Children's exposure to violent political conflict stimulates aggression at peers by increasing emotional distress, aggressive script rehearsal, and normative beliefs favoring aggression.
Children's exposure to violent political conflict stimulates aggression at peers by increasing emotional distress, aggressive script rehearsal, and normative beliefs favoring aggression.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579416001115
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发表时间：
2017-03
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Shikaki K
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作者：
Huesmann LR;Dubow EF;Boxer P;Landau SF;Gvirsman SD;Shikaki K
我们研究的假设，儿童的种族政治冲突和暴力的过程中，一年的刺激他们的侵略性增加对自己在随后几年的同龄人。此外，我们还研究了哪些社会认知和情感过程介导了这些影响，以及这些影响如何受到性别，年龄和种族群体的调节。为了实现这些目标，我们收集了901名以色列和600名巴勒斯坦青年（三个年龄组：8岁，11岁和14岁）及其父母的三波数据，每隔一年。在所有年龄组中，暴露于种族政治暴力与群体内同龄人的攻击性相关。使用交叉滞后结构方程模型从第1年到第3年，我们发现，暴露和侵略之间的关系是更合理的，由于暴露于种族政治暴力刺激后来的侵略在同龄人比反之亦然，这种影响是不缓和的性别，年龄队列，或种族群体显着。使用三波结构方程模型，然后，我们表明，这种影响是显着介导的变化，规范的信念侵略，侵略性脚本排练，和情绪困扰的曝光。同样，最佳拟合模型不允许按性别、年龄组群或种族群体进行调节。研究结果是一致的，最近的理论认为，暴露于暴力导致的变化，在情感过程中促进侵略和收购通过观察学习的社会认知促进侵略。
We examine the hypothesis that children’s exposure to ethnic–political conflict and violence over the course of a year stimulates their increased aggression toward their own in-group peers in subsequent years. In addition, we examine what social cognitive and emotional processes mediate these effects and how these effects are moderated by gender, age, and ethnic group. To accomplish these aims, we collected three waves of data from 901 Israeli and 600 Palestinian youths (three age cohorts: 8, 11, and 14 years old) and their parents at 1-year intervals. Exposure to ethnic–political violence was correlated with aggression at in-group peers among all age cohorts. Using a cross-lagged structural equation model from Year 1 to Year 3, we found that the relation between exposure and aggression is more plausibly due to exposure to ethnic–political violence stimulating later aggression at peers than vice versa, and this effect was not moderated significantly by gender, age cohort, or ethnic group. Using three-wave structural equation models, we then showed that this effect was significantly mediated by changes in normative beliefs about aggression, aggressive script rehearsal, and emotional distress produced by the exposure. Again the best fitting model did not allow for moderation by gender, age cohort, or ethnic group. The findings are consistent with recent theorizing that exposure to violence leads to changes both in emotional processes promoting aggression and in the acquisition through observational learning of social cognitions promoting aggression.