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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关系攻击的结构效度：儿童社会行为量表的检查。

在过去的几十年里，关系攻击——或旨在伤害受害者关系的行为——一直是跨越发展、临床、个性和社会心理学的跨学科研究的重点。用于评估青少年关系攻击性的主要措施之一是儿童社会行为量表（CSBS；Crick & Grotpeter，1995），但尽管使用普遍，但尚未全面评估该措施的结构效度。在本研究中，我们使用多阶段结构效度框架对总共 3,102 名青年及其照顾者的六个社区样本的关系攻击性质进行了彻底调查。我们使用多种方法来绘制该量表的信度、内部或结构效度以及外部效度。通过这些分析，我们发现 CSBS Relational Aggression 表现出很强的内部一致性、重测和测试者间的可靠性，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攻击置于理论上一致的规范网络中，包括精神病理学、人格和社会发展因素。与对自我和父母关系攻击性报告有效性的担忧相反，CSBS 关系攻击性量表的父母和青少年报告形式都表现出很强的可靠性和有效性。虽然迄今为止构造验证在心理学文献中没有得到足够的关注，但通过这个项目，我们旨在展示如何使用这种方法来调查心理学研究中的现有措施。