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Killen, Melanie; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline – Child Development, 2013
"Interpersonal" rejection and "intergroup" exclusion in childhood reflect different, but complementary, aspects of child development. Interpersonal rejection focuses on individual differences in personality traits, such as wariness and being fearful, to explain bully-victim relationships. In contrast, intergroup exclusion focuses on how in-group…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship
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Ostrov, Jamie M. – Child Development, 2010
The current study involved a short-term longitudinal study of young children (M = 44.56 months, SD = 11.88, N = 103) to test the prospective associations between peer victimization and aggression subtypes. Path analyses documented that teacher-reported physical victimization was uniquely associated with increases in observed physical aggression…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Relationship, Correlation, Victims of Crime
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Farrell, Albert D.; Henry, David B.; Mays, Sally A.; Schoeny, Michael E. – Child Development, 2011
This study examined parenting variables as protective factors to reduce the influence of school and peer risk factors on adolescents' aggression. Five waves of data spanning 3 years were collected from 5,581 students at 37 schools who began the 6th grade in 2001 or 2002. Class-level and perceived school norms supporting aggression, delinquent peer…
Descriptors: Aggression, Parent Participation, Child Rearing, At Risk Persons
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Paciello, Marinella; Fida, Roberta; Tramontano, Carlo; Lupinetti, Catia; Caprara, Gian Vittorio – Child Development, 2008
Stability and change of moral disengagement were examined in a sample of 366 adolescents from ages 14 to 20 years. Four developmental trajectories were identified: (a) nondisengaged group that started with initially low levels followed by an important decline, (b) normative group that started with initially moderate levels followed by a decline,…
Descriptors: Violence, Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Aggression
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Peets, Katlin; Hodges, Ernest V. E.; Salmivalli, Christina – Child Development, 2008
This study examined whether the affect children feel toward peers would influence children's social-cognitive evaluations and behaviors. The sample consisted of 209 fifth-grade children (11- to 12-year-olds; 119 boys and 90 girls). For each child, 3 target peers (liked, disliked, and neutral) were identified via a sociometric nomination procedure.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Self Efficacy, Grade 5, Affective Behavior
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Fontaine, Reid Griffith; Yang, Chongming; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Child Development, 2008
This study examined the bidirectional development of aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior across five time points in adolescence. Participants (n = 522) were asked to imagine themselves behaving aggressively while viewing videotaped ambiguous provocations and answered a set of RED questions following each…
Descriptors: Aggression, Structural Equation Models, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents
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Card, Noel A.; Stucky, Brian D.; Sawalani, Gita M.; Little, Todd D. – Child Development, 2008
This meta-analytic review of 148 studies on child and adolescent direct and indirect aggression examined the magnitude of gender differences, intercorrelations between forms, and associations with maladjustment. Results confirmed prior findings of gender differences (favoring boys) in direct aggression and trivial gender differences in indirect…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Adjustment (to Environment), Effect Size
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Brendgen, Mara; Boivin, Michel; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M.; Dionne, Ginette; Tremblay, Richard E.; Perusse, Daniel – Child Development, 2008
Based on a sample of 406 seven-year-old twins, this study examined whether exposure to friends' social or physical aggression, respectively, moderates the effect of heritability on children's own social and physical aggression. Univariate analyses showed that children's own social and physical aggression were significantly explained by genetic…
Descriptors: Aggression, Genetics, Interaction, Antisocial Behavior
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Pepler, Debra; Jiang, Depeng; Craig, Wendy; Connolly, Jennifer – Child Development, 2008
Trajectories in bullying through adolescence were studied along with individual, family, and peer relationship factors. At the outset, participants' ages ranged from 10 to 14; 74% identified as European Canadian with the remainder from diverse backgrounds. With 8 waves of data over 7 years, 871 students (466 girls and 405 boys) were studied to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Correlation, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
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Menon, Madhavi; Tobin, Desiree D.; Corby, Brooke C.; Menon, Meenakshi; Hodges, Ernest V. E.; Perry, David G. – Child Development, 2007
Two hypotheses--high self-esteem leads children to act on antisocial cognitions (disposition-activating hypothesis) and high self-esteem leads children to rationalize antisocial conduct (disposition-rationalizing hypothesis)--were investigated in two longitudinal studies. In Study 1 (N = 189; mean age = 11.1 years), antisocial behavior was…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Longitudinal Studies, Self Esteem
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Giles, Jessica W.; Heyman, Gail D. – Child Development, 2005
Young children's beliefs about the relationship between gender and aggression were examined across 3 studies (N121). In Study 1, preschoolers (ages 3 to 5) described relational aggression as the most common form of aggression among girls and physical aggression as the most common form among boys. In Study 2, preschoolers and a comparison group of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Aggression, Gender Differences, Childhood Attitudes
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Miles, Sarah, B.; Stipek, Deborah – Child Development, 2006
This study investigates associations between social skills (aggression and prosocial behavior) and literacy achievement in a sample of low-income children (between 4 and 6 years old when the study began) during elementary school. Results revealed consistent associations between social skills and literacy achievement in the first, third, and fifth…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Low Income Groups, Interpersonal Competence, Aggression
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Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Asher, Steven R. – Child Development, 2005
Previous studies have demonstrated that children's goals are associated with their success in peer relationships. The current study extends earlier findings by examining changes in children's goals during hypothetical conflicts. Participants were 252 children ages 9 to 12 years old (133 boys, 119 girls). As predicted, children's goals changed…
Descriptors: Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Goal Orientation, Peer Relationship
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Ladd, Gary W. – Child Development, 2006
Findings yielded a comprehensive portrait of the predictive relations among children's aggressive or withdrawn behaviors, peer rejection, and psychological maladjustment across the 5-12 age period. Examination of peer rejection in different variable contexts and across repeated intervals throughout childhood revealed differences in the timing,…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Children, Child Psychology, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Cohen, Geoffrey L.; Prinstein, Mitchell J. – Child Development, 2006
Peer contagion of adolescent males' aggressive/health risk behaviors was examined using a computerized "chat room" experimental paradigm. Forty-three 11th-grade White adolescents (16-17 years old) were led to believe that they were interacting with other students (i.e., "e-confederates"), who endorsed aggressive/health risk behaviors and whose…
Descriptors: Aggression, At Risk Persons, Males, Health Behavior