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Agreement of peer and teacher perceptions of aggression in fifth-grade students
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Drexel University
Dec 2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-3431
Abstract
A large body of literature suggests the importance of examining certain high-risk behaviors, particularly aggression (overt/relational), as significant predictors of lateroutcomes as violence, substance abuse, and some forms of psychopathology. The literature also shows that agreement on these high-risk behaviors is inconsistent across raters. With social-cognitive theory forming its foundation, this study examined whether teacher-identified individual child-rater characteristics define the relationship between peer- and teacher-correlations on measures of overt and relational aggression. Additionally, prosocial behaviors were measured, as one potential contributing variable toward the aforementioned discrepancies. Participants were fifth-grade, urban students from schools located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Teachers and participating children completed rating scales to identify early high-risk (overt and relational aggression) and prosocial behaviors. While lack of power limited ability to detect significance within the current sample, a review of the literature suggests that characteristics of the child-rater might influence the strength of correlations between teacher- and peer-ratings. Trends reviewed suggest that children who display overtly and/or relationally aggressive behaviors rate their peers differently than do nonaggressive children. Additional research with a larger sample size is needed to determine the true impact child-rater characteristics may have on their ratings of their peers.
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- Title
- Agreement of peer and teacher perceptions of aggression in fifth-grade students
- Creators
- Carolyn Appleton - DU
- Contributors
- Myrna B. Shure (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology); College of Arts and Sciences; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 3431; 991014632275504721