Peer Aggression Measure

Troop‐Gordon, Wendy; Visconti, Kari Jeanne; Kuntz, Kayla J.

doi:10.1037/t16356-000

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“…If so, friend-specific beliefs may account for the links between peer beliefs and friendship adjustment found in this study. However, previous research on children in the fourth through sixth grades has shown that peer beliefs are concurrently correlated with their ratings of nonfriends’ aggressive and prosocial behavior, but not their ratings of their friends’ behavior, suggesting that children view their friends as more unique than prototypical members of their peer group (Troop-Gordon, 2009). The findings from this study further suggest that, rather than remaining orthogonal, friend-specific perceptions, derived from the quality of those friendships, are incorporated into children’s peer beliefs.…”

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Children’s peer beliefs, friendlessness, and friendship quality: Reciprocal influences and contributions to internalizing symptoms.

Troop‐Gordon¹,

MacDonald²,

Corbitt‐Hall³

2019

Developmental Psychology

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Children’s peer beliefs have been shown to mediate the link between stress experienced within the peer group and later internalizing symptoms. This study extends this research by examining bidirectional associations between children’s peer beliefs, friendlessness, and perceived friendship quality (i.e., receiving provision, negative treatment) and identifying indirect pathways to internalizing symptoms. Participants (N = 366; Mage = 9.34 years, SD = .07; 196 girls) reported on their peer beliefs, classroom friendships, friendship quality, and internalizing symptoms at 3 time points across 1 calendar year. Receiving provision from friends predicted less negative peer beliefs. Negative peer beliefs predicted less received provisions from friends and higher levels of negative treatment, and, in turn, negative treatment from friends predicted higher levels of internalizing symptoms. These findings provide novel insights into how perceptions of the peer group relate to dyad-level relationship processes, including the potential contribution of peer beliefs to children’s peer adjustment.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%