SOCIAL COGNITIVE MEDIATORS OF DATING VIOLENCE

暴力发生在30%的婚姻和约会关系中，危及 参与调查的男女的心理和身体健康。 了解这个代价高昂且普遍存在的问题的原因是至关重要的 用于制定预防性干预措施。尽管有一种 大量证据表明，儿童时期接触家庭暴力和 浪漫关系中的忽视和暴力，背后的机制 这个协会还没有成立。关于网络安全问题后果的研究 虐待儿童，表明社会认知因素可能在 发挥重要的调停作用。我们寻求资金来测试这种可能性。 我们的概念模型确定了两个潜在的社会认知中介： 对拒绝的敏感度，一种解释拒绝威胁的倾向 变成消极的或模棱两可的社交接触，以及责备的取向， 通过关注谁该受责备来应对问题的倾向 而不是解决问题。我们将测试以下内容 3项研究中的假设：(I)对拒绝和指责敏感 以参与暴力的脆弱性因素为导向 关系，并通过接触挑剔、拒绝的父母而发展 在暴力或忽视家庭中；(2)拒绝敏感度增加 易受关系暴力的影响 约会对象的选择和约会关系中的行为； (三)责备他人助长攻击性，自责助长攻击性 容忍侵略；(四)暴力是否发生在浪漫的 来自问题家庭的人的关系取决于他们的伴侣 特点。 研究1将在一项为期4年的前瞻性研究中测试中介模型 大学一年级学生的约会关系。对之前的评估 暴露在父母的暴力、忽视和拒绝中，对 拒绝、责备取向和其他理论上的相关 个性变量之后将每隔6个月联系一次 追踪约会暴力的经历。研究2将评估行为是否 在约会对象之间的实验室互动中观察到的 拒绝敏感性和约会暴力之间的联系，以及是否， 对于对拒绝敏感的个人，此链接由他们的 合作伙伴的品质。研究3测试了该模型对 非大学人口。假说将通过进行 用带关键字的结构方程模型分析纵向数据 被指定为潜在变量的概念。

Violence occurs in 30% of marital and dating relationships, compromising the mental and physical health of the men and women involved. Understanding the causes of this costly and prevalent problem is essential for the development of preventive interventions. Although there is a wealth of evidence linking childhood exposure to family violence and neglect with violence in romantic relationships, the mechanisms underlying this association aid not yet established. Research on the consequences of child maltreatment, suggests that social-cognitive factors may play an important mediational role. We seek funds to test this possibility. Our conceptual model identifies two potential social-cognitive mediators: sensitivity to rejection, a disposition to interpret threats of rejection into negative or ambiguous social encounters, and a blaming orientation, a disposition to respond to problems by focussing on who is to blame rather than on resolving the problem. We will test the following hypotheses in 3 studies: (i) Being sensitive to rejection and blame oriented are vulnerability factors for involvement in violent relationships and develop through exposure to critical, rejecting parents in violent or neglecting families; (ii) Rejection sensitivity increases vulnerability to relationship violence both through its impact on the selection of dating partners and on behavior in dating relationships; (iii) Other-blame facilitates aggression while self-blame fosters tolerance of aggression; (iv) Whether violence occurs in the romantic relationships of persons from troubled families depends on their partner's characteristics. Study 1 will test the mediational model in a 4-year prospective study of dating relationships in first -year college students. Assessments of prior exposure to parental violence, neglect and rejection, sensitivity to rejection, blaming orientation and other theoretically-relevant personality variables will be followed by contacts at 6 month intervals to track experiences of dating violence. Study 2 will assess whether behavior observed during laboratory interactions between dating partners mediates the link between rejection sensitivity and dating violence and whether, for rejection sensitive individuals, this link is modified by their partner's qualities. Study 3 tests the model's generalizability to the noncollege population. Hypotheses will be tested by conducting longitudinal data analyses using structural equation models with key concepts specified as latent variables.