Social Aggression: Origins, Development, and Outcomes

描述（由申请人提供）：当孩子参与社会攻击时，他们会通过破坏他们的友谊和社会地位来伤害同龄人。社会攻击包括社会排斥（语言和非语言）、操纵友谊和恶意八卦等行为。这项独立科学家奖（K02）申请寻求资助，以支持Marion K. Underwood博士更全面地研究社会攻击的早期发展起源以及与参与和成为社会攻击受害者相关的社会心理结果。安德伍德博士是一名儿童临床心理学家，专长于儿童中期和青少年年龄段的社会攻击，并在使用各种方法（创造性观察技术、社会计量提名、父母、教师和自我报告问卷）测量社会攻击方面拥有丰富的经验。她是一项纵向项目的首席研究员，该项目目前已进入第三个年头，对281名9 -14岁的儿童进行了抽样调查，以调查社会攻击的发展起源和结果。短期职业发展目标包括提高定量分析这些纵向数据的能力，最大限度地利用这些数据，增加学前发展的知识，建立一个合作团队，从2-3岁儿童开始进行社会攻击的纵向研究。本研究的长期目标是更好地了解社会攻击在男孩和女孩精神病理发展中的作用，确定减少社会攻击是否有助于预防外化障碍、内化问题、人格障碍和饮食障碍的发展，并促进积极的适应和成就。仔细分析社会攻击是如何发展和实时展开的，将指导未来预防和干预计划的发展，以减少女孩和男孩的社会攻击。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): When children engage in social aggression, they hurt peers by damaging their friendships and social status. Social aggression includes behaviors such as social exclusion (verbal and non-verbal), friendship manipulation, and malicious gossip. This Independent Scientist Award (K02) application seeks funding to support Marion K. Underwood, Ph.D., to investigate more fully the early developmental origins of social aggression and the psychosocial outcomes associated with engaging and being victimized by social aggression. Dr. Underwood is a child clinical psychologist with expertise in social aggression in the middle childhood and adolescent age ranges and experience in measuring social aggression using a variety of methods (creative observational techniques, sociometric nominations, and parent-, teacher-, and self-report questionnaires). She is the Principal Investigator of a longitudinal project currently in its third year, following a sample of 281 children from ages 9 -14 to investigate developmental origins and outcomes of social aggression. Short-term career development goals include augmenting quantitative skills to analyze these longitudinal data to maximum advantage, and increasing knowledge of preschool development and building a collaborative team to conduct a longitudinal study of social aggression beginning with 2-3-year-old children. The long-term goal of this research program is to understand better the role of social aggression in the development of psychopathology in girls and boys, to determine whether reducing social aggression might be helpful in preventing the development of externalizing disorders, internalizing problems, personality disorders, and eating disorders, and in promoting positive adjustment and achievement. Careful analyses of how social aggression unfolds, both developmentally and in real time, will guide the future development of prevention and intervention programs to reduce social aggression among girls and boys.