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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Voulgaridou, Ioanna; Despoti, Georgia – Journal of School Violence, 2021
The current study investigated the indirect effects of anger on the four forms and functions of relational aggression (i.e., proactive indirect, proactive direct, reactive indirect, reactive direct) through anger rumination in a sample of 1020 Greek adolescents (504 boys). Males used more proactive direct and indirect relational aggression,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Gender Differences, Aggression
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Fu, Xinyuan; Padilla-Walker, Laura M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
The present study examined the relations between financial entitlement and adolescent gratitude, prosocial behavior, and aggression; and the mediating role of sympathy. The sample consisted of 321 children (160 boys, M[subscript age at Time 2] = 12.29, SD = 1.02) from Times 2, 3, and 4 of the Flourishing Families Project. Adolescents reported on…
Descriptors: Correlation, Money Management, Prosocial Behavior, Aggression
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Rohlf, Helena; Busching, Robert; Krahé, Barbara – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study examined the prospective links between maladaptive anger regulation and aggressive behavior in middle childhood over a 10-month period, analyzing the mediating influence of peer problems. Participants were 599 elementary school children in Germany, aged 6-10 years at Time 1 (T1) and 7-11 years at Time 2 (T2). Anger regulation at T1 was…
Descriptors: Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Peer Relationship, Aggression
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Flack, Tove – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2017
Relational aggression is a destructive behaviour that increases during adolescence. In order to develop effective interventions aimed to combat relational aggression, there is an urgent need to study what motivates this behaviour. This study investigates the association between status stress, status goals, and relational aggressive behaviour in a…
Descriptors: Aggression, Developmental Stages, Correlation, Secondary School Students
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Gavriel-Fried, Belle; Ronen, Tammie; Agbaria, Qutaiba; Orkibi, Hod; Hamama, Liat – Youth & Society, 2018
Adolescence is a period of dramatic change that necessitates using skills and strengths to reduce physical aggression and increase happiness. This study examined the multiple facets of self-control skills in achieving both goals simultaneously, in a sample of 248 Arab adolescents in Israel. We conceptualized and tested a new multi-mediator model…
Descriptors: Self Control, Arabs, Adolescents, Structural Equation Models
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Holl, Anna Katharina; Kirsch, Fabian; Rohlf, Helena; Krahé, Barbara; Elsner, Birgit – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Theory of mind is one of the most important cognitive factors in social information-processing, and deficits in theory of mind have been linked to aggressive behavior in childhood. The present longitudinal study investigated reciprocal links between theory of mind and two forms of aggression--physical and relational--in middle childhood with three…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Aggression, Correlation, Gender Differences
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Rodríguez, Ana Carolina Reyes; Noriega, José Angel Vera; Cuervo, Angel Alberto Valdés – World Journal of Education, 2017
Research in recent years indicates that schools, and in particular teaching practices, play an essential role in preventing bullying. This study's aim is to investigate the direct and indirect relationships between permissive and direct intervention teacher practices, school support and bullying. In a non-probabilistic way, 386 (58.1%) boys and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Bullying, Intervention, Teacher Role
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Jung, Janis; Krahé, Barbara; Busching, Robert – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Being surrounded by peers who are accepting of aggression is a significant predictor of the development and persistence of aggression in childhood and adolescence. Whereas past research has focused on social reinforcement mechanisms as the underlying processes, the present longitudinal study analysed the role of external control beliefs as an…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Aggression, Predictor Variables, Peer Influence
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Jambon, Marc; Smetana, Judith G. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Drawing on the framework of social domain theory, this multi-method, multi-informant longitudinal study examined whether callous-unemotional (CU) tendencies moderated the association between U.S. 4 to 7 year olds' (n = 135; M[subscript age] = 5.65, 50% male; 75% White) ability to differentiate hypothetical, prototypical moral and conventional…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Longitudinal Studies, Psychological Patterns, Young Children
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Vera, Elizabeth M.; Daskalova, Plamena; Hill, Lincoln; Floro, Marissa; Anderson, Bernasha; Roche, Meghan; Aydin, Fatma; Adams, Kristen; Camacho, Dan; Raziuddin, Abdul; Carr, Andrea – School Mental Health, 2017
While evidence of the mental health effects of bullying has amassed in recent years, less scholarship explores the dynamics of bullying as it manifests in culturally diverse environments. The purpose of this study was to determine how contextual factors influence participation in bullying behaviors in a sample of urban, low-income, ethnic minority…
Descriptors: Bullying, Minority Group Students, Mental Health, Context Effect
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von Eye, Alexander; Wiedermann, Wolfgang – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Approaches to determining direction of dependence in nonexperimental data are based on the relation between higher-than second-order moments on one side and correlation and regression models on the other. These approaches have experienced rapid development and are being applied in contexts such as research on partner violence, attention deficit…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Correlation
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Parker, Philip D.; Parada, Roberto H.; Guo, Jiesi; Dicke, Theresa; Abduljabbar, Adel Salah – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The temporal ordering of depression, aggression, and victimization has important implications for theory, policy, and practice. For a representative sample of high school students (Grades 7-10; N = 3,793) who completed the same psychometrically strong, multiitem scales 6 times over a 2-year period, there were reciprocal effects between…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Aggression
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Jara, Natalia; Casas, Jose A.; Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
The study of violence and bullying in schools is a line of scientific research that has contributed significantly to knowledge on human aggressiveness, especially in children and adolescents. This article shows that there are two patterns of aggressive behavior: proactive and reactive. Both are present in bullying, as are other psychological…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Role, Personality Traits
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Zuffianò, Antonio; Colasante, Tyler; Buchmann, Marlis; Malti, Tina – Developmental Psychology, 2018
We assessed the extent to which feelings of sympathy and aggressive behaviors codeveloped from 6 to 12 years of age in a representative sample of Swiss children (N = 1,273). Caregivers and teachers reported children's sympathy and overt aggression in 3-year intervals. Second-order latent curve models indicated general mean-level declines in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Aggression, Psychological Patterns
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Kuzucu, Yasar – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
Although recent studies have provided some explanation about the relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation and aggression in adolescence, the role of intervening variables in this connection has been ignored. The purpose of this research was to understand the relationship between adolescents' emotion regulation and aggression and to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Self Control, Aggression
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