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Opportunities and Peer Support for Aggression and Delinquency during Adolescence in Nine Countries
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Emotions of Moral Disengagement, Class Norms, and Bullying in Adolescence: A Multilevel Approach
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Menesini, Ersilia; Palladino, Benedetta Emanuela; Nocentini, Annalaura – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
Using an individual-by-environment framework, this study evaluated the role of individual- and group-level moral indices and their interaction in predicting student reports of bullying. The sample included 1,009 Italian adolescents (36% girls) from 56 classrooms (mean age = 15.02 years, SD = 0.71). Individual-level predictors included gender and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Adolescents
School Moral Atmosphere and Normative Orientation to Explain Aggressive and Transgressive Behaviours at Secondary School
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Foa, Chiara; Brugman, Daniel; Mancini, Tiziana – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
The school moral atmosphere refers to informal norms and values that regulate the relationships in school and their degree of sharing among students. We tested whether the school moral atmosphere is a mediating variable between adolescents' normative orientation and their self-reported aggressive and transgressive behaviours. A total of 664…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Aggression, Secondary School Students, Behavior Problems
Peer Social Preference and Depressive Symptoms of Children in Italy and the United States
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Capanna, Cristina; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Pastorelli, Concetta – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
This study examined the role of low social preference in relation to subsequent depressive symptoms, with particular attention to prior depressive symptoms, prior and concurrent aggression, mutual friendships, and peer victimization. Italian children (N = 288) were followed from grade 6 through grade 8, and American children (N = 585) were…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Foreign Countries
Bullying as a Social Process: The Role of Group Membership in Students' Perception of Inter-Group Aggression at School
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Gini, Gianluca – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon involving both individual and group variables. The present study was aimed at analyzing how students' perception of a bullying episode might be influenced by group and context variables. A convenience sample of 455 adolescents read a short story, in which the in-group role (bully vs. victim) and level of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, School Psychology, Punishment