Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 38-48.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.01.05

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Effects of Peer status on Different Types of Aggression in Early Adolescence: Moderating Effects of Gender and Class Aggression Norms

ZHANG Yunyun, NIU Lili, REN Ping, QIN Xingna   

  1. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2018-01-15 Published:2018-01-15

Abstract: Using peer nomination procedure, a longitudinal study of 2470 students in grade eight was carried out to investigate the impact of prior aggression, social preference, social dominance on physical, verbal and relational aggression, and whether these effects would be moderated by gender and corresponding classroom norms. Multilevel linear analysis found that:(1) Social preference negatively predicted adolescents' aggression half a year later, while social dominance positively predicted it, and the effect of social preference on relational aggression was stronger for boys. (2) The moderating effects of class norms were different for boys and girls. For boys, higher levels of class norms on physical and verbal aggression, but not relational aggression, were associated with increases in subsequent aggressive behavior. For girls, with the increase of class norm on physical aggression, all of their physical aggression went up; but with the increase of class norm on verbal or relational aggression, their verbal or relational aggressive behavior rose only for girls whose initial level of aggression were low. (3) Social dominance positively predicted verbal aggression over time, especially in the classrooms with higher level of class norm.

Key words: aggression, class norm, peer status, gender, early adolescence

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