Lee Hae Yeon, Yeager David S
University of Texas at Austin.
Soc Dev. 2020 Feb;29(1):273-289. doi: 10.1111/sode.12393. Epub 2019 Jul 9.
The present research proposed that one social-cognitive root of adolescents' willingness to use relational aggression to maintain social status in high school is an , which is the belief that people's social status-relevant traits are fixed and cannot change. Aggregated data from three studies (=882) showed that first-year high school adolescents in the U.S. who endorsed more of an entity theory were more likely to show cognitive and motivational vigilance to social status, in terms of judgments on a novel social categorization task and reports of goals related to demonstrating social status to peers. Those with an entity theory then showed a greater willingness to use relational aggression, as measured by retrospective self-reports, responses to a hypothetical scenario, and a behavioral choice task. Discussion centers on theoretical and translational implications of the proposed model and of the novel measures.
本研究提出，青少年在高中阶段愿意使用关系攻击来维持社会地位的一个社会认知根源是一种实体理论，即认为与人们社会地位相关的特质是固定不变的。来自三项研究（N = 882）的汇总数据表明，在美国，认同实体理论程度更高的高一青少年，在一项新的社会分类任务的判断以及向同龄人展示社会地位相关目标的报告方面，更有可能表现出对社会地位的认知和动机警惕。通过回顾性自我报告、对假设情景的反应以及一项行为选择任务来衡量，那些持有实体理论的青少年随后表现出更愿意使用关系攻击。讨论集中在所提出模型以及新测量方法的理论和转化意义上。
