Excellence in Research: Attitudes, Motivations, and Justifications Surrounding Interpersonal Aggression

尽管人际攻击影响到所有社区，但与其他种族/民族群体相比，黑人男性和女性遭受的攻击不成比例。少数针对黑人大学生(BCS)的研究表明，他们经历了更高的人际攻击水平，这与许多不利的心理、身体、情感和教育结果有关。本研究的目的是通过测试一个基于社会心理学基础的概念模型来了解儿童的攻击行为和受害情况。这项研究将对学生攻击性的发生和流行的心理和社会过程做出重要的理论和实证贡献。此外，调查结果可能被用来帮助制定暴力预防和干预计划，和/或为校园政策和程序提供信息。该项目还将为心理学本科生提供实践研究机会。本科生融入这个项目的目的是加强学生的学术技能，并创造一种科学和研究的文化，目的是增加学生对STEM领域的兴趣、代表性和坚持性。这项混合方法研究将测试一个概念模型，该模型结合了现有人际攻击文献的经验发现，但也包括已知的影响黑人男性和女性暴力和攻击行为的社会和文化变量。具体地说，该框架借鉴了社会认知理论、社会决定理论和社会辩护模型的概念。这项研究将招募不同的BCS样本。将使用焦点小组、深度访谈和在线定量调查从不同校园(例如历史上的黑人学院和大学、少数族裔服务机构和以白人为主的机构)的BCS收集数据。这项研究的结果不仅有助于从总体上科学地理解人际攻击行为和受害行为，而且还将强调从施暴者和受害者的角度理解影响人际攻击行为的社会和文化近端和远端因素的重要性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Although interpersonal aggression affects all communities, Black men and women experience a disproportionate amount of it when compared to other racial/ethnic groups. The few available studies focused on Black college students (BCS) show that they experience elevated levels of interpersonal aggression, which is associated with numerous adverse psychological, physical, emotional, and educational outcomes. The goal of this study is to understand perpetration and victimization of aggression among BCS by testing a social psychologically grounded conceptual model. The research will make important theoretical and empirical contributions by providing a glimpse into the psychological and social processes related to incidence and prevalence of aggression among students. Additionally, findings may be used to help develop violence prevention and intervention programs, and/or to inform campus policies and procedures. This project will also provide undergraduate psychology students with hands-on research opportunities. The integration of undergraduate students into this project is designed to strengthen students' academic skills, and create a culture of science and research with the aim of increasing student interest, representation, and persistence in STEM fields. This mixed-method study will test a conceptual model that incorporates empirical findings from the existing interpersonal aggression literature, but also includes social and cultural variables known to influence violence and aggression among Black men and women. Specifically, the framework draws concepts from social cognitive theory, social determination theory, and the social justification model. The study will recruit a diverse sample of BCS. Data will be collected from BCS on various campuses (e.g., Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority Serving Institutions, and Predominantly White Institutions) using focus groups, in-depth interviews, and an online quantitative survey. The results of this study will not only contribute to the scientific understanding of interpersonal aggression perpetration and victimization in general, but will also emphasize the importance of understanding the social and cultural proximal and distal factors that influence engagement in interpersonal aggression, from the perspective of both perpetrators and victims.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.