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Bullying Perpetration and Subsequent Delinquency: A Regression-Based Analysis of Early Adolescent Schoolchildren
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Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether bullying perpetration in early adolescence is capable of predicting delinquency 1 year later. Nine control variables were included in a regression analysis of the bullying-delinquency relationship in 1,001 schoolchildren (X-bar age = 12.97 years). The nine control variables (age, sex, race, social…
Descriptors: Bullying, Delinquency, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students
Why Are Mediation Effects so Small?
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Walters, Glenn D. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
Identifying mediators in variable chains as part of a causal mediation analysis can shed light on issues of causation, assessment, and intervention. However, coefficients and effect sizes in a causal mediation analysis are nearly always small. This can lead those less familiar with the approach to reject the results of causal mediation analysis.…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Statistical Analysis, Sampling, Statistical Inference
Peer Victimization, Antisocial Cognition, and Delinquency in Early Adolescent Schoolchildren: A Test of the Person-Situation Interface
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Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Interactive and mediating effects have the ability to elucidate variable relationships. The goal of the current study was to explore how these two effects potentially clarify the victimization-offending relationship. Examining three waves of longitudinal data, it was predicted that Wave 1 victimization would enhance Wave 2 cognitive impulsivity,…
Descriptors: Victims, Peer Relationship, Cognitive Processes, Antisocial Behavior
Cognitive Impulsivity as a Mediator of the Parental Knowledge-Childhood Aggression Relationship
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Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
In a previous study, reactive criminal thinking or cognitive impulsivity mediated the relationship between parental knowledge and delinquency. This study sought to determine whether cognitive impulsivity also mediated the relationship between parental knowledge and childhood aggression. A path analysis was performed on a sample of 438 early…
Descriptors: Aggression, Conceptual Tempo, Correlation, Bullying
Social and Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Middle-School Students: Attendance Options and Changes over Time
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Walters, Glenn D.; Runell, Lindsey; Kremser, Jon – School Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine whether restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the social and psychological well-being of early adolescent schoolchildren. Participants were 309 youth (51% female, average age = 12.38 years) enrolled in the sixth, seventh, or eighth grades of a single middle school located in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Middle School Students
Cognitive Insensitivity and Cognitive Impulsivity as Mediators of Bullying Continuity: Extending the Psychological Inertia Construct to Bullying Behavior
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Walters, Glenn D.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Psychological inertia, the process by which social-cognitive variables help maintain behavioral patterns over time, has been found to explain crime continuity. The present study sought to determine whether psychological inertia can also be used to explain continuity in bullying behavior. A group of 1,161 youth (567 male) from the Illinois Study of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Bullying, Social Influences, Cognitive Processes