INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND MODERATORS OF ADJUSTMENT

个体差异和调节因素

基本信息

批准号：
2249431
负责人：
WILLIAM G GRAZIANO
金额：
$ 11.53万
依托单位：
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
1994
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1994-08-01 至 1998-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

An interlocking, multimethod program of research will examine the origins and maintenance of individual differences in agreeableness in two minorities (Mexican-Americans & African American) and majority children and adolescents, and its links to adjustment. Agreeableness materializes with many different theoretical labels, but this dimension appears to be a general dispositional summary for processes of social valuations and attraction. Socialization patterns, both within cultures and between cultures, may be systematically related to its development, but there is little prospective scientific work on validity of assessments or underlying processes. Our goal is to conduct basic, process-oriented, foundational work upon which later work can build. The first research module will focus on reliability and validity, using a computer assessment methodology to obtain self-rating from Mexican-American, African American, and majority children and adolescents. This evidence will be compared with adult and peering ratings of the same children for the convergent validity of agreeableness assessments. In the second module, we will u se a prospective longitudinal design to follow the children and adolescents for evidence on the stability and predictive validity of agreeableness during periods of life transition. Agreeableness may moderate patterns and rates of adaptation to new social environments. The third module focuses on specific processes linking agreeableness to emotional self-regulation, communication, social cognition, and interpersonal interaction. The three modules are designed to build basic empirical bridges from personality toward developmental and social psychological approaches to adaptation in social environments.

一个互锁的多方法研究计划将检查起源并维持两个人的个体差异少数民族（墨西哥裔美国人和非裔美国人）和多数儿童和青少年及其与调整的联系。令人愉快的实现具有许多不同的理论标签，但是这个维度似乎是社会估值流程的一般性摘要和吸引力。社会化模式，包括文化和之间文化可能与其发展系统地相关，但是有关于评估有效性或基础过程。我们的目标是进行基本的，以过程为导向，后来的工作可以建立的基础工作。第一个研究模块将专注于可靠性和有效性，使用计算机评估方法学是从墨西哥裔美国人获得自我评价的非裔美国人以及大多数儿童和青少年。这个证据将与成人和同一儿童的成人评级进行比较协议评估的收敛有效性。在第二个模块，我们将遵循前瞻性纵向设计儿童和青少年有关稳定性和预测性的证据在生命过渡期间有效的有效性。同意可能适度适应新社会的模式和速度环境。第三个模块着重于链接的特定过程对情感自我调节，沟通，社会的愉快性认知和人际交往。这三个模块设计了建立从个性到发展的基本经验桥以及社会环境中适应的社会心理方法。