PSYCO327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gossip, Relational Aggression, Longitudinal Study
16 Mar 2018
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Aggression characterized by repeated and systematic abuse of power: physical, verbal (ex. name calling, threats) Peak during early adolescence, decline in late adolescence. 10-30% involved in bullying: rate vary depending on how bullying is measured. Influenced by individual characteristics and contextual features jointly. Individual characteristics: age, gender, problem behaviors, social competence, self-cognitions: contextual features: family environment, school climate, peer status and influence, community. Gender: boys more likely to be involved as a bully, victim, or bully victim, boys involved in physical bullying, girls in verbal bullying. Decrease in self-esteem: bully: using bullying to feel better about self, victim: part of vulnerability, along with being physically weaker. Poor social problem-solving skills: less capable of negotiating confrontations with others. Bully: poor academic performance strong link to externalizing behavior, negative attitudes and beliefs about others (ex. hostile attribution, negatively influenced by deviant peers. Victim: negative attitudes and beliefs about self (ex. seeing self as weak, rejected and isolated by peers.
