When children engage in social aggression, they hurt peers by damaging their friendships and social status. Social aggression includes behaviors such as social exclusion (verbal and non-verbal), friendship manipulation, and malicious gossip. This Independent Scientist Award (K02) application seeks funding to support Marion K. Underwood, Ph.D., to investigate more fully the early developmental origins of social aggression and the psychosocial outcomes associated with engaging and being victimized by social aggression. Dr. Underwood is a child clinical psychologist with expertise in social aggression in the middle childhood and adolescent age ranges and experience in measuring social aggression using a variety of methods (creative observational techniques, sociometric nominations, and parent-, teacher-, and self-report questionnaires). She is the Principal Investigator of a longitudinal project currently in its third year, following a sample of 281 children from ages 9 -14 to investigate developmental origins and outcomes of social aggression. Short-term career development goals include augmenting quantitative skills to analyze these longitudinal data to maximum advantage, and increasing knowledge of preschool development and building a collaborative team to conduct a longitudinal study of social aggression beginning with 2-3-year-old children. The long-term goal of this research program is to understand better the role of social aggression in the development of psychopathology in girls and boys, to determine whether reducing social aggression might be helpful in preventing the development of externalizing disorders, internalizing problems, personality disorders, and eating disorders, and in promoting positive adjustment and achievement. Careful analyses of how social aggression unfolds, both developmentally and in real time, will guide the future development of prevention and intervention programs to reduce social aggression among girls and boys. ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research (K02)
Project #
5K02MH073616-02
Application #
7154783
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-RPHB-B (02))
Program Officer
Avenevoli, Shelli A
Project Start
2005-12-08
Project End
2010-11-30
Budget Start
2006-12-01
Budget End
2007-11-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$119,464
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Texas-Dallas
Department
Psychology
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
800188161
City
Richardson
State
TX
Country
United States
Zip Code
75080
Ackerman, Robert A; Carson, Kevin J; Corretti, Conrad A et al. (2018) Experiences with warmth in middle childhood predict features of text-message communication in early adolescence. Dev Psychol :
Rosen, Lisa H; Beron, Kurt J; Underwood, Marion K (2017) Social Victimization Trajectories From Middle Childhood Through Late Adolescence. Soc Dev 26:227-247
Ehrenreich, Samuel E; Beron, Kurt J; Underwood, Marion K (2016) Social and physical aggression trajectories from childhood through late adolescence: Predictors of psychosocial maladjustment at age 18. Dev Psychol 52:457-62
Flynn, Elinor; Ehrenreich, Samuel E; Beron, Kurt J et al. (2015) Prosocial Behavior: Long-Term Trajectories and Psychosocial Outcomes. Soc Dev 24:462-482
Underwood, Marion K; Ehrenreich, Samuel E; More, David et al. (2015) The BlackBerry Project: The Hidden World of Adolescents' Text Messaging and Relations With Internalizing Symptoms. J Res Adolesc 25:101-117
Underwood, Marion K; Ehrenreich, Samuel E (2014) Bullying May Be Fueled by the Desperate Need to Belong. Theory Pract 53:265-270
Ehrenreich, Samuel E; Underwood, Marion K; Ackerman, Robert A (2014) Adolescents' text message communication and growth in antisocial behavior across the first year of high school. J Abnorm Child Psychol 42:251-64
Ehrenreich, Samuel E; Beron, Kurt J; Brinkley, Dawn Y et al. (2014) Family predictors of continuity and change in social and physical aggression from ages 9 to 18. Aggress Behav 40:421-39
Rosen, Lisa H; Beron, Kurt J; Underwood, Marion K (2013) Assessing peer victimization across adolescence: measurement invariance and developmental change. Psychol Assess 25:1-11
Rosen, Lisa H; Underwood, Marion K; Gentsch, Joanna K et al. (2012) Adult Recollections of Peer Victimization during Middle School: Forms and Consequences. J Appl Dev Psychol 33:273-281

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