Social Aggression: Origins, Development, and Outcomes

描述(申请人提供)：当儿童进行社交攻击时，他们通过损害朋友关系和社会地位来伤害同伴。社交攻击性包括社会排斥(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)申请寻求资金，以支持Marion K.Underwood博士更全面地研究社会攻击的早期发展根源，以及与参与社会攻击和成为社会攻击受害者相关的心理社会后果。安德伍德博士是一名儿童临床心理学家，在儿童中期和青少年年龄段的社会攻击性方面拥有专业知识，并有使用各种方法(创造性观察技术、社会计量提名以及家长、教师和自我报告问卷)测量社会攻击性的经验。她是一个纵向项目的首席调查员，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，以调查社会攻击性的发育起源和结果。短期的职业发展目标包括增强量化技能以最大限度地分析这些纵向数据，增加学前发展的知识，并建立一个合作团队，从2-3岁的儿童开始对社会攻击性进行纵向研究。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，确定减少社会攻击是否有助于防止外在性障碍、内在性问题、人格障碍和饮食障碍的发展，并促进积极的适应和成就。对社会攻击性如何发展和实时展开的仔细分析，将指导预防和干预方案的未来发展，以减少女孩和男孩之间的社会攻击性。

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.