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Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
Friends' moral characteristics such as their moral reasoning represent an important social contextual factor for children's behavioral socialization. Guided by this assumption, we compared the effects of children's and friends' moral reasoning on their aggressive behavior in a low-risk sample of elementary school children. Peer nominations and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Aggression, Socialization, Moral Development
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Boislard P., Marie-Aude; Poulin, Francois; Kiesner, Jeff; Dishion, Thomas J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
In this study, two longitudinal models of early adolescent risky sexual behaviors (RSB) were compared using a pooled sample of 267 Canadian and Italian adolescents (55% females; 53% Canadians) assessed yearly from grade 8 to 10. We focused on parenting practices (monitoring, control, limit setting), adolescent problem behaviors (antisocial…
Descriptors: Socialization, Structural Equation Models, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Parenting Styles
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Sharabany, Ruth; Bar-Tal, Daniel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Reviews evolutionary, psychoanalytic, social learning, and cognitive developmental approaches to the development of altruism and proposes a framework that integrates the approaches. The four approaches are compared in terms of three general issues: the origin of altruism, the conception of altruism as a state or a trait, and individual differences…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development