@article{ref1,
title="Showing-off behavior of nursery children",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="1991",
author="Koyama, Tsukasa and Smith, Peter K.",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="1-10",
abstract="Assertive behaviours like showing-off have an important role for a child in getting attention from other children in a class without being aggressive. This study presented the showing-off behaviour in an English nursery school, and later it was discussed in comparison with that in the German kindergartens reported by Hold-Cavell. As a result, the English children performed showing-off behaviours at only one-half the frequency of German children. No sex difference was seen in either showing-off or physical aggression in the nursery class. The frequency of showing-off did not correlate with that of physical aggression; this result is discussed in terms of Hinde's motivational postulate. Showing-off behaviour is deserving of the further studies cross-culturally and ontogenetically.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}