Relational aggression, victimization, and adjustment during middle childhood

描述（由申请人提供）：攻击和受害都是社会心理适应问题和未来精神病理学的风险因素。儿童攻击和受害的发展过程的研究是至关重要的，以确定儿童最有可能在未来的精神病理学（Cummings，Iannotti，& Zahn-Waxler，1989; Keenan & Shaw，1994）。在儿童中，攻击和受害的亚型（即，身体和关系）已经被广泛研究，发展精神病理学家已经记录了这些行为与外化和内化问题之间的联系（道奇，Coie & Lynam，2006;克里克，奥斯特罗夫，& Kawabata，2007）。同伴关系研究人员已经揭示了关系攻击和受害与敌对归因偏见，孤独和抑郁症状之间的强大关联（Crick等人，2007年）。然而，到目前为止，这些协会一直是并行的，可能的发展机制尚未在前瞻性设计中进行研究。因此，拟议的研究将进行二次数据分析的NICHD研究的早期儿童保育和青年发展，以测试三个假设。我们假设，敌对归因偏见的关系挑衅，孤独和抑郁的影响与独立的部分中介关系攻击和关系受害之间的前瞻性协会。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究的目的是更好地了解可能与男孩和女孩的适应不良发展轨迹相关的行为类型。拟议的研究将使该领域更接近了解促进同伴受害的发展机制，并将为儿童中期预防和干预工作的发展提供影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aggression and victimization are both risk factors for social-psychological adjustment problems and future psychopathology. The study of the developmental course of aggression and victimization among children is crucial for identifying children most at risk for future psychopathology (Cummings, Iannotti, & Zahn-Waxler, 1989; Keenan & Shaw, 1994). In children, subtypes of aggression and victimization (i.e., physical and relational) have been extensively studied and developmental psychopathologists have documented links between these behaviors and both externalizing and internalizing problems (Dodge, Coie & Lynam, 2006; Crick, Ostrov, & Kawabata, 2007). Peer relations researchers have revealed robust associations between relational aggression and victimization and hostile attribution biases, loneliness, and depressive symptoms (Crick et al., 2007). However, to date, these associations have been concurrent and possible developmental mechanisms have not been studied in prospective designs. Therefore, the proposed study will conduct a secondary data analysis of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to test three hypotheses. We hypothesize that hostile attribution biases for relational provocations, loneliness and depressed affect with independently partially mediate the prospective associations between relational aggression and relational victimization. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of this research is to better understand the types of behaviors that may be associated with maladaptive developmental trajectories for both boys and girls. The proposed research will permit the field to move closer toward understanding the developmental mechanisms that promote peer victimization and will provide implications for the development of prevention and intervention efforts during middle childhood.