Parents' Aggressive Influences and Children's Aggressive Problem Solutions with Peers

This study examined children's aggressive and assertive solutions to hypothetical peer scenarios in relation to parents' responses to similar hypothetical social scenarios and parents' actual marital aggression. The study included 118 children ages 9 to 10 years old and their mothers...

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Published in:Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology 2007-03, Vol.36 (1), p.42-55
Main Authors: Duman, Sarah, Margolin, Gayla
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggression
Aggressiveness
Behavior
Child psychology
Correlation
Gender Differences
Individual Characteristics
Marital Instability
Parent Child Relationship
Parent Influence
Parents & parenting
Peer Relationship
Peer relationships
Problem Solving
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Summary:This study examined children's aggressive and assertive solutions to hypothetical peer scenarios in relation to parents' responses to similar hypothetical social scenarios and parents' actual marital aggression. The study included 118 children ages 9 to 10 years old and their mothers and fathers. Children's aggressive solutions correlated with same-sex parents' actual marital aggression. For children with mothers who exhibited low actual marital aggression, mothers' aggressive solutions to hypothetical situations corresponded with children's tendencies to propose aggressive but not assertive solutions. In a 3-way interaction, fathers' aggressive solutions to peer scenarios and marital aggression, combined, exacerbated girls' aggressive problem solving but had the opposite effect for boys. We address the complexity, particularly with respect to parent and child gender combinations, in understanding parents' aggressive influences on children's peer relationships.
ISSN:1537-4416
1537-4424
DOI:10.1207/s15374424jccp3601_5