Relational aggression-or behavior intended to harm the relationships of its victims-has been the focus of interdisciplinary study across developmental, clinical, personality, and social psychology in the last several decades. One of the primary measures used to assess relational aggression in youth is the Children's Social Behavior Scale (CSBS; Crick & Grotpeter, 1995), but despite its common usage, the construct validity of this measure has not been comprehensively assessed. In the present study, we used a multistage construct validity framework to thoroughly investigate the nature of relational aggression across six community samples totaling 3,102 youth and their caregivers. We used multiple methods to map the reliability, internal or structural validity, and external validity of this scale. Through these analyses, we found that CSBS Relational Aggression demonstrated strong internal consistency, test-retest, and interrater reliability as well as a robust single factor structure and invariance across multiple demographic groups. External validity analyses positioned relational aggression within a theoretically consistent nomological net including psychopathology, personality, and social developmental factors. Contrary to concerns about the validity of self- and parent-reports of relational aggression, both parent- and youth-report forms of the CSBS Relational Aggression scale demonstrated strong reliability and validity. While construct validation has received inadequate attention in the psychological literature to date, through this project, we aimed to demonstrate how this approach may be used to investigate existing measures across psychological research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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建立关系攻击的有效性：对儿童社会行为量表的检验。

在过去的几十年中，关系攻击或旨在损害受害人关系的行为一直是跨学科研究的重点，涉及发展，临床，人格和社会心理学。儿童社会行为量表（CSBS； Crick＆Grotpeter，1995）是评估青年人际关系侵害的主要措施之一，但尽管其用法很普遍，但尚未全面评估该措施的结构效度。在本研究中，我们使用了一个多阶段建构效度框架来全面研究六个社区样本（共3102名青年及其照顾者）中关系攻击的性质。我们使用多种方法来绘制此量表的可靠性，内部或结构有效性以及外部有效性。通过这些分析，我们发现，CSBS关系攻击表现出强大的内部一致性，重测性和跨度可靠性，以及强大的单因素结构和跨多个人口群体的不变性。外部效度分析将关系侵略定位在一个理论上一致的法理网络内，包括精神病理学，人格和社会发展因素。与对自己和父母的关系攻击的报告的有效性的担心相反，CSBS关系攻击量表的父母和青年报告形式都表现出很强的信度和效度。尽管迄今为止，在心理学文献中尚未对构建体验证给予足够的重视，但通过该项目，我们旨在证明该方法可如何用于研究整个心理学研究中的现有措施。