Friends' Common Targets for, and Sources of, Aggression

描述（由候选人提供）：拟议的研究将探索早期青少年朋友在攻击目标和受害来源方面的相似性的潜在来源。具体而言，社会化，选择和差分稳定的过程进行检查。本研究建立在以前的研究记录这些过程中占朋友的相似性，在侵略和受害纳入一个新兴的概念化的侵略作为一个二元现象。这一概念化建议将攻击行为作为攻击者和受害者之间的关系进行研究，经验证据支持这种方法的实用性。拟议中的研究探讨了友谊的影响，并受到影响，参与这些二元侵略者-受害者关系的方式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by candidate): The proposed research will explore potential sources of early adolescent friends' similarity in targets of aggression and sources of victimization. Specifically, processes of socialization, selection, and differential stability are examined. This research builds upon previous research documenting these processes in accounting for friends' similarity in aggression and victimization by incorporating an emerging conceptualization of aggression as a dyadic phenomenon. This conceptualization advises that aggressive behavior be studied as a relationship between the aggressor and the victim, and empirical evidence supports the utility of such an approach. The proposed research examines the ways in which friendships influence, and are influenced by, involvement in these dyadic aggressor-victim relationships.