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ROLE OF PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY AND OUTCOME-EXPECTANCIES IN THE MEDIATION OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

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1985
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This thesis explored relationships between aggression in elementary school children and two classes of social cognitions that might influence children's decisions about whether to behave aggressively. A first study compared aggressive and nonaggressive children's perceptions of their abilities to perform aggression and related behaviors (or their "perceptions of self-efficacy" for the.:se behaviors). Compared to nonaggressive children, aggressive subjects reported that it is easier to perform aggression and more difficult to inhibit aggression, but they did not differ in reported ease of performing prosocial behavior or engaging in verbal persuasion. A second study compared aggressive and nonaggressive children's beliefs about the reinforcing and punishing consequences of aggression (or their "response-outcome expectations"). Aggressive children were more confident that aggression would produce tangible rewards and reduce aversive treatment. It was suggested that cognitive models of aggression, such as that proposed by Dodge, may profit from inclusion of concepts from cognitive social learning theory.
Title: ROLE OF PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY AND OUTCOME-EXPECTANCIES IN THE MEDIATION OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR.
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Name(s): RASMUSSEN, PAUL RONALD.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1985
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 82 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis explored relationships between aggression in elementary school children and two classes of social cognitions that might influence children's decisions about whether to behave aggressively. A first study compared aggressive and nonaggressive children's perceptions of their abilities to perform aggression and related behaviors (or their "perceptions of self-efficacy" for the.:se behaviors). Compared to nonaggressive children, aggressive subjects reported that it is easier to perform aggression and more difficult to inhibit aggression, but they did not differ in reported ease of performing prosocial behavior or engaging in verbal persuasion. A second study compared aggressive and nonaggressive children's beliefs about the reinforcing and punishing consequences of aggression (or their "response-outcome expectations"). Aggressive children were more confident that aggression would produce tangible rewards and reduce aversive treatment. It was suggested that cognitive models of aggression, such as that proposed by Dodge, may profit from inclusion of concepts from cognitive social learning theory.
Identifier: 14265 (digitool), FADT14265 (IID), fau:11075 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Subject(s): Aggressiveness in children
Children--Attitudes
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