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Espelage, Dorothy L. Espelage, Dorothy L. Neville, Helen A. Anderson, Carolyn J. Larson, Reed W. Rivers, Tyrone 2015-07-22T22:17:42Z 2015-07-22T22:17:42Z 2015-05 2015-04-24 The current study reported on the initial construction of a roasting measure. Roasting (a Black oral tradition) is a form of teasing that can be defined as making fun of someone in dyads or in groups of three or more people using clever metaphors (Foster, 1974; Smitherman, 1977, 2000). Although bullying is receiving much attention in news and scholarship, what is largely overlooked among developmental scholars that might provide insight into the bullying behavior of school-age youth is roasting. Roasting and verbal bullying are not identical, but the possibility of internalizing and externalizing problems having statistically significant associations with roasting, along with roasting possibly being an omitted variable in extant bully studies, skewing verbal bullying prevalence rates among adolescents, justifies the development of a roasting measure. Using items in an exploratory factor analysis that only loaded in interpretable Mokken scale analysis subscales yielded 5 roasting subscales. Internal consistency and construct validity supported the use and development of this measure. Implications for bully research, prevention and intervention programs, teacher education, and school policy are discussed. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-07-22 without embargo terms The student, Tyrone Rivers, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-24 at 15:20. The student, Tyrone Rivers, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-04-24 at 15:34. 2015-5 This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-04-24 at 17:35. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8098 on 2015-07-22 at 10:34:00 Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:17:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 RIVERS-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf: 398995 bytes, checksum: 25b67937887f49f4ecba3a1f822db66e (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 82b048b89f1abbeac994db39d67361bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-24 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78493 en Copyright 2015 Tyrone Rivers roasting ritual insults playing the dozens verbal bullying social anxiety depression The initial construction of a roasting measure and examination of the associations among roasting, verbal bullying, social anxiety, and depression text text Educational Psychology Educational Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.