Dr. Julie (Wojslawowicz) Bowker

Dr. Julie Wojslawowicz Bowker

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Office: 224 Park Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0187
E-mail: jcbowker@buffalo.edu

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Summary of Research Interests:

Dr. Bowker’s research program focuses on the roles that close interpersonal relationships (e.g., friendships, parent-child relationships) play in social and emotional development and psychopathology during late childhood and early adolescence. She is especially interested in how peer relationships function as risk and protective factors in the lives of children and adolescents who are considered at risk for such internalizing and externalizing difficulties as anxiety, depression, and aggression. Her work includes longitudinal analyses of peer nomination and self-report data, along with laboratory observations of adolescents and their best friends. Other current research projects examine the developmental significance and internalizing consequences of temporal changes in peer relationships (funded by NICHD grant 1R03 HD056524-01; PI: Julie Bowker), the peer and psychological correlates of social behaviors across cultures, and the ways in which peer relationships impact the eating behavior and psychological well-being of overweight and obese young adolescents.

Representative Publications:

  • Bowker, J.C., Thomas, K.K., Spencer, S.V., & Park, L.E. (in press). Examining appearance-based rejection sensitivity during early adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
  • Thomas, K. & Bowker, J.C. (in press).  An investigation of desired friendships during early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence.
  • Spencer, S.V., Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C., & Laursen, B. (in press). Similarity between friends in social information processing and associations with positive friendship quality and conflict. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.
  • Salvy, S., de la Haye, K., Bowker, J.C., & Hermans, R.  (2012). Influence of peers and friends on children’s and adolescents’ eating and activity behaviors. Physiology & Behavior, 106, 369-378.
  • Salvy, S.J., Bowker, J.C., Germeroth, L., & Barkley, J. (2012). The influence of peers and friendships on overweight and obese youths’ physical activity during childhood and adolescence.  Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, 40, 127-132.
  • Bowker, J.C., Markovic, A., Cogswell, A., & Raja, R. (2012). Moderating effects of aggression on the associations between social withdrawal subtypes and peer difficulties during early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41, 995-1007.
  • Bowker, J.C., Ostrov, J.M., & Raja, R. (2012). Relational and overt aggression in India: Associations with peer relations and best friends’ aggression. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36, 107-116.
  • Bowker, J.C., Spencer, S.V., Thomas, K., & Gyoerkoe, E. (2012). Having and being an other-sex crush in early adolescence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 629-643.
  • Salvy, S., Bowker, J.C., Nitecki, L.A., Kluczynski, M.A., Germeroth, L.J., & Roemmich, J.N. (2012). Effects of ostracism and subsequent activities on adolescents’ motivation to eat and energy intake. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 37, 23-32.
  • Bowker, J.C. (2011). Examining two types of best friendship dissolution during early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 31, 656-670.
  • Trucco, E., Colder, C., Bowker, J. & Wieczorek, W. (2011) Interpersonal goals and susceptibility to perceived peer attitudes towards substances: Risk factors for substance use initiation among adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 31, 526-547.
  • Bowker, J.C., & Raja, R. (2011). Social withdrawal subtypes during early adolescence in India. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 201-212.
  • Bowker, J.C., Thomas, K.K, Norman, K.E. & Spencer, S.V. (2011). Mutual best friendship involvement, best friends’ rejection sensitivity, and psychological maladaptation. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40, 545-555.
  • Salvy, S., Bowker, J.C., Nitecki, L.A., Germeroth, L.J., Kluczynski, M.A., & Roemmich, J.N. (2011). Impact of ostracism on overweight and normal-weight youths’ eating behavior. Appetite, 56, 39-45.
  • Bowker, J.C., Fredstrom, B.K., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C., Laursen, B. (2010). Distinguishing children who form new best friendships from those who do not. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 707-725.
  • Bowker, J.C., & Spencer, S.V. (2010). Friendship involvement and adjustment: A focus on mixed-grade friendships. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 11, 1318-1329.
  • Bowker, J.C., Spencer, S.V., & Salvy, S. (2010). Examining how overweight adolescents process social information: The significance of friendship quality. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 31, 231-237.
  • McDonald, K., Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Laursen, B., & Duchene, M. (2010). Interactions between relationship quality and rejection-sensitivity on adolescent adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 563-574.
  • Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Buskirk-Cohen, A., Rose-Krasnor, L.R., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2010). Behavioral changes predicting temporal changes in perceived popular status. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 31, 126-133.
  • Rubin, K.H., Kennedy Root, A., & Bowker, J. C. (2010).  Parents, peers and social anxiety disorder in childhood: A relationship perspective.  In H. Gazelle & K. H. Rubin (Eds.), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development: Social Anxiety in Childhood:  Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. (pp.79-94).  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.
  • Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., & Gazelle, H. (2010).  Social withdrawal in childhood and adolescence:  Peer relationships and social competence. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence (pp. 131-156).  New York:  Guilford.
  • Bowker, J., & Rubin, K. (2009). Self-consciousness, friendship quality, and internalizing problems during early adolescence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 249-268.
  • Rubin, K., Coplan, R., & Bowker, J. (2009). Social withdrawal and shyness in childhood and adolescence. Annual Review of Psychology. 60, 141-171.
  • Rubin, K., Bowker, J., & Kennedy, A. (2009). Avoiding and withdrawing from the peer group in middle childhood and early adolescence. In K.H. Rubin, W. Bukowski, & B. Laursen (Eds.), Handbook of peer interactions, relationships, and groups (pp. 303-321). New York: Guilford.
  • Salvy, S., Roemmich, J., Bowker, J., Romero, N., Stadler, P, & Epstein, L. (2008). Effect of peers and friends on youth physical activity and motivation to be physically active. Journal of Pediatric Psychology,10, 1-9.
  • Rubin, K.H., Fredstrom, B., & Bowker, J.  (2008). Future directions in friendship in childhood and early adolescence. Social Development, 17, 1085-1096.
  • Oh, W., Rubin, K., Bowker, J., Booth-LaForce, C., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Laursen, B. (2008). Trajectories of social withdrawal from middle childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 4, 553-566.
  • Rubin, K.H., Bukowski, W., Parker, J., & Bowker, J. (2008). Peer interactions, relationships, and groups. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Eds), Child and Adolescent Development: An Advanced Course (pp.141-180). New York: Wiley.
  • Bowker, J., Rubin, K., Rose-Krasnor, L. & Booth-LaForce, C. (2007). Good friendships, bad friends: Friendship factors as moderators of the relation between aggression and social information processing. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 4, 1-20.
  • Rubin, K., Wojslawowicz Bowker, J., & Oh, W. (2007). The peer relationships and friendships of socially withdrawn children. In A. LoCoco, K. Rubin, & C. Zappulla (Eds.), L’isolamento sociale durante l’infanzia (Social withdrawal in childhood). Milan, Italy: Unicopli.
  • Salvy, S., Wojslawowicz Bowker, J., Romero, N., Kieffer, E., Paluch, R., & Epstein, L. (2007). Peer Influence on Children’s Activities: An Experience Sampling Study. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 1-11.
  • Wojslawowicz Bowker, J., Rubin, K., Burgess, K., Booth-LaForce, C., & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2006). Behavioral characteristics associated with stable and fluid best friendship patterns in middle childhood. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 671-693.
  • Burgess, K., Wojslawowicz, J., Rubin, K., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2006). Social information processing and coping styles of shy/withdrawn and aggressive children: Does friendship matter? Child Development, 77, 371-383.
  • Rubin, K., Wojslawowicz, J., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C., & Burgess, K. (2006). The friendships of shy/withdrawn children: Prevalence, stability, and relationship quality. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 139-153.