Social Aggression: Origins, Development, and Outcomes

描述（由申请人提供）：当儿童从事社会侵略，他们伤害同龄人破坏他们的友谊和社会地位。社会攻击包括社会排斥（语言和非语言）、友谊操纵和恶意八卦等行为。这个独立科学家奖（K 02）申请寻求资金支持马里恩K。安德伍德博士，更全面地调查社会攻击的早期发展起源以及与参与和被社会攻击所伤害相关的心理社会后果。安德伍德博士是一位儿童临床心理学家，擅长研究儿童中期和青少年的社会攻击行为，并有使用各种方法（创造性观察技术、社会计量提名、父母、教师和自我报告问卷）测量社会攻击行为的经验。她是一个纵向项目的首席研究员，该项目目前已进入第三年，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增强量化技能，以最大限度地利用这些纵向数据进行分析，增加对学前发展的了解，并建立一个合作团队，从2-3岁的儿童开始进行社会攻击的纵向研究。这项研究计划的长期目标是更好地了解社会攻击在女孩和男孩精神病理学发展中的作用，以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，并促进积极的调整和成就。仔细分析社会攻击性如何在发展过程中和真实的时间内展开，将指导未来制定预防和干预方案，以减少女孩和男孩的社会攻击性。

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.