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Agreement of peer and teacher perceptions of aggression in fifth-grade students

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Title
Agreement of peer and teacher perceptions of aggression in fifth-grade students
Author(s)
Appleton, Carolyn
Advisor(s)
Shure, Myrna B.
Keywords
Clinical psychology; Aggressiveness in children; Child psychology
Date
2010-12
Publisher
Drexel University
Thesis
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology -- Drexel University, 2010
Abstract
A large body of literature suggests the importance of examining certain high-risk behaviors, particularly aggression (overt/relational), as significant predictors of lateroutcomes as violence, substance abuse, and some forms of psychopathology. The literature also shows that agreement on these high-risk behaviors is inconsistent across raters. With social-cognitive theory forming its foundation, this study examined whether teacher-identified individual child-rater characteristics define the relationship between peer- and teacher-correlations on measures of overt and relational aggression. Additionally, prosocial behaviors were measured, as one potential contributing variable toward the aforementioned discrepancies. Participants were fifth-grade, urban students from schools located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Teachers and participating children completed rating scales to identify early high-risk (overt and relational aggression) and prosocial behaviors. While lack of power limited ability to detect significance within the current sample, a review of the literature suggests that characteristics of the child-rater might influence the strength of correlations between teacher- and peer-ratings. Trends reviewed suggest that children who display overtly and/or relationally aggressive behaviors rate their peers differently than do nonaggressive children. Additional research with a larger sample size is needed to determine the true impact child-rater characteristics may have on their ratings of their peers.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3431
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