Linkages between Aggression and Children's Legitimacy of Aggression Beliefs.

Autor/inn/en	Erdley, Cynthia A.; Asher, Steven R.
Titel	Linkages between Aggression and Children's Legitimacy of Aggression Beliefs.
Quelle	(1993), (39 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Aggression; Antisocial Behavior; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Peer Evaluation; Prosocial Behavior; Questionnaires; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Student Attitudes; Student Behavior; Student Characteristics; Value Judgment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementarunterricht; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten; Student behaviour; Werturteil
Abstract	To determine whether Slaby and Guerra's (1988) measure of aggression would reliably assess younger children's belief about aggression and whether children's belief about the legitimacy of aggression relates to their self-reports of it and to their levels of aggression as evaluated by peers, 781 fourth and fifth graders were asked to complete an adapted questionnaire assessing their beliefs about the legitimacy of aggression. Children also viewed a series of hypothetical ambiguous provocation vignettes and answered questions about the situations. Two to three months afterwards, peer evaluations of children's aggressive, withdrawn, and prosocial behaviors were obtained. The children were then classified as low, medium, or high in their endorsement of the legitimacy of aggression. The high-legitimacy group was consistently more aggressive than the average-legitimacy group, which was more aggressive than the low-legitimacy group. Peers evaluated high-legitimacy children as most aggressive, average-legitimacy ones as less, and low-legitimacy children as least aggressive. High-legitimacy children were significantly less likely to choose withdrawal or prosocial acts as their most likely response to provocation. The adapted legitimacy of aggression questionnaire provides a reliable instrument for measuring children's thoughts about aggression, and beliefs about the legitimacy of aggression are significantly related to behavior. (MSF)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01