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Akseer Hussain; Sumit Mazumdar – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Globally, one in three women experiences domestic violence over their lifetimes. Yet, the factors that shape adult behavior toward domestic violence remain poorly understood. We examine the effect of exposure to political violence in early stages of life on likelihood of domestic violence in marital life. Combining household level survey with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Violence, Political Influences, Activism
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Fotini Bonoti; Eleni Andreou; Sofia Mantzari; Varvara Tsoungou – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2024
The present study aimed to investigate school-aged children's understanding of emotions of perpetrators and targets of school bullying and whether these vary as a function of children's participant role in a bullying episode. One hundred seventy-six boys and girls, with a mean age of 11 years and 3 months, participated in the study. They were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bullying, Aggression, Fear
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Jiang, Depeng; Pepler, Debra; Yao, Hongxing – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Do interventions work and for whom? For this article, we examined the influence of population heterogeneity on power in designing and evaluating interventions. On the basis of Monte Carlo simulations in Study 1, we demonstrated that the power to detect the overall intervention effect is lower for a mixture of two subpopulations than for a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Evaluation, Heterogeneous Grouping, Monte Carlo Methods
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Sklad, Marcin; Diekstra, Rene; De Ritter, Monique; Ben, Jehonathan; Gravesteijn, Carolien – Psychology in the Schools, 2012
To answer the question of whether teaching social and emotional skills to foster social-emotional development can help schools extend their role beyond the transfer of knowledge, the authors conducted a meta-analytical review of 75 recently published studies that reported the effects of universal, school-based social, emotional, and/or behavioral…
Descriptors: School Role, Social Development, Emotional Development, Behavior Development
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Daniels, Harry; Cole, Ted – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2010
This article draws on data gathered in a two-year English government-funded follow-up study of secondary school children who were permanently excluded from school and who did not return to mainstream settings. It reflects on recent debates concerning different forms of social exclusion and considers what forms of service provision might prevent…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Followup Studies
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Criss, Michael M.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Moilanen, Kristin L.; Hitchings, Julia E.; Ingoldsby, Erin M. – Social Development, 2009
The purpose of this study was to test direct, additive, and mediation models involving family, neighborhood, and peer factors in relation to emerging antisocial behavior and social skills. Neighborhood danger, maternal depressive symptoms, and supportive parenting were assessed in early childhood. Peer group acceptance was measured in middle…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Child Rearing
Petersilia, Joan; And Others – 1978
The criminal development of habitual felons was examined by means of lengthy interviews with 49 prison inmates, all armed robbers serving at least their second prison terms. Results are not considered generalized, but should be regarded as 49 case studies. Although some of the findings were consistent with traditional images (juvenile offender…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals
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Kaiser, Javaid; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Studied the effect of short-term exposure to neutral, prosocial, and antisocial toys on the prosocial and antisocial behavior of preschool children. Found that prosocial toys elicited prosocial behavior and antisocial toys stimulated antisocial behavior. In response to both prosocial and antisocial toys, boys displayed more physical than verbal…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Childhood Attitudes, Experiential Learning
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Fick, Ana Correa; Thomas, Sarah Moody – Youth & Society, 1995
Examines the relationship between violence exposure and experimentation with cigarettes and alcohol, intentions to use cigarettes and alcohol, health locus of control, and health values. Responses from 110 inner-city children and adolescents ages 10 to 13 years show cigarette use positively associated with violence. Control scales were negatively…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research
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Schaeffer, Cindy M.; Petras, Hanno; Ialongo, Nicholas; Poduska, Jeanne; Kellam, Sheppard – Developmental Psychology, 2003
The present study used general growth mixture modeling to identify pathways of antisocial behavior development within an epidemiological sample of urban, primarily African American boys. Teacher-rated aggression, measured longitudinally from 1st to 7th grade, was used to define growth trajectories. Three high-risk trajectories (chronic high,…
Descriptors: Males, Aggression, African American Children, Urban Youth
Timberlake, Elizabeth M. – 1976
The hypothesis that abused children develop a life style of overt expression of aggression and depression was examined in a study of 56 physically abused first grade children who were placed in foster care due to parental physical abuse. As no test instrument existed, the Childhood Social Functioning Inventory was developed, pretested, and used to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development