Citation

Nelson DA, Cramer CM, Coyne SM, Olsen JA. Aggressive Behav. 2018; 44(1): 98-108.

Affiliation

School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, International Society for Research on Aggression, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ab.21734

PMID

28960431

Abstract

Traditionally, assessments of social information processing and associated emotional distress have used children's self-reports. We posit that additional informants, such as parents, may help illuminate the association between these variables and aggression. Our sample was composed of 222 dual-parent families of fourth-grade children (103 boys; 119 girls). Children responded to instrumental and relational provocations and their parents read the same scenarios and responded the way they believed their child would. Peer nominations provided aggression scores. We explored how means differed by provocation type (relational vs. instrumental), informant (mother, father, and child), and gender of child. The results also suggest that parent perceptions may effectively predict children's participation in relational and physical aggression, above and beyond the child's self-reports.

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Language: en

Keywords

emotional distress; hostile intent attributions; parent perceptions; physical aggression; relational aggression