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Merrilees, Christine E.; Taylor, Laura K.; Klotz, Madeline; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cummings, E. Mark – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Identifying developmental patterns in intergroup contact and its relation with bias is crucial for improving prevention strategies around intergroup relations. This study applied time-varying effects modeling (TVEM) to examine age-based changes in relations between contact and bias in a divided community that included 667 youth (M age = 15.74, SD…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Social Bias
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Durrant, Joan; Plateau, Dominique Pierre; Ateah, Christine A.; Holden, George W.; Barker, Leslie A.; Stewart-Tufescu, Ashley; Jones, Alysha D.; Ly, Gia; Ahmed, Rashid – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Every day, almost one billion children around the world experience violent punishment. Eliminating all violence against children is a key target of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is a monumental challenge due to the diversity of cultural, economic and social contexts in which children live. Violence-prevention…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Relevance (Education), Violence, Prevention
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Smith, Peter K. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The research area around aggression and violence in schools, and especially that on school bullying, has grown enormously in the last 30 years. There are good grounds for concern about these issues, given the negative effects of school bullying on mental health and in the more extreme cases, links to suicides. Intervention and prevention programs…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Bullying, Prevention
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Slone, Michelle; Shoshani, Anat – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors--social support mobilization, self-efficacy, and meaning attribution--were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy, Prevention