Yamamoto Nozomi, Ohigashi Sho, Todo Naoya, Moriguchi Yusuke
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Japan.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2025 Aug;56(4):1065-1073. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01623-9. Epub 2023 Nov 11.
Previous studies showed that hostile intent attribution (HIA) was significantly correlated with and contributed to the development of aggression in children. Studies that directly examined the factors that explained the relationship between HIA and aggression are lacking. Hence, this study investigated (a) the correlation between HIA and aggression and (b) the variables (hyperactivity, prosociality, and collaborative problem-solving) that mediated the relationship between HIA and aggression in Japanese children aged 4-9 years. The participants were 180 children and their caregivers. First, the caregivers reported their children's aggression, hyperactivity, prosociality, and collaborative problem-solving through questionnaires. Next, the children worked on an HIA task. The results showed a weak positive correlation between HIA and aggression. Furthermore, significant indirect effects were observed among all the mediation models. The model that contained all three mediators yielded the smallest Akaike Information Criterion value. In this model, the indirect effect was significant only for the path with hyperactivity as the mediator. These findings provide several suggestions for revealing the mechanism of the relationship between HIA and aggression during childhood. Notably, children's hyperactivity was suggested to play a particularly important role in the relationship between HIA and aggression.
先前的研究表明，敌意意图归因（HIA）与儿童攻击行为的发展显著相关，并对其产生影响。缺乏直接考察解释HIA与攻击行为之间关系的因素的研究。因此，本研究调查了（a）4至9岁日本儿童中HIA与攻击行为之间的相关性，以及（b）介导HIA与攻击行为之间关系的变量（多动、亲社会行为和合作解决问题能力）。参与者为180名儿童及其照顾者。首先，照顾者通过问卷报告他们孩子的攻击行为、多动、亲社会行为和合作解决问题能力。接下来，孩子们完成一项HIA任务。结果显示HIA与攻击行为之间存在微弱的正相关。此外，在所有中介模型中均观察到显著的间接效应。包含所有三个中介变量的模型产生了最小的赤池信息准则值。在该模型中，仅以多动为中介变量的路径的间接效应显著。这些发现为揭示儿童期HIA与攻击行为之间关系的机制提供了若干建议。值得注意的是，儿童的多动在HIA与攻击行为的关系中被认为起着特别重要的作用。
