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Behavior Patterns of Socially Rejected and Neglected Preadolescents: The Roles of Social Approach and Aggression.
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; And Others – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1982
Sociometric nominations were used to select groups of popular, average, rejected, and neglected among 101 third- and 219 fifth-grade children. In contrast to popular children, rejected children displayed fewer task appropriate behaviors and more task inappropriate and aggressive behaviors. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education
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
Peer Status and Aggression in Boys' Groups: Developmental and Contextual Analyses.
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Considered the relation between peer status and aggressive behavior, the temporal relation between peer group behavior and emerging sociometric status, differences in behavioral correlates of peer status as a function of time that peers have known each other, and age differences in the consistency of status across settings and in behavior patterns…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Elementary School Students, Group Dynamics
Peer Rejection and Social Information-Processing Factors in the Development of Aggressive Behavior Problems in Children.
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Burks, Virginia Salzer; Beter, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Fontaine, Reid; Price, Joseph M. – Child Development, 2003
Four studies based on two longitudinal investigations examined the relation between social rejection and increased antisocial behavior. Found that early peer rejection (ages 6 to 8) predicted growth in aggression (at ages 10 to 12); findings were replicated in children ages 5 to 8. Rejection exacerbated antisocial development only among children…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Development
Friendship as a Moderating Factor in the Pathway between Early Harsh Home Environment and Later Victimization in the Peer Group.
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Schwartz, David; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Bates, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Two studies examined the moderating role of dyadic friendship in the developmental pathway to peer victimization. Both studies found that early harsh, punitive, and hostile family environments predicted later victimization by peers for children who had a low number of friendships. Predictive associations did not hold for children with numerous…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Abuse, Children, Discipline