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Attachment styles and aggressor-victim relationships in preadolescence
- Date Issued:
- 2012
- Summary:
- The current study investigated the change in relationship between an aggressor's attachment style (avoidant or preoccupied) and a series of characteristics in their victims' over a school year. Once a semester, participants rated themselves and their classmates on 16 personality characteristics and their aggression levels against other students. Only avoidant girls significantly refined their targets over the course of a school year. They increased their aggression towards girls with low appearance self-efficacy, a high avoidance attachment, high depression, high cross-gender typed behavior, high internalizing behavior, and low global self-worth.
Title: | Attachment styles and aggressor-victim relationships in preadolescence. |
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Name(s): |
Miller, Ashley M. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Psychology |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Date Issued: | 2012 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Physical Form: | electronic | |
Extent: | vii, 69 p. : ill. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | The current study investigated the change in relationship between an aggressor's attachment style (avoidant or preoccupied) and a series of characteristics in their victims' over a school year. Once a semester, participants rated themselves and their classmates on 16 personality characteristics and their aggression levels against other students. Only avoidant girls significantly refined their targets over the course of a school year. They increased their aggression towards girls with low appearance self-efficacy, a high avoidance attachment, high depression, high cross-gender typed behavior, high internalizing behavior, and low global self-worth. | |
Identifier: | 830845928 (oclc), 3358753 (digitool), FADT3358753 (IID), fau:4038 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
by Ashley M. Miller. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. Includes bibliography. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
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Subject(s): |
Bullying in schools Aggressiveness in children Interpersonal conflict in children Social interaction in children Interaction analysis in education |
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Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358753 | |
Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
Host Institution: | FAU |