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Veenstra, René; Lodder, Gerine M. A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
This article focuses on the link between social norms and behavioral development as presented in research on norms regarding bullying and aggression. The aim is to present a conceptual framework for how classroom norms may explain children's decisions to defend others or refrain from defending. Norms emerge from group consensus about what is…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment
O'Toole, Sarah E.; Tsermentseli, Stella; Humayun, Sajid; Monks, Claire P. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
To study the role of executive function (EF) in the early development of aggression, the role of cool and hot EF skills at 5 years old, in the development of physical and relational aggression between 5 and 6 years old, was explored. Typically developing children (N = 80) completed tasks assessing their cool (inhibition, working memory, planning)…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Predictor Variables, Aggression, Foreign Countries
Velásquez, Ana M.; Saldarriaga, Lina M.; Bukowski, William M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
This study examined variations in the development of classroom aggression popularity norms, as well as the role of homeroom teachers' aggression beliefs and students' perceptions of teachers' support as predictors of such variations. To achieve this goal, a sample of 63 classrooms were assessed at four time points during a school year, in nine…
Descriptors: Aggression, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
Wurster, Tabitha; Xie, Hongling – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
This study examined the social functioning of bistrategic youths (i.e., those who employ both aggressive and prosocial behavior) in order to further understand their social competence in peer social networks. Within our sample of 318 fifth-grade participants recruited from an urban school district in the northeastern US, bistrategic preadolescents…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Grade 5, Urban Schools, Social Behavior
Liao, Zongqing; Li, Yan; Su, Yanjie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
This study examined emotion understanding and reconciliation in 47 (24 girls) 4-6-year-old preschool children. Participants first completed emotion recognition tasks and then answered questions regarding reconciliation tendencies and affective perspective-taking in a series of overt and relational aggressive conflict scenarios. Children's teachers…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Conflict
Findley, Danielle; Ojanen, Tiina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
This study examined adolescent coercive and prosocial resource control strategies in relation to various indices of peer-reported behaviors and peer regard ("N" = 384; 12-14 years). Coercive control was uniquely positively related to physical and relational aggression and peer disliking, and negatively to prosocial behaviors when…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Social Adjustment, Aggression, Withdrawal (Psychology)
Peters, Ellen; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; Haselager, Gerbert J. T. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
This study examined how children's aggression and prosocial behavior are related to the preference and popularity of their best friends. Participants were 1,953 fourth-graders (52.2% boys). Measures included peer nominations of friendship, peer status, overt and relational aggression, and prosocial behavior. A total of 334 reciprocal same-sex best…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Friendship, Peer Influence
Kawabata, Yoshito; Crick, Nicki R. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The aim of this study was to examine the antecedents of cross-racial/ethnic friendships and same-racial/ethnic friendships. The sample consisted of 444 (161 African American, 108 European American, 100 Asian American, and 75 Latino) children who were in the fourth grade from 39 classrooms in 10 public elementary schools. Results of Mixed Linear…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Friendship, Grade 4, Asian American Students
Hawley, Patricia H.; Little, Todd D.; Card, Noel A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Evolutionary and biological approaches tend to suggest that social dominance is predominately an aspect of male social organization. Furthermore, when females behave non-normatively, they are less positively evaluated than males engaging in the same behavior. Alternate, less familiar models of females and dominance/aggression underlie the present…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Youth, Males, Females
Diesendruck, Gil; Ben-Eliyahu, Adar – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
The present study investigated the relationships among Israeli kindergarten children's social cognitive capacities, their popularity, and their social behavior. We found that children's understanding of others' behavioral motives was positively related to their popularity, that children's false-belief understanding was positively related to peers'…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Preschool Children, Social Cognition, Kindergarten

Pellegrini, A. D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Observed rough-and-tumble play in young adolescent boys on the playground. Found that sociometrically defined average and rejected boys spent a greater portion of their time in rough play compared to popular boys and did so with children who were less dominant than they, suggesting that some children exploit play bouts for their own…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Competence
Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Rubin, Kenneth H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
The purpose of the present study was to examine European American and Mainland Chinese mothers' responses to preschoolers' social behaviours (aggression and social withdrawal) within a cultural framework. Participants were 103 European American mothers from Washington DC, and 100 Mainland Chinese mothers from Beijing and Baoding cities, China. The…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Attribution Theory, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Chang, Lei; Li, Kin Kit; Lei, Li; Liu, Hongyun; Guo, Boliang; Wang, Yan; Fung, Kitty Y. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
This study presents a model of maladaptive social interactions that includes both behavioural and communication correlates of peer acceptance and self-perceived social competence. Tested in a sample of 377 Hong Kong secondary school students, verbal and nonverbal aggression contributed concurrently and longitudinally to peer acceptance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Acceptance, Interpersonal Competence, Secondary School Students