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Direct linkFarrell, Albert D.; Pittman, Sarah; Bettencourt, Amie F.; Mehari, Krista R.; Dunn, Courtney; Sullivan, Terri N. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This study examined beliefs about aggression and self-efficacy for nonviolent responses as mediators of longitudinal relations between exposure to violence and physical aggression. Participants were a predominantly African American (79%) sample of 2705 early adolescents from three middle schools within urban neighborhoods with high rates of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Violence, Aggression, Self Efficacy
O'Connor, Kelly E.; Hitti, Stephanie A.; Thompson, Erin L.; Farrell, Albert D.; Sullivan, Terri N. – School Mental Health, 2020
The present study examined how perceptions of school climate differ across subgroups of early adolescents with distinct patterns of involvement in aggression and victimization. We identified subgroups among 800 sixth-grade students (87% African American, 51% female) based on latent class analysis of items assessing aggression and victimization.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Early Adolescents, Aggression, Victims
Dunn, Courtney B.; Pittman, Sarah K.; Mehari, Krista R.; Titchner, Denicia; Farrell, Albert D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents' goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants (n = 160; M[subscript age] = 12.7, 53%…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Early Adolescents, Social Cognition, Aggression
Sullivan, Terri N.; Goncy, Elizabeth A.; Garthe, Rachel C.; Carlson, Megan M.; Behrhorst, Kathryn L.; Farrell, Albert D. – Youth & Society, 2020
This study examined relations between patterns of dating aggression and victimization and school environment factors among 4,114 early adolescents attending 37 middle schools in four sites in the United States (51% Black, non-Hispanic, 21% Hispanic, and 17% White). Latent class analyses revealed a five-class solution that differentiated among…
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Aggression, Middle School Students, Intervention
Farrell, Albert D.; Bettencourt, Amie F.; Mehari, Krista R. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
This study investigated the structure and concurrent validity of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale (BAFS). Participants were 2,118 students from three urban middle schools who completed measures of their beliefs, frequency of physical aggression, victimization, and nonviolent intentions. Ratings of students' frequency of physical aggression,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Aggression, Victims
Bettencourt, Amie F.; Farrell, Albert D. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Peer victimization is a common problem among adolescents that has been linked to a variety of adjustment problems. Youth involved in peer victimization represent a heterogeneous group who may differ not only in their levels of victimization and perpetration, but also in the factors that influence their behavior. The current study used latent class…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Aggression, Victims
Sullivan, Terri N.; Sutherland, Kevin S.; Farrell, Albert D.; Taylor, Katherine A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
The impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Second Step, on peer victimization and aggression, and emotion regulation was evaluated among 457 sixth graders. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted with classrooms randomly assigned to intervention (n = 14) or control (n = 14) conditions. A repeated measures analysis of covariance on…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle School Students, Violence, Prevention
Pugh, Kelly L.; Farrell, Albert D. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
Previous research has found an association between mothers' depressive symptoms and their adolescents' involvement in aggression. The present study examined three mechanisms believed to account for this relation: parenting practices, family functioning, and informant discrepancy. Participants were a high-risk sample of 927 mother-adolescent dyads…
Descriptors: Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Prevention, Parenting Styles
Farrell, Albert D.; Bettencourt, Amie; Mays, Sally; Kramer, Alison; Sullivan, Terri; Kliewer, Wendy – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
This study examined adolescents' patterns of beliefs about aggression, and how these patterns relate to aggressive and prosocial behavior, and to risk factors associated with aggression. A sample of 477 sixth graders from two urban schools and a school in a nearby county completed measures of beliefs, behavior, and individual, peer and parental…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Prosocial Behavior, Risk, Adolescents
Kliewer, Wendy; Lepore, Stephen J.; Farrell, Albert D.; Allison, Kevin W.; Meyer, Aleta L.; Sullivan, Terri N.; Greene, Anne Y. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
This school-based randomized controlled trial tested the efficacy of 2 expressive writing interventions among youth living in high-violence urban neighborhoods. Seventeen classrooms (n = 258 seventh graders; 55% female; 91% African American/Black) from 3 public schools were randomized to 3 conditions in which they wrote 8 times about a…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Aggression, Family Structure, Expressive Language
Influence of School-Level Variables on Aggression and Associated Attitudes of Middle School Students
Henry, David B.; Farrell, Albert D.; Schoeny, Michael E.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Dymnicki, Allison B. – Journal of School Psychology, 2011
This study sought to understand school-level influences on aggressive behavior and related social cognitive variables. Participants were 5106 middle school students participating in a violence prevention project. Predictors were school-level norms opposing aggression and favoring nonviolence, interpersonal climate (positive student-teacher…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Violence, Aggression, School Safety
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
Sullivan, Terri N.; Helms, Sarah W.; Bettencourt, Amie F.; Sutherland, Kevin; Lotze, Geri M.; Mays, Sally; Wright, Stephen; Farrell, Albert D. – Behavioral Disorders, 2012
To enhance the positive adjustment of youths with high incidence disabilities, a better understanding of the factors that influence their use of effective responses in challenging situations is needed. In this qualitative study, adolescents described individual and peer factors that would influence their use of effective nonviolent or aggressive…
Descriptors: Violence, Learning Disabilities, Prevention, Adolescents
Farrell, Albert D.; Henry, David B.; Schoeny, Michael E.; Bettencourt, Amie; Tolan, Patrick H. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
This study examined the direct effects of beliefs about aggression and nonviolence on physical aggression and their role as protective factors that buffer adolescents from key risk factors in the peer, school, and parenting domains. Multilevel analyses were conducted on data from 5,581 adolescents representing two cohorts from 37 schools in four…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Aggression, Self Efficacy, Early Adolescents
Simon, Thomas R.; Ikeda, Robin M.; Smith, Emilie Phillips; Reese, Le'Roy E.; Rabiner, David L.; Miller, Shari; Winn, Donna-Marie; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Asher, Steven R.; Horne, Arthur M.; Orpinas, Pamela; Martin, Roy; Quinn, William H.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B.; Gay, Franklin N.; Schoeny, Michael; Farrell, Albert D.; Meyer, Aleta L.; Sullivan, Terri N.; Allison, Kevin W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
This study reports the findings of a multisite randomized trial evaluating the separate and combined effects of 2 school-based approaches to reduce violence among early adolescents. A total of 37 schools at 4 sites were randomized to 4 conditions: (1) a universal intervention that involved implementing a student curriculum and teacher training…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Prevention, Social Influences
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