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Visintainer, Paul F.; Matthews, Karen A. – Child Development, 1987
Children's Type A behaviors remained moderately stable over time. The magnitude of the stability did not differ as a function of two versus five years of follow-up, or because of the sex, grade, or community in which the child lived. (PCB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Children
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Younger, Alastair J.; Boyko, Kelly A. – Child Development, 1987
Examined the ability of children of different ages to encode and retrieve from memory descriptions of aggressive and withdrawn behavior displayed by hypothetical peers. Descriptions of two hypothetical peers were read aloud to the children studied. (PCB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Children, Interpersonal Relationship
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Chamove, Arnold S. – Child Development, 1984
Eight stump-tailed macaques were reared individually and either given all of their daily social experience in darkness or given half in the dark and half in the light. Results suggest that vision is especially important in the maintenance of assertive behaviors and in the instigation and direction of aggressive behaviors. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Animal Behavior, Peer Relationship, Play
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Somberg, Daniel R. – Child Development, 1987
The social cognitive performance of aggressive and nonaggressive children was assessed under conditions of relaxation and threat. Aspects assessed included skillfulness, bias, and process. Subjects were 65 aggressive and nonaggressive boys 8- to 10-years-old. Findings were interpreted as consistent with theories of preemptive processing and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
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Shantz, Carolyn Uhlinger – Child Development, 1987
Interpersonal conflicts of children in natural settings are the focus of this review of the empirical literature in social and cognitive development and sociolinguistics. The central role of conflict in various developmental theories is outlined. Studies indicate substantial relations between children's socio-cognitive functioning and their…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Cognitive Development, Conflict
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Shantz, David W. – Child Development, 1986
Children's conflicts with one another during free play were observed to determine the relation between the child's rate of conflict participation and his or her rate of aggressive behavior during conflict episodes and between these variables and the degree to which the child was liked or disliked by peers. (Author/SO)
Descriptors: Aggression, Conflict, Elementary School Students, Observation
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Vega-Lahr, Nitza; Field, Tiffany M. – Child Development, 1986
Type A behaviors were observed in a group of 48 preschool children in different free-play and competitive situations. Results are consistent with other findings on type A behavior in preschool children and suggest that the behavioral dimensions of type A (competitiveness and impatience-aggression) may emerge as early as the preschool years,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Competition, Facial Expressions, Motor Reactions
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Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 1987
Preschoolers' normative patterns, individual styles, and developmental changes in coping with anger between others (background anger) were examined. Pairs of children were observed playing while two adults in an adjacent room verbally expressed anger toward each other. Children were also interviewed concerning the feelings they had during the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Behavior Patterns, Coping
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Susman, Elizabeth J.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Relations among hormone levels, emotional dispositions, and aggressive attributes were examined in 56 boys and 52 girls, aged 9 to 14 years. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aggression, Behavior Problems
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Dubow, Eric F.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Results from this study confirmed the hypotheses that child rearing styles characterized by acceptance, a nonauthoritarian approach to punishment, and identification of the child with the parent related to high levels of adult ego development 22 years later. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aggression, Child Rearing, Longitudinal Studies
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Perry, David G.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Explores links between aggression in elementary school children and their perceptions of self-efficacy as well as their response-outcome expectancies. (HOD)
Descriptors: Aggression, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Perspective Taking
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Stevenson, Michael R.; Black, Kathryn N. – Child Development, 1988
Differences between father-absent and father-present samples were not large. Although study quality was not the best predictor of outcome, the best-quality studies produced nonsignificant estimates of effect size. Most effect-size estimates were less than .5; many were much smaller. (RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis, Fatherless Family
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Walker, Elaine; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examined effects of parental psychopathology and maltreatment on behavior of 102 children with mean ages of 9.75 years. Parental psychiatric status and maltreatment interacted significantly, so that offspring of schizophrenic parents from maltreating families showed increases in externalized behavior problems over time. (RJC)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse, Child Development
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Haskins, Ron – Child Development, 1985
Fifty-nine children with varying amounts and types of day-care experience were followed over their first 2 or 3 years of public schooling. Schoolteachers rated aggressiveness of several types and in several situations and supplied information about managing the children, their use of conflict-avoiding strategies, and other associated skills and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Assertiveness, Comparative Analysis, Day Care
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Hoffman-Plotkin, Debbie; Twentyman, Craig T. – Child Development, 1984
Multiple measures of social and cognitive functioning were obtained to investigate whether abused and neglected children demonstrate serious psychological disturbances following instances of child maltreatment. Participants were 42 preschool children who had a previous history of physical abuse, serious neglect, or no maltreatment. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Cognitive Ability
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