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Moral Reasoning in Violent Contexts: Displaced and Non-Displaced Colombian Children's Evaluations of Moral Transgressions, Retaliation, and Reconciliation
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Ardila-Rey, Alicia; Killen, Melanie; Brenick, Alaina – Social Development, 2009
In order to assess the effects of displacement and exposure to violence on children's moral reasoning, Colombian children exposed to minimal violence (non-displaced or low risk; N = 99) and to extreme violence (displaced or high risk; N = 94), evenly divided by gender at 6, 9, and 12 years of age, were interviewed regarding their evaluation of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Social Development, Moral Development, Moral Values
Parent and Sibling Influences on the Quality of Children's Conflict Behaviours across the Preschool Period
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Perlman, Michal; Garfinkel, Daniel A.; Turrell, Sheri L. – Social Development, 2007
Parent and sibling influences on children's development of conflict management strategies were examined. Data consist of naturally occurring, in-home sibling disputes of 37 families at two time points. The siblings were approximately two and four years old at Time 1, and four and six years old at Time 2. Parents' and children's use of conflict…
Descriptors: Siblings, Conflict, Child Rearing, Sibling Relationship
Marital Conflict, Children's Representations of Family Relationships, and Children's Dispositions towards Peer Conflict Strategies
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Du Rocher Schudlich, Tina D.; Shamir, Haya; Cummings, E. Mark – Social Development, 2004
The links among marital relations and children's representations were examined. Forty-seven children between the ages of 5 and 8 completed the Family Stories Task (FAST) to obtain their narrative representations of family relations and performed a variation of a puppet procedure (Mize & Ladd, 1988) to assess children's dispositions towards peer…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Marital Satisfaction, Conflict Resolution
Aggressive Behaviors in Social Interaction and Developmental Adaptation: A Narrative Analysis of Interpersonal Conflicts during Early Adolescence.
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Xie, Hongling; Swift, Dylan J.; Cairns, Beverley D.; Cairns, Robert B. – Social Development, 2002
Investigated interactional properties and developmental functions of the following four types of aggressive behaviors in adolescents: social aggression, direct relational aggression, physical aggression, and verbal aggression. Found that the majority of conflict interactions involved more than a dyad, and that social aggression was an initiating…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Aggression, Conflict
The Social Cognitions of Socially Withdrawn Children
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Wichmann, Cherami; Coplan, Robert J.; Daniels, Tina – Social Development, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the social cognitions of peer-identified socially withdrawn children. Participants included 457 children from grades four, five and six (54% females, 46% males). Children completed a selection of self- and peer-report measures including: (1) peer-rated behavioral nominations; (2) hostile intent biases and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Self Efficacy, Conflict Resolution, Social Cognition
Peer Victimization: The Role of Emotions in Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping
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Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – Social Development, 2004
Mediator models were examined in which children's emotional reactions to peer aggression were hypothesized to mediate their selection of coping strategies and subsequent peer victimization and internalizing problems. Self-report data were collected from 145 ethnically diverse kindergarten through fifth grade children (66 females and 79 males) who…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Coping, Conflict Resolution, Grade 5