School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Aggress Behav. 2018 Jan;44(1):98-108. doi: 10.1002/ab.21734. Epub 2017 Sep 28.
Traditionally, assessments of social information processing and associated emotional distress have used children's self-reports. We posit that additional informants, such as parents, may help illuminate the association between these variables and aggression. Our sample was composed of 222 dual-parent families of fourth-grade children (103 boys; 119 girls). Children responded to instrumental and relational provocations and their parents read the same scenarios and responded the way they believed their child would. Peer nominations provided aggression scores. We explored how means differed by provocation type (relational vs. instrumental), informant (mother, father, and child), and gender of child. The results also suggest that parent perceptions may effectively predict children's participation in relational and physical aggression, above and beyond the child's self-reports.
传统上，对社会信息处理和相关情绪困扰的评估都是使用儿童的自我报告。我们假设，其他信息提供者，如父母，可能有助于阐明这些变量与攻击性之间的关系。我们的样本由 222 个有四年级孩子的双亲家庭组成（103 名男孩；119 名女孩）。孩子们对工具性和关系性的挑衅做出了回应，而他们的父母则阅读了相同的场景，并以他们认为自己孩子会的方式做出了回应。同伴提名提供了攻击性得分。我们探讨了在挑衅类型（关系性和工具性）、信息提供者（母亲、父亲和孩子）以及孩子的性别方面，平均值的差异。结果还表明，父母的看法可以有效地预测孩子参与关系性和身体攻击性的行为，这超出了孩子的自我报告。
