Clinical Psychology

Michael Morrow

		Graduate Student  -  Primary Advisor: Julie Hubbard Research Interests Recent Publications Vitae morrowm@psych.udel.edu Office: ON INTERNSHIP Preferred contact method - email

Research Interests

Peer Relations

Research Summary:

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the clinical psychology program. My mentor is Dr. Julie Hubbard of the Peer Relations Research Laboratory. My primary research interest is the topic of peer victimization. I am currently leading a research project investigating the form and frequency of fifth-graders’ peer victimization experiences at school. This project has three specific aims: 1) to examine the impact of peer victimization on children’s daily functioning, 2) to identify individual characteristics that influence children’s vulnerability to peer victimization, and 3) to test whether individual characteristics heighten children’s reactivity to peer victimization experiences. My main clinical interests include the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children’s disruptive behavior disorders and social skill deficits. In the future, I hope to develop school-based interventions to reduce the occurrence of peer victimization within schools and to teach children effective methods to cope with these experiences.

Recent Publications

Morrow, M.T., Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D., & Rubin, R.M. (in press). The relation between childhood aggression and depressive symptoms: The unique and joint mediating roles of peer rejection and peer victimization. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.

Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D.,Morrow, M.T., & Romano, L.J. (in press). Reactive and proactive aggression in childhood:Processes, outcomes, and measurement.Journal of Personality.

Hubbard, J. A., Morrow, M.T., Romano, L.J., & McAuliffe, M.D. (in press).The role of anger in children’s reactiveversus proactive aggression.In E. Lemerise and W. Arsenio (Eds.), Emotions, aggression, and moral development.Washington, DC:American Psychological AssociationPress.

Hubbard, J.A., Romano, L.J., McAuliffe, M.D., & Morrow, M.T.(in press).Anger and the reactive-proactive aggression distinction in childhood and adolescence.In M. Potegal,G. Stemmler,& C. Spielberger(Eds.), A handbook of anger: Constituent and concomitant biological, psychological, and social processes.Hillsdale, New Jersey:Lawrence Erlbaum.

Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D., Rubin, R.M., & Morrow, M.T. (2007).The anger-aggression relation in violent children and adolescents.In T. Cavell and K. Malcolm (Eds.). Anger, Aggression, and Interventions for Interpersonal Violence (pp. 267-280). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Morrow, M.T., Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D., Rubin, R.M., & Dearing, K.F. (2006). Childhood aggression, depressive symptoms, and peer rejection: The mediational model revisited. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 240-248.

McAuliffe, M.D., Hubbard, J.A., Rubin, R.M., Morrow, M.T., & Dearing, K.F. (2006). Reactive and proactive aggression: Stability of constructs and relations to correlates. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 167, 365-382.

Presentations

Morrow, M.T., & Hubbard, J.A. (2008, March). Preadolescents’ attributions for negative peer encounters: Links to individual and class peer experiences and depressive symptoms. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Morrow, M.T., Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D., & Rubin, R.M. (2008, March). Preadolescents’ dyadic accuracy for self-perceived peer acceptance and rejection: Relations with aggressive behavior and depressive symptoms. Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Morrow, M.T., Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D., & Rubin, R.M. (2007, April). Childhood aggression, depressive symptoms, and the experiences of peer rejection and peer victimization. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Romano, L.J., Hubbard, J.A., McAuliffe, M.D., Morrow, M.T., & Rubin, R.M. (2007, April). Physiological and emotional correlates of reactive and proactive aggression.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

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