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

虽然人际攻击影响到所有社区，但与其他种族/族裔群体相比，黑人男性和女性经历的攻击量不成比例。少数几项针对黑人大学生（BCS）的研究表明，他们的人际攻击水平升高，这与许多不良的心理，身体，情感和教育结果有关。本研究的目的是通过测试一个社会心理学基础的概念模型来了解BCS之间的犯罪和受害的攻击。该研究将通过提供与学生攻击发生率和流行率相关的心理和社会过程的一瞥，做出重要的理论和实证贡献。此外，调查结果可用于帮助制定暴力预防和干预计划，和/或告知校园政策和程序。该项目还将为本科心理学学生提供动手研究的机会。本科生融入这个项目的目的是加强学生的学术技能，并创造科学和研究的文化，以提高学生的兴趣，代表性，并坚持在干领域的目的。这项混合方法的研究将测试一个概念模型，该模型结合了现有的人际攻击文献的实证研究结果，但也包括已知会影响黑人男性和女性之间的暴力和攻击的社会和文化变量。具体而言，该框架从社会认知理论，社会决定理论和社会辩护模型中提取概念。该研究将招募不同的BCS样本。数据将从各个校区的BCS收集（例如，历史上的黑人学院和大学，少数民族服务机构，和占主导地位的白色机构）使用焦点小组，深入访谈，和在线定量调查。这项研究的结果不仅有助于对人际攻击的实施和受害的科学理解，而且还强调了理解影响人际攻击参与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，并通过评估被认为值得支持使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.