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Attachment styles and aggressor-victim relationships in preadolescence

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Date Issued:
2012
Summary:
The current study investigated the change in relationship between an aggressor's attachment style (avoidant or preoccupied) and a series of characteristics in their victims' over a school year. Once a semester, participants rated themselves and their classmates on 16 personality characteristics and their aggression levels against other students. Only avoidant girls significantly refined their targets over the course of a school year. They increased their aggression towards girls with low appearance self-efficacy, a high avoidance attachment, high depression, high cross-gender typed behavior, high internalizing behavior, and low global self-worth.
Title: Attachment styles and aggressor-victim relationships in preadolescence.
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Name(s): Miller, Ashley M.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Psychology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued: 2012
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form: electronic
Extent: vii, 69 p. : ill.
Language(s): English
Summary: The current study investigated the change in relationship between an aggressor's attachment style (avoidant or preoccupied) and a series of characteristics in their victims' over a school year. Once a semester, participants rated themselves and their classmates on 16 personality characteristics and their aggression levels against other students. Only avoidant girls significantly refined their targets over the course of a school year. They increased their aggression towards girls with low appearance self-efficacy, a high avoidance attachment, high depression, high cross-gender typed behavior, high internalizing behavior, and low global self-worth.
Identifier: 830845928 (oclc), 3358753 (digitool), FADT3358753 (IID), fau:4038 (fedora)
Note(s): by Ashley M. Miller.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012.
Includes bibliography.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Subject(s): Bullying in schools
Aggressiveness in children
Interpersonal conflict in children
Social interaction in children
Interaction analysis in education
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358753
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Host Institution: FAU