DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS FOR INNER-CITY AGGRESSIVE GIRLS

描述（改编自研究者摘要）：女性之间的欺凌， 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。对别人有攻击性的年轻女孩 经历了一系列的外部化，内部化和社会困难。 此应用程序描述了一个项目，以研究女孩的同龄人进入出价和社会 认知在一个自由发挥的环境作为一种策略，学习如何 对处于危险之中的年轻女孩进行干预。此外，年轻人的同行进入出价 有攻击性的女孩在研究中尤其重要 记录了年轻女性建立友谊的基础， 友谊，亲密，和包容，所有这些都是强调当一个女孩 尝试加入现有的对等体组。 在拟议的研究中，三年级和四年级的女性参加六个公共 在城市，文化多样性，贫困地区的小学， 费城将有资格参加。主要研究者 设计了一种创新的视频方法来检查行为， 社会认知处理的两个亚组的市中心的攻击性女孩， 一组没有攻击性的女孩的对等项部分的结果 这项研究将被用来测试一个社会的功效， 技能/社会认知团体干预的积极女孩， 与标准治疗相比。主要研究者指出， 该计划将是第一个设计以学校为基础的干预计划， 关系攻击性女孩（通过以下方式表现出攻击性的女孩） 通过八卦、冷落他人或忽视他人来操纵关系 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).