Overt and Relational Aggression and Victimization: Multiple Perspectives within the School Setting |
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Authors: | Putallaz Martha Grimes Christina L Foster Kristen J Kupersmidt Janis B Coie John D Dearing Karen |
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Institution: | a Duke University, Department of Psychology, Box 90085, Durham, NC 27708, United States b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, Campus Box 8180, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States |
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Abstract: | The current study involved a comprehensive comparative examination of overt and relational aggression and victimization across multiple perspectives in the school setting (peers, teachers, observers in the lunchroom, self-report). Patterns of results involving sociometic status, ethnicity and gender were explored among 4th graders, with particular emphasis on girls. Controversial and rejected children were perceived as higher on both forms of aggression than other status groups, but only rejected children were reported as victims. Both European American and African American girls showed a greater tendency toward relational aggression and victimization than overt aggression or victimization. Results indicated negative outcomes associated with both relational and overt victimization and especially overt aggression for the target girl sample. Poorer adjustment and a socially unskillful behavioral profile were found to be associated with these three behaviors. However, relational aggression did not evidence a similar negative relation to adjustment nor was it related to many of the behaviors examined in the current study. Implications of these results are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Aggression Victimization Peer relations Gender Ethnicity |
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