Predicting boys' social acceptance and aggression: The role of mother-child interactions and boys' beliefs about peers.

MacKinnon-Lewis, Carol; Rabiner, David L.; Starnes, Rebecca

doi:10.1037//0012-1649.35.3.632

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Family-peer linkages for children with intellectual disability and children with learning disabilities

Floyd

Olsen

2017

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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Family interactions are potential contexts for children with intellectual and learning disabilities to develop skillful social behaviors needed to relate effectively with peers. This study examined problem solving interactions within families of elementary school-age children (7–11 years) with intellectual disability (n = 37), specific learning disabilities (n =48), and without disabilities (n = 22). After accounting for group differences in children’s behaviors and peer acceptance, across all groups, mothers’ behaviors that encouraged egalitarian problem solving predicted more engaged and skillful problem solving by the children. However, mothers’ controlling, directive behaviors predicted fewer of these behaviors by the children. Fathers’ behaviors had mixed associations with the children’s actions, possibly because they were reactive to children’s unengaged and negative behaviors. For the children, greater involvement, more facilitative behaviors, and less negativity with their families were associated with greater acceptance from their peers, supporting family-peer linkages for children at risk for peer rejection.

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Family-peer linkages for children with intellectual disability and children with learning disabilities

Floyd

Olsen

2017

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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Social‐Cognitive Processes in the Development of Antisocial and Violent Behavior

Pettit¹,

Mize²

2007

The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression

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Effect of Children's Perceived Rejection on Physical Aggression

Guerra

Asher

DeRosier

2004

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This study investigated whether the perception of self as socially rejected might contribute to increased physical aggression among elementary-school children. It was hypothesized that physically aggressive children would become more physically aggressive over time if they perceived that they were rejected and tended to blame peers for social failure experiences. Third-grade boys and girls (n = 941) were assessed in the Fall and Spring of the school year. Peer-report data on physical aggression and social preference were collected, along with self-report data on perceived rejection and attributions for social failure experiences. Results for boys were consistent with hypotheses, whereas the results for girls revealed a different pattern of relations. These results constitute prospective evidence that children's self-perceptions of social rejection can uniquely influence externalizing behavior. Results are discussed in terms of mechanisms that might mediate the relation between perceived rejection and physical aggression.

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Predicting boys' social acceptance and aggression: The role of mother-child interactions and boys' beliefs about peers.

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

Family-peer linkages for children with intellectual disability and children with learning disabilities

Family-peer linkages for children with intellectual disability and children with learning disabilities

Social‐Cognitive Processes in the Development of Antisocial and Violent Behavior

Effect of Children's Perceived Rejection on Physical Aggression

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