The impact of social acceptance and close friendships on peer and self perceptions of overt and relational aggression among adolescents
| dc.contributor.author | Gill, Jennie K. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Martin, Joan M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-30T15:30:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-30T15:30:31Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2010 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-03-30 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies | |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Using longitudinal peer and self-report data (n = 1490; 10th to 12th grade), changes in relational and overt aggression were each regressed onto social acceptance, close friendships, and their interaction. Links between social acceptance, close friendships and overt or relational aggression were dependent upon whether adolescents or their peers assessed their friendships and aggression. For both genders, peers were more likely to see adolescents with many friends and close friendships as being more overtly and relationally aggressive. In contrast, self-reports of close friendship and social acceptance were either unrelated or negatively related to peer-reported overt and relational aggression. When predicting peer-reported overt aggression, self-reported close friendships and self-reported social acceptance interacted such that males who believed they had close friendships and were socially accepted were more likely to be rated by peers as overtly aggressive. No connections between friendship and aggression were found when adolescents rated their own overt aggression and friendship | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7877 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social acceptance | en_US |
| dc.subject | Friendship | en_US |
| dc.subject | Aggression | en_US |
| dc.subject | Peer pressure | en_US |
| dc.title | The impact of social acceptance and close friendships on peer and self perceptions of overt and relational aggression among adolescents | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |