Patterns of Adolescents' Beliefs about Fighting and Their Relation to Behavior and Risk Factors for Aggression

Autor/inn/en	Farrell, Albert D.; Bettencourt, Amie; Mays, Sally; Kramer, Alison; Sullivan, Terri; Kliewer, Wendy
Titel	Patterns of Adolescents' Beliefs about Fighting and Their Relation to Behavior and Risk Factors for Aggression
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40 (2012) 5, S.787-802 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-011-9609-0
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Prosocial Behavior; Risk; Adolescents; Family Structure; Counties; Grade 6; Empathy; Aggression; Psychological Patterns; Measures (Individuals); African Americans; Individual Differences; Prevention; Beliefs; Racial Differences; Whites; Student Behavior; Middle Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Risiko; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Empathie; Messdaten; Afroamerikaner; Individueller Unterschied; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Belief; Glaube; Rassenunterschied; White; Weißer; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule
Abstract	This study examined adolescents' patterns of beliefs about aggression, and how these patterns relate to aggressive and prosocial behavior, and to risk factors associated with aggression. A sample of 477 sixth graders from two urban schools and a school in a nearby county completed measures of beliefs, behavior, and individual, peer and parental factors associated with aggression. Teacher ratings of participants' behavior and emotion regulation were also obtained. The urban sample was 84% African American; the county school was in a rural fringe area with a student population that was 45% Caucasian and 40% African American. Latent class analysis of items on a beliefs measure supported hypotheses predicting three groups: (a) a Beliefs Against Fighting (BAGF) group that opposed the use of aggression (31% of the sample); (b) a Fighting is Sometimes Necessary (FSNEC) group that endorsed beliefs that fighting is sometimes necessary or inevitable (41%), and (c) a Beliefs Supporting Fighting (BSUPF) group that supported aggression across multiple contexts (28%). Differences across groups were found on race/ethnicity and family structure, but not on gender. Significant differences were also found such that the FSNEC group fell between levels of the BAGF and BSUPF groups on most measures. In contrast, the FSNEC and BAGF groups both differed from the BSUPF group, but not from each other on measures of empathy, perceived effectiveness of nonviolence and aggression, and parental messages supporting nonviolence. These differences suggest the need for tailoring prevention approaches for subgroups of adolescents who differ in their patterns of beliefs. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10