Predictors and (neuro-)biological correlates of (cyber-)bullying and victimization in real-life contexts (B05)

• Subject Area: Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 512007073

B05 sets its focus on the investigation of a lack of cognitive control in bullies and victims that contributes to the risk of developing mental health problems. The project will assess bullies and their victims in real-life and digital social interactions to examine how aberrant cognitive and affective prefrontal control and sensitivity to peer rejection with accompanied alterations in autonomic arousal may increase externalizing and internalizing behavior. To this end, a unique combination of ambulatory assessments of (cyber-)bullying, functional neuroimaging (emotion regulation, inhibition, social exclusion), physiological assessments (heart rate variability) and clinical trait-related questionnaires will be applied.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 379: Neuropsychobiology of Aggression: A Transdiagnostic Approach in Mental Disorders
• Applicant Institution: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Tobias Banaschewski; Professorin Dr. Nathalie Holz