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Bukowski, William M.; Dirks, Melanie; Persram, Ryan; Santo, Jonathan; DeLay, Dawn; Lopez, Luz Stella – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Data from 790 older school-age (M[subscript age] = 10.2 years, SD = 1.2 years) girls (N = 427) and boys from Barranquilla, Colombia (N = 449) and MontrĂ©al, Canada (N = 331) were used to replicate findings reported by Valdivia et al. (2005). This prior study revealed contextual variations in the association between two measures of social behavior,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Aggression, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Tu, Kelly M.; Erath, Stephen A.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Vandenberg, Carlynn – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Prospective associations linking parental responses to peer victimization (i.e., coping suggestions, school contact) with adolescents' coping and experiences of peer victimization were examined. Participants were 203 adolescents (X-bar[subscript] age = 12.16 years, SD = 0.98) and a parent (81% mothers). At Time 1, parents provided open-ended…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Victims, Bullying, Coping
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Werner, Nicole E. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
Relatively little is understood about the role of hostile attributions in children's use of relational aggression with peers, or about the impact of family processes on children's attributions about ambiguous provocations. This cross-sectional study investigated associations among hostile attributions made by children, mothers, and fathers, and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Grade 3, Mothers, Fathers
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Ellis, Wendy E.; Zarbatany, Lynne – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study examined variation in friendship formation and friendship stability as a function of children's and their friends' victimization, overt aggression, and relational aggression. Participants were 605 pre- and early adolescents in fifth through eighth grades (M age = 12.05) assessed twice over a three-month period. Scores for stability and…
Descriptors: Friendship, Victims of Crime, Peer Relationship, Aggression
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de Castro, Bram Orobio; Brendgen, Mara; Van Boxtel, Herman; Vitaro, Frank; Schaepers, Linda – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
It has been proposed that aggressive behavior may result from unrealistically positive self-evaluations that are disputed by others (Baumeister, Smart, & Boden, 1996). The present three studies tested this proposition concurrently and longitudinally for the domain of self-perceived social competence (SPSC) in 3-6th grade children on two…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Patterns, Rejection (Psychology), Aggression
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Meisinger, E. B.; Blake, J. J.; Lease, A. M.; Palardy, G. J.; Olejnik, S. F. – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
Behavioral descriptors were identified as variant or invariant predictors of perceived popularity in a sample of 516 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children located in 26 majority-Black or majority-White classrooms. Athletic ability, prosocial behavior, being "cool", social withdrawal, and "personal privilege" (i.e., having a lot of expensive…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Peer Acceptance, African American Students, White Students
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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