Friends' Common Targets for, and Sources of, Aggression

描述(由候选人提供)：拟议的研究将探索青少年早期朋友在攻击目标和受害来源方面相似的潜在来源。具体地说，考察了社会化、选择和差异稳定性的过程。这项研究建立在以前的研究的基础上，通过将攻击性作为一种二元现象纳入新兴的概念，记录了这些过程在解释朋友的攻击和受害方面的相似性。这种概念化建议将攻击性行为作为侵略者和受害者之间的关系来研究，经验证据支持这种方法的实用性。这项拟议的研究考察了友谊如何影响这些二元侵略者-受害者关系，并受到这些关系的影响。

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.