life course outcomes for young women who choose this option...

..There has been a great deal of research on the comorbidity between alcohol abuse or dependence (AAD) and major depression (MD). However, it is unclear whether AAD increases the risk of MD or vice versa...

..In general, the results supported the validity of DSM diagnostic domains but also highlighted the importance of including in DSM-V methods for both recognizing the severity of disorder and addressing subclinical symptom levels...

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..To describe the patterns of illicit drug use in a birth cohort studied to the age of 25 years...

..This research examined linkages between exposure to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and childhood physical punishment/abuse (CPA) and mental health issues in early adulthood...

..What is less well understood is the extent to which children with situation-specific conduct problems show similar outcomes to those with generalised conduct problems...

..Research on the links between abortion and mental health has been limited by design problems and relatively weak evidence...

..To examine the associations between exposure to socio-economic disadvantage in childhood and smoking in adulthood...

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..The present study examined the associations between the experience of sexual abuse in childhood (CSA) and the number of abortions in adolescence and early adulthood...

..The aim of this study was to estimate the extent to which anxiety disorders contribute to an increase in suicidal behaviour after controlling for both observed and non-observed sources of confounding...

..To examine the associations between the extent of cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood and later education, economic, employment, relationship satisfaction and life satisfaction outcomes...

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..The present study examined the associations between cannabis use in adolescence and young adulthood and self-reported adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in adulthood...

..89 to 3.32) times higher, than those who were not exposed to unemployment. Although unemployment was associated with moderate increases in risks of suicidal behaviors, much of this association was explained by confounding factors...

..It is unclear how the recurrence of major depression in adolescence affects later life outcomes...

..It was concluded that the effects of self-esteem during adolescence on later risky sexual behavior and pregnancy were weak and largely explained by the psychosocial context within which self-esteem develops...

..Research on the comorbidity between cigarette smoking and major depression has not elucidated the pathways by which smoking is associated with depression...

..Debate surrounds the underlying structure of internalising disorders including major depression, generalised anxiety disorder, phobias and panic disorders...

..To examine the literature on the associations between alcohol use disorders (AUD) and major depression (MD), and to evaluate the evidence for the existence of a causal relationship between the disorders...

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..The present study examined the associations between involvement with alcohol and risks of sexually transmitted infection (STI) during adolescence and early adulthood...

..The results of the study suggested that, for this cohort, errors of measurement in reports of childhood maltreatment did not pose a significant threat to study validity...

..70). The results of the present study suggest that, for some populations, the risks of driving under the influence of cannabis may now be greater than the risks of driving under the influence of alcohol...

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..To evaluate the extent to which a home-visitation program (Early Start) had benefits for child abuse, child behavior, and parental- and family-level benefits to the 9-year follow-up...

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..There has been continued interest in the extent to which women have positive and negative reactions to abortion...

..The present study examined the role of socioeconomic status and cultural identity in the association between ethnicity and nicotine dependence, in a birth cohort of >1000 methods young people studied to age 30...

..To examine the associations between the frequency of cannabis use and the use of other illicit drugs...

..There have been claims in the literature that lead exposure makes a strong contribution to criminal behaviour...

..The aim of this study was to examine the association between circumcision status and sexually transmitted infection risk using a longitudinal birth cohort study...

..To examine the role of cultural identity and social disadvantage/childhood adversity in a birth cohort of 984 young people studied to the age of 25...