Exploring Ethnic Variation in Preadolescent Aggressive Girls' Social, Psychological, and Academic Functioning

Autor/inn/en	Blake, Jamilia J.; Lease, A. Michele; Turner, Terez L.; Outley, Corliss
Titel	Exploring Ethnic Variation in Preadolescent Aggressive Girls' Social, Psychological, and Academic Functioning
Quelle	In: Journal of Black Psychology, 38 (2012) 1, S.104-131 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-7984
DOI	10.1177/0095798411407064
Schlagwörter	Females; Preadolescents; Social Adjustment; Multivariate Analysis; Rural Areas; Psychology; Aggression; Ethnicity; Peer Groups; Friendship; Student Attitudes; Student School Relationship; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); White Students; African American Students; Interpersonal Relationship; Questionnaires; Academic Achievement; Grade 4; Grade 5; Elementary School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Soziale Anpassung; Multivariate Analyse; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Psychologie; Ethnizität; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Freundschaft; Schülerverhalten; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Fragebogen; Schulleistung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05
Abstract	The authors examined whether the adjustment patterns of socially and overtly aggressive preadolescent girls, ages 9 to 11 years, from rural communities differed by ethnicity. Students were administered a series of questionnaires to assess the degree to which girls engaged in various forms of aggression and to assess aggressive girls' social, psychological, and academic functioning. Four clusters of girls--nonaggressive, socially aggressive, and moderate and high mixed aggressive--were identified with cluster analysis based on cross-gendered peer nominations of social and overt aggression. Results indicated that ethnic variation exists in aggressive and nonaggressive girls' attitudes toward school and satisfaction with their friendships, but no ethnic differences were found in aggressive girls' social adjustment. Socially aggressive and nonaggressive African American girls endorsed greater feelings of disengagement from school than socially aggressive and nonaggressive European American girls. No ethnic differences were found in aggressive girls' endorsement of internalizing symptoms. However, both nonaggressive and socially aggressive African American girls reported greater dissatisfaction with their interpersonal relationships than nonaggressive and socially aggressive European American girls. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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