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Bowker, Julie C.; Ostrov, Jamie M.; Raja, Radhi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
This study explored the associations between relational and overt aggression and social status, and tested whether the peer correlates of aggression vary as a function of best friends' aggression during early adolescence in urban India. One hundred and ninety-four young adolescents from primarily middle-to-upper-class families in Surat, India…
Descriptors: Social Status, Aggression, Early Adolescents, Adolescents
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Ostrov, Jamie M.; Keating, Caroline F. – Social Development, 2004
We observed 48 children from rural preschools (M = 64 months old) in two different social contexts to test hypotheses about the type (relational, physical, verbal, nonverbal), contextual independence, and sociometry of girls' and boys' aggressive tactics. We predicted and generally found that (1) girls displayed more relational aggression than…
Descriptors: Play, Aggression, Females, Peer Acceptance