John Grych, Ph.D.

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John Grych, Ph.D.Marquette University

Cramer Hall, 328D/317B

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America
(414) 288-7460

Professor

Psychology

Dr. Grych’s primary research interests focus on understanding factors that promote resilience in children and adolescents, the potential for bystander intervention to reduce sexual and physical violence, and the study and measurement of aggression in family and romantic relationships.

Research Lab: Resilience and Relationships Lab

Education

Ph.D., U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991

Courses Taught

At the undergraduate level, Dr. Grych teaches Psychology of Marriage and Family, Introduction to Psychology, and Child Psychopathology. At the graduate level, he teaches courses on child psychopathology, models of psychotherapy, and couples/family therapy, and supervises clinical practica.

Research Interests

My students and I currently are conducting research in two areas. First, the development of resilience in youths exposed to violence and other types of adversity. We are investigating intrapersonal, relational, and community factors that promote healthy functioning from preschool through adolescence. We are particularly interested in families and schools as contexts for development, and collaborate with local organizations and institutions in this work. Second, we have longstanding interests in the origins, consequences, and assessment of aggression in close relationships. At present, we primarily are focused on understanding factors that facilitate and interfere with responsive bystander behavior in high risk situations and on enhancing efforts to reduce sexual and physical assaults on college campuses.  We are collaborating with researchers at several universities across the US in this work.

Selected Publications

Selected publications (last 5 years)
* Current or former graduate students

  • Krauss, A., McDonald, R., Cascardi, M., Grych, J. H., Banyard, V. L., Rosenfield, D., & Jouriles, E. N.  (in press). Quantifying college students’ bystander behavior to prevent sexual assault and intimate partner violence: Can we make improvements? Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
  • *Yule, K. & Grych, J. (in press). Reflective Functioning and Emotion Socialization Behaviors in Caregivers of Preschoolers. Family Relations.
  • Jouriles, E. N., Krauss, A., Sargent, K. S., Nguyen, J., Cascardi, M., Grych, J. H., McDonald, R. (2022). Party frequency, party-safety strategies, and sexual victimization among first-year female college students. Journal of American College Health, 70, 1788–1793. Doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1821693
  • Magalhaes, E., Grych, J., Ferreira, C., Antuno, C., Prioste, A., & Jongenelen, I. (2022). Interpersonal violence and mental health outcomes: Mediation by self-efficacy and coping. Victims and Offenders, 17, 182-198. DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2021.1880508
  • Xia, M., Fosco, G., Bray, B. & Grych, J. (2022). Constellations of Family Closeness and Adolescent Friendship Quality. Family Relations, 71, 644-659. DOI: 10.1111/fare.12606
  • *Yule, K. & Grych, J. (2022). "It Still Happened": A Mixed Methods Analysis of College Students’ Rationales for Endorsing Acts of Violence Victimization. Psychology of Violence, 12, 116-126. http://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000403
  • Cascardi, M., Krauss, A., O’Leary, K.D., Loatman, K.L., Sargent, K.S., Grych, J., & Jouriles, E. (2021).
  • The Bystander Behavior (For Friends) Scale: Factor Structure and Correlation With Prior Victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 4850–4873. DOI: 10.1177/0886260518794011
  • Krauss, A., Jouriles, E.N., *Yule, K., Grych, J., Sargent, K.S. & Banyard, V. (2021). Adverse consequences to assisting victims of campus violence: Initial investigations among college students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36,1607-1624. DOI: 10.1177/0886260517746944
  • Grych, J., Taylor, E., Banyard, V., & Hamby, S. (2020). Applying the Dual Factor Model of Mental Health to Understanding Protective Factors in Adolescence. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 90(4), 458–467. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000449
  • Jouriles, E., Krauss, A., Sargent, K., Grych, J., Cascardi, M., O’Leary, K.D., *Murphy, C., Nguyen, J., McDonald, R., & Rosenfeld, D. (2020). College Students’ Feelings of Campus Connectedness, Party Safety Behavior and Intervening to Prevent Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence. Psychology of Violence, 10, 542-551. DOI: 10.1037/vio0000284
  • Jouriles, E. N., Sargent, K. S., Salis, K. L., Caiozzo, C. Rosenfield, D., Cascardi, M., Grych, J. G., O’Leary, K. D., & McDonald, R. (2020). TakeCARE, a video to promote bystander behavior on college campuses: Replication and extension. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35, 5652–5675. DOI: 10.1177/0886260517718189
  • Sargent, K.S., *Yule, K., Bridges, K., Jouriles, E.N., Grych, J. (2020). Do Instructions Intended to Reduce False Positives Improve the Measurement of Physical Partner Violence Victimization among Adolescents and Young Adults? Psychology of Violence, 10, 152-161. http://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000246
  • *Yule, K., *Caiozzo, C., & Grych, J. (2020). Adaptive Functioning in High-Risk Preschoolers: Caregiver Practices Beyond Parental Warmth. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 115-127. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01660-w
  • *Yule, K. & Grych, J. (2020). College Students’ Perceptions of Barriers to Bystander Intervention. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35, 2971-2993. http://doi:10.1177/0886260517706764 
  • *Yule, K., Hoxmeier, J.,+Petranu, K., & Grych, J. (2020). The Chivalrous Bystander: The Role of Gender-Based Attitudes and Empathy on Bystander Behavior and Perceived Barriers to Intervention. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520916277
  • Yule, K., & Grych, J. (2020). College Students’ Perceptions of Barriers to Bystander Intervention. Journal of Interpersonal Violence35(15–16), 2971–2992. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517706764
  • Banyard, V., Hamby, S., de St Aubin, E., & Grych, J. (2019). Values Narratives for Personal Growth: Formative Evaluation of the Laws of Life Essay Program. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 59, 269-293.
  • Banyard, V., Moschella, E., Grych, J., & Jouriles, E. (in press). What happened next? New measures of consequences of bystander actions to prevent interpersonal violence. Psychology of Violence. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/vio0000229
  • Banyard, V., Moschella, E., Jouriles, E., & Grych, J.  (2019). Exploring action coils for bystander intervention: Modeling bystander consequences. Journal of American College Health

    DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2019.1665052

  • Hagler, M., Hamby, S., Banyard, V., & Grych, J. (2019). “We almost had the whole block's phone number on the wall”: A mixed methods investigation of informal helping in a predominantly rural sample. Journal of Community Psychology, 47, 477-494. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22132
  • Taylor, E., Banyard,V., Hamby,S. & Grych, J. (2019). Not all behind closed doors: Examining bystander involvement in intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34, 3915-3935. DOI: 10.1177/0886260516673629
  • *Yule, L., *Houston, J., Grych, J. (2019). Resilience in children exposed to violence: A meta-analysis of protective factors across ecological contexts. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 22, 406-431. DOI: 10.1007/s10567-019-00293-1
  • *Caiozzo, C. N., *Yule, K., & Grych, J. (2018). Caregiver behaviors associated with emotion regulation in high-risk preschoolers. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(5), 565-574. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000425
  • Hamby, S., Banyard, V., & Grych, J. (2018). Resilience Portfolios and Poly-Strengths: Identifying Protective Factors Associated with Thriving After Adversity. Psychology of Violence, 8, 172-183.

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