Dunn Courtney B, Pittman Sarah K, Mehari Krista R, Titchner Denicia, Farrell Albert D
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.
J Early Adolesc. 2022;42(5):647-670. doi: 10.1177/02724316211064516.
Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents' goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants ( = 160; = 12.7, 53% female) were 7th graders from two urban and one rural middle school. On average, participants identified 2.5 goals for each situation. Qualitative analysis using a grounded theory approach identified nine themes representing the goals generated by participants: and . Quantitative analysis indicated that female participants identified more goals than male participants, but there were few differences in their types of goals. There were few differences across school sites. The findings highlight the variety of social goals specific to the developmental period of early adolescence.
目标的确定是一个关键的社会认知过程，它指导着青少年在社会冲突中是采取攻击性行为还是非暴力行为。本研究调查了青少年早期针对涉及亲密朋友和同伴的假设性社会冲突情境所设定的目标。参与者（n = 160；M = 12.7岁，53%为女性）是来自两所城市中学和一所农村中学的七年级学生。平均而言，参与者为每种情境确定了2.5个目标。采用扎根理论方法进行的定性分析确定了九个主题，代表了参与者设定的目标：以及。定量分析表明，女性参与者确定的目标比男性参与者多，但在目标类型上几乎没有差异。不同学校地点之间几乎没有差异。研究结果突出了青少年早期发育阶段特有的各种社会目标。
