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Peer Victimization, Antisocial Cognition, and Delinquency in Early Adolescent Schoolchildren: A Test of the Person-Situation Interface
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Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Interactive and mediating effects have the ability to elucidate variable relationships. The goal of the current study was to explore how these two effects potentially clarify the victimization-offending relationship. Examining three waves of longitudinal data, it was predicted that Wave 1 victimization would enhance Wave 2 cognitive impulsivity,…
Descriptors: Victims, Peer Relationship, Cognitive Processes, Antisocial Behavior
Cognitive Insensitivity and Cognitive Impulsivity as Mediators of Bullying Continuity: Extending the Psychological Inertia Construct to Bullying Behavior
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Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Psychological inertia, the process by which social-cognitive variables help maintain behavioral patterns over time, has been found to explain crime continuity. The present study sought to determine whether psychological inertia can also be used to explain continuity in bullying behavior. A group of 1,161 youth (567 male) from the Illinois Study of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Bullying, Social Influences, Cognitive Processes