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Julie Boergers
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 47
Citations - 4687
Julie Boergers is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Suicide attempt & Suicide prevention. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 46 publications receiving 4378 citations. Previous affiliations of Julie Boergers include Rhode Island Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital.
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Overt and relational aggression in adolescents: social-psychological adjustment of aggressors and victims.
TL;DR: Results replicated prior work on relational aggression and victimization as distinct forms of peer behavior that are uniquely associated with concurrent social-psychological adjustment and supported the hypothesis that victims of multiple forms of aggression are at greater risk for adjustment difficulties.
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Adolescents' and Their Friends' Health-Risk Behavior: Factors That Alter or Add to Peer Influence
TL;DR: Examination of models of risk for adolescent health-risk behavior, including family dysfunction, social acceptance, and depression as factors that may compound or mitigate the associations between adolescents' and peers' risk behavior supported both additive and multiplicative models ofrisk.
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Parental Smoking and Adolescent Smoking Initiation: An Intergenerational Perspective on Tobacco Control
Stephen E. Gilman,Richard Rende,Julie Boergers,Julie Boergers,David B. Abrams,Stephen L. Buka,Melissa A. Clark,Suzanne M. Colby,Brian Hitsman,Alessandra Kazura,Lewis P. Lipsitt,Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson,Michelle L. Rogers,Cassandra A. Stanton,Laura R. Stroud,Raymond Niaura +15 more
TL;DR: Parental smoking is an important source of vulnerability to smoking initiation among adolescents, and parental smoking cessation might attenuate this vulnerability.
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Adolescent Obesity, Overt and Relational Peer Victimization, and Romantic Relationships
TL;DR: The results suggest that obese adolescents are at greater risk for mistreatment by peers and may have fewer opportunities to develop intimate romantic relationships; this may contribute to the psychological and health difficulties frequently associated with obesity.
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Peer functioning, family dysfunction, and psychological symptoms in a risk factor model for adolescent inpatients' suicidal ideation severity.
TL;DR: The results are among the first to demonstrate relations between suicidal ideation and several areas of adolescent peer functioning, as well as divergent processes for peer and family predictors of suicidal Ideation.