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Peer reviewedMacKinnon-Lewis, Carol; Rabiner, David; Starnes, Rebecca – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined associations between 7- to 9-year-old boys' experiences with their mothers, beliefs about peers, and peer adjustment over two years. Found that boys' negative behavior with mothers was associated with more negative beliefs about peers and being more aggressive and less well-liked. Beliefs about peers predicted social acceptance and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Peer reviewedMacKinnon-Lewis, Carol; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Assessed mothers' and their seven- to nine-year-old sons' hostile attributions about one another and the coerciveness of their relationships. Obtained ratings of the sons' aggression and peer acceptance and of family life events. Subjects' hostile attributions were related to the coerciveness of their interactions. Boys who reported more stressful…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attribution Theory, Children, Hostility
Peer reviewedHaselager, Gerbert J. T.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Van Lieshout, Cornelius F. M.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne A.; Hartup, Willard W. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
This longitudinal study identified subgroups of rejected boys with different developmental pathways of aggression and prosocial behavior during middle childhood. Four subgroups were identified associated with different patterns of sociometric acceptance and rejection over time and with social emotional adjustment in the last measurement wave.…
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Development, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedPope, Alice W.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Defined peer-rated, narrow-band dimensions of undercontrolled behavior of 362 third through sixth grade boys that was associated with peer rejection. Results revealed three narrow-band dimensions in the peer perceptions of grade school boys: (1) aggression; (2) hyperactivity; and (3) inattention-immaturity. (SH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Attention Span, Behavior Problems, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedRodkin, Philip C.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined subtypes of "popular" among 452 fourth- through sixth-grade boys. Found that peers perceived popular-prosocial boys as cool, athletic, leaders, cooperative, studious, not shy, and nonaggressive. They perceived popular-antisocial boys as cool, athletic, and antisocial. Findings suggested that highly aggressive boys can be among…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Black Students, Child Behavior
