"It's Murder Out Today": Middle School Girls Speak Out about Girl Fighting

Autor/inn/en	Letendre, Joan; Smith, Ellen
Titel	"It's Murder Out Today": Middle School Girls Speak Out about Girl Fighting
Quelle	In: Children & Schools, 33 (2011) 1, S.47-57 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1532-8759
Schlagwörter	Females; Early Adolescents; Middle School Students; Violence; Grade 7; Grade 8; Focus Groups; Social Structure; Coping; Peer Relationship; Stereotypes; Antisocial Behavior; Emotional Response; Intervention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Gewalt; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Sozialstruktur; Bewältigung; Peer-Beziehungen; Klischee; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	Girl fighting and its relational context is a problem that is receiving extensive attention in popular and academic circles. This article reports on a project that gathered the opinions from focus groups of seventh- and eighth-grade girls, organized to understand the perspectives of young adolescent girls in middle school on girl fighting. Both individual and contextual themes arose in the findings: the impact of the middle school structure, which differed from the more protected elementary school; the social structure that defined how girls interacted; the loyalty expressed toward members of the peer group and the betrayal felt when the bonds were not respected; the sensitivity that all girls felt toward racial stereotyping and teasing behaviors; the impact of teasing and the emotional reactivity that girls experienced when they felt hurt or betrayed; the differences in coping between seventh-grade and eighth-grade girls; and the school factors that supported or challenged girls' coping. Recommendations for universal schoolwide interventions as well as interventions targeted more specifically toward girls in distress are provided. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10