Aggressors and Their Victims: Toward a Contextual Framework for Understanding Children's Aggressor-Victim Relationships

Suggests the need to examine aggressors and victims as interdependent participants in a social relationship, arguing that such study would benefit by focusing on the dyad as the unit of analysis, and recommends inclusion of contextual factors. Applies Cohen and Siegal's (1991) four facets of co...

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Published in:Developmental review 1995-09, Vol.15 (3), p.292-310
Main Authors: Pierce, Karen A, Cohen, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggression
Biological and medical sciences
Child clinical studies
Context Effect
Dyads
Medical sciences
Peer Relationship
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Research Methodology
Research Needs
Social behavior disorders
Victims
Young Children
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Summary:Suggests the need to examine aggressors and victims as interdependent participants in a social relationship, arguing that such study would benefit by focusing on the dyad as the unit of analysis, and recommends inclusion of contextual factors. Applies Cohen and Siegal's (1991) four facets of context to the aggressor-victim dyad: the individual, social systems, physical setting, and time. (HTH)
ISSN:0273-2297
1090-2406
DOI:10.1006/drev.1995.1011