School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Department of Psychological Sciences.
Dev Psychol. 2020 Jan;56(1):138-152. doi: 10.1037/dev0000848. Epub 2019 Oct 31.
This study examined whether adolescents' social aggression is socialized through exposure to peers' socially aggressive text messaging. Using data on the socially aggressive content of text messages that 221 participants ( = 15.02 years; 46.7% female) sent to and received from peers, and teacher ratings of participants' in-person social aggression, this study found that exposure to peers' socially aggressive texting about out-dyad peers predicted positive changes in adolescents' text-based and in-person social aggression. Gender differences were examined, and results were mixed. In ninth grade, girls sent more socially aggressive text messages than boys; however, by 10th grade, these differences disappeared. Gender differences in adolescents' in-person social aggression and their exposure to peers' socially aggressive texting were nonsignificant at both time points. There was no evidence of gender differences in the links between exposure to peers' socially aggressive texting and adolescents' socially aggressive texting. However, marginal differences were found in the associations between exposure to peers' socially aggressive texting and adolescents' in-person social aggression. Results suggest that texting provides an additional platform for peer socialization of adolescents' social aggression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究考察了青少年的社会攻击性是否通过接触同伴具有社会攻击性的短信而得到社会化。该研究使用了 221 名参与者（年龄为 15.02 岁，女性占 46.7%）向同伴发送和接收的具有社会攻击性的短信内容，以及教师对参与者当面社会攻击性的评价数据，发现接触同伴关于非二人组同伴的具有社会攻击性的短信内容，预测了青少年基于文本的和当面的社会攻击性的积极变化。研究还考察了性别差异，结果喜忧参半。在九年级，女孩发送的具有社会攻击性的短信比男孩多；然而，到了 10 年级，这种差异就消失了。在两个时间点，青少年当面社会攻击性以及他们接触同伴具有社会攻击性的短信内容方面的性别差异均不显著。在接触同伴具有社会攻击性的短信内容与青少年具有社会攻击性的短信内容之间的联系方面，没有证据表明存在性别差异。然而，在接触同伴具有社会攻击性的短信内容与青少年当面社会攻击性之间的关联方面，发现了略有差异。研究结果表明，短信为青少年社会攻击性的同伴社会化提供了另一个平台。（APA，2019）
