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Alison Poor Defends Dissertation
06/28/22 Aggression
Alison Poor, an advanced doctoral student about to begin her predoctoral internship at the Southeast Louisiana Veteran’s Healthcare System in New Orleans, successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. Ali’s dissertation, “Predictors of relational aggression in women across adulthood,” extended the literature on relational aggression among women by testing a moderated mediation model based on social information processing theory (Crick & Dodge, 1994) and comparing 3 developmental groups of women between 18 and 65.
Ali found that the relationship between relational victimization and relational aggression was partially mediated by anger rumination and hostile attribution bias and that normative beliefs about relational aggression moderated some of these relationships. Overall, her findings support the continued relevance of relational aggression among women through middle adulthood.
Congratulations to Ali on an impressive dissertation defense!
Ali found that the relationship between relational victimization and relational aggression was partially mediated by anger rumination and hostile attribution bias and that normative beliefs about relational aggression moderated some of these relationships. Overall, her findings support the continued relevance of relational aggression among women through middle adulthood.
Congratulations to Ali on an impressive dissertation defense!
Erica Van Overloop Proposes Dissertation
05/01/22 Aggression
Erica Van Overloop, a doctoral student working in the lab, successfully proposed her dissertation last week. Erica’s dissertation will explore the connection of peer victimization to mental health and well-being among college students. Trauma symptoms are a primary area of focus. She plans to examine experiences of peer victimization during college as well as those which occurred prior to college. She’ll also examine perceived social support as a moderator of these relationships. She will use some newer measures of peer victimization, so testing their factor structure will be an important part of her analyses.
Congratulations to Erica on a successful dissertation proposal!
Congratulations to Erica on a successful dissertation proposal!
Alison Poor Proposes Dissertation
09/23/21 Aggression | Anger
Alison Poor, an advanced doctoral student working in the Anger and Traffic Psychology Lab at the University of Southern Mississippi, successfully proposed her dissertation this week. Ali’s dissertation aims to learn more about relational aggression and victimization among adult women through the lens of social information processing theory (Crick & Dodge, 1994). Her planned use of an MTurk sample will allow her to test a theoretically derived model across three developmental periods.
Ali’s dissertation builds on her thesis work, which highlighted the role of anger rumination in relational aggression. She is adding a number of other variables that will allow her to test some proposed mediation and moderation relationships in one model, but we are most excited about her plans to conduct invariance testing across age groups. There has been relatively little research on relational aggression among adults, and we should learn more from Ali’s study.
Congratulations to Ali on her successful proposal!
Ali’s dissertation builds on her thesis work, which highlighted the role of anger rumination in relational aggression. She is adding a number of other variables that will allow her to test some proposed mediation and moderation relationships in one model, but we are most excited about her plans to conduct invariance testing across age groups. There has been relatively little research on relational aggression among adults, and we should learn more from Ali’s study.
Congratulations to Ali on her successful proposal!
Alison Poor Defends Thesis
04/24/20 Aggression | Anger
Ali examined two research questions separately due to the expected overlap between some of her variables and differences in the theoretical rationale for the models she tested. First, she found that anger rumination mediated the relationship between trait anger and relational aggression. Second, she found that vengeance did not mediate the relationship between relational victimization and relational aggression, although both relational victimization and vengeance predicted relational aggression.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ali's thesis defense was conducted online through Microsoft Teams. Fortunately, everything worked well and the online format was not an issue.
Congratulations to Ali on a successful thesis defense!