Dr Eirini Flouri, Ph.D. (Exon), BSc (Crete)

Dr Eirini Flouri was, until January 2005, Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children, Lecturer in Statistics at St Hilda's College, and Research Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford.   From January 2005, she becomes Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education.

She has published in the area of economic, developmental and clinical psychology. Her current interests include parenting and long-term psychological, educational, economic and social outcomes in children, and children’s resilience and psychological well-being.

Since 2000 grants have come from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, and the Royal Society. In October 2002 she was awarded a 3-year research fellowship from the Economic and Social Research Council to research parenting and children's well-being. An Editorial Board member of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues and a regular peer reviewer for several academic journals, she is also a member of several learned societies..

 Email: e.flouri@ioe.ac.uk

Selected recent publications (since 2000)

 Articles in journals

Flouri, E. (in press). Parental aspirations and educational outcomes in socio-economically disadvantaged children: Some points of note. The Psychologist.

Loughry, M., Ager, A., Flouri, E. Khamis, V., Hamid Afana, A. & Quota, S. (forthcoming). The impact of structured activities among Palestinian children in a time of conflict. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Flouri, E. (in press). The relationship between parenting and materialism in British mothers and fathers of secondary school age children. Journal of Socio-Economics

Flouri, E. (in press). Non-resident fathers’ relationships with their secondary school age children: Determinants and children’s mental health outcomes. Journal of Adolescence

Flouri, E. (2006). Parental interest in children’s education, children’s self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment: Twenty-six year follow-up of the 1970 British birth cohort. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 41-55

Flouri, E. (2005). Psychological and sociological aspects of parenting and their relation to suicidal behavior. Archives of Suicide Research, 9, 373-383

Flouri, E. (2005). Women’s psychological distress in midadulthood: The role of childhood parenting experiences. European Psychologist, 10, 116-123.

Flouri, E. (2005). Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): What we have learned and what we still haven’t found out. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20, 373-379.

Flouri, E. (2005). Father’s involvement and psychological adjustment in Indian and white British secondary school age children. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 10, 32-39.

Flouri, E. (2005). Adult materialism/postmaterialism and later mental health: The role of self-efficacy. Social Indicators Research, 73, 1-18.

Flouri, E. (2004). Exploring the relationship between mothers’ and fathers’ parenting practices and children’s materialist values. Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, 743-752.

Flouri, E. (2004). Subjective well-being in midlife: The role of involvement of and closeness to parents in childhood. Journal of Happiness Studies, 5, 335-358.

Flouri, E. (2004). Mothers’ nonauthoritarian child-rearing attitudes in early childhood and children’s adult values. European Psychologist, 9, 154-162.

Flouri, E. (2004). The role of maternal authoritarian child-rearing attitudes in early childhood in mental health at age 30: Findings from the 1970 birth cohort. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 110(s421), 35.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2004). Early fathers’ and mother’s involvement and child’s later educational outcomes. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 141-153.

Flouri, E. (2004). Psychological outcomes in midadulthood associated with mother’s child-rearing attitudes in early childhood: Evidence from the 1970 British birth cohort. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 13, 35-41.

Flouri, E. (2004). Correlates of parents’ involvement with their adolescent children in restructured and biological two-parent families: The role of child characteristics. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 148-156.

Flouri, E. (2004). Parental family structure and political attitudes in British adults. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 25, 245-254.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2004). Childhood families of homeless and poor adults in Britain: A prospective study. Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, 1-14

Flouri, E. (2003). Parental socialization and offspring materialist and post-materialist values in adult life. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 2106-2122

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2003). What predicts fathers' involvement with their children? A prospective study of intact families. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 21, 81-97

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2003). The role of father involvement and mother involvement in adolescents’ psychological well-being. British Journal of Social Work, 33, 399-406.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2003). The role of mother involvement and father involvement in adolescent bullying behavior. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18, 634-644.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2003). The role of father involvement in children’s later mental health. Journal of Adolescence, 26, 63-78.

Buchanan, A. Flouri, E. & Ten Brinke, J. (2002). Emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and distress in adult life: Risk and protective factors. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36, 521-527.

Flouri, E., Buchanan, A., & Bream, V. (2002). Adolescents' perceptions of their fathers' involvement: Significance to school attitudes. Psychology in the Schools, 39, 575-582.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2002). The role of work-related skills and career role models in adolescent career maturity. Career Development Quarterly, 52, 36-43

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2002). Childhood predictors of labor force participation in adult life. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 23, 101-120.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2002). Father involvement in childhood and trouble with the police in adolescence: Findings from the 1958 British cohort. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 17, 689-701.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2002). What predicts good relationships with parents in adolescence and partners in adult life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort. Journal of Family Psychology, 16, 186-198.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2002). The protective role of parental involvement in adolescent suicide. Crisis, 23, 17-22.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2002). Life satisfaction in teenage boys: The moderating role of father involvement and bullying. Aggressive Behavior, 28, 126-133.

Buchanan, A. & Flouri, E. (2001). 'Recovery' after age 7 from 'externalising' behaviour problems: The role of risk and protective clusters. Children and Youth Services Review, 23, 899-914.

Flouri, E. (2001). The role of family togetherness and right-wing attitudes in adolescent materialism. Journal of Socio-Economics, 30, 363-365.

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2001). What predicts traditional attitudes to marriage? Children & Society, 15, 263-271.

Loughry, M. & Flouri, E. (2001). The behavioral and emotional problems of former unaccompanied refugee children 3-4 years after their return to Vietnam. Child Abuse & Neglect, 25, 249-263.  

Buchanan, A. & Flouri, E. (2001). Parental family structure and adult expectations of familial support in times of emotional need. British Journal of Social Work, 31, 133-139.

Flouri, E. (2000). The role of parental involvement in adolescents’ money management. Children's Social and Economics Education, 4, 75-82.

Buchanan, A., Ten Brinke, J. & Flouri, E. (2000). Parental background, social disadvantage, public ‘care’, and psychological problems in adolescence and adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 1415-1423.

Flouri, E. (2000). An integrated model of consumer materialism: Can economic socialization and maternal values predict materialistic attitudes in adolescents?, Journal of Socio-Economics, 28, 707-724.

Books, Chapters, Conference papers and other publications

Flouri, E. (2005). Fathering and child outcomes. Chichester: Wiley.

Flouri, E. & Joshi, H. (2005). Anger, irritability and hostility in children and adults. In R. Vaitilingam (Ed.) Seven Deadly Sins: A new look at society through an old lens. Swindon: ESRC

Ritchie, C., Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2005). Aspirations and Expectations. Policy Discussion Paper: London: National Family and Parenting Institute.

Welsh, E. Buchanan, A., Flouri, E. & Lewis, J. (2004). Involved fathering and child well-being: Fathers’ involvement with their secondary school age children. London: National Children’s Bureau

Flouri, E. (2002). Exploring the relationship between mothers’ and fathers’ parenting practices and their materialist values. Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Colloquium on Research in Economic Psychology/SABE 2002 Conference on Behavioural Economics. Turku, Finland, pp. 134-140

Flouri, E. & Buchanan, A. (2001). Father time. Community Care, 4-10 October, 42

Flouri, E. (2001). Early predictors of post-materialist values. In Environment and Well-being, Proceedings of the XXVI Annual Colloquium of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology. Bath, UK, pp. 74-78

Flouri, E. (2000). Correlates of consumer materialism in adolescent boys. Proceedings of the XXV Annual Colloquium of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, IAREP/SABE 2000 Conference, Baden, Vienna, Austria, pp. 117-119

Flouri, E., Buchanan, A. & Bream, V. (2000). In and out of emotional and behavioural problems. In A. Buchanan & B.L. Hudson (eds.) Promoting Children's Emotional Well-being. Oxford: Oxford University Press