Lucy Bowes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1741403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Bowes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowes |
| SIGNATURE | BOWES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5645-3875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
School Disruption and Classroom Climate on Teachers’ Burnout and Wellbeing
Teachers with high levels of burnout and reduced levels of wellbeing are twice as likely to leave the teaching profession. For those that stay, it can result in strained relationships with their pupils and a difficulty to effectively manage classroom behavior. This study focused on the emotional strain felt by teachers during periods of educational disruption and how his varied according to school size, school‐level disadvantage and levels of pup…
Hunger as an uncontroversial predictor of poor adolescent mental health
BACKGROUND: Hunger has established detrimental impacts on physical health, with emerging evidence indicating negative impacts on mental health. However, there is a pronounced knowledge gap outside high-income settings and for adolescents. Previous research also provides differing estimates of hunger's impacts, potentially underpinned by a wide range of researcher degrees of freedom. METHODS: We investigated the relationship between hunger and men…
Trust, responding to disclosure and barriers to talking
The experience of being bullied in primary school is one of the most modifiable risk factors for poor mental health in children and young people, with the potential to prevent both short- and long-term negative mental and physical health, as well as social outcomes. Understanding and acting to reduce the occurrence of bullying and supporting students and their parents in seeking help when it does occur should be a public health priority. To suppo…
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study
Negative parenting behavior is associated with peer victimization. However, we do not know if this association changes across development. It is also unclear whether associations hold after adjusting for genetic factors. Peer victimization and negative parenting behavior were examined using data from TwinLife, a cross-sequential population-based longitudinal study in Germany. The sample comprised 609 reared-together twin pairs from the 5-year-old…
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies
BACKGROUND: There is not yet a consensus on the best way to conceptualise adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). We used data-driven methods across two populations to examine (a) if there were meaningful dimensions underlying ACEs and (b) whether dimensions were differentially associated with increased risk of adolescent psychopathology. METHODS: Participants were 18,539 British children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and 11,876 America…
What are the long-term prospects for children with comprehension weaknesses? A registered report investigating education and employment outcomes
Reading is a key gateway to learning, enabling independent access to a range of educational materials. Thus, reading difficulties leave a child particularly vulnerable to academic problems in later schooling and beyond. However, while there is good awareness of children with word reading difficulties within the education system, much less is known about the children who struggle to comprehend texts despite having adequate word reading skills. In …
Maternal experienced bereavement and offspring mental health in early adulthood
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that 78% of children experience the death of a close friend or family member by 16 years of age, yet longitudinal research examining the mental health outcomes of wider experiences of bereavement is scarce. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the association between maternal experienced bereavement before the age of 11 years and offspring depressive and anxiety disorders at age 18 and examined moderation of th…
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence
BACKGROUND: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience higher levels of peer victimization than their peers. However, it is not known if such associations reflect genetic and environmental confounding. We used a co-twin control design to investigate the association of language difficulties (DLD and separately poor pragmatic language) with peer victimization and compare the developmental trajectories of peer victimization acros…
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health
Natural disasters happen across the world. The situations are different but the disruption to children's education and wellbeing is similar. This study focused on the school context changes caused by the COVID‐19 global disaster, and the impact of these changes on children's mental health. The aim was to better understand the associations between any mental health changes and children's school level of deprivation and pre‐disaster involvement in …
The Perceived Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced People
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on care-experienced people has been the subject of research, but important gaps remain in our understanding of how care-experienced people felt their mental health and well-being were affected by the pandemic. Care-experienced adults from across the UK were invited to complete a survey and submit a diary during the first lockdown. Responses were received from 140 people, aged eighteen…
Associations between School-Level Disadvantage, Bullying Involvement and Children’s Mental Health
Bullying is a modifiable risk factor for poor mental health across childhood and adolescence. It is also socially patterned, with increased prevalence rates in more disadvantaged settings. The current study aimed to better understand whether school-level disadvantage is associated with different types of bullying roles, and whether it is a moderator in the association between bullying and children’s mental health. Cross-sectional data were used f…
Research Review
The UK stand together trial
Trials ISRCTN 12300853 Date assigned 11/02/2020
Peer victimisation during adolescence and its impact on wellbeing in adulthood
Overall, our study demonstrates for the first time that victimisation during adolescence is a significant risk factor for not only the onset of depression, but also poor wellbeing in adulthood. Such findings highlight the importance of investigating both dimensions of mental health to understand the true burden of victimisation and subsequent resilience. In addition to the need for interventions that reduce the likelihood of depression following …
Acceptability and Preliminary Outcomes of a Parenting Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Purpose: Forced displacement may increase the risk of child maltreatment and mental health problems among children and caregivers. This study assessed the acceptability and preliminary outcomes of a parenting intervention to prevent child maltreatment and improve parental and child mental health among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Method: 292 parents and 88 children participated in a structured assessment before and after a group-based parenting in…
The development and pilot testing of an adolescent bullying intervention in Indonesia – the Roots Indonesia program
Bullying has been described as one of the most tractable risk factors for poor mental health and educational outcomes, yet there is a lack of evidence-based interventions for use in low and middle-income settings. We aimed to develop and assess the feasibility of an adolescent-led school intervention for reducing bullying among adolescents in Indonesian secondary schools. The intervention was developed in iterative stages: identifying promising i…
Modeling the effects of war exposure and daily stressors on maternal mental health, parenting, and child psychosocial adjustment
Results suggest that the adverse effects of past war trauma and ongoing displacement on refugee mothers' general mental health can increase the risk of negative parenting behavior, and in turn contribute to poorer psychosocial outcomes for children. Interventions should focus on psychosocial and parenting support for war-affected caregivers, as well as address structural challenges that debilitate caregiver and child mental health
Pathways linking war and displacement to parenting and child adjustment
Biology, Genes, and Resilience
Variability in response to stressful environmental exposures is at the core of resilience research. In order to understand why some individuals show resilient functioning in the face of adversity, one needs to understand the mechanisms through which risky environments lead to pathology in some and not others, and the ways in which risk and protective factors affect these processes. Understanding the interplay between genetic and biological proces…
Families promote emotional and behavioural resilience to bullying
Background: Bullied children are at risk for later emotional and behavioural problems. ‘Resilient’ children function better than would be expected given their experience of bullying victimisation. This study examined the role of families in promoting resilience following bullying victimisation in primary school. Method: Data were from the Environmental Risk (E‐Risk) Study which describes a nationally representative sample of 1,116 twin pairs and …
Bullying victimization in youths and mental health problems
Bullying victimization is a topic of concern for youths, parents, school staff and mental health practitioners. Children and adolescents who are victimized by bullies show signs of distress and adjustment problems. However, it is not clear whether bullying is the source of these difficulties. This paper reviews empirical evidence to determine whether bullying victimization is a significant risk factor for psychopathology and should be the target …
School, Neighborhood, and Family Factors Are Associated With Children's Bullying Involvement
Pathways linking war and displacement to parenting and child adjustment
Acceptability and Preliminary Outcomes of a Parenting Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Purpose: Forced displacement may increase the risk of child maltreatment and mental health problems among children and caregivers. This study assessed the acceptability and preliminary outcomes of a parenting intervention to prevent child maltreatment and improve parental and child mental health among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Method: 292 parents and 88 children participated in a structured assessment before and after a group-based parenting in…
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health
Natural disasters happen across the world. The situations are different but the disruption to children's education and wellbeing is similar. This study focused on the school context changes caused by the COVID‐19 global disaster, and the impact of these changes on children's mental health. The aim was to better understand the associations between any mental health changes and children's school level of deprivation and pre‐disaster involvement in …
School, Neighborhood, and Family Factors Are Associated With Children's Bullying Involvement
Families promote emotional and behavioural resilience to bullying
Background: Bullied children are at risk for later emotional and behavioural problems. ‘Resilient’ children function better than would be expected given their experience of bullying victimisation. This study examined the role of families in promoting resilience following bullying victimisation in primary school. Method: Data were from the Environmental Risk (E‐Risk) Study which describes a nationally representative sample of 1,116 twin pairs and …
Bullying victimization in youths and mental health problems
Bullying victimization is a topic of concern for youths, parents, school staff and mental health practitioners. Children and adolescents who are victimized by bullies show signs of distress and adjustment problems. However, it is not clear whether bullying is the source of these difficulties. This paper reviews empirical evidence to determine whether bullying victimization is a significant risk factor for psychopathology and should be the target …
Biology, Genes, and Resilience
Variability in response to stressful environmental exposures is at the core of resilience research. In order to understand why some individuals show resilient functioning in the face of adversity, one needs to understand the mechanisms through which risky environments lead to pathology in some and not others, and the ways in which risk and protective factors affect these processes. Understanding the interplay between genetic and biological proces…
Modeling the effects of war exposure and daily stressors on maternal mental health, parenting, and child psychosocial adjustment
Results suggest that the adverse effects of past war trauma and ongoing displacement on refugee mothers' general mental health can increase the risk of negative parenting behavior, and in turn contribute to poorer psychosocial outcomes for children. Interventions should focus on psychosocial and parenting support for war-affected caregivers, as well as address structural challenges that debilitate caregiver and child mental health
Pathways linking war and displacement to parenting and child adjustment
The development and pilot testing of an adolescent bullying intervention in Indonesia – the Roots Indonesia program
Bullying has been described as one of the most tractable risk factors for poor mental health and educational outcomes, yet there is a lack of evidence-based interventions for use in low and middle-income settings. We aimed to develop and assess the feasibility of an adolescent-led school intervention for reducing bullying among adolescents in Indonesian secondary schools. The intervention was developed in iterative stages: identifying promising i…
Acceptability and Preliminary Outcomes of a Parenting Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Purpose: Forced displacement may increase the risk of child maltreatment and mental health problems among children and caregivers. This study assessed the acceptability and preliminary outcomes of a parenting intervention to prevent child maltreatment and improve parental and child mental health among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Method: 292 parents and 88 children participated in a structured assessment before and after a group-based parenting in…
Peer victimisation during adolescence and its impact on wellbeing in adulthood
Overall, our study demonstrates for the first time that victimisation during adolescence is a significant risk factor for not only the onset of depression, but also poor wellbeing in adulthood. Such findings highlight the importance of investigating both dimensions of mental health to understand the true burden of victimisation and subsequent resilience. In addition to the need for interventions that reduce the likelihood of depression following …
Research Review
The UK stand together trial
Trials ISRCTN 12300853 Date assigned 11/02/2020
Associations between School-Level Disadvantage, Bullying Involvement and Children’s Mental Health
Bullying is a modifiable risk factor for poor mental health across childhood and adolescence. It is also socially patterned, with increased prevalence rates in more disadvantaged settings. The current study aimed to better understand whether school-level disadvantage is associated with different types of bullying roles, and whether it is a moderator in the association between bullying and children’s mental health. Cross-sectional data were used f…
What are the long-term prospects for children with comprehension weaknesses? A registered report investigating education and employment outcomes
Reading is a key gateway to learning, enabling independent access to a range of educational materials. Thus, reading difficulties leave a child particularly vulnerable to academic problems in later schooling and beyond. However, while there is good awareness of children with word reading difficulties within the education system, much less is known about the children who struggle to comprehend texts despite having adequate word reading skills. In …
Maternal experienced bereavement and offspring mental health in early adulthood
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that 78% of children experience the death of a close friend or family member by 16 years of age, yet longitudinal research examining the mental health outcomes of wider experiences of bereavement is scarce. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the association between maternal experienced bereavement before the age of 11 years and offspring depressive and anxiety disorders at age 18 and examined moderation of th…
Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence
BACKGROUND: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience higher levels of peer victimization than their peers. However, it is not known if such associations reflect genetic and environmental confounding. We used a co-twin control design to investigate the association of language difficulties (DLD and separately poor pragmatic language) with peer victimization and compare the developmental trajectories of peer victimization acros…
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health
Natural disasters happen across the world. The situations are different but the disruption to children's education and wellbeing is similar. This study focused on the school context changes caused by the COVID‐19 global disaster, and the impact of these changes on children's mental health. The aim was to better understand the associations between any mental health changes and children's school level of deprivation and pre‐disaster involvement in …
The Perceived Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced People
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on care-experienced people has been the subject of research, but important gaps remain in our understanding of how care-experienced people felt their mental health and well-being were affected by the pandemic. Care-experienced adults from across the UK were invited to complete a survey and submit a diary during the first lockdown. Responses were received from 140 people, aged eighteen…
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study
Negative parenting behavior is associated with peer victimization. However, we do not know if this association changes across development. It is also unclear whether associations hold after adjusting for genetic factors. Peer victimization and negative parenting behavior were examined using data from TwinLife, a cross-sequential population-based longitudinal study in Germany. The sample comprised 609 reared-together twin pairs from the 5-year-old…
Do meaningful dimensions of childhood adversity exist? Data‐driven evidence from two prospective cohort studies
BACKGROUND: There is not yet a consensus on the best way to conceptualise adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). We used data-driven methods across two populations to examine (a) if there were meaningful dimensions underlying ACEs and (b) whether dimensions were differentially associated with increased risk of adolescent psychopathology. METHODS: Participants were 18,539 British children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and 11,876 America…
School Disruption and Classroom Climate on Teachers’ Burnout and Wellbeing
Teachers with high levels of burnout and reduced levels of wellbeing are twice as likely to leave the teaching profession. For those that stay, it can result in strained relationships with their pupils and a difficulty to effectively manage classroom behavior. This study focused on the emotional strain felt by teachers during periods of educational disruption and how his varied according to school size, school‐level disadvantage and levels of pup…
Hunger as an uncontroversial predictor of poor adolescent mental health
BACKGROUND: Hunger has established detrimental impacts on physical health, with emerging evidence indicating negative impacts on mental health. However, there is a pronounced knowledge gap outside high-income settings and for adolescents. Previous research also provides differing estimates of hunger's impacts, potentially underpinned by a wide range of researcher degrees of freedom. METHODS: We investigated the relationship between hunger and men…
Trust, responding to disclosure and barriers to talking
The experience of being bullied in primary school is one of the most modifiable risk factors for poor mental health in children and young people, with the potential to prevent both short- and long-term negative mental and physical health, as well as social outcomes. Understanding and acting to reduce the occurrence of bullying and supporting students and their parents in seeking help when it does occur should be a public health priority. To suppo…
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (6 works)