Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
University Hospital Charité Berlin, Germany.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Feb;36(3-4):1068-1091. doi: 10.1177/0886260517739890. Epub 2017 Nov 8.
Research suggests that aggressive individuals exhibit a strong tendency to attribute hostile intent to the behavior of others when confronted with an ambiguous social situation. The vignettes method has become a standard procedure to assess hostile attributions. Vignettes represent incomplete ambiguous social stories, in which the subjects experience a negative outcome and are asked to attribute intent to the provocateur's action. This article explores the ways in which subjects perceive ambiguous social situations and other people's intentions, their tendency to refer negative outcome to oneself, and the components defining hostility in the interpersonal relationships. The sample consisted of male adolescent violent offenders ( = 45) recruited from the Social Therapy Department of the German correctional facility for juvenile offenders in Berlin. All offenders were incarcerated for a violent or sexual crime and were currently undergoing individual and group psychotherapy. The five hypothetical vignettes used in this study were originally designed to assess hostile attributions in both institutional and noninstitutional social situations. Participants' responses were analyzed using thematic analysis. Thematic analysis revealed three key themes regarding the social perception-positive, negative, and neutral-and two themes regarding the components of hostility-provocateur-related personality features and relationship type. Although the vignettes were originally developed to detect hostility-prone perception bias, they seem to be able to reveal a wider set of different attributions of intent, both positive and negative. Thus, vignettes are not limited to assessment of hostility specifically. They much rather seem to be a measure which is sensitive to diverse attributions of intent in general. The diagnostic qualities of the vignettes, their area of application, limitations of the study, and future perspective are discussed.
研究表明，在面对模棱两可的社会情境时，攻击性个体表现出强烈的倾向，将敌意意图归因于他人的行为。情景片段法已成为评估敌意归因的标准程序。情景片段代表不完整的模棱两可的社会故事，其中主体经历负面结果，并被要求将意图归因于挑衅者的行为。本文探讨了主体感知模棱两可的社会情境和他人意图的方式、将负面结果归因于自身的倾向，以及定义人际关系中敌意的成分。样本包括来自柏林德国青少年罪犯教养所社会治疗部门的男性青少年暴力罪犯（n=45）。所有罪犯都因暴力或性犯罪而被监禁，目前正在接受个体和团体心理治疗。本研究中使用的五个假设情景片段最初旨在评估机构和非机构社会情境中的敌意归因。使用主题分析对参与者的反应进行分析。主题分析揭示了关于社会感知的三个关键主题——积极、消极和中立，以及关于敌意成分的两个主题——挑衅者相关的个性特征和关系类型。尽管情景片段最初是为了检测易产生敌意的感知偏见而开发的，但它们似乎能够揭示更广泛的意图归因，包括积极和消极的归因。因此，情景片段不仅限于专门评估敌意。它们更像是一种能够敏感地测量一般意图归因的方法。讨论了情景片段的诊断质量、应用领域、研究的局限性和未来展望。
