SOCIAL COGNITIVE MEDIATORS OF DATING VIOLENCE

30%的婚姻和约会关系中发生暴力， 所涉男女的身心健康。 了解这一代价高昂且普遍存在的问题的原因至关重要 制定预防性干预措施。虽然有 大量证据表明儿童时期遭受家庭暴力， 忽视与暴力在浪漫的关系，其机制 该协会尚未成立。关于种族灭绝后果的研究 儿童虐待，表明社会认知因素可能发挥作用， 重要的调解作用。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，倾向于解释拒绝的威胁 消极或模糊的社会遭遇，以及责备的倾向， 一种倾向于通过关注谁应该受到责备来应对问题 而不是解决问题。我们将测试以下内容 3项研究中的假设：（一）对拒绝和指责敏感 参与暴力行为的脆弱性因素 通过接触挑剔的、拒绝的父母， 在暴力或忽视家庭;（二）拒绝敏感性增加 易受关系暴力的影响， 选择约会对象和约会关系中的行为; (iii)自责会促进攻击性，而自责会促进 （四）暴力行为是否发生在浪漫的 来自问题家庭的人的关系取决于他们的伴侣的 特色 研究1将在一项为期4年的前瞻性研究中测试中介模型， 大学一年级学生的恋爱关系对以前 遭受父母暴力、忽视和拒绝， 拒绝、责备取向和其他理论上相关的 个性变量将在6个月的时间间隔内进行接触， 跟踪约会暴力的经历研究2将评估行为是否 在实验室约会伙伴之间的互动过程中观察到 拒绝敏感性和约会暴力之间的联系， 对于拒绝敏感的个人，此链接由他们的 合作伙伴的素质。研究3测试了该模型对 非大学生假设将通过进行 纵向数据分析使用结构方程模型与关键 定义为潜在变量的概念。

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.