Social Aggression: Growth, Outcomes, and Digital Communication

 描述(申请人提供)：研究数字交流提供了一扇了解青少年同伴文化秘密世界的窗口(Greenfield&Yan，2006，p.392)。根据大型全国性调查，80%的在线青少年(12-17岁)使用社交网站(Madden等人，2013年)。12-17岁的年轻人报告平均每天发送60条短信(Lenhart，2012)，许多人声称，如果他们不能使用短信，他们的社交生活将结束或严重受损(54%的女孩和40%的男孩，CTIA，2008年)。我们正在进行的纵向研究NICHD R01 HD060995，社会攻击：成长和结果，将调查数字交流中的社会攻击如何展开并与心理社会适应有关，在童年中期观察到的亲子关系和儿童朋友关系的质量如何预测青春期后期线上和线下的社会攻击发展，以及数字交流如何更广泛地与青少年的适应有关。这项不同样本的纵向研究使用多种测量和告密者，考察了10年来的社会攻击性和受害情况，包括从10岁到13岁每年观察父母与孩子和孩子与朋友之间的互动，以及包含参与者短信交流(4.5年)和Facebook交流(2年)内容的档案。这项研究提供了难得的机会来考察青少年从青春期早期到青春期后期的线下关系、社会情绪适应和数字交流之间的关系。此应用程序请求支持执行最先进的统计分析、对我们的数字通信数据执行附加编码、调查 在社会攻击性和数字通信方面可能存在的种族差异，并探讨是否有可能取消对大型档案的识别，以便与其他调查人员共享。由于关系和适应的质量每年都由多个信息者进行评估，我们将能够使用自回归潜在轨迹和成长混合模型来调查社会攻击(和受害)和适应如何在儿童中期到青春期后期的年龄范围内相互作用。然后，使用二元增长曲线和一对多设计的分析将检验在童年中期与父母和朋友的关系动态如何与社会攻击和受害的长期发展有关。为了探索数字交流中的其他特定社交过程(例如，偏离常态的同伴交谈、共同思考、亲社会行为和提供支持)如何与心理适应有关，我们建议使用语言解释字数统计(LIWC)软件和我们的细粒度微编码系统对数字交流进行额外编码。我们将咨询一位数据匿名化专家，探索取消识别大量数字通信档案的可能性，以便其他调查人员可以研究它。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Studying digital communication provides "a window into the secret world of adolescent peer culture" (Greenfield & Yan, 2006, p. 392). According to large, national surveys, 80% of online teens (12 - 17) use social networking sites (Madden et al., 2013). Youth ages 12 - 17 report sending an average of 60 text messages per day (Lenhart, 2012), and many claim that their social lives would end or be seriously impaired if they could not have access to text messaging (54% of girls and 40% of boys, CTIA, 2008). This proposed renewal of our ongoing longitudinal study, NICHD R01 HD060995, Social Aggression: Growth and Outcomes, will investigate how social aggression unfolds in digital communication and relates to psychosocial adjustment, how qualities of parent-child and child-friend relationships observed in middle childhood predict the development of social aggression online and offline through late adolescence, and how digital communication relates to adolescents' adjustment more broadly. This longitudinal study of a diverse sample examines social aggression and victimization across 10 years with multiple measures and informants, including observations of parent-child and child-friend interactions yearly from ages 10 - 13 and archives containing the content of participants' text messaging communication (for 4.5 years) and Facebook communication (for 2 years). This study offers the rare opportunity to examine relations among adolescents' offline relationships, socioemotional adjustment, and digital communication, from early through late adolescence. This application requests support for conducting state-of-the-art statistical analyses, performing additional coding of our digital communication data, investigating possible ethnic differences in social aggression and digital communication, and exploring the possibility of de-identifying the large archive so that it can be shared with other investigators. Because qualities of relationships and adjustment were assessed yearly by multiple informants, we will be able to investigate how social aggression (and victimization) and adjustment contribute to each other across the age range of middle childhood through late adolescence using autoregressive latent trajectory and growth-mixture models. Analyses using the dyadic growth curve and the one-with-many design will then examine how relationship dynamics with parents and friends in middle childhood relate to the long-term development of social aggression and victimization. To explore how other specific social processes (e.g., deviant peer talk, co-rumination, prosocial behavior, and provisions of support) in digital communication might relate to psychological adjustment, we propose to conduct additional coding of digital communication, using both Linguistic Interpretive Word Count (LIWC) software and our fine-grained microcoding systems. We will consult with an expert in data anonymization to explore possibilities for de- identifying the large archive of digital communication so that it could studid by other investigators.