Grants Funded:
2002 Principal Investigator: Gallup Research Center: Bullying and Victimization in Middle School Youth. Grant Total: $4,600.
2001 Principal Investigator: Bullying and victimization: A longitudinal analysis. University of Nebraska Lincoln Layman Trust Funds and Teachers College Institute Funds. Grant Total: $12,000.
2000 Principal Investigator: A comprehensive assessment and intervention program to address the needs of depressive conduct-disordered adolescents in juvenile diversion. Layman Award Application and Teachers College Institute Funds. Grant Total: $12,000.
1999 Principal Investigator: "Development and validation of an instrument to assess middle-school students along the bully-victim continuum." University of Nebraska - Lincoln Layman Trust Funds. Grant Total: $7,500.
1999 Gallup Research Center: "Depression and anxiety across the bully/victim continuum." Grant Total: $9,200.
Bullying
Target Bullying: Ecologically-Based Prevention and Intervention for Schools is a comprehensive program of research examining bullying and victimization in school-aged youth. We have completed a five-year longitudinal study examining bullying in middle school youth. Goals of the project include an examination of the psychosocial correlates in bullying and victimization and the development of empirically-based intervention program modules. For more information regarding the Target Bullying, please contact the Project Directors, Kisha Haye or Courtney Miller, or the Principal Investigator, Susan Swearer.
Principal Investigator:
Susan M .Swearer, PhD
Project Directors:
Kisha M. Haye, MA
Courtney Miller, EdS
Recent student and faculty presentationss from Target Bullying:
Kisha M. Haye, MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD., Kelly pey Love, MA,
and Rhonda K. Turner, MA
Examining locus of control and aggression along the bully/victim Continuum.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,
Toronto, Canada, August, 2003.
Rhonda K. Turner, MA, Kelly pey Love,
MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD, & John
Eagle, MSW.
Homework as a mechanism for change in a cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol
for youth obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA, November, 2003.
Kisha M. Haye, MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD., Kelly Brey Love, MA,
and Rhonda K. Turner, MA
Examining locus of control and aggression along the bully/victim Continuum.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,
Toronto, Canada, August, 2003.
Rhonda K. Turner, MA, Kelly Brey Love,
MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD, & John Eagle, MSW.
Homework as a mechanism for change in a cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol
for youth obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA, November, 2003.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Kisha M. Haye,
MA, Kelly Brey Love, MA & Rhonda
Turner, MA.
A longitudinal examination of internalizing factors and bully/victim problems
in middle school students: Do predictors change over time?
Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA, November, 2003.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD.
Cognitive and social mechanisms in adolescent bullying. Symposium presented
at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto,
Canada, Augus, 2003.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD & Courtney Miller, EdS.
Bullying in middle-school youth: An examination of school climate.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,
Toronto, Canada, August, 2003.
Courtney Miller, EdS & Susan M. Swearer, PhD.
Bullying and school climate: Examining student and teacher perceptions.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,
Toronto, Canada, August, 2003.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Paulette Tam
Cary, MA, Courtney Miller, EdS, Sam Song, MA, Kisha Haye, MA,
Esther Sohn, MA & Kelly
Brey, MA.
The influence of the school ecology on bullying and victimization in middle
school youth.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research and Child
Development, Tampa, FL, April, 2003.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Kisha M. Haye,
MA, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Kelly Brey, BA & Mickey Frazier-Koontz,
MA.
The ecology of peer victimization in middle-school youth: An examination of
the transitional years and internalizing difficulties.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV, November, 2002.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Courtney K. Miller,
EdS, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Kisha M. Haye, MA, Kelly Brey, BA,
Esther Sohn, MA, & Sam
Y. Song, MEd.
The influence of the school ecology on bullying and victimization in middle
school students.
Paper presented at the Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, FL,
April, 2003.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Kisha M. Haye, MA, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Kelly Brey, BA, & Mickie Frazier-Koontz.
The ecology of peer victimization in middle-school youth: An
examination of transitional years and internalizing difficulties.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV, November, 2002.
Kisha M. Haye, MA, Susan M. Swearer,
PhD, Courtney K. Miller, EdS, Esther Sohn, MA, & Sam Y. Song,
MEd.
Bullying in context: Bystander attitudes and psychosocial influences.
Poster presented at the 110th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2002.
Courtney K. Miller, EdS, Susan M. Swearer,
PhD, Sam Y. Song, MEd, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, & Amanda Siebecker,
BA.
Bully/Victim cycle: The relationship between school climate and aggression.
Poster presented at the 110th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2002.
Esther Sohn, MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD,
Kisha M. Haye, MA, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, & Amanda Siebecker,
BA.
Validity of bully-victim status in middle school youth: A multi-method assessment.
Poster presented at the 110th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2002.
Sam Y. Song, MEd & Susan M. Swearer, PhD.
An ecological analysis of school bullying: Understanding school
climate.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School
Psychologists, Chicago, IL, February, 2002.
Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Susan M. Swearer,
PhD, Sam Y. Song, Med, Kisha M. Haye, MA, & Esther Sohn,
BS.
The relationship between depression and aggression across the bully/victim
continuum.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2001.
Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD, and Esther Sohn,
BS.
Bully-victim status and students' attitudes and perceptions toward bullying.
Poster session to be presented at the 109th annual meeting of the AmericanPsychological
Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001.
Samuel Y. Song, MEd, Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Kisha M. Haye, MA,
Deborah L. Bandalos, PhD.
Development of a comprehensive survey for bullying and victimization: Psychometric
analysis.
Poster session to be presented at the 109th annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, and Dorothy L. Espelage, PhD.
Bully prevention and intervention: Integrating research and evaluation findings.
Symposium to be presented at the 109th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, and Samuel Y. Song, MEd.
How can research guide the development of bullying prevention
and intervention programs?
Paper to be presented at the 109th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, and Dorothy L. Espelage, PhD. Negotiating
peer interactions during early adolescence: Bullying, harassment,
and jealousy.
Symposium to be presented at the 109th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, and Paulette Tam Cary, MA.
Attitudes toward bullying: A developmental examination across the bully/victim
continuum.
Paper to be presented at the 109th annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Samuel Y. Song,
MEd, and John W. Eagle, MSW.
A longitudinal analysis of depression rates among middle school bullies, bully-victims,
and victims.
Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the World Congress of Behavioral
and Cognitive Therapies, Vancouver, BC, August, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, John W. Eagle, MSW, Samuel Y. Song, MEd,
and Paulette Tam Cary, MA.
A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between anxiety and the bully-victim
continuum in preadolescents.
Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the World Congress of Behavioral
and Cognitive Therapies, Vancouver, BC, August, 2001.
Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Samuel Y. Song,
MEd, and John W. Eagle, MSW.
How bullies, victims, and bully-victims differ in their attitudes and perceptions
toward bullying.
Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research
in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2001.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, Samuel Y. Song,
MEd, and John W. Eagle, MSW.
Depression Rates Among Middle School Bullies, Bully-Victims, and Victims.
Poster session presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Association for
the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA, November 16-19, 2000.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, John W. Eagle, MSW, Samuel Y. Song, MEd,
and Paulette Tam Cary, MA.
Anxiety Rates Among Middle School Bullies, Bully-Victims, and Victims.
Poster session presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Association for
the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA, November 16-19, 2000.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Dorothy L. Espelage, PhD.
Bullying in Schools: Individual Group and Multicultural Perspectives.
Symposium presented at the 108th annual convention of the American Psychological
Association, Washington, DC, August 4-8, 2000.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Paulette Tam Cary, MA, John W. Eagle,
MSW, and Samuel Y. Song, MEd.
Self-Monitoring as a Means of Assessing Bullying and Victimization.
Poster session presented at the 108th annual convention of the American Psychological
Association, Washington, DC, August 4-8, 2000.
Samuel Y. Song, MEd, Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Diana L. Paulk, John
W. Eagle, MSW, Paulette Tam Cary, MA.
Bullying and School Achievement: Understanding a Complex Relationship.
Poster session presented at the 2000 annual convention of the National Association
of School Psychologists, New Orleans, LA, March 28-April 1, 2000.
Recent student and faculty publications from Target Bullying include:
Swearer, S. M. & Cary, P. T. (in
press).
Attitudes toward bullying in middle school youth: A developmental examination
across the bully/victim continuum.
Journal of Applied School Psychology, 19(2).
Swearer, S. M., Grills, A. E., Haye,
K. M., & Cary, P. T.
(in press).
Internalizing problems in students involved in bullying and victimization:
Implications for intervention.
D. L. Espelage & S. M. Swearer,
(Eds.).
Bullying in American schools: A social-ecological perspective on prevention
and intervention.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Swearer, S. M. & Doll, B. (2001).
Bullying in schools: An ecological framework.
Journal of Emotional Abuse, 2, (2/3), 7-23.
Swearer, S. M., Song, S. Y., Cary, P. T., Eagle, J. W. Mickelson,
W. T. (2001).
Psychosocial correlates in bullying and victimization: The relationship between
depression, anxiety, and bully/victim status.
Journal of Emotional Abuse, 2, (2/3), 95-121
Susan M. Swearer, PhD & Paulette
Tam Cary, MA
Attitudes toward bullying in middle school youth: A developmental examination
across the bully/victim continuum.
(In Press). Journal of Applied School Psychology.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, and Beth Doll, PhD.
Bullying in Schools: An Ecological Framework.
(2001) Invited manuscript. Journal of Emotional Abuse.
Susan M. Swearer, PhD, Samuel Y. Song, MA, Paulette Tam Cary,
MA, John W. Eagle, MSW, and William T. Mickelson, PhD.
Psychosocial Correlates in Bullying and Victimization: The Relationship Between
Depression, Anxiety and Bully/Victim Status.
(2001). Invited manuscript. Journal of Emotional Abuse.
