Jamie M Ostrov
University at Buffalo, NY·Psychology
Early peer relationships help set children on a path toward healthy social and emotional development and readiness for school. Aggression and peer victimization (being bullied or picked on) can disrupt that path.
- Fields
Psychology
Education Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
aggression
peer victimization
bullying
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Test whether a teacher-implemented, coached version of the Early Childhood Friendship Project reduces aggression and peer victimization and increases prosocial behavior, in a randomized trial of 600 children in 30 preschool classrooms.
- Determine whether changes in executive functioning, emotion regulation and hostile attribution bias (reading others' intentions as hostile) explain the program's effects on children's behavior.
- Test whether physiological reactivity, measured by skin conductance and respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and biological sex change how strongly children respond to the intervention.
- Assess whether program effects on social and academic competence last at 4- and 12-month follow-ups spanning the transition to kindergarten.
More about the research
Yet few programs aim to reduce several forms of aggression and bullying while building positive social and emotional skills in typically developing preschoolers.
Why it matters
Preschool children, their teachers and schools could benefit from a teacher-delivered program that reduces aggression and bullying and builds social, emotional and school-readiness skills. Learning which mechanisms drive the program's effects could guide future large-scale prevention efforts in early childhood settings. So could learning which children respond most, based on their physiology or sex.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Jaime Peterson
Oregon Health & Science University, OR·Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether Kinder Coaching, a parent coaching program delivered by community health workers, improves preschoolers' school readiness on the Brigance III screen compared with a provider-reviewed checklist, in a randomized trial of 240 Medicaid families in Oregon.
Jude Cassidy
University of Maryland, MD·Psychology
Test whether adding the Circle of Security – Parenting intervention to Early Head Start services reduces insecure attachment, physiological dysregulation and behavior problems, in a randomized trial of 249 parent-child pairs.
Jenny Radesky
University of Michigan, MI·Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether Problem-Solving Education for parents, help with device parental controls, or both reduce mood dysregulation and problematic media use in 300 children aged 6–10, compared with standard pediatric resources, in a 2x2 randomized trial.
The school
University at Buffalo: 32 labs on PI Pages, $542M a year on research, 316 research doctorates a year.
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