Eirini Flouri
Biographic Data
| ID | 315870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eirini Flouri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eirini |
| FAMILY NAME | Flouri |
| SIGNATURE | FLOURI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6207-4847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 52 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Early‐Life Antecedents of Distrust and Social Isolation in Adolescence
Adolescence is a period when interpersonal distrust and perceived social isolation become significant risk factors for adverse psychosocial outcomes. However, there is limited longitudinal evidence quantifying the relative importance of early‐life antecedents of these risk factors. Using the UK's Millennium Cohort Study, we conducted an exploratory, hypothesis‐generating analysis of early‐life factors associated with distrust and social isolation…
Early-life family relationships, children’s mental health trajectories, and their prospective associations with adolescent distrust and social isolation
Early-life family relationships have been linked to childhood emotional (internalising) and behavioural (externalising) problems and adolescent social functioning but developmental pathways between them remain underexplored. We examined whether trajectories of children’s internalising and externalising problems mediate between low-quality early family relationships and adolescent social outcomes, including interpersonal distrust and low perceived…
Ethnic differences in the relationship between greenspace deprivation and emotional, behavioural, and cognitive development in early-to-middle childhood
Greenspace deprivation has been increasingly recognised as a factor contributing to children's emotional, behavioural, and cognitive difficulties. However, limited attention has been given to individual-level factors , such as ethnicity, that may moderate this relationship. This study investigated whether area (ward)-level greenspace deprivation (defined as < 20 % greenspace coverage in the residential area) differentially impacts children's psyc…
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) Reactivity and Developmental Delay in the Preschool Years
Children with developmental delay are more likely than their typically developing peers to experience emotional dysregulation. Given that there is evidence that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity indexes emotion regulation, which in turn tracks motor, language, and cognitive development across the early years, RSA reactivity should develop accordingly in that period and differ by developmental status. The present study therefore compar…
Chaos, Distress and Crowding in the Home
Research shows that children living in a crowded home are more at risk of adjustment problems, yet few studies have explored the possible pathways from home crowding to child adjustment. This paper uses data from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study to test the role of household chaos and maternal and paternal psychological distress in the relationship between early (age three) crowding in the home and later (age seven) child emotional and conduct pr…
The impact of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control in the preschool years
Paternal and maternal psychological distress and adolescent health risk behaviors
INTRODUCTION: Adolescent health risk behaviors are linked to poor physical and mental health outcomes. While past research shows that maternal psychological distress predicts those behaviors, we know less about the role of paternal psychological distress and the role of sensitive periods. METHODS: Using 11,128 data from families (50.5% female children) from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study, we examined the role of timing of exposure to paternal a…
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood
We investigated longitudinal relations between siblings' problem and prosocial behavior, measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, among different sibship sizes in the UK's Millennium Cohort Study. We identified 3436 families with two children and 1188 families with three children. All children (cohort members and their older sibling [OS]) had valid data on behavior at two time points (in 2004 and 2006). Using structural equation …
The outdoor physical environment, inflammation and adult psychological distress in a UK general population sample
Inflammation is one of the suggested pathways linking exposure to neighbourhood air pollution and greenspace to psychological distress. Yet, inflammation has not been tested formally as a mediating factor in an adult human sample. Using data from 6813 adults participating in Understanding Society, the present study examines longitudinally the joint role of the two neighbourhood‐level exposures in psychological distress and the mediating role of i…
The effect of urban greenspace on adolescent sleep patterns
We investigated the effects of long-term greenspace deprivation on sleep during adolescence. Using data from a UK birth cohort, we studied deviations from age-recommended sleep duration through Time Use Diaries. Our sample (N = 1370; 53% female) of urban adolescents had been exposed to the same levels of neighbourhood greenspace from birth up to age 14 years when their time use was tracked. We factored in sex and ethnicity, family income, long-te…
The relationship between diurnal cortisol slope and cognitive development among children maltreated as infants
Mental health and social difficulties of late‐diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence
BACKGROUND: Autism can be diagnosed from 2 years of age, although most autistic people receive their diagnosis later than this after they have started education. Research is required to understand why some autistic children are diagnosed late, and the level and nature of unmet need prior to diagnosis for late-diagnosed children. METHODS: We examined trajectories of emotional, behavioural and social difficulties (EBSDs) across childhood and adoles…
Ability-grouping and problem behavior trajectories in childhood and adolescence
Ability-grouping has been studied extensively in relation to children's academic, but not emotional and behavioral outcomes. The sample comprised 7259 U.K. children (50% male) with data on between-class and within-class ability-grouping at age 7. Peer, emotional, hyperactivity, and conduct problems were measured at ages 7, 11, and 14 years. Children in low within-class ability groups showed more hyperactivity and emotional problems across the stu…
The role of urban greenspace in children’s reward and punishment sensitivity
According to Life History Theory, environments with abundant and reliable resources encourage ‘slow’ (deliberative) strategies that are low-risk and focused on long-term outcomes. Arguably, greener neighbourhoods may approximate such environments, especially in urban settings. This study used the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study to investigate the role of greenness of the child’s immediate residential area at ages 9 months and 3, 5, 7, and 11 years i…
Reciprocal associations of adolescent perceptions of neighbourhood safety and problem behaviour
Adolescents who perceive their neighbourhoods as unsafe are more likely to display emotional and behavioural problems. But, little is known about whether perceptions of safety and problem behaviour influence each other. This study explored the reciprocal relationships between perceptions of neighbourhood safety and emotional and behavioural problems in adolescence in a general population sample. It also explored two mediators of these association…
The role of the indoor home environment in children’s self-regulation
Spatial working memory in young adolescents with different childhood trajectories of internalizing, conduct and hyperactivity/inattention problems
BACKGROUND: In children, internalizing and externalizing problems impact on learning. However, there is limited research on the specific impact of such problems on spatial working memory (SWM), strongly related to cognitive ability and children's learning. AIMS: We explored distinct trajectories of internalizing problems and externalizing problems (conduct problems and hyperactivity/inattention) in a large general-population sample of children fo…
The quality of air outside and inside the home
Exposures to damp or condensation and secondhand smoke in the home are likely to be risk factors for child emotional and behavioural problems. Parents should continue to be educated about the dangers of exposing their children to poor air quality at home
Main and interactive effects of inflammation and perceived neighbourhood cohesion on psychological distress
Perceived neighbourhood cohesion was inversely related to psychological distress, over and above other important person- and neighbourhood-level characteristics. Inflammation was also associated with psychological distress, albeit less strongly. If these associations are causal, they suggest that promoting neighbourhood cohesion can alleviate some of the burden associated with psychological distress
Neighbourhood-level air pollution and greenspace and inflammation in adults
The role of the physical environment in adolescent mental health
The role of neighbourhood greenspace in children's spatial working memory
BACKGROUND: Exposure to nature may be particularly beneficial for the brain regions that support spatial working memory, a strong correlate of academic achievement. AIMS: To explore whether children living in greener neighbourhoods (wards) have better spatial working memory. SAMPLE: Drawn from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study, the sample was 4,758 11-year-olds living in urban areas in England. METHODS: We fitted two-level regression models, with …
Individual-level predictors of young children’s aspirations
Often young children already have some ideas about what they want to do in the future. Using data from a large UK cohort study, we investigated the individual determinants of seven-year-old children’s aspirations, controlling for parental socio-economic background and parental involvement in learning. At age 7, not all children’s aspirations were unrealistic (55.6% of children aspired to common occupations), few (1.2%) were fantasy, but most were…
Associations between objectively measured physical activity and later mental health outcomes in children
BACKGROUND: The beneficial effect of physical activity (PA) on mental health in adults is well established, but less is known about this relationship in children. We examine associations between objectively measured sedentary time, PA and mental health in 11-year-olds from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). METHODS: Longitudinal data from MCS sweeps 4 (age 7) and 5 (age 11) were used (n=6153). Accelerometer data were collected at MCS4, and men…
The influence of grandparents’ social class on children’s aspirations
Social class mobility from grandparent to grandchild is a relatively neglected topic. Grandparents today are often healthier and more active, and have longer relationships with their grandchildren than in previous generations. We used data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (n = 8570) to investigate the influence of maternal and paternal grandparents’ social class on the aspirations of children at age seven. Using path analysis and controlling…
Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes
Background: Few studies have investigated the individual long-term contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children's schooling.Aims: (1) To explore the role of early father involvement in children's later educational attainment independently of the role of early mother involvement and other confounds, (2) to investigate whether gender and family structure moderate the relationship between father's and mother's involvement and child'…
The Role of Father Involvement and Mother Involvement in Adolescents' Psychological Well-being
Journal Article The Role of Father Involvement and Mother Involvement in Adolescents' Psychological Well‐being Get access Eirini Flouri, Eirini Flouri to Eirini Flouri, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ann Buchanan Ann Buchanan Search for other wor…
Prosocial behavior and childhood trajectories of internalizing and externalizing problems
This study investigated the role of the interaction between prosocial behavior and contextual (school and neighborhood) risk in children's trajectories of externalizing and internalizing problems at ages 3, 5, and 7. The sample was 9,850 Millennium Cohort Study families who lived in England when the cohort children were aged 3. Neighborhood context was captured by the proportion of subsidized (social rented) housing in the neighborhood and school…
Parental interest in children's education, children's self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment
Background.Few studies have investigated if mother's interest and father's interest in child's education are linked to educational attainment via their impact on child's self-esteem and locus of control.Aims.(1) To investigate (after controlling for known confounding factors) the long-term effect of mother's and father's interest in child's education at age 10 and child's locus of control and self-esteem at age 10 in educational attainment at age…
Life satisfaction in teenage boys
It has been suggested that bullying at school and low social support are related to relatively poor mental health in schoolchildren. Based on data from 1344 adolescent boys aged 13–19 years in Britain, this study explored whether father involvement, as an underestimated—in the related research—source of social support, can protect against low levels of satisfaction with life. Multiple regression analysis showed that low father involvement and pee…
Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents
With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective of young people. This, the first national survey of 1,478 adolescents in England and Wales, demonstrates the very considerable amount of informal car…
Residential mobility, neighbourhood deprivation and children's behaviour in the UK
Exploring the relationship between mothers' and fathers' parenting practices and children's materialist values
The role of the physical environment in adolescent mental health
Socio–economic status and family structure differences in early trajectories of child adjustment
We examined the effects of single-parent family status and high parental socio-economic status (SES) on the trajectories of children's emotional/behavioural adjustment in early-to-middle childhood (ages 3-7 years). We also assessed whether these family characteristics interact with the equivalent neighbourhood characteristics of shares of single-parent families and high-SES adults in predicting these trajectories. Using data on 9850 children in E…
Adult Materialism/Postmaterialism And Later Mental Health
The influence of grandparents’ social class on children’s aspirations
Social class mobility from grandparent to grandchild is a relatively neglected topic. Grandparents today are often healthier and more active, and have longer relationships with their grandchildren than in previous generations. We used data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (n = 8570) to investigate the influence of maternal and paternal grandparents’ social class on the aspirations of children at age seven. Using path analysis and controlling…
The role of neighbourhood greenspace in children's spatial working memory
BACKGROUND: Exposure to nature may be particularly beneficial for the brain regions that support spatial working memory, a strong correlate of academic achievement. AIMS: To explore whether children living in greener neighbourhoods (wards) have better spatial working memory. SAMPLE: Drawn from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study, the sample was 4,758 11-year-olds living in urban areas in England. METHODS: We fitted two-level regression models, with …
Individual-level predictors of young children’s aspirations
Often young children already have some ideas about what they want to do in the future. Using data from a large UK cohort study, we investigated the individual determinants of seven-year-old children’s aspirations, controlling for parental socio-economic background and parental involvement in learning. At age 7, not all children’s aspirations were unrealistic (55.6% of children aspired to common occupations), few (1.2%) were fantasy, but most were…
Associations between objectively measured physical activity and later mental health outcomes in children
BACKGROUND: The beneficial effect of physical activity (PA) on mental health in adults is well established, but less is known about this relationship in children. We examine associations between objectively measured sedentary time, PA and mental health in 11-year-olds from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). METHODS: Longitudinal data from MCS sweeps 4 (age 7) and 5 (age 11) were used (n=6153). Accelerometer data were collected at MCS4, and men…
The role of aspirations in young children's emotional and behavioural problems
Using data from a large UK cohort (n = 11,656), we investigated the determinants of 7‐year‐old children's aspirations, and the role of these aspirations in emotional and behavioural problems, as reported by both parents and teachers. Aspirations were classified to reflect their occupational status, masculinity/femininity and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. Children's aspirations had significant antecedents in social disadvantage, parental involve…
Neighbourhood social fragmentation and the mental health of children in poverty
Rural/Urban Area Differences in the Cognitive Abilities of Primary School Children in England
Recent research finds that the higher academic performance of rural adolescent pupils in England is due primarily to selection. Yet little is known about whether this applies to primary school children. This study examined the cognitive abilities of primary school children in areas with varying levels of rural and urban settlement, after accounting for factors associated with children's abilities and families' selection into areas. Remaining diff…
Fathers' involvement and preschool children's behavior in stable single-mother families
Ambitious mothers – successful daughters
Background . Mothers' expectations for their children's educational attainment are related to children's educational and occupational attainment. Studies have yet to establish, however, the long‐term links between maternal expectations and offspring earnings, which are not always related to occupational attainment especially in women, or between maternal expectations and offspring sense of control and self‐efficacy, which are pivotal factors in c…
Childhood families of homeless and poor adults in Britain
Recovery’ after age 7 from ‘externalising’ behaviour problems
Neighbourhood human capital and the development of children׳s emotional and behavioural problems
The Role of Parental Involvement on Adolescents' Money Management
Based on data from 2,722 adolescents aged 14–18 years in Britain, this study explored whether parental involvement can be associated with adolescents' money management. Multiple regression analysis showed that low parental involvement contributed significantly and independently to poor money management. Furthermore, the association between parental involvement and money management was the same for sons and daughters. Boys and adolescents from low…
What predicts traditional attitudes to marriage
This study, using data from 5,689 cohort members of the National Child Development Study, explores the impact of both structure of parenting family and contextual factors on attitudes towards marriage at age 33. Traditional attitudes to marriage were positively related to religiosity and negatively related to high non‐verbal skills in childhood and smoking or drinking in adulthood but were unrelated to the structure or background of parental fami…
Recovery’ after age 7 from ‘externalising’ behaviour problems
Life satisfaction in teenage boys
It has been suggested that bullying at school and low social support are related to relatively poor mental health in schoolchildren. Based on data from 1344 adolescent boys aged 13–19 years in Britain, this study explored whether father involvement, as an underestimated—in the related research—source of social support, can protect against low levels of satisfaction with life. Multiple regression analysis showed that low father involvement and pee…
The role of father involvement in children's later mental health
Data on 8441 cohort members of the National Child Development Study were used to explore links between father involvement at age 7 and emotional and behavioural problems at age 16, and between father involvement at age 16 and psychological distress at age 33, controlling for mother involvement and known confounds. Father involvement at age 7 protected against psychological maladjustment in adolescents from non‐intact families, and father involvem…
The Role of Father Involvement and Mother Involvement in Adolescents' Psychological Well-being
Journal Article The Role of Father Involvement and Mother Involvement in Adolescents' Psychological Well‐being Get access Eirini Flouri, Eirini Flouri to Eirini Flouri, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ann Buchanan Ann Buchanan Search for other wor…
Childhood families of homeless and poor adults in Britain
Exploring the relationship between mothers' and fathers' parenting practices and children's materialist values
Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes
Background: Few studies have investigated the individual long-term contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children's schooling.Aims: (1) To explore the role of early father involvement in children's later educational attainment independently of the role of early mother involvement and other confounds, (2) to investigate whether gender and family structure moderate the relationship between father's and mother's involvement and child'…
Fathering and Child Outcomes
Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathers play a crucial role in child development and subsequent adult status and behaviour. This book presents the state-of-the-art on fathering and its determinants. Based on original research into the effects that different styles of fathering can have on children, it explores the long and short terms outcomes of involved fathering on different domains of children?s lives, including acade…
Adult Materialism/Postmaterialism And Later Mental Health
Parental interest in children's education, children's self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment
Background.Few studies have investigated if mother's interest and father's interest in child's education are linked to educational attainment via their impact on child's self-esteem and locus of control.Aims.(1) To investigate (after controlling for known confounding factors) the long-term effect of mother's and father's interest in child's education at age 10 and child's locus of control and self-esteem at age 10 in educational attainment at age…
Ambitious mothers – successful daughters
Background . Mothers' expectations for their children's educational attainment are related to children's educational and occupational attainment. Studies have yet to establish, however, the long‐term links between maternal expectations and offspring earnings, which are not always related to occupational attainment especially in women, or between maternal expectations and offspring sense of control and self‐efficacy, which are pivotal factors in c…
Grandparenting and adolescent adjustment in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families.
There is limited research on the links between grandparenting and adolescents' well-being, especially from the perspective of the adolescents. The study examined whether grandparent involvement varied in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families and whether this had a different contribution to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of adolescents across different family structures. The study is based on a sample of 1,515 secondary sc…
They’ve Always Been There for Me’
With diversifying families, increased life expectancy, growing numbers of dual‐worker households and higher rates of family breakdown, grandparents are now playing an increasing role in their grandchildren’s lives. Despite growing importance there has been little empirical research exploring how grandparental involvement impacts on young people’s well‐being. This national study, which includes a survey of 1596 children (aged 11–16) and in‐depth i…
Non-Verbal Reasoning Ability and Academic Achievement as Moderators of the Relation Between Adverse Life Events and Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Early Adolescence
Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents
With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective of young people. This, the first national survey of 1,478 adolescents in England and Wales, demonstrates the very considerable amount of informal car…
Residential mobility, neighbourhood deprivation and children's behaviour in the UK
Fathers' involvement and preschool children's behavior in stable single-mother families
Rural/Urban Area Differences in the Cognitive Abilities of Primary School Children in England
Recent research finds that the higher academic performance of rural adolescent pupils in England is due primarily to selection. Yet little is known about whether this applies to primary school children. This study examined the cognitive abilities of primary school children in areas with varying levels of rural and urban settlement, after accounting for factors associated with children's abilities and families' selection into areas. Remaining diff…
The role of general cognitive ability in moderating the relation of adverse life events to emotional and behavioural problems
Previous studies have established the role of various measures of cognitive functioning in dampening the association between adverse life events (‘life stress’) and adolescents’ emotional and behavioural problems. However, it is not yet clear if general cognitive ability (‘intelligence’) is a protective factor. In this study of 1,175 10‐ to 19‐year‐olds in five secondary schools in England, we explored this issue. We found that even after control…
The role of urban neighbourhood green space in children's emotional and behavioural resilience
Neighbourhood social fragmentation and the mental health of children in poverty
Neighbourhood human capital and the development of children׳s emotional and behavioural problems
Socio–economic status and family structure differences in early trajectories of child adjustment
We examined the effects of single-parent family status and high parental socio-economic status (SES) on the trajectories of children's emotional/behavioural adjustment in early-to-middle childhood (ages 3-7 years). We also assessed whether these family characteristics interact with the equivalent neighbourhood characteristics of shares of single-parent families and high-SES adults in predicting these trajectories. Using data on 9850 children in E…
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