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Brinkman, Britney G; Rabenstein, Kelly L.; Rosén, Lee A.; Zimmerman, Toni S. – Youth & Society, 2014
In the current study, 45 girls and 41 boys participated in focus groups following a program designed to teach them about social justice. The children articulated the discrepancy between their own gender identity and gender role stereotypes and discussed potential problems with conforming to gender role expectations as well as consequences of…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Social Justice, Gender Differences, Identification (Psychology)
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Sapouna, Maria – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
Collective efficacy, defined as informal social controls that operate under social norms of trust, is an emerging theoretical concept that has been applied to explain violence rates in neighborhoods, affiliation with deviant peers, partner violence, and adolescent delinquency. This study employed a multilevel design to examine the association…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Bullying, Victims of Crime, Secondary School Students