The stability of young children's physical aggression: relations with child care, gender, and aggression subtypes.

Care neglect, supervisory neglect, and harsh parenting in the development of children's aggression: a replication and extension.

To understand the effects of neglectful parenting, poor supervision, and punitive parenting in the development of children's aggression, 218 children ages 4 to 8 years who were disadvantaged and their mothers were recruited from two states to develop a sample that was diverse with respect to degree of urbanization and ethnicity. Multimethod and multisource indices of the predictive constructs (...

Functions of Aggression and Peer Victimization in Elementary School Children: the Mediating Role of Social Preference.

This study examined whether social preference was a mechanism that explained the relation between proactive and reactive aggression and peer victimization. Participants were 494 children in grades 2-5. Proactive and reactive aggression was assessed via a self-report measure and indices of social preference and peer victimization were assessed via a peer nomination inventory. Data was collected ...

Is there a dark side of positive illusions? Overestimation of social competence and subsequent adjustment in aggressive and nonaggressive children.

This study examined (a) the links between children's overly positive perceptions about the relations with the peer group and with their best friend to subsequent behavioral, emotional, and social adjustment, and (b) whether these links are moderated by children's aggression. Using a short-term longitudinal design, the study was based on a sample of 819 4th- to 6th-graders (427 girls) from low t...

Children's adjustment problems in families characterized by men's severe violence toward women: does other family violence matter?

OBJECTIVE This research examined whether additional forms of family violence (partner-child aggression, mother-child aggression, and women's intimate partner violence [IPV]) contribute to children's adjustment problems in families characterized by men's severe violence toward women. METHODS Participants were 258 children and their mothers recruited from domestic violence shelters. Mothers and...

Adult Perceptions of Children's Relational and Physical Aggression as a Function of Adult Ethnicity and Child Gender