Social cognitions, distress, and leadership self-efficacy: associations with aggression for high-risk minority youth.
Social cognitions, distress, and leadership self-efficacy: associations with aggression for high-risk minority youth.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579414000376
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发表时间：
2014-08
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Monopoli WJ
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作者：
Leff SS;Baker CN;Waasdorp TE;Vaughn NA;Bevans KB;Thomas NA;Guerra T;Hausman AJ;Monopoli WJ
城市少数民族青年经常遭受严重的攻击和暴力。因此，许多侵略干预计划，已设计与郊区非少数民族青年已被使用或略有调整，以尝试和满足高风险的城市青年的需求。目前的研究有助于文献基础，研究如何以及一系列的社会认知，情绪困扰和受害，亲社会因素与青年侵略的样本城市青年。这项研究利用了从109名9至15岁的青少年（36.7%为男性; 84.4%为非洲裔美国人）及其父母或照顾者收集的数据。一系列的分层多元回归适合预测青少年的社会认知变量，受害和痛苦，亲社会变量，控制青少年的性别和年龄的攻击。每一组变量都解释了青少年攻击行为的显著和独特的方差。包括所有预测因子的完整模型解释了攻击性方差的41%。模型表明，青年与更强的信念支持暴力，青年谁的经验更公开的受害者，和青年谁的经验更大的痛苦，在公开的侵略性的情况下，可能会更具侵略性。相比之下，自尊心较高的年轻人和支持更大领导效能的年轻人可能不那么具有攻击性。与假设相反，敌对归因偏见和知识的社会信息处理，关系受害的经验，在关系侵略的情况下，和社区参与的痛苦与侵略。我们的研究是第一个解决这些重要问题的低收入，主要是少数民族的城市青年，它有明确的意义，适应侵略预防计划是文化敏感的城市非洲裔美国青年。
Urban ethnic minority youth are often exposed to high levels of aggression and violence. As such, many aggression intervention programs that have been designed with suburban nonethnic minority youth have been used or slightly adapted in order to try and meet the needs of high-risk urban youth. The current study contributes to the literature base by examining how well a range of social–cognitive, emotional distress and victimization, and prosocial factors are related to youth aggression in a sample of urban youth. This study utilized data gathered from 109 9- to 15-year-old youth (36.7% male; 84.4% African American) and their parents or caregivers. A series of hierarchical multiple regressions were fit predicting youth aggression from social–cognitive variables, victimization and distress, and prosocial variables, controlling for youth gender and age. Each set of variables explained a significant and unique amount of the variance in youth aggressive behavior. The full model including all predictors accounted for 41% of the variance in aggression. Models suggest that youth with stronger beliefs supportive of violence, youth who experience more overt victimization, and youth who experience greater distress in overtly aggressive situations are likely to be more aggressive. In contrast, youth with higher self-esteem and youth who endorse greater leadership efficacy are likely to be less aggressive. Contrary to hypotheses, hostile attributional bias and knowledge of social information processing, experience of relational victimization, distress in relationally aggressive situations, and community engagement were not associated with aggression. Our study is one of the first to address these important questions for low-income, predominately ethnic minority urban youth, and it has clear implications for adapting aggression prevention programs to be culturally sensitive for urban African American youth.