Aggression and Social Cognitions in Urban Youth

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议研究的目的是扩展 我们对攻击性和犯罪发展过程的认识 来自不同种族背景的城市男孩和女孩生活在 贫穷、暴力和犯罪率高的社区。这 研究将建立在现有的发展数据库的科学价值的基础上 采用加速纵向设计，涉及八个连续 一群孩子。这些孩子最初参与这项研究是在 他们在二年级或五年级，他们被随机分配到一个 干预或无治疗控制条件。此应用程序寻求 用于分析1017名获得父母许可的儿童的数据的资金 参与并被分配到控制条件下。一个特别的焦点 这项研究的目的是考察两者之间的演变和相互关系 社会认知变量、邻里暴力、同伴影响以及 攻击性/犯罪行为。除了检查轨迹和 攻击性、犯罪和社会认知的成长曲线，这些数据将 允许审查侵略过程和 犯罪行为受到特定背景因素的影响，包括 邻里暴力、同伴攻击性行为、同伴社会认知、 和同伴关系，以及如何发展攻击性和 犯罪会影响一些背景因素(例如，反社会的选择 对等方)在事务过程中。拟议的一套研究可以提供一个 攻击性心理调查与犯罪心理调查之间的桥梁 关注社会认知和早期同伴关系因素(例如，同伴 拒绝)和同伴对青少年影响的社会学研究 青少年犯罪集中在反社会同伴的行为和信仰上。 一群人。因为数据集包括来自不同种族的男孩和女孩 群体，将有可能检查这些个人和背景 影响因性别和种族而有系统地不同。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of the proposed study is to extend our knowledge about the developmental course of aggression and delinquency among urban boys and girls from different ethnic backgrounds living in communities characterized by high rates of poverty, violence and crime. This study will build on the scientific value of an existing, developmental database employing an accelerated longitudinal design and involving eight successive cohorts of children. These children initially participated in the study when they were in the 2nd or 5th grade and they were randomly assigned to either an intervention or a no treatment control condition. This application seeks funding to analyze data on the 1017 children who received parental permission to participate and were assigned to the control condition. A particular focus of this research is to examine the evolving and reciprocal relations between social-cognitive variables, neighborhood violence, peer influences, and aggressive/delinquent behavior. In addition to examining trajectories and growth curves of aggression, delinquency and social cognition, these data will permit examination of the extent to which the course of aggression and delinquency is influenced specifically by contextual factors including neighborhood violence, peers' aggressive behavior, peers' social cognitions, and peer relations and how developing trajectories of aggression and delinquency influence some contextual factors (e.g., selections of antisocial peers) in a transactional process. The proposed set of studies can provide a bridge between psychological investigations of aggression and delinquency focused on social-cognitive and early peer relationship factors (e.g., peer rejection) and sociological studies of peer influences on adolescent delinquency focused on both the behavior and beliefs of the antisocial peer group. Because the data set includes both boys and girls from different ethnic groups, it will be possible to examine whether these individuals and contextual influences vary systematically by gender and ethnicity.