The Impact of Gossip on Children's Feelings of Belongingness

八卦对儿童归属感的影响

• 批准号: 10600279
• 负责人: Nazli Meltem Yucel
• 金额: $ 6.91万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10600279
• 关键词: 7 year old; Acute; Address; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Age; Anxiety; Child; Childhood; Chronic; Clinical Psychology; Code; Communication; Data; Data Set; Development; Distress; Drug usage; Experimental Designs; Feeling; Friends; Friendships; Genetic Transcription; Goals; Lead; Link; Literature; Long-Term Effects; Maps; Measures; Mental Health; Methods; Moral Development; Pathway Analysis; Peer Group; Play; Policies; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Schools; Social Development; Social Network; Social Psychology; Testing; Training; Video Recording; Well in self; Work; age group; boys; career; depressive symptoms; developmental psychology; early childhood; experience; experimental study; member; novel; peer; programs; skills; social; social observations; statistics

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Having a sense of belonging is vital to children’s and adults’ psychological health. In fact, lack of belonging is detrimental to children’s psychological health, causing acute and chronic distress and increasing risk for later anxiety/depressive symptoms and drug use. This fundamental need to belong can be undermined or strengthened by social experiences, such as gossiping (i.e., negative or positive talk about others). The effects of gossiping are well-studied in both adults and adolescents; members of both age groups who are associated with negative gossip feel less connected in their friend groups than those who are associated with positive gossip. Yet, no study to date has investigated the immediate and long-term effects of gossip on feelings of belonging at younger ages. The present proposal aims to address this gap. To understand the link between early childhood gossip and children’s social and psychological well-being, we aim to identify how spreading gossip or being the target of gossip impacts children’s feelings of belonging. The overall objectives will be achieved through two lab studies (Studies 1 and 2) and one naturalistic study (Study 3). Study 1 will use a novel experimental paradigm to identify the immediate effects of spreading gossip on children’s belonging and distress by testing the hypotheses that 1a) Children will feel closer to their conversation partners and feel less distressed if they gossip with them, and 1b) Children will feel closer to the peers who were the targets of positive gossip than peers who were the targets of negative gossip. Study 2 will use a similar experimental design to identify the immediate effects of being the target of gossip on children’s belonging and distress, by testing the hypothesis that 2) Children who are the targets of negative gossip will experience lower belonging and feel more distressed than the children who are the targets of positive gossip. In a novel analysis of an already collected observational social network dataset from classrooms, Study 3 will map long-term social network implications of children’s gossip over the course of an entire school year. Study 3 will test the hypotheses that 3a) Children who have higher connectedness (i.e., belonging) among friends will be less involved in spreading negative gossip and have lower likelihood of being a target of negative gossip, and 3b) Children who are more centrally connected to the friend group will be more involved in spreading positive gossip and have higher likelihood of being a target of positive gossip. The proposed research and training aims will identify the functions and impact of gossip on children’s feelings of belonging and distress and help the Candidate in furthering their career goals to lead their own lab as an independent PI. The findings can contribute to programs and policies to support healthy social development by increasing children’s feelings of belonging.

项目摘要/摘要 拥有归属感对儿童和成人的心理健康至关重要。实际上，缺乏归属是 不利于儿童的心理健康，造成急性和慢性困扰，并增加以后的风险 焦虑/抑郁症状和吸毒。这种基本需求可能会受到破坏或 通过社会经验，例如闲聊（即对他人的负面或积极谈论）来加强。效果 在成年人和青少年中，闲话都经过了很好的研究。两个年龄段的成员 负面八卦在朋友群体中的联系少于与积极相关的人的联系 闲话。但是，迄今为止尚无研究调查八卦对感受的直接和长期影响 年轻时的归属。本提案旨在解决这一差距。了解链接 在幼儿八卦和儿童的社会和心理健康之间，我们旨在确定 八卦或八卦的目标如何影响孩子的归属感。 总体目标将通过两项实验室研究（研究1和2）和一项自然主义研究实现 （研究3）。研究1将使用新型的实验范式来确定八卦的直接影响 通过测试1A的假设，孩子会更接近他们的归属和困扰 对话伙伴，如果他们与他们闲聊，也会感到不安，而1B）孩子会更接近 与八卦的目标相比，是正八卦目标的同龄人。研究2将 使用类似的实验设计来确定成为八卦目标对儿童的直接影响 归属和困扰，通过检验以下假设：2）八卦的儿童将会 比八卦目标的孩子经历较低的归属感和感到痛苦。 在对课堂上已经收集的观察性社交网络数据集的新颖分析中，研究3将 在整个学年中，将儿童八卦的长期社交网络含义。学习 3将检验以下假设，即3A）在朋友之间具有较高联系（即归属）的孩子将 少参与传播负八卦，成为负八卦的目标的可能性较低， 3b）与朋友组更为集中联系的孩子将更多地参与传播 积极的八卦，并具有更高的八卦目标。拟议的研究和 培训目标将确定八卦对儿童归属感和困扰感的功能和影响 并帮助候选人促进自己的职业目标，以领导自己的实验室作为独立PI。发现 可以通过增加儿童的感受来促进计划和政策以支持健康的社会发展 归属。