DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS FOR INNER-CITY AGGRESSIVE GIRLS

描述(改编自调查人员摘要)：女性欺凌， 曾经被认为是相对罕见的，最近被认为是一种 非常严重的问题。对别人咄咄逼人的年轻女孩 经历一系列外化、内化和社交困难。 这个应用程序描述了一个研究女孩的同龄人出价和社交的项目 在自由游戏环境中的认知，作为学习如何 对处于危险中的年轻女孩进行干预。此外，同行竞标YONG 根据研究，攻击性女孩在调查中尤为重要 记录年轻女性的友谊是建立在友谊基础上的，并且非常珍视 陪伴、亲密和包容，当一个女孩 尝试加入现有的对等组。 在这项拟议的研究中，三年级和四年级的女性参加了六个公共场合 城市、文化多元、贫困地区的小学 费城，将有资格参加。首席调查员已经 设计了一种创新的视频方法来检查行为和 内城攻击性女孩和非攻击性女孩的社会认知加工 一组没有攻击性的女孩作为对照组。来自的对等条目部分的结果 这项研究将被用来测试社交媒体的效果 对攻击性女孩进行技能/社会认知团体干预 与标准治疗相比。首席调查员指出，这一点 该项目将是第一个设计以学校为基础的干预项目 恋爱攻击性女孩(通过以下方式表现出攻击性的女孩 通过八卦、排挤他人或忽视来操纵人际关系 其他)。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): Bullying among females, once thought to be relatively rare, has been recently recognized as an extremely serious problem. Young girls who are aggressive towards others experience a host of externalizing, internalizing, and social difficulties. This application describes a project to study girls' peer entry bids and social cognitions in a free-play environment as a strategy for learning how to intervene with at-risk young girls. Further, peer entry bids of young aggressive girls are especially important to investigate given research documenting that young females base friendships on and greatly value companionship, intimacy, and inclusion, all of which are emphasized when a girl attempts to join an existing group of peers. In the proposed study, 3rd and 4th grade females attending six public elementary schools in an urban, culturally diverse, disadvantaged area of Philadelphia, would be eligible to participate. The Principal Investigator has designed an innovative video methodology to examine the behavior and social-cognitive processing of two subgroups of inner-city aggressive girls and a control group of non-aggressive girls. Results from the peer entry portion of the study would be used to test the efficacy of a social skills/social-cognitive group intervention for aggressive girls that would be compared to a standard treatment. The Principal Investigator notes that this project would be the first to design a school-based intervention project for relationally aggressive girls (girls who display their aggression by manipulating relationships through gossiping, leaving others out, or ignoring others).